Salma Heyek Is a Fan of a Juice-Only Diet
July 26, 2010 in Celebrity Quotes, Salma Hayek by Versus
“I’ve been doing juice cleanses for 15 years,” she tells Us. Now the star has teamed up with pal and professional juicer Eric Helm to create Cooler Cleanse, a three- or five-day juice detox delivery program. ($58 a day)
Detoxers consume less than 1,200 calories a day in six drinks, including almond milk and watermelon-lime. “I always lose weight,” says Hayek, who does light yoga during a detox. But the benefits go beyond slimming.
“You’ll have renewed energy,” says Helm, owner of NYC’s Juice Generation. Adds Hayek, “My skin glows when I finish day three. And it inspires me to think about what I put in my body.”
… says Salma about the Cooler Cleanse diet she endorses in the new edition of US Weekly.
What do you guys think?
LOVE her outfit soo cute!! She has really been coming into her own since becoming a mom .....
She looks stunning
for three or five days it’s okay. but.. not for the long run
Stupid, unhealthy diet. Your body doesn’t need a “juice” cleanse, it’s all a fad. Dieticians say this frequently; our bodies have a liver and kidneys to cleanse themselves. Drinking juice for a week and not proper food only makes your body shed water, which you’ll only retain once you start to eat normally (healthy food, preferably!) the next week. “Cleanses” are all a sham and Salma clearly doesn’t know what she’s talking about when it comes to nutrition.
Only drinking juices for a week simply slows the metabolism down and makes your body begin to use its emergency stored sugar, glycogen, which is located in the liver and muscles. One glycogen molecule binds 4 water molecules, so when your body burns glycogen it looses a lot of water.
no kidding! what happened to exercising and eating healthy? why does everything have to be so extreme?? As a runner I cannot even imagine not eating solids for 3 – 5 days and having enough energy to get through my runs and other demands I have throughout the day. Clearly Salma isn’t doing enough cardio if she can handle this kind of diet.
she isn’t doing cardio at all. she says she just does light yoga.
anytime you are on an extremely low calorie diet, or a fast, they always recommend you only stick to very light exercise, like yoga or short walks.
exactly my point! any person who does cardio on a regular basis wouldn’t go on this juice diet! I know for me, cardio is such a vital part of my life that I would never even think that this was a good idea. So, my original point was that Salma clearly does not engage in enough cardio activity.
Agreed!
Considering how many women (and men) die each year of cardiovascular disease, you’d think by now we’d realize the importance of fitness, not size/weight.
Bad diet. Period. Eat clean, eat enough, stay fit. Your heart (and body!) will thank you.
i dont think this just applies to exercise you know. as anyone who leads a busy active, intellectually taxing life knows, its so difficult to concentrate if you’re hungry. i am in my final year at university studying pharmacy and have an enormous amount of work to do, i really feel if i tried anything like this i wouldn’t feel “refreshed and cleansed” i think i’d feel tired moody and frustrated about my inability to concentrate. these celebrity diets work for celebrities because they lead celebrity lives. i dont really feel they’re applicable to the real world.
You pretty much said (and very well!) what I was planning to say….
Very well put Shell! And I totally agree with Mizzy’s point about needing solid food if you exercise regularly. According to this article, the exercise Salma does during the diet is light yoga, but if you’re used to more taxing workouts you need food to keep healthy. I do Latin and ballroom dancing and enjoy spin classes at the gym and I do not think that this kind of diet could sustain me even if it were limited to 3 days.
I agree that you should eat healthily and watch what you put into your body but there it no need to go to such extremes.
Thank you shell, for being the source of reason, and saying everything I was going to say.
People in the cave days didn’t do cleanses…they ate lots of fiber. Their body did the rest.
But then again, I’d be careful to pin point this on Salma. This doesn’t sound like her, and may not even be a real quote by her. It’s kind of like when some magazine said Jen Aniston was on a baby-food diet, and then later she came out saying she never even heard of that.
I don’t know about people in the cave days… but human beings have been fasting for centuries. In the bible it talks about WHEN you fast, not If you fast or when you want to lose a few pounds, but WHEN you fast. People have not always even had food readily available to eat nearly as much as we do now and they still voluntarily put off food for personal and spiritual reasons. People fast for many reasons, not just to lose weight.
Juice fasting is a very mellow way to fast. It is an ancient practice – the first written records of juice fasting were contained in the Dead Sea Scrolls. Many people benefit from the fast, particularly people who don’t eat the 1 -2 pounds of fresh produce they should be eating daily. They finally get the phytonutrients and micronutrients the body really needs. The fat, carb, and protein macronutrients are all still there. (Yes, juiced vegetables have protein, not that protein is a particularly important micronutrient.)
Uh smartass, read? it says ‘juice cleanse’, these aren’t meant for weightloss and it is bad that she is passing it on as a diet. Especially since, unless you’re on it for months, most of the loss is water weight.
It is a way to cleanse out your body. YES your body has a natural way of doing this and blablabla, but i’ve done these (my own version btw, you don’t need to pay 58 dollars a day to get freshly squeezes fruits and veggies.. not unless you’re a lazy person) not only do you feel great if you manage to hold on for longer than about 4 days, your skin DOES become healthier. Why? Because none of the bad stuff that enters your body and everything that does enter is in liquid form so easier for your body.
Everyone has different results with these cleanses, some can’t stand it and get no results. Other people get better skin, get rid of some of their infections even AND a bit of weightloss is just a bonus. Drinking only juices does NOT slow down your metabolism, ESPECIALLY not if the juices all contain healthy vitamins, minerals and calories. Yes i suppose it is a bit more difficult method than eating healthy food and the well deserved ‘piece of chocolate’ on sunday, let’s face it none of us wants to give up solids. But if you need a perk up, quickly get better skin, lose a tad bit weight and clean out your body then do some form of juice fast for about two weeks and you’ll feel great!
I hate how you went all attack just because you read the ‘juice’ part, people always do this without even thinking. It is a freaking FACT that alot of these juice cleanses are a great and healthy way to boost your metabolism. Ask any doctor even. This isn’t some weird ‘water for a whole month thing’ yah know.. Oh and also, don’t diss it until you’ve tried it? Yeh thought so.
totally agree with you Rachel. I always go on veg and fruit blend cleanses with infused fiber for about 10 days before school starts every semester. This is because during my breaks I normally go out a lot and drink a lot too! lol. That combined with yoga (to my already light jog daily routine) always restores my mental clarity. I never do it for weight loss though. I automatically see the difference in my skin and hair each time I do it and just continue to eat healthy solids when I get off. Then I do it all over again in 3-4 months. Being doing it for three years and swear by it.
I agree, there is no need to put down juice fasting if you haven’t even tried it. People automatically assume this kind of thing is done for weightloss, but truthfully most people who do these things (not as a one off, but twice a year or something like that) don’t do it for weight-loss, they do it for other reasons. Juice “diets” have always helped my hair, my skin, my mental clarity, and I know others who feel the same. At the end of the day if its not gonna cause harm to someone, then no reason they can’t do it if it makes them feel good, and look better
“It is a freaking FACT that alot of these juice cleanses are a great and healthy way to boost your metabolism. Ask any doctor even.”
I don’t know what doctors you’re seeing, but none of the doctors I’ve been to would ever recommend such a cleanse even for a few days simply because it is not necessary. Cleanses are based on the premise that stuff “builds up” in your body. There is no such thing. Very few substances can “build up” in the body, and surprise, they’re all highly toxic and deadly such as arsenic and mercury. Everything else the body can metabolise and excrete, and no, cleanses do not either slow down or speed up the process.
Most of the benefits you described could be achieved by eating a healthy and balanced diet with lots of fruits and veggies. After all, that is what gets your skin and hair looking better (antioxidants, fiber and vitamins). Not “cleanses.” There is NO proven DIRECT correlation between cleanses and the benefits you are talking about. Just because you read it on a site and you feel like it’s happening does not make it true. What you are saying just sounds like a big fat case of placebo effect to me.
So you can go ahead and insult posters with common sense and a background in biology on this site for not believing the bs you have already bought into, but the rest of us will wait until any professional journal publishes any replicated scientific study that states any benefits achieved by cleanses.
Also, from a psychological stand point, I would ilke to add that most cleanses involve some form of deprivation and starvation.
Starvation causes the brain to release chemicals similar to endorphins, so that the individual can go hunt and find food.That would explain why so many people feel good when they cleanse. However, it is not the cleanse itself that is causing it. The “high” is not real.
yo chill dude, it is not that serious… no need to get your “panties in a bunch” and also no need to insinuate that anyone who reports noticeable differences lacks common sense and/or a biology degree. My undergrad degree actually is neuroscience and a bio double major, and I am now almost done law school (massive switch, I know). I have not talked to any doctors about their advice and i pretty much don’t give a rat’s ass whether its “effects” have been demonstrated in a peer reviewed medical science journal.
I also do not think that any one is disputing the fact that eating a well balanced diet filled with fiber and “antioxies” will naturally cleanse the body either. the major crux of your argument is based on the faulty premise that everyone eats well balanced meals with their daily needed allotments of fiber and whatever else is needed to induce the natural process of cleansing. For others such as myself, i DELIBERATELY do not adhere to my healthy lifestyle when I am on school breaks because I just want to “wile out” lol. So when I have participated in nameless amounts of debaucheries during my breaks, i do find that going on a quick juice cleanse is the fastest way to rid my body of whatever toxins i have accumulated before I go back again on my school grind….and umm no, it is not a placebo and I would not even go into your theoretical postulations-which is what it is, of something about cleansing and feeling “high” (too lazy to go back up to read what you mean), already have written way too much on a post i could care less about. Just had to address my pet peeve for pseudo-intellectuals. So once again, chill, it aint that deep.
Oh. Actually, I’m quite chill. I didn’t realize I was coming off as someone with their panties in a bunch. Forgive me if I sound intense, I wasn’t in reality though.
I was not actually responding to your comment, I was responding to another poster. But since you responded to mine, I will respond quickly back. All in good faith, no negative thoughts here.
Yes, my argument IS that a well-balanced, healthy diet does the job of taking care of toxins in the body. That’s because it’s the only way. You say that some people don’t eat healthy. True. But a cleanse is not a solution to that. Why not? Because cleanses, nor any other diet, cannot speed up the body’s natural purification cycles. It has no control nor any effect on the systems responsible for removing toxins. It does not matter if you drink juice, or eat healthy or eat unhealthy…the speed stays the same. The only difference is eating unhealthy just keeps adding toxins into the body. The best solution would be to eat healthy.
Endorphin and dopamine release during starvation is not a theoretical postulation of mine, it is fact. As a neuroscience major, you should be aware of that.
And I’m glad that you are addressing your pet-peeve for pseduo-intellectuals. I was addressing my pet-peeve for pseudo-science. That is what sparked my original post on this thread.
no one is claiming though, that a juice fast is some kind of miracle cure or whatever, some of us just enjoy the feeling of a juice fast and how our body reacts to it, I dont think its a placebo effect (I’m consuming only things which are 100% good for me when I juice fast, when I eat solids however I eat things which are pointless or unhealthy as well as eating healthy stuff. I dont know a single person who eats 100% to benefit their body 100% of the time) but even if it were a placebo effect, who cares? If it makes you feel good – do it.
Also just wanna say that no one has said that a juice fast is the only way to achieve good skin/good hair, etc, so arguing about the other ways to achieve these results is pointless since no one in their right mind would disagree that a healthy diet and exercise is good for you.
I dont really get all the anger towards a simple choice some people make to cut out solids every once in a while.
Also I dont see why anyone has to bring in their education to back up their point, or question others to try and discredit theirs, it seems kinda vulgar. Besides, people always seem to have a relevant degree on a subject when a debate breaks out over it, not saying any one here is lying but I do think people lie a hell of a lot on the internet.
Again, I’m not saying that supports of cleanses don’t get the idea that a healthy diet is the way to go. I’m sure they understand that. I’m saying that their argument that it is a good alternative is not valid because a cleanse does not do the things it claims to do…there is no such thing as “toxin buildups” that need to be cleansed. The body does it, and no diet ever affects how fast the body cleanses itself. The rate is determined by your liver and kidney functioning, something that cleanses and other food do not have control over.
Yes, I can understand that cleanses can make people feel good, but not because of alleged health benefits, but rather psychological factors. And no, I don’t believe for most people it’s dangerous if done for a few days, but it just doesn’t do what cleanse supporters claim it does…it doesn’t CLEANSE. It doesn’t CURE. It doesn’t HEAL. It doesn’t BOOST. To promote it as such is either deliberately lying or not knowing enough on the subject.
Again, there’s no anger, at least not from me. But one of the many goals in my life and career is to eliminate pseudoscientific premises, so when I see them, I will point them out and say, “nope not true,” or, “where’s your proof?” Some people are bothered by that and percieve it as aggressive, but maybe that’s a good thing. Had it been said, “cleanses make me feel good but there’s little evidence it actually does stuff,” I would have not said anything. But to claim it does things that it is not capable of doing…that’s misinformation and should be pointed out.
More info if you’re interested (you can skip down to colon cleanses):
http://www.skepdic.com/detox.html
Casey, I think ur making some great points, dunno why the others think u arent chill
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My doctor is always telling me that “at best” a cleanse won’t do anything. And I’ve often been told that it ruins ur metabolism. That being sad, I have tried it in the past, because people were always saying how good they felt, and how much weight they lost… but I never had any significant results. So to me now, it’s just a waste of money. And my metabolism is sh*t now, but that may not be just because of that.
A detox diet is a way to eliminate food addictions. Just as someone would go into detox when coming off of alcohol or drugs in rehab, you get the DTs for caffeine, sugar, oil, and the thousands of food additives in processed foods. As for nutrition, if you juice the vegetables yourself and drink them fresh, it’s a pretty outstanding way to get nutrition. Depending on what you put in your juicer, it is complete, and nutritionists agree with it, particularly when there are health issues to be resolved, like obesity. Slowing down your metabolism is also not a bad thing to do. Giving the body a rest from perpetual digestion is good – it allows for deeper healing. Slowing down the aging process is also good. Running your body on high all the time is not so good.
I’ve tried Gwyneth Paltrow’s Goop 1-week detox diet twice in the past and I’ve always dropped around 5 or 6 pounds in a week. It’s mostly small meals (5 or 6 a day) of juices/soups, but there are snacks of nuts and one solid meal most days (chicken or fish). It definitely made my belly flatter and I had more energy and my skin was improved, I think. Disclaimer note: I was mildly overweight (BMI like, 27 or 28) when I did it both times, but it’s a great way to kick off a diet or if you’ve been overindulging and need to get back to your normal eating and exercise routine. Definitely not for the long term. I loosely followed it the second time I tried it for 3 weeks (ie, a lot of the same recipes/foods/guidelines, but strayed from the menu some) and I think my body was going into starvation mode (although I wasn’t feeling completely deprived and hungry) because it really isn’t enough calories to sustain the diet long-term. Plsu the weight loss plateaued as well and I got a weird sore throat that persisted for about a week or so. I looked it up online and other people who have been detoxing have gotten the same sore throat symptoms. Another good tip: drink a tablespoon of safflower oil a night instead of olive oil. Safflower oil helps decrease abdominal fat and it’s better for you and also helps your digestion (ie poop). Much better for you than laxatives and you can do it everyday, whereas with laxatives (even the herbal ones) you really shouldn’t take them for more than a week at a time. hope this advice helps anyone considering going on a detox diet!
I`m sure if i do this diet myself i faint everyday.Salma in life you have to live not exsist!
Drink just juice for five days and you will lose weight?! No sh*t sherlock…
lol
Just hope she ain’t gonna lose her curves… And I don’t think this is very healthy… that’s sad…
3 days of this and she’ll probably lose…2 pounds?
Don’t worry.
I feel like I’ll faint only with the thought of such “cleanse”!
If it only made sense! Once your metabolism starts mistaking lettuce for cake, how are we? x_x
Okay as for her. She shouldn’t be promoting this as a diet, it is a cleanse, so it is not meant for weightloss. Kudos on the self control though! not alot of people can last on a juice cleanse, i;ve tired it and it is realllllly hard but if you get past day 3/4 you’ll be fine
what she says is true too, it is great for the skin and even sometimes cures some illnesses, skin illnesses that is.
As for the price, what the hell man? Is she too poor or too lazy to make her own juices? She probably just got paid by the company to promote it.. even IF i was stupid enough to fall for a company like this, they usually only deliver in certain places of the USA. So for the rest of us, we gotta just blend our own veggies and fruits, if she tried it she’d know it ain’t that hard. She might even burn some calories doing so
i think the juice cleanse is a great thing for most people. unless you are at your ideal weight you could stand to lose some, and consuming only natural juices for a few days will benefit all organs. go salma – she looks amazing so she is proof that either she has great genes or she is doing something right or, as i suspect is the case, both simaltaneously.
Oh oh oh and i might be wrong here but i’ve never heard anything about cleanses from her over the past 15 years. So the 15 year cleansing habit comment? I say bs
She probably only just started because she’s getting paid for it. I might be wrong, since i don’t really like her so don’t really pay attention.. but i would have picked up on a juice cleanse since i’m always looking for new ideas for juices.
The final verdict? Like the kardashis (or however it’s spelled), this lady just got paid to shamelessly promote this. As if she doesn’t know that the average person could never afford this…
She is much too curvy too look like she does much of a strict diet…..
What is that supposed to mean? Curvy is a body shape, so Salma is naturally going to be curvacious no matter what weight or size she is.
The problem I have with celebrities always promoting these types of cleanses (whether or not these ones even work or are healthy) is that so many people read this stories in magazines and don’t bother to follow the programs that are being promoted but instead just put themselves on their own liquid diet of a few glasses of orange juice or something a day and think that they are following the same diet as Salma Hayek.
That’s as much the fault of magazines as it is of the person doing it, but I still don’t think that these should be promoted.
I’m surprised everyone is so anti-cleanse. I think used sparingly they can be really good for your body, and it’s obviously not a sustainable diet. Every once in a while I’ll take a Saturday at home and drink nothing but all fruit smoothies and water, or naked juice and I always feel so great the next day. Sometimes I get into binge periods where I eat way too much and a 1-2 day cleanse is a good way to break that and feel like I’m starting over with my regular healthy eating. Clearly no one can live on juice, but a day of it isn’t going to hurt you.