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JUICERS:
GET EQUIPPED!
Vitality Plus
offers a selection of nearly 20 professional juicers, as
well as juicing accessories like vegetable cleaning brushes
and vacuum pumps to keep food fresh. For an
alternative to frozen and canned juices, order Green Star,
Omega and Miracle juicers online through
Vitality Plus.
While you're there, check out their very modern blenders,
dehydrators (to make your own healthy dried fruit) and
sprouters (to grow a sprout garden in your own kitchen!).
Get Juiced Up!!!
By Andy Summa
 If the Star Trek Enterprise crew had been vegetarians, popular Scotty likely would have been known for saying, “We need more juice!” rather than “We need more power!”.
Bad jokes aside, most health-conscious people know that juicing is a healthy way to add vitamins and minerals into your diet. Juicing separates a fruit’s juice from its fiber. The juice is extracted and collected for drinking. Many vitamins and minerals are concentrated in the
juice.
The Raw Food Scoop...
 "Living and raw" foodists eat an organic, uncooked, unheated, and
unprocessed plant-based diet. The Living
and Raw Foods site has all you want to know about what living and
raw food is, a huge archive of recipes, bulletin boards, and more!
The basics of this diet are that "raw and living foods" are those that
contain enzymes, and enzymes aid in the digestion of food. The act of
heating food over 116 degrees F destroys enzymes in food.
(Enzymes start to degrade in as little as 106 degrees F). All cooked
food is devoid of enzymes.
Raw
foods enzymes are often dormant, such as the enzymes found in nuts. The
Raw and Living Foods site offers techniques to activate these dormant
enzymes, such as soaking and sprouting nuts, seeds and grains before
consuming them. Raw and living foods include fruits, vegetables,
sprouts, nuts, seeds, grains, sea vegetables, and other organic/natural
foods that have not been processed.
Organic High
Country Fruit Rocky Mountain Fruit will mail you delectable sweet cherries, tree-ripened peaches, crisp apples and juicy pears from several small family farms located on the high mesas of western Colorado.
Did you know…
...that it takes approximately one pound of carrots to make 8 ounces of juice.
GENERAL:
JUICERS:
Favorite Juice Recipes...Jen's
Power Juice
3-4
Carrots
1/2 bunch Kale
1/2 bunch Collard Greens
Watercress
1 or 2 Celery Sticks
1/2 to 1 Apple
1/2 Red Pepper
1/2 Green Pepper
We
thank Jennifer Wells for this recipe. This is what
she says about her creation: "This is my
favorite juice. It is very green but powerful in
nutrition and anti-oxidants. I have been drinking it
for years. Makes me feel great! Just love it!" |
Juicing Tips &
Information...
There are many books,
articles and other information on the alternative healing
powers of juicing, but here are some quick tips to launch you
into the world of juicing:
- When buying a juicer,
choose the one with the strongest motor you can
afford - it will last longer.
- Good
Juicing ingredients: Apples, oranges and carrots. To
get smoothie or shake texture, use a banana or some
protein powder. Other good additions are herbs, bee pollen
and wheat germ. Sprouts are also great living foods to add
to a juice recipe.
- If you suffer from diabetes, be careful
with fruit juice, they can send your blood sugar into flux. Choose
vegetables instead.
- Research has shown that a diet consisting of lots of
fruits and vegetables may have anti-cancer properties.
- Juice is
also good supplement for Vegan and vegetarian diets.
JUST
FOR FUN
Take a
look at these wildly artistic
watermelon carvings!
WHEATGRASS:
FOR
OUR CANADIAN FRIENDS:
FOR
OUR UK FRIENDS:
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THANK YOU
Lois, for this
energizing and smooth recipe:
MOROCCAN
Energy Juice
1 Apple
1 Avocado
1 Banana
1 cup Milk
1/2 cup sugar
Peel the apple, avocado and banana and cut into chunks. Put all ingredients into the blender. Add more milk to get the smoothest consistency desired. It does not store well and needs to be consumed when
prepared.
LOIS
gets a cool organic cotton RedJellyfish.com T-shirt as
thanks.
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