Fruit fasting therapy

Fruit fasting can be combined perfectly with exercise, for example hiking, and thus becomes the ideal fitness holiday. Outdoor exercise improves your mood, reduces stress and strengthens the immune system. Increased breathing improves oxygen intake, stimulates your metabolism and activates your body's self-healing powers as well as your circulation. High blood pressure, blood lipid and cholesterol levels can return to normal while the muscles are trained. During a fasting week with fruit and hiking, your performance even increases and you may be able to lose some weight.

In mono fruit fasting, you should try to go for cleansing fruits such as apples, grapefruit, grapes and melons. For the duration of the fasting period, you then eat only the fruit of your choice, for example, only apples or only grapes. Again, you should be careful not to overeat, but to limit the amount to, for example, 3-4 apples a day or 1-2 oranges per meal. This fasting method is very easy to do because it requires little or no preparation.

Instead of just one fruit, you can also choose the multi-fruit variant for fruit fasting. Here you can choose your favorites from a wide selection of fruits for fasting. Of course, the fruits that cleanse well (citrus fruits, apples, grapes) are highly recommended. There are also a few things to consider with this form of fruit fasting: Since not all fruit combinations can be digested well, you should, for example, eat melons as well as citrus fruits separately and also keep the combinations of other sour and sweet fruits to a minimum. In order to avoid overeating, you should also limit the amount of fruit from the very beginning and eat slowly, so that you can consciously sense the feeling of satiety and not continue eating beyond that.

Although weight loss is not the primary goal of a fruit cleanse, it is a welcome side effect. As you become more consciously aware of your eating habits and exchanging meals for light and nutrient rich fasting fruit and vegetables, you’re bound to shed a couple of pounds. Weight loss results vary on how rigorous your fruit fast is and could yo yo back if you don’t maintain a balanced and healthy diet after fasting.

During a juice cleanse you also fast with fruit and vegetables, but this time in liquid form. The colorful fruit and vegetable juices or smoothies effectively cleanse the body and strengthen the immune system, so that you will feel more vital and fitter after just a few days.

This fasting method is more suitable for shorter periods, for example one or two days a week or up to one week.

In addition to fruit (including dried fruit), other alkaline-forming foods are permitted during alkaline fasting, for example vegetables (even potatoes), herbs, salad, nuts and cold-pressed oils. This means that you can eat plenty of natural, plant-based and unprocessed products. The body is supplied with all the important nutrients during the varied one to two-week treatment. You will notice that your sense of well-being will quickly improve. Learn more about the alkaline diet.

Intermittent fasting is just as light and long lasting as fruit fasting. Here, it is not the choice of food that is limited, but the hours during which you may eat. You can choose from various methods with different fasting periods to find the one that suits you and your daily or weekly schedule best. In this way, this form of fasting can be easily integrated into your daily routine and can be maintained over a longer period of time.

The Schroth method is based on four pillars: vegetarian, low-fat, low-salt and low-protein food, Schroth packs, alternating drinking and dry days, and a balance of exercise and rest. With this natural healing method, the body is detoxified and purified and its self-healing powers are activated. A Schroth method normally lasts 7 days, but it can also be carried out over a longer period of time with appropriate professional care.