Day Fourteen
November 3, 2007
wow – beets can be ROUGH! Ok clearly I did it to myself, but the past 12 hours have been kinda not nice. Dinner last night was 3 beets and a few stalks of celery. I’ve read all kinds of ways to get the beet peel off, and when I’ve juiced them in the past I used a peeler. But last night I thought “why throw those peel nutrients away?” so I juiced the whole beet (fill in NOT SMART at this point). Shortly after drinking it my throat and all the way down to my stomach was totally irritated. That scratchiness lasted most of the evening and was quite uncomfortable until I went to bed.
This morning when I awoke it was clear the rest of my digestive system didn’t like it either. Pretty intense diarrhea for about 3 hours until I got it out of my system. So lesson learned.. beets may be super good for you, but those peels are nasty! I’ll feed them to the garbage disposal next time.
