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Sorry Iseem to have been on and off the diet treadmill for so long I seem to expect others to be the same with the terms.
Yes brown rice, wholemeal bread and pasta couscous etc. the problem with white refined is that the crbs hit the body so fast the insulin levels rise quickly to cope and then drop suddenly leaving you feeling empty. Whole ones go in slower.
we need to drink about 2 litres of water 6-8 large glasses a day. It doesn't have to be pain you can flavour it. I drink hot water with a chunk of lemon in, Fruit and herb teas, (the beauty of these is you can drink them when cold unlike tea and coffee). Green tea and bottled water .Watch some of the flavoured bottled waters some of them contain Asparame too.
You're talking to the five pints of tea a day man here! I now drink only about 1 cup of tea a day, no instant coffee and the occasional filter coffee.
The water cleans the body and also you get out of the caffiene addiction.
Jason Vale the Juicemaster is brilliant, he really puts you off the food we shouldn't eat but telling you exactly what's in it and what it does to you.
www.thejuicemaster.com for details.
I don't follow his advice fully but do as much as I can (DW thinks he's a crank).
Also if you have Sky and look at the Power Juicer infomercials up on the shopping channels 630 and up, you will see Jack Lalanne who has been juicing for many years and he's fitter at 88 than I've ever been.