At Health Etcetera you have total control of your retreat. Depending on your goals, you may fast for your entire stay or you may choose to eat delicious living foods. You will benefit from both programmes, the difference being only one of speed and intensity.

In our experience, for most people, the optimum programme is a combination of both options: a short fast of two or three days followed by nutritious alkaline living food.

If you fast during all your stay with us, your detoxification will be more profound, also your weight-loss. However, you may miss the opportunity to take part in the hands-on demonstrations to prepare food. By participating in the practical preparation of menus and dishes, you may equip yourself to take home some gold nuggets of experience, which will enable you to improve your long-term habits.

In addition, the most important and difficult part of fasting is by far breaking it. Therefore, we strongly encourage you to move on to solids under our careful monitoring and allow one or two days of eating before you return to the big wild world.

On the other hand, if you choose not to fast, you may miss the opportunity to profit from a well needed deep cleanse.

Fasting is very simple in principle and you can do it on your own. However, to refrain from our daily eating habits and addictions often proves to be too challenging in our own environment.

Furthermore, when we fast we may become temporarily weak and light-headed and we require a great deal of rest. Despite our good intentions, we all know how difficult it is not to carry on with our busy lives of answering phones and seeing to pressing tasks. Having a complete break from it all in calm surroundings allows our fast to work more effectively.

Three days is enough to get rid of most of our toxins. Therefore, at Health Etcetera we strongly encourage you to consume vegetable alkaline juice for two or three days. We do monitor you at all times and after this short period, we will discuss with you how to best take your retreat forward. Some people continue fasting for up to three weeks whilst others are ready to move on to solid food. If you stay for longer than a week, you may choose to fast for one day a week after your initial juice feasting period.

You do not need to decide which programme to opt for. Call us for advice before you arrive or leave it until you get here to choose. Our experienced team will help you find the right path for your needs, and will assess your progress and assist you to make the change when it suits you.