Excerpt from Bragg’s Healthy Heart Book - Chap­ter 14
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If our pipes and great pump are clogged and cor­roded with debris and toxic poi­son we can­not be phys­i­cally fit! There­fore, it is nec­es­sary from time to time to give the pipes and the pump of the body a thor­ough cleans­ing. This should be done by fast­ing once every week, for this 1 day will have ben­e­fi­cial effects. It will shake the tox­ins loose from the tis­sues, stim­u­late cir­cu­la­tion and get rid of for­eign mat­ter that has become encrusted in the heart and blood vessels.

You should fol­low this cleans­ing pro­gram at least 1 day a week. Then in time you will have enough for­ti­tude to fast for 3 days straight — you will be amazed at the results! If you have any reac­tions dur­ing this cleans­ing pro­gram — such as headaches, exces­sive gas or feel­ing of weak­ness — just remem­ber that this is what we call a heal­ing cri­sis. These symp­toms will fade away as the tox­ins pass through your elim­i­na­tion system.

Flush­ing Poi­sons from your Body’s “Pipes”

While on this Cleans­ing Pro­gram, drink at least a half a gal­lon of dis­tilled (puri­fied) water daily — that is free of toxic chem­i­cals. The night before you start this regime take 1 to 2 quarts of dis­tilled water and add to it 2 whole car­rots cut into pieces, 3 diced stalks of cel­ery (leaves and all), 1 hand­ful of chopped pars­ley and 1 beet cut up fine. Soak this mix­ture overnight. After it has soaked 10 hours or more, strain the vegetable-distilled water and dis­card the veg­eta­bles (great for com­post). Use this water, in which the veg­eta­bles have been soaked, as part of your drink­ing water dur­ing the first day for cleans­ing. On aris­ing have the Bragg Vine­gar Cock­tail and an hour later eat an apple and a few dried figs or dates, 1 glass of prune juice (add 1 tsp mixed oat bran and psyl­lium seed powder).

At 10 a.m. eat some fresh fruit (oranges, grape­fruit, green tea or greens drink of choice or veg­etable broth. If you cus­tom­ar­ily take sup­ple­ments, do so at this time. At 12 noon have a lun­cheon of a tossed green salad of sliced cab­bage with grated car­rots and beets, chopped green onion, cel­ery, sweet bell pep­per, pars­ley, raw spinach, water­cress, tomato and a clove of finely chopped gar­lic. Eat this salad with a dress­ing made of 1 tea­spoon each of Bragg Organic Extra Vir­gin Olive Oil and Bragg Organic Apple Cider Vine­gar or dress­ing. You may also have a lightly cooked veg­etable (low in nat­ural sugar) such as string­beans, squash or any of the green leafy vegetables.

At 3 p.m. eat fresh fruit, such as apples, grapes, pears, bananas or a few dried fruits as dates, figs, prunes, etc. and a cup of hot dis­tilled water with 1 tea­spoon of Bragg Aminos. Have a sup­per of a tossed vegetable/green salad sim­i­lar as lunch and a dish of lightly steamed greens (kale, mus­tard or turnip greens, beet tops, spinach, etc.) cooked with chopped onions, 2 cloves of gar­lic and 1–2 table­spoons of Bragg Organic Olive Oil. After the meal you may take your evening sup­ple­ments and drink a cup of herbal tea.

At 6 p.m. Flaxseed Cleanse — optional — may take once daily: Before din­ner soak 1 table­spoon flaxseed in glass of water, apple or pineap­ple juice. Drink or spoon eat this mix­ture 2 hours after meal.