Replenishing Your Health Bank Account

None of us are perfect on the food and drink front, but one thing is for sure, every time you pour the liquid fuel contained within the fruits and vegetables into your body, you are replenishing your enzyme (‘life’) bank account. This is probably the most important account you will ever hold and it’s worth knowing that when you eat and drink the wrong things, you are effectively dipping into this precious account. The ‘life’ bank manager often sends ‘warning statements’ to say you are slowly but surely using up your account and at this rate the account may be closed much earlier than expected. These ‘warning statements’ come in the form of headaches, weight gain, skin disorders, arthritis, etc. We often ignore such warnings and just carry on as normal, popping a few aspirin along the way (the equivalent of tearing up the statement and putting it in the bin). This is one account you really don’t want to overspend on – once it is spent, so are you!

By simply having even just one freshly extracted fruit/veggie combo juice a day, you are doing more to top up your life account than the average Briton does in a whole week (we haven’t just been voted ‘The Fattest Nation In Europe’ for nothing!).

So before the ‘bank manager comes knocking’ GET JUICED! There is a quote I used in one of my previous books, Turbo Charge Your Life In 14 Days, which sums up the importance of keeping ourselves healthy. It came from an 87-year- old man who, when asked what his secret was – he looked much younger, had all his own hair (not a grey one in sight), all his own teeth and was fit as a fiddle – he replied that he never ate junk food. When they asked ‘but why’ (as in ‘life is too short’), he simply replied: ‘The reason I don’t eat junk food is because un- less I look after my body I’ll have nowhere to live.’ The biggest irony is that this 87-year-old man lived on the streets and got all his fresh produce from the local market – the guys down there gave him a load at the end of each day.

So, unless you look after your body you will have nowhere to live – somewhere to survive perhaps, but nowhere to truly live. The good news is, no matter how much you have dipped into your life account, it’s never too late to top it up. The even better news is that no matter how many years you have been withdrawing, the minute you start to replenish it, it starts showing on your account extremely quickly. Make a point of having a fresh juice a day and the compound interest will bring you health benefits which are nothing short of magical.