Juicing!

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THE BENEFITS OF JUICINGJUICES Commercially produced juices are pasteurized (dead) and containsome or all of the following: Sugar (dextrose, fructose, corn syrup), foodcolorings, preservatives, synthetic vitamins, salt, other additives. Health food store brands generally are pasteurized, but areotherwise fine. The best juice is freshly made and diluted 25-50% with distilledwater. Freshly made, full strength juice is concentrated and should not beconsidered a drink, but a meal. (See JUICING below). JUICING Everyone can benefit from juice regardless of the physicalcondition. Ideally, we would receive all our nutrition from our raw fruitand vegetable diet and thus, juicing would not be necessary. But because: We do not eat almost totally raw foods. The quality of the fresh produce is low. The stress we live under affects assimilation of raw produce. Juicing, therefore, is a great means of filling the gaps as listedabove. It can be likened to getting healing nutrients "wholesale", in thatin the juiced form they are so easy to assimilate. All should considerpurchasing a juicer, and engage in the drinking of raw fruit andvegetable-juice for the following reasons: Juiced foods require little or no digestion; thus, the healingnutrients of the raw fruits and vegetables are readily available forassimilation. Therefore, the overall healing process is made much moreefficient, in that most people's digestive systems are so toxic andinneficient that their ability to break down raw fruits and vegetables isgreatly hampered. (Cooked and processed foods are partially broken downbefore they are consumed.) The paradox is that raw foods provide thenutrients which heal the body, including the digestive system itself.Yet asick digestive system is unable (to various degrees) to digest the food thatwill heal it. Digestive enzyme supplements are suggested in this case, andjuicing will further remedy this situation. Juicing will serve to motivate one to continue on with the proper diet,as he sees the results through juicing. A glass of raw juice is the best "multivitamin/mineral supplement"money can buy. If you are concerned that you are not getting all thenutrients out of raw fruits and vegetables that you need, or you are justbeginning to change your diet and want to increase your healing rate, drinkat least a glass of raw juice daily. A 4-8 ounce glass of raw fruit orvegetable juice is like gold to your body. It provides not only all of thehealing nutrients that have been isolated, but also all of those that manhas yet to discover. It provides them in their living, organic, alkaline,whole, complete, balanced form. It is important to remember that juicing hasa concentrating effect on the nutrients in fruits and vegetables. A glass ofjuice can (and should) be considered to be a meal in itself. (When juicing,take note of the quantity of fruits or vegetables used to make a glass ofjuice. Could you eat that much in one sitting?) Therefore, when juicing,keep the following guidelines in mind: Sip - drink slowly - a glass of juice. This allows for betterassimilation. Drink the juice alone, not with solid food. Because juice is aconcentrated food, a meal in itself, taking it with food would way overloadthe digestive system and defeat the purpose for drinking it. Allow at least onehour after drinking a glass of juice before eating any food, and until youare hungry. Likewise, do not drink juice until your stomach is empty aftereating a meal or snack. Do not combine fruits and vegetables. As these require differentdigestive processes, fruits need to be separated from vegetables. - All fruits may be mixed together. - All vegetables may be mixed together. - All melons may be mixed together. Exceptions: Lettuce and celery can be combined with either fruitor vegetable juice. Apples will mix with vegetable juices (this helps tosweeten). When making vegetable juice, make it predominately (80+%) either: - carrot juice, or - tomato juice mixing with these other vegetables as desired - celery, cucumbers,green peppers, etc. While vegetables generally do not contain as highamounts of glucose as fruits, carrot juice and tomato juice are bothrelatively sweet, and will carry the taste of other nutritious vegetables ifmixed in.Some books on juicing are:Raw Juice Therapy by B. Lust; Thorsons Publishers LTD, 91 St. sLane, W.C.Z. LondonFresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices - What's Missing In Your Body? by Norman W.; O'Sullivan Woodside & Co. 2218 East Magnolia, Phoenix, AZ 85034The Complete Raw Juice Therapy by E. Charmine; Baronet Publishing Co.NY, NY----------------------------------------------- We hope you enjoyed this information and find it useful.Combination of herbs and complete written programs for restoring health canbe found athttp://www.healthfree.com/health/healing/.'>http://www.healthfree.com/health/healing/. 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