♥ Day 73 Mono Orange Juice ♥

Day 73 ♥

My second longest Orange juice mono diet ended after 52 days.

But I ended it not because I was listening to my own body, but because I was listening to the concerns and considerations of other people.

I accept that those who were concerned for my welfare were only acting out of love and care.

They saw a loss of weight and that was what they focused on.

I had lost a lot of weight (28lbs) but I was stronger and had more endurance and felt as well as I have ever done.

And when I stopped my mono diet, I knew that I had ended my Orange juice diet prematurely because the wonderful fruits that I broke my diet on (my fathers fresh Greengages and then a beautiful Mango) tasted only like ashes in my mouth after my beloved Orange juice.

On another Orange juice diet in 2008, I broke it after 40 days, and the Persimmon that I ate tasted like nectar.

So the big difference was that  the breaking of the 52 Day Orange juice diet, was due not from messages within but without.

And on the 40 Day Orange juice diet, my body was ready to stop.

So the message I am trying to relate is that one skill which is vitally important on any kind of raw unprocessed diet is Listening to Your Own Body.

We are taught the importance of listening to others, and how to be good listeners; but also equally vital is listening to your own body and its very important needs.

I truly believe that on a raw unprocessed diet, where most of the food is eaten totally unaltered and mono, your body will give you very clear signals of its needs and desires.

We have the internal 'ears' to hear our bodily needs but it is not always easy to listen with these ears.

Why is this?

I believe that a big part of it is that most of us have not been raised to listen to our own bodies, and also we have not been raised on a raw unprocessed diet from birth.

We have been told to listen to our parents, listen to our teachers, listen to the 'experts' and nutritionists, and listen to the Television, and listen to the doctors.

But who ever told you "Listen to Your Own Body".

And it is hard on a mixed, cooked, and processed diet to listen to your own body because the instinctive signals from raw unprocessed foods are not there.

There are so many mixes and de-natured foods that how could your body possibly be getting any clear signals as to what food it really needs.

So, I believe,one huge advantage of eating raw mono meals is that your body has a far easier time seeing what works for it personally, and then it also has a far easier time letting you know. The message is not lost in a barrage of other bodily messages from mixed, cooked, or processed foods.

So I am listening to my body regarding the stop point of my diet.

I am trying to listen with my internal 'ears' to my physical, mental and spiritual needs.

On the physical side, I do the same workout every day, so that is a good benchmark for me of how my body is doing physically.

And at the moment I find this workout to still be easier than when I am on a mixed fruit diet.

So this is one indicator, another is my general energy levels and my weight.

I am still losing weight, but I still have not lost much muscle mass. I accept there will be a point where I do not want to go any lower weight wise. And I think that this will most likely be an influence in my decision to end the Orange diet, if the weight loss become an issue and my body tells me it has lost enough weight.

The emotional and spiritual signals may be more subtle than the physical signs, but I believe they are still there if we listen to our internal 'ears'.

To be able to listen to others is indeed a great and valuable skill. However, also vitally important is the skill of being able to listen to yourself ♥

Fruity Fare ♥

Morning— 14 Organic Valencias, juiced with a spoon

Midday—9 Organic Valencias, juiced with a spoon, and 3 Organic Valencias, juiced in my mouth.

Afternoon—7 Organic Valencias, juiced with a spoon, 3 Organic Valencias, juiced in my mouth.

Fruitful Exercise ♥

40 minutes workout 

20 minutes dancing.

Have Beauty, Fruity Days ♥

Love and Peaches XX.

♥ Day 72 Mono Orange Juice ♥

Day 72 ♥

Today, I just thought that I would share some of the benefits and experiences of the past 72 days.

First of all, here are the major benefits that I have encountered on my Orange juice diet:

Softer skin

Moister skin

Improved circulation

Better condition of veins

Skin is less likely to bruise

Increased range of movement in joints

Increased general flexibility in muscles
Muscles feel 'freer' and looser

I feel more agile

Reducing of fine lines and improvement in general skin condition, notwithstanding, and taking into account episodes of elimination through the skin

Improved sense of smell

Increased lung capacity, more freedom in muscles associated with breathing

The need for less sleep

Better sleep, very deep and satisfying; awesome dreams

Better adaptation to hot Aussie Summer

Increased endurance, except for the few days during the Orange juice diet when I felt a need to rest due to elimination

Faster than usual healing of cuts


And here are some of my experiences during the 72 days:

Smells and sensations of past toxins, including smelling cigarettes and marijuana, despite never taking these substances personally and just being a 'passive' smoker.

Also, having a smell/taste sensation of coffee, despite not drinking coffee for the last 23 years.

Increased incidences of synchronicity

Feeling very much in flow and in tune with the universe

Finding I have more time and energy for other elements of living due to needing less sleep.

Finding less energy is used for thinking about food, so more energy freed up for other aspects of life.

Sweating less; I almost stopped sweating altogether in 1995 on my 52 day Orange juice diet, this has not happened to me this time, but I feel bettter adapted to the heat and am sweating less.
 
So I am very appreciative of this amazing Orange Juice Experience, and I feel very blessed to have been able to carry it out and to have been favoured with many benefits and adventures along the way.
 
Fruity Fare ♥
Morning—9 Organic Valencias, juiced with a spoon, and 3 juiced in my mouth
Midday—700mls/23.7oz Organic Valencia juice, using Amco hand-squeezer, 3 Valencias, juiced im mouth
Afternoon—14 Organic Valencias, juiced with a spoon.
 
Fruitful Exercise ♥
40 minutes workout
20 minutes dancing.
 
Have Beautiful and Fruitful Days ♥
Love and Peaches XX.

 

♥ Day 71 ♥ Mono Orange Juice.

Day 71 ♥

O.K., if I were a Pirate, the real deal booty I would be after would be all the lovely Tropical fruit on the desert islands.

It must have been a joy for the buccaneers of old to finally reach a Tropical island (and Tropical fruit!) after many weeks at sea.

The dear old Orange, along with its Citrus cousins, was often a godsend for the seafarers of old.

Before it was discovered that the Orange and other Citrus fruits were a great source of Vitamin C and precious as gold for their anti-scorbutic properties, many mariners died or suffered terribly from Scurvy.

Scury occurs due to a lack of Vitamin C in the body. Many mammals can manufacture their own Vitamin C, but Humans and Guinea Pigs are generally unable to make their own, and so need this vitamin in their diet.

Scurvy, aside from drowning and fighting, was one of the major causes of death in sailors.

For instance, on Vasco de Gama's first cruise around the Cape of Good Hope, at the end of the fifteenth century, half his crew died from Scurvy.

Once it was found that Citrus fruits could help to prevent Scurvy. Citrus trees were planted all along the seafarers' ports of call, including Maderia, The Azores, West Africa, and St. Helena.

The Orange is indeed a great traveller.

If kept cool and dry, it can keep nicely for many weeks.

It is so well protected in its thick zesty coat.

And so the Orange is a real Storehouse of energy and nutrients.

If I was setting off with Capt'n Cappi on a Tropical Adventure on the High Seas, you can be sure that our ship would have its hold choc-full of Orange Treasure.

And as well as being a Storehouse of Vitamin C, I find the Orange also to be a Storehouse of Sunshine.

The Orange is a valuable bringer of stored food energy and sun energy in the Winter months to many fruit eaters.

Especially in those countries where the sunshine is very limited in Winter, then the Orange can be a vital Winter fruit, that keeps and travels well.

When you open up your Orange, you release into your body the Energy and nutrients that have been gradually absorbed and stored from a beautiful Summer somewhere in Citrus Country ♥

And in the words of my friend Arnold Ehret:

"...And when springtime comes and last season's fruits, especially apples are on the decline, and the new vegetables not yet ready, does not Mother Nature help us out abundantly with oranges from the South? Will the aroma and wealth of these splendid products of nature not induce man to eventually become a fruit-eater entirely?"

Well said Ehret ♥

Fruity Fare ♥

Morning— 10 Organic Valencias, juiced using a spoon

Mid-morning—14 Organic Valencias, juice using a spoon

Afternoon—400mls of Organic Valencia juice, using Amco squeezer, and three large Organic Valencias, juiced in my mouth.

Fruitful Exercise ♥

1 hour fast walking

10 minutes weights.

Have Beautiful Sunshiny Days, full of Treasure ♥

Love and Peaches XX.

♥ Day 70 ♥ Mono Orange Juice Diet.

Day 70 ♥

I have been reading the detailed account of the addition of Orange juice to the diets of 341 children, from 1930– 1931, in Mooseheart, Illinois, 'City of Children' village.

The account is written by Dr. Milton T. Hanke and it makes for pretty interesting reading.

There are very detailed accounts of the children's diets before the Orange juice was added, and the diet was kept the same during the tests, with the only exception being the addition of 16 oz (in two lots of 8oz) of fresh raw squeezed Orange juice daily, with the addition of a half a lemon (for taste) to each 8oz Orange juice serving.

The diets, to me, seemed woefully lacking in fruit. The average fruit consumption being less than half a pound of fruit per day.
So I would imagine that the children would have been getting less than optimal vitamin C.
This is despite the daily calories seeming quite adequate, with an average of 2, 545 calories for the girls, and 3,064 for the boys. The age range of the children was ten to seventeen.

Interestingly, after the test period, the Orange juice was reduced to just 3oz daily, and the benefits that the children enjoyed from the two 8oz daily drinks of Orange juice was greatly diminished.

So, the major recorded benefits to the children were 57% less cavities and 83% less gum disease. And in addition the children's growth rates increased by 75%.
A control group who had the same diet, but did not receive the Orange juice, had no decrease in cavities and gum disease, and no improved growth rate.

It is sad to think that the average diet of many of today's children contains even less fresh fruit than the Mooseheart children, and it just goes to show that even without taking any of the processed foods out of their diet, children on a SAD diet could hugely benefit from two big glasses of fresh Orange juice daily.
Taking into account my previous post (on Day 59) on the benefits to children and prison inmates of fresh fruit and Orange juice, it is clear that the addition of fresh raw fruit is so very important to the mental and physical well-being of our Western Society.
Even without reducing the cooked and processed foods, fresh fruit would make such a valuable addition to our children's dietary. And then imagine if the amount of processed foods were reduced what the amazing effects could be.

So looking at the United States in the 2000 cencus, there were 76.6 million children enrolled in schools.I estimate (based on the costs of my Biodynamic Oranges) that this would cost around $2.50 per day for 2, 8oz glasses of Biodynamic Orange juice.

So, for all the school children to have free fresh Biodynamic Orange juice it would cost $191.5 million dollars per day.
Seeing as the US spends $1948 million on defence each day, the cost of $191.5 million per day on Biodynamic Oranges seems a small price to pay to defend what is vitally important— our children's health.

And as a beautiful bonus there would be thousands of lovely groves of chemical free Oranges. So more tree cover, more oxygen and a better soil structure, as well as the possibility for many to work in a chemical free environment surrounded by fruit trees ♥
 
Fruity Fare ♥
Morning —500mls/16.9oz Organic Valencias, using Amco Hand Squeezer.
Mid-morning—10 Organic Valencias, juiced using a spoon to squeeze out the juice
Afternoon—10 Organic Valencias, juiced using a spoon.
 
Fruitful Exercise ♥
40 minute workout
30 minutes fast walking.
 
Have Beauty Days ♥
Love and Peaches XX.

♥ Mono Orange Juice Day 69 ♥

Day 69 ♥

I am reminded today of how very fortunate I am to have such an abundance of great quality citrus. Not only are there more than five or six local places where I can select my own Organic or Biodynamic Oranges, but I can even get them delivered right to my door!

So, I guess it is easy sometimes to take abundance for granted, especially when there is so much great citrus for me to chose from.

I feel that, for me, it is important to appreciate this abundance and wealth that is in my life. This ability to always have access to good quality fruit, and this constant ability to be able to buy it and be nourished by it.

In his book , 'The True Power of Water', Masaru Emoto talks about the power of the words 'Thank You'.

So although it may seem a small exchange, the words 'Thank You' in return for all this beautiful fruit and the wonderful surroundings that I find myself in; I am truly Thank-ful ♥

Here is a quote from the webpage: http://www.healthrecipes.com/

"One hundred years ago, when my father was a boy, oranges were only for 'rich people', so he received one orange a year in the toe of his Christmas stocking. He treasured this annual bounty by sucking the juice from it on Christmas day. On the second day, he opened the orange and ate the pulp. On the third day, he ate the skin. Things have changed greatly over the years and now oranges are inexpensive and available everywhere."

So a Mighty ♥ Thank You ♥ to all the Mighty Oranges that have passed my lips since I began this Orange diet.

Fruity Fare ♥

Morning— 500mls/16.9oz fresh Organic Orange juice, using Amco squeezer

Mid-morning—400mls/13.53oz fresh Organic Orange juice, using Amco squeezer

Afternoon— 300mls/10.14oz fresh Organic Orange juice, using Amco squeezer.

Fruitful Exercise ♥

20 minutes leg and stomach exercises.

Have Beautiful Days ♥

Love and Peaches XX.

♥ Day 68 Mono Orange Juice ♥

Day ♥ 68 ♥

Although, generally I believe that consuming a fruit in its whole unprocessed state is optimum, I do make an exception for Orange juice. This is the only fruit that I tend to juice, as opposed to consuming whole.

I accept that freshly squeezed Orange juice is processed to a degree, and that in doing so something is taken away from the whole fruit.

Having said that, this time on the Orange juice I have been more attracted to just cutting the Orange into four pieces and juicing in my mouth.

My electric Breville juicer, normally a vital part of my Orange Juice Diet, has not been used once. And because the Oranges are nice and ripe, it feels great to simply juice them in my mouth.

I would like to share an example of how although a substance may mimic another chemically, and may appear 'the same' on paper, there is a huge difference between a substance that occurs in natural raw food, and another that is laboratory made.

This fits in for me with the idea that we cannot really improve upon natural uncooked wholefood (which is wonderful and health-giving) when humans try to emulate its properties in the science lab.

This information is taken from http://www.whfoods.com/

"Consuming vitamin C supplements does not provide the same protective benefits as drinking a glass of orange juice, shows research by Italian researchers in the Division of Human Nutrition at the University of Milan, Italy (Guarnieri S, Riso P, et al., British Journal of Nutrition).

Seven healthy test subjects were given each of three drinks, two weeks apart: blood-orange juice containing 150 milligrams of vitamin C, fortified water containing 150 milligrams of vitamin C, and a sugar and water solution containing no vitamin C. Blood samples were collected immediately before the drink was consumed, then every hour for 8 hours, and finally 24 hours after consumption of each drink.
Blood samples were exposed to hydrogen peroxide, and free radical damage to DNA was evaluated at 3 and 24 hours. Only when orange juice was consumed was any protective effect seen. After drinking orange juice, DNA damage was 18% less after 3 hours, and 16% less after 24 hours. No protection against DNA damage was seen after consumption of the vitamin C fortified drink or the sugar drink. "


So, I believe, there is a world of difference in the effects of Vitamin C as contained in fresh Orange juice and Vitamin C that has been manufactured in a laboratory.
The best way, I feel, to get the nutrients and vitality we need, is from fresh raw ripe fruit (and veggies if desired).
Fresh fruit is imbued with life-force and energy and magic that simply cannot be manufactured in a factory.
It is in one way a simple way of eating, and yet in another contains so many wonderful energies that are so complex and developed that man cannot even begin to re-create them ♥


Fruity Fare ♥
Morning— 11 Organic Valencias, juiced in my mouth.
Midday— 10 Organic Valencias, juiced in my mouth.


Fruitful Exercise ♥
40 minutes fast walking
10 minutes leg exercises.

Have Happy and Wholesome Days ♥
Love and Peaches XX.

♥ Day 67 Mono Orange Juice ♥

Day 67 ♥

Summertime...and the Oranges are sweeties ♥

I find myself at about the same weight as when I was at Day 26 of an Orange juice diet back in June 2007. So although at the moment, I have been on Orange juice for 41 more days, I have lost about the same total weight.

I also felt ready to end the juice diet in 2007, after 26 days, whereas at the moment I am just taking it day-to-day, and I am not sure how long I will continue.

One factor would be if I felt weak or lacked the strength and endurance to carry out my daily activities. Another, is if I feel that I am going into 'starvation' mode, whereby my body would be utilising vital muscle tissue.

So, I continue and I am still really attracted to Oranges and their sweet juice.

There is no other juicy fruit that I would prefer at the moment, if I was given a choice ♥

Here are some names for the Orange in other languages apart from English:

Italian — Arancia

Spanish — Naranja

Portuguese — Laranja

Danish/ Norwegian — Appelsin

Swedish/Russian — Apelsin

Polish — Pomarancza

Serbo-Croat —Naranca

Bulgarian — Portokal

Greek — Portokali

Persian — Porteghal

Hebrew — Tapuz

Hindi — Narangi

Bengali — Kamala Lebu

Kashmiri — Sangta

Indonesian — Jeruk

Filipino — Dalanda

Chinese — Tian Cheng

Japanese — Orenji

So, from its probable origin in China  the Orange has travelled the globe. It would have been a good traveller in the days of sea voyages and so spread across the world with the Romans, Spanish and Arabs. The Portuguese influence in spreading the Orange can still be seen in its Bulgarian and Greek names.

So, because of the Orange's common availabilty it can be loved and  enjoyed from Australia to Zaire ♥

Fruity Fare ♥

Morning — 12 Organic Valencias (including a few beautiful syrup balls) juiced in my mouth

Afternoon — 11 Organic Valencias (again including a few juice balls) juiced in my mouth.

Fruitful Exercise ♥

40 minutes workout

40 minutes fast walking.

Have Fruitful Days ♥

Love and Peaches XX.