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Hello everyone,
very interesting thread.
Olivia also asked:
"Can anyone tell me.....apples have starch.....why do we do 3 day apple diet ? Isn't it contradicting ? Can we do cucumber, carrot and lettuce diet for 3 days instead ?"

I'm very curious for the answer!!
Three days of vegetable juice for instance also ok?

Thanks.
Love
Sandra

Don't know the exact answer to that Sandra. All I do know is that in my family it has always been a sort of "house medicine" to take grated apples when the intestines are upset (diarrhoea etc). Long before I knew of any apple diet my mother fed me those and nothing else until the problems had resided. So I guess there is something extra in the apples, be it structure, there easy oxidation, pectin or something else. Some other regimens have been supposed here especially grapes and grapejuice. Maybe someone else has a good experience with them or other options.
Gerard

Maybe the apples have so many fibres that they 'sweep' everything out???

Sandra

The dietary fibre content of apples is not particularly high as fruit goes, 1.6 g/100g. Perhaps the real reason they are good for dieting is because it is difficult to eat many of them.

And what's he then that says I play the villain
When this advice is free I give and honest

If that isn't the truth!! It takes me forever to eat one large delicious apple that's been cut into slices. I sit at the dinner table longer than my family when I'm eating the apples and they're downing an entire regular meal complete with dessert!

I perused a book (oh, I'm so awful about author names and titles) during the summer -- I think the name of it was The Toxic Syndrome. The author proposed three day juice fasts with combinations of vegetables and fruits to release toxins from the body. I haven't tried it, but I expect that it could be helpful. How it would compare to the apple diet -- I don't know.

Paula

Hi, Sandra:

The apple is an intestinal broom, especially at the cellular level. I am certain it is the juices which help most in promoting a flushing-out of cells local to the intestinal tract, so there is a high osmotic exchange between the tract and the apple pulp. This is probably why raw apples were considered by Cayce as not an especially good food, normally--outside the diet regimen. Also, there is some quercetin in the skin and this has some good intestinal healing action.

Apples, harvested when totally ripe or otherwise allowed to ripen, have almost no starch; all the amylopectin converts to fructose and pectin. However, even if the apple diet is followed using starchy apples, the backwards direction of fluid exchange might preclude the apples causing very much of a reaction, if any at all. I have certainly never experienced a flare from eating the apples even without testing and harvested late in the season, also.

Most of the monodiets were of fruit, possibly to avoid a diet-induced hypoglycemic condition, however, if someone wants to do one of the "low-octane" vegetables it might provide another valuable tool. The sole reason I recommend the apple diet is that it has worked so well for me, and now many others, also.

Best Regards,
John

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"
Charles Babbage

Thanks John,
as I'm not able to take days off at the moment, maybe I'm trying it for one (satur)day.
I never did the apple-fast before, but I react to the diet extremely well.
The only problem I'm giving myself is that I sometimes get off the diet for a few days, because it goes well and than want to eat home-made-bread and things like that. Sometimes I stay well, sometimes a have a lot off pain afterwards.
But ok, thats my own choice than, hihihi.

Thanks for your answer.

Sandra

I went to my massage therapist today. She's also a registered nutritionist. I told her about my 3 day apple diet and NSD. She's very interested and will read Dr. Alan Ebringer's work. She personally and recomended her patients do NO STARCH AND NO SUGAR DIET. She agreed auto-immune diseases' root are in the gut with bad bacteria overgrowth. She does no starch and no sugar for 6 weeks to cleanse the system instead of a 3 day thing. She said 3 days apples may cause hypoglycemic thus headaches ,etc. It may not be suitable for everybody. No sugar including no fruits, chocolate and sweet vegetables like carrots. She said people who have arthritis have to take 6 capsules of fish oil per day, 2 after breakfast,2 after lunch, 2 after dinner. She also takes BioK non-diary yogurt bought from health food store. It contains lots of good bacteria for the gut.

Olivia

Hi Olivia,

I'm certainly not a nutritionist, but I would be concerned about cutting out fruits -- at least entirely. They are full of minerals, vitamins, fiber, and water that our bodies need.
Even though the NSD resembles the low-carb Adkins diet, I think that's a major point of divergence which I thnk is wise.

Just my thoughts,anyway.

Paula