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By Cathy Wong, About.com Guide to Alternative Medicine

How to Do a Juice Fast

Tuesday August 12, 2003
Juice fasting and detox diets are a way that many people, including celebrities Ben Affleck, Janet Jackson, Liv Tyler, and Christy Turlington, rid their bodies of the toxins that accumulate in the course of their daily lives. Fasting can also stimulate motivation, creativity, and spiritual awareness. It can help during life transitions or transformation.

Juice fasting is not easy. Many people prefer to ease into it by taking one-day fasts, allowing themselves only vegetable juice and soup broth.

Read this general primer on juice fasts and learn the benefits of fasting, how to prepare for a fast, side effects, who should not try a fast, and more.

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