Good for Artie for trying this! He's a brave man! Eventually he'll incorporate at least some of what he learned into his life, and be happy about it. Rita Hartmann

How long is the Portland Mercury going to allow Marjorie to keep spreading the lies of juice cleanses? I won't post up 200 links to various debunkings of every claim that cleansers have made, but this one link is a pretty good clearinghouse of those links.

http://io9.com/5976465/enough-already-with…

But generally speaking, it's all snake oil and hokum.

I did this for a week just to see if I could. It wasn't that bad. But I don't eat like or weigh anything close to what Artie does. I'm surprised it didn't kill him.

"Many people feel lighter and detoxified afterward, having given their body a "rest" from activities like "breaking down food" and "fighting toxins." Others get surprisingly (and obnoxiously) vehement against juice cleanses"

Fuck you. Your body is SUPPOSED to break down food and if you have to use intentionally vague health descriptors like "toxins" to describe the act of EATING FUCKING FOOD, you are spewing 100% bullshit. People get annoyed or angry at the idea of juice cleanses not because they're going to kill you, but because we have to hear of all the wonderful benefits of your new trendy crash diet.

Want to lose weight? Change your lifestyle. Make meaningful changes to your actual diet. Drink less. Exercise more. Don't starve yourself for a week and try to tell me how great that weight loss is, because any weight loss that doesn't permit you to engage in physical activity is not healthy.

Juice cleanses are just a publicly accepted form of anorexia.