DR. FUHRMAN'S FIVE-DAY SUPER-DIET CHALLENGE
Lose Up To Five Pounds In Five Days And Give Your Body A Chance To Detoxify Naturally!

By Joel Fuhrman, M.D.

Dr. Fuhrman's Five-Day Super Diet Challenge is an exciting program that can help you lose as many as five pounds in five days. You've heard about socalled "miracle cleansing" and detox diets, now you can give your body a real cleanse with high-quality foods. You'll be amazed at what Mother Nature can do with real food and no magic formulas. The Five-Day Super-Diet Challenge is completely different from the all-too-common fake "bowel cleansing" and "liver detox" programs you've heard about-programs that are little more than typical alternative-medicine scams.

Mother Nature's Cleanse

The most important thing to understand about detoxification is that it is an ongoing bodily process. It isn't something that you can buy in a package. The healthier you are, the easier it is for your body to keep its tissues clean.

In order to maintain excellent health and true internal cleanliness, you must avoid all harmful, irritating substances (such as salt, pepper, and hot spices) and eat a diet rich in phytochemicals and antioxidants. Fresh fruits and vegetables contain the most powerful healing agents. They nourish your body and help maximize its normal functions. The only way to effectively detoxify is to live and eat healthfully, and allow your body to do its thing at full throttle.

On the next page are delicious recipes that you can use to jump start your diet and detox program and lose weight at the same time. Let's see how you feel after five days of eating. Nature's most powerful healing foods. Follow my cleansing diet for five days (or more) and send your results to me. I want to know how good you feel and how much weight you lose!

Toxic, Irritating Laxatives

Why an I so opposed to the "detox in a box" programs that have become so popular? The most important reason is they don't work. Besides that, they also are harmful. No special pills, powders, or herbs can detoxify you. The "health food" and supplement manufacturers combine a mix of herbal laxatives-such as senna and cascara- with some walnut hull, and they claim that these bowel irritants will detoxify you. Laxatives can n more detoxify you than washing your mouth out with soap can.

A false claim commonly made in "natural" laxative advertising if that you have years of hardened mucus and food stuck like glue on the wall of your colon. Well, guess what? You don't and thousands of sigmoidoscopies and colonoscopies done by me and other physicians prove it.

When you eat a nutritious, high-fiber diet, the walls of your intestines and colon will be prestine. Long-term exposure to the right amount and balance of natural fibers and natural food containing nutrients is the only way to protect your bowel and your body against disease.

Another problem with laxatives is that they are habit-forming. The more you stimulate your bowels by irritating the nerves lining your gut, the less reactive your bowel will become to the normal nerve stimulation from food. Before too long, you will be dependent on laxatives for natural bowel movements.

You can't transform a toxic substance into a healthful one by asking your marketing department to give it a catchy name like "Ultimate Cleanse" or "Super Detox Cleanser." Below are two examples of popular, but toxic, bowel-irritating formulas (and the claims made for them), sold on the internet and in health food stores.

Bowel Cleaner - Each tablet contains cascara cagrada 500mg, golden seal 150mg, black walnut 350mg, rbubarb 200mg, elecampane 100mg, wormword 100mg, sage 500mg, rice bran 800mg, soya bran 667mg.

-The label claims that these ingredients "work like an Intestinal Broom, scrubbing & sweeping the inner walls of your colon, allowing larger amounts of unwanted waste matter to pass easily & regularly through your bowel."

Ultimate Cleanse - Each tablet contains psyllium seed, aloe vera powder, senna leaf, cascara sagrada, barberry root, rhubarb, slippery elm bark, cayenne 40,000 H.U.

-The label claims that this product features "29 powerful cleansing herbs that stimulate the cleansing and release of toxins and poisons trapped in the body from poor dietary habits and environmental pollutants."

Detoxification is an ongoing process in a healthy body. No substance can pull toxins out of the body. The body can utilize nutrients to fuel its normal processes, and it acts to keep itself clean when given the chance. Your body does all the work. Toxic substances stimulate; healthful substances nourish. Stimulation is a form of irritation; it ages you. Avoiding stimulation is an important component of a health-building program.

Detoxify Naturally

Follow my Five-Day Super-Diet Challenge and you will be amazed at what happens! Use the receipes below periodically and enjoy a genuine internal cleanse. You will lose weight and feel better-and you might decide to change your diet forever.

DR. FUHRMAN'S FIVE-DAY DIET-CLEANSE RECEIPES
Five days of eating. Nature's most powerful healing foods just might change your life forever!

*Breakfast*

Fruit Plate
One whole grapefruit or two oranges, one box of blueberries, one box of strawberries, Lettuce (optional)
- Arange on a plate and serve

*Lunch*

Blended Salad
8oz. baby greens, one orange, Juice of 1/4 lemon
- Blend in a blender and serve

Healthy Slaw
1/2 cup shredded raw cabbage, 1/2 cup shredded raw beets, 1/2 cup shredded raw carrots, 1 up shredded apple, 1/4 cup raisins
- Toss together and serve

*Dinner*

Spinach Salad
4-6 oz. baby raw spinach, 1/4 finely shredded red onion, 2 TBS. unhulled sesame seeds, 1 TBS. ground flax seeds, 1 TBS. sunflower seeds, 1 box (pint) blackberries, 2 TBS. pear or fig vinegar, if desired.

The Green Machine
4-8 oz. raw chopped kale, 4-8 oz. raw chopped bok choy, 4-8 oz. chopped broccoli rab, 2 large tomatoes, chopped, 4 cloves garlic, chopped, 2 cups chopped mushrooms, one medium onion, chopped. Add tomatoe, garlic, onion, and mushrooms to pan. Cover and simmer on low heat for 5 minutes. Add greens on top and continue to cook in covered pan on low heat for 5 more minutes.

Apple-Stuffed Peppers
One red pepper, One medium apple, 1/2 tsp. cinnamon, pinch of nutmeg.Chop apple. Mix with cinnamon and nutmeg. Cut top off of pepper and remove core and seeds. Stuff pepper with apple mixture and bake in oven at 400 degrees for 15 minutes.

No Need To Overeat
Remember, you do not need to eat allthe food in these menus every day. Menus are sufficient for women and men, even those with bigger appetites, So, eat as much or as little as you desire. Don't add salt or oil, and drink only pure water- no caffeine, tea, or other drinks.