I could see it all so clearly: me and my new fur vest (faux, of course) strolling in to catch a runway show at Lincoln Center, my hair blowing in the wind. I’d head to the pop-up Organic Avenue juice bar at Alice Tully Hall to pick up my lunch — a light, fresh vegetable juice that would replace the sandwich (or burrito) I would have normally eaten. I’d sip it slowly, savoring every flavor (hm, is that Swiss chard and green apple? Delightful!) and flush my hunger away.

CLICK HERE TO SEE THE JUICE FOR A FASHIONISTA CLEANSE

And just like that, it all started to unravel.

Jonathan Baskin

Raakhee Mirchandani tortured herself on the Fashionista Cleanse.

By reading the full article above, I'm convinced this article exposes how many people view juice cleansing - as a way to quickly lose some weight and look glowingly fashionable. But cleansing and detoxing is serious business and should be approached with consideration and care, as I explain in my post Preparing for a juice cleanse .

Here's some things I think this reporter got wrong:
1. Heavy side effects are usually due to not transitioning into the cleanse. Though we don't know how she ate prior to this, clearly her headaches and hunger were the effect.
2. Working during a cleanse can be rough because the body needs more calories to get through a work day. Weekends are better.
3. Her casual mental state was not in line with adopting healthy choices. It is important to surround yourself with an environment that supports good health.

I highly advise keeping things simple when it comes to healthy nutrition.

Some simple motto’s that may help you are:

• If it rots, its probably good for you
• If it comes from a plant eat it, if it is made in a plant stay away
• Lean, Green, and Marine
• Eat real food
• No “sugar free” or “fat free” foods
• Stay away from foods with ingredients you cannot pronounce

Common sense and excellent advice. Dr Mercola's always spot on. Getting more green plants in your diet is so important yet often overlooked. I'm all for the smoothies to get my veggies in!

Imagine traveling back in time and experiencing the diets of one hundred years ago. It's interesting to note that much of the attitude about being healthy involved having a healthy colon. Why is this aspect nearly ignored by allopathic medicine? Why do doctors primarily only prescribe medicine to alleviate digestive problems? What can we learn from these diets and the role of self discipline to achieve better health? Watch and see (warning: there is a pig's intestine in the video)

The three diets used were:
1. Victorian Diet - meat and low carbs, similar to Atkins
2. Edwardian Diet - any food was allowed so long as it was chewed at least 32 times
3. Lulu Diet - of the 1920's, a calorie restriction diet involving mostly fruits and vegetables

MONDAY, Aug. 9 (HealthDay News) — People who read food labels have healthier diets than those who don’t pay attention to such information, a new study shows.

Researchers analyzed data from the 2005-06 U.S. National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, and found that 61.6 percent of respondents said they read the nutrition facts panels, 51.6 percent examine the list of ingredients, 47.2 percent read the serving size and 43.8 percent review health claims at least sometimes when deciding whether to buy a food product.

They can be very confusing, but the more you read and compare labels you can get a pretty good idea of which foods provide the better value, from a health standpoint.

Do you read food labels?

Do those colon cleansing products really work?

If you think most Americans are full of crap, you're right. According to USA Today, "Most people who eat the standard American 'goo and glue' diet have about 5-10 pounds of matter stored in the colon." What is this "matter," and more importantly, does it matter?

Follow along as this guy does his colon cleanse. Kinda gross, but really funny!