Topic: juicing for health

The BluePrint Cleanse: A Blueprint For Disordered Eating In a Bottle

The BluePrint Cleanse is a juice-based diet created by Zoe Sakoutis and Erica Huss, who recommend sipping juice throughout the day and eating raw organic foods at night. Available exclusively in Manhattan, the cleanse is targeted to upwardly-mobile (read: fashionista) women who want to incorporate health into their decadent, indulgent lifestyles. According to the three different forms of cleanses offered (Renovation, Foundation, & Excavation, which are just fancy hype words for Beginner, Intermediate, and Expert), you delicately sip hydraulically-pressed juices four times a day, then eat a raw, organic meal at night. In their recent interview with Well + Good NYC, Sakoutis and Huss come across as fembots from Stepford who look down their noses at their own office staff who dare to practice their own eating habits. More »

Photo: The Juice Press in T Magazine

In today’s edition of T Magazine, the New York Times sent The Selby to photograph New York’s popular raw food and juice bar, The Juice Press. Check out his interview and photos of “the juice doctor” Marcus Antebi’s shop, which is less than a year old but already has a cult following (and they’re not all raw foodists, he says). More »

Cleansing Diets For Health, Not Weight Loss — Blisstree’s Detox Basics, Part 1

Cleansing Diets For Health, Not Weight Loss â�� Blisstree's Detox Basics, Part 1

New to cleansing, or just want to learn more about the whole detox trend? This is the first in our series exploring the ins and outs of detox diets and cleanses, and all the juices, supplements, lemonades, and scary colon treatments that go along with them. Stay tuned for more in our Detox 101 series.

As someone who’s always been curious about alternative health and natural food, I’ve tried a cleanse or two in my time, with positive and negative results. I’ve flirted with the Master Cleanse, but lasted less than three days on a diet of maple and cayenne, vowing to never listen to friends and roommates who claimed it gave them “great energy” after day seven. But I’ve also tried cleanses I loved: Namely, ones where I’m allowed to eat. A positive experience with a reasonably-priced box of cleansing supplements and two-week diet of no dairy, meat, fish, caffeine, sugar, wheat, or processed foods made a cleansing fan out of me — by the end of the two weeks, with caffeine withdrawal and sugar cravings behind me, I felt fantastic; nothing like the deprived, irritable wreck the Master Cleanse made of me. That positive experience inspired my most recent adventure in the world of detox: An eight-day stint of nothing but raw foods and juices from New York’s popular Organic Avenue. More »