The Easiest Way to Eat Enough Healing Vegetables Every Day
Ask any natural health practitioner and he or she will tell you that you need as many as nine serves of fruit and vegetables every day. And yet I’m sure that one in a hundred people reading this actually does get sufficient.
There are very serious reasons why we should get enough vegetables. (fruit is another subject I’ll come back to later). Lack of green vegetables in particular deprives us of vital alkaline minerals, and all fresh fruit and vegetables give us a whole range of live enzymes. Enzymes are the catalysts of a myriad of chemical reactions in the body and without a regular supply, functions we think of and accept as automatic health functions slow down and even stop.
Let’s talk about how we can get enough without actually preparing and cooking nine servings per day. It seems to be difficult – otherwise we’d be doing it. We all know that some foods – especially vegetables – taste like well…cut grass. But look at the alternative and we have to admit that continued health – the health we accept as our birthright – is no-one else’s choice. So keeping up our fruit and vegetables – however we do it – is our ’bank’ of health, our guarantee of a good day tomorrow and every day thereafter.
How can we get enough in this busy life? There are ways and they are very practical.
What we need is a way to increase our intake that preserves live enzymes, that is fast, and that is economical. That’s where juicing comes in.. because only juicing ‘compresses’ all the benefits of raw fruit and vegetables into one glass.
Bypassing cooking also means that all of those heat-sensitive micronutrients will be immediately available. Juicing makes this infinitely easier.
Most of us think we know what a juicer looks like. Most of us have owned some sort of juicer in the past.. but most of us have it gathering dust in the rear of a kitchen cupboard. Why is that? Well, the vast majority of juicers sold to people are high speed models that run so fast that they kill much of those same sensitive and vital micronutrients through the generation of heat right at the cutting face of the juicer blade, whirling at hundreds of revolutions per minute.
So even if we haven’t understood it, our body hasn’t responded in the way we thought it should and juicing has been shuffled off the daily agenda.
I mentioned earlier that fruit juice isn’t so good as vegetable juice. Fruit is loaded with fructose and fructans – sugars. We have somehow decided that fruit sugar is OK whereas ordinary sugar is bad. Sorry folks, but all sugars are bad, and unnecessary, and juicing fruit concentrates all the fruits’ sugars into one glass. One glass of orange juice, for instance, has as much sugar in it as a glass of Coca Cola *
I suggest avoiding fruit completely if you have any issues with weight, cardiovascular disease, or diabetes. I’m a paleolithic diet convert, and our ancestors never had access to the unlimited volume of fresh fruits we have today. So eating the amount of fruit we do today is not natural – in the sense that it doesn’t correlate with our genetic blueprint.
9 reasons to start vegetable juicing today.
Freshly juiced ‘green drinks’ provide us with an instant boost in terms of nutrients, enzymes, vitamins and alkaline minerals in a highly digestible form. Although you can juice with red, yellow and orange vegetables — I recommend that the majority of your juice intake comes from green vegetables.
Here’s my nine reasons to juice:
1. Green foods contain high amounts of chlorophyll, a very effective detoxifier. It gives you strength, detoxifies your liver, removes mould, parasites, mycotoxins and excitotoxins from your body. If you have an odour problem, I guarantee it will solve it.
The structure of chlorophyll is very similar to the hemoglobin in your blood that transports oxygen, it purifies and rebuilds your blood cells.
Some studies even claim that chlorophyll can help prevent and remove cancer cells.
2. Green juicing is a powerful cellular detoxifier at the cellular level.
3. Fresh raw vegetable juice is a concentrated alkaline supercharge. We need our body to be slightly alkaline. In my experience, an acidic body is a leading underlying cause of disease and illness.
4. As I said earlier, raw vegetable juices and green drinks supply you with a concentrated source of vitamins, minerals, enzymes, nutrients, and trace elements that we all require for healing, cell regeneration, and overall wellness. These are embedded in a complex of nutrients, fibre and carbohydrates that’s digested and absorbed better – and benefits us far more – than a pill that contains just one nutrient. There are dozens, perhaps thousands, of undiscovered nutrients present in plants.
5. Many vegetables and their juices contain natural medicines and even natural antibiotics. For instance, the natural hormones and antibiotic substances in cucumber, onion and garlic, radish and tomatoes contribute to a healthy pancreas.
6. Minerals such as calcium, potassium, and silicon in fresh vegetable juice help your body restore its cellular mineral balance… which in turn prevents premature aging and disease.
7. Juicing lets you add a wider variety and larger amounts of vegetables to your daily diet than otherwise possible. Most important, it keeps the nutrients alive and absorbable.
8. Some studies have shown that vegetable drinks hit your bloodstream within 30 minutes of consumption, so they’re a quick way to flood your body with micronutrients.
9. Raw live juices may actually reverse disease, and have been used as a late-stage cancer treatment. The Gerson Therapy, one of the most famous anticancer protocols, is very largely based on juicing. Many, many other anticancer protocols now imitate Gerson and incorporate juicing into their systems.
You just won’t get juice like this is a supermarket.
When natural health specialists talk about “juicing” they are referring to real raw foods complete with their natural pigments, enzymes, vitamins, minerals and nutrients working to bring healing, energy and protection from disease to your body.
I don’t recommend packaged juices such as cartons and bottles of ‘fresh’ orange juice, pasteurised bottles of super fruits, or frozen juice concentrates! If you want to be healthy, leave them on the shelves and go home with fresh veggies.
Steve Jobs drank packaged carrot juice for many years, missing out on the micronutrients we talked about.. and by the way, flooding his body with sugar from the carrots. (Not all vegetables are good for juicing). Speaking of sugar, many prepackaged juices have added sugar; the very last thing a healthy body needs. They can be months old before we consume tham, kept ‘alive’ by radiation sterilisation.
Minerals such as magnesium and potassium are about the only nutrients you can be sure will survive all this. When it comes to enzymes, vitamins, other antioxidants and even proteins — good luck.
Once you decide to take on real juicing you may have a few questions about what foods to juice, what juicers to use… and (something people often forget) how to save juice’s top nutritional value if you don’t drink it right away.
As I mentioned earlier, I suggest that for the shortest distance from ‘woe’ to ‘go‘, skip the fruit. Sugar is what is keeping you at sub-par health, and fruit is loaded with it. Sugar is a drug and your way to health is in the opposite direction.
The Internet means you’ll get recommendations for all sorts of juices. There must be thousands of videos on the Youtube for people’s favourite juice. But we are all about health change, so my advice is to by all means look at the videos, but if they add fruit, they are juicing to support their sugar drug habit. Serious health means above-ground vegetables. They aren’t going to taste as good, but this isn’t the place for chic juice. This is the serious save your life juicer place.
Start slowly and let your body get juiced up slowly. One aspect of alkalizing I notice over and over again is the body’s resurgent ability to let you know what it wants. Listen! It knows!
Juicing for Cancer
I have heard many reports of people actually reversed their cancer by changing their diet. A healthy diet certainly supports your body to rebuild your immune system and rebalance your cells.
If your diet isn’t fighting cancer, it’s fueling it. Or to paraphrase what they used to say back in the Sixties, if the food you eat isn’t part of the solution, it’s part of the problem.
Some say that 95% of the ‘ fuels’ of the typical American diet ‘fuel’ cancer. Juicing can help you reverse that.
I am not an expert on the very best vegetables for a cancer fighting juice protocol, but one fabulous cancer fighter I do know about is wheatgrass juice. And.. if you’ve never done it, it’s actually fun to grow.
Wheatgrass juice contains alkaline chlorophyll, which boosts hemoglobin production – pushing more oxygen to your cancer. It also contains the cancer fighters selenium and laetrile. It’s also one of the most alkaline foods known to man. It cleanses the lymph system, restores pH balance, purifies your blood, and ushers toxic metals out of your body. It deserves a special place in your anti-cancer juicing protocol.
Although in the long term you probably need to consume healthy protein, many cancer patients use vegetable juice as their entire diet for weeks at a time, while trying to detoxify their system and kill the cancer cells. Many alternative cancer experts, that cancer patients should eat no animal protein at all. I challenge their view and would say that when you are on a low carb, medium protein and high fat paleo diet, the problems normally associated with high consumption of protein fades into irrelevance.
Fresh is Essential
Vegetable juice is HIGHLY perishable. Drink it as soon as possible after you make it. Even the aromatics — the scents and gases given off by the produce — are packed with valuable nutrients. Other nutrients will lose their potency when exposed to oxygen.
You can store juice for up to 24 hours with only moderate nutritional loss if you expose it to air as little as possible. An airtight container is a must — preferably one made of glass. Storage is helpful if you’re taking your juice with you to work or school.
Like most products, you should base your equipment selection on quality, performance and price. It’s important that your juicer operate at slow speeds so it doesn’t pulverize or heat (oxidize) the food.
Always clean your machine right away. Don’t wait until the food dries and bonds to the surface of the machine. In most cases, you may be able to get by with a rinse-off if you act right away. If you put it off, you’ll have to scrub and scrape.
If you’re worried about what the clean-up is going to involve, shop carefully and ask lots of questions before buying. Some of the larger twin auger models actually need a clean-up between different juices in the same batch.
Why Slow Speed Juicers? Aren’t we in a Hurry?
Centrifugal juicers spin at very high speeds. Both masticating and centrifugal juicers and blenders operate at high speed — from 1,000 to 24,000 RPM. These high speeds can heat your juice and can damage the more perishable nutrients.
The best option regardless of price is a twin gear unit that turns slowly, around 80 RPMs — to ensure that nutrients aren’t lost to heat, or to a destructive
high-speed chopping blade. Use of this type of machine reduces oxidation as well as heat and impact shock to nearly nothing. More of your food’s delicate nutrients survive to benefit your health. Be aware that many of the more popular single gear units use a plastic grinder/auger made of polycarbonate that contains Bisphenol-A. Many thousands of these units were sold before BP-A was discovered to be a carcinogen s powerful that even drinking water from a BPA -containing bottle was so bad it was banned.
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