Monday, September 8, 2014

Dr Sandra Cabot's juices- Cleanse your liver, slim your waist!

Lots of great recipes here.

Dr Sandra Cabot's slimming juices
Cleanse your liver, slim your waist! Raw vegetable juices are able to speed up the repair of liver damage. Dr Cabot says these juice recipes help to repair the liver, stimulate the detoxification pathways and improve the fat burning capabilities of the liver.

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Morning lemon cleanse
---½ to 1 lemon, freshly squeezed
---250ml warm water
Fresh lemon juice contains the phytochemical limonene, which improves liver function, and is used in Japan to dissolve gallstones. Morning is the best time for lemon juice because it is also a natural liver decongestant

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Liver cleansing juice
---½ lemon with some peel
---2 apples unpeeled
---2 dandelion or 2 rocket or 2 cabbage leaves
---½ cup broccoli florets, chopped
---1 clove of garlic or ¼ red onion (can use less if desired)
---½ cup parsley
This is a strong mixture and may be diluted with
---1 cup water, extra celery or dandelion root tea.

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Fatty Liver juice
---½ whole lemon or grapefruit, peeled
---2 carrots peeled
---1 clove garlic or ¼ red onion (optional or use less if it is too strong)
---1cm slice fennel
---¼ beetroot peeled
---2 dandelion or 2 rocket or 2 cabbage leaves
---Apples or celery may be added to improve the taste

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Cholesterol-lowering juice
---2 oranges or tangerines, with some peel and white pith
---1 grapefruit, peeled
---1 tomato
---1 clove garlic or ¼ red onion (reduce amounts if stomach is sensitive)
---2 cabbage leaves or 2 dandelion or 2 rocket or 2 baby spinach leaves
---1 radish, unpeeled with tops

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Low-carbohydrate slimming juice
---1 orange with ¼ peel and pith left on
---2 sticks celery ½ cucumber, peeled
---½ cup green beans
---2 spring parsley
Orange is naturally low in sugar. Cucumber, celery and parsley are natural diuretics and reduce cellulite. Green beans lower insulin and blood sugar levels

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Fat-burning juice
---1 orange, peeled
---1 grapefruit, peeled
---1 carrot, peeled
---2 stalks celery with leaves removed
---1cm slice ginger root
---1 red radish
---pinch cayenne
Dilute 50% with green tea if desired.

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Extract taken from Fatty Liver: You can reverse it, a new book from Dr Sandra Cabot and Dr Thomas Eanelli which explains how to reverse fatty liver disease, which Dr Cabot calls "the most common type of liver disease seen in the world today"

Check out also The Liver Cleansing Diet by Sandra Cabot M.D.