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31 Days Without Chewing

Or, the longest 31 days of my life...

By Dave Hakkens - January 20, 2016

in Storyhopper | Food | Video

You can get food everywhere these days, at the bookshop, at train stations, at airports, etc. It seems like anywhere you go, someone is trying to sell you food. Even if you aren't hungry at all, the irresistible smells of fresh baked bread, fries, pizza...(I could go on and on!) trick you into all of a sudden wanting to eat something. I started wondering what it would be like to be hungry. Really, really hungry. Could I get myself to say no to food? To simply walk by all that delicious food, pretending like I haven't smelled it...

I was hearing about this pretty popular thing called a "juice reboot," which basically means you only drink juices for a certain period of time. This is usually done to lose weight, but my friends and I were curious to try it out and see what it would mean to not chew for an entire month (its tough!)...

Editor's Note: This story is not a recommendation to try this or any other "juice reboot." As noted in the comments below, any sort of extreme diet can adversely affect your health so please consult a medical professional.

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Mark Thomas

8 years ago

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That's refreshing -- someone following a diet to explore relationship to food, power of will, etc. Otherwise, "juice cleansing" is just the latest in America's century old, puritanically rooted, obsession with "health" voodoo.

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The Skipper

8 years ago

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Stop right there. While the subjects of the video seem to be more interested in social impact of food, and not cleansing or weight loss the juice cleanse as a diet trend, it still makes me laugh, and rightfully so! You'll see I have good reason. Now, try having your teeth wired shut for 8 weeks- almost two months. Then talk to someone who wants to do a juice cleanse.
I am a fairly active guy and had no weight issues at the time my teeth were wired shut for, yes, 8 weeks. I will save all the details of menus, time saving meals, and not being able to eat the cherry off the top of my tasty shake as it sat there mocking my incarcerated tongue. I ate, or rather drank through a 2 oz. syringe, everything and anything that I could in order to KEEP WEIGHT ON. It didn't work. I still lost 30 lbs. that I did not have to lose. Lethargic, weak, and unable to open my mouth (tendons and muscles shorten and tighten) the ordeal continued for two more weeks as everything stretched back out.
And you want to do a juice cleanse for a month? The best advice you can follow is to always make sure that you are sitting down to eat different meals that have been prepared by you from food that is fresh. No cans, preservatives, or prepared food like ice cream and frozen options like potstickers. Just simple, made from scratch, food. Next is to drink a lot of water. Finally, do not consume alcoholic beverages. Otherwise, go nuts!

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Zeshan Mahmood

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This is a terrible idea and no one should try it. It's a good way to die and get sick. I'm a med student and a design student so i frequent the site a lot. It's not a healthy thing to do at all. Excessive amounts of fructose and no proteins or fats. It's a terrible idea. If you do juice it should be a supplemental thing, and salivary enzymes aid in digestion so you should chew on those little pieces of spinach leaf or pulp.,

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  Thanks for your comment Zeshan and we'll add a note in the body of the text as you raise a critical point about health!! (Thanks for frequenting the site too!)
  
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