Got Juice?- Juicing & Juicers

I have just begun my journey into juicing and I must say it has been wonderful! Juicing is a great addition to any diet. It's an easy way to add more vegetables to your diet, in a more concentrated form than if they were cooked. And while vegetables, when cooked, lose some of their vitamins and minerals, juicing allows you to ingest all of the nutrients.

There are a few simple rules for juicing, such as drinking a variety of fruit and vegetable juices. To avoid consuming too much sugar, you should drink at least as much vegetable juice as fruit juice. It's still important to eat plenty of necessary fiber found in legumes, whole grains, and whole fruits and vegetables. Juicing releases the nutrients from the fiber of the juice, allowing you to drink vitamins and minerals that would not otherwise be absorbed by the body, and leaves the fiber behind.

It's also important to start slowly when juicing as your body is not accustomed to digesting such a concentrated forms of vegetable nutrients and fruit sugars. It's also not generally recommended that you drink juice with a meal; you should drink your juice between meals or have juice as a meal, such as drinking fresh juice for breakfast.

Many juicing enthusiasts, like Jay Kordich (The Juiceman), have some amazing stories to tell about how juicing saved their lives. The Juiceman even offers an audio clip about the benefits of juicing and a Quicktime movie about the importance of juicing.

The danger is that some naive people will believe his claims and forego or abandon proven medical treatments to rely instead on an almost exclusively juice diet.

You'll find that juicing recipes often have specific purposes, such as to give you more energy, improve your memory, or generally improve your health.

I can say that I love it and use various juice recipes 2 - 3 times a day now. I feel a difference in my energy levels, and my skin, hair and nails have never been in better shape! I am totally smitten with my juicer, it is now a big part of my daily life. Should you decide to try it, you will have to find the right juicer for your needs, and I found that the Juiceman II meets them all. I did plenty of research and I think you will agree that it is a great juicer, and well worth the money.

Read further to find out more about the juicer we recommend along with some great juicing books and recipes-

Features: Powerful 1/2-horsepower motor quickly juices most fruits and vegetables Makes tasty, nutritious, and additive-free juice blends Stainless-steel blade, basket with micro-mesh strainer screens out pulp High-capacity pulp receptacle for continuous juicing Two-speed control for soft or hard produce

Whether you're into nutrition-laden wheatgrass tonics or really superb fresh orange juice, a juicer is a great way to go. Fruits and vegetables are an essential part of a healthy diet, and additive-free fresh juice is a convenient and quick alternative to eating all of them whole. This professional-quality Juiceman makes the process very quick for the serious juice enthusiast. A few simple twists attach and detach the juice bowl, blade basket, and cover to and from the base unit, which has a footprint comparable to the average blender. Produce cut to the appropriate size goes in the feed tube, then is gently pressed into the blade basket with a plunger. Juice pours out one spout and the pulp--including seeds and skin--shoots out into a separate pulp basket. It has two speed settings, low for softer produce such as oranges and apples and high for harder fruits and vegetables such as carrots and pineapples--in practice this unit is plenty powerful enough to almost instantly go through baby carrots at low speed. Enjoy the juice and use the pulp in recipes such as those for carrot cake. A basic cookbook and audiotape of juicing tips are included. --Dale Steinke

Digestive Cocktail	Alkaline Special- Acid Reducer
� lemon with peel � grapefruit (peeled) 2 oranges	� head cabbage (red or green) 3 stalks of celery
Passion Cocktail	Morning Tonic
4 strawberries 1 large chuck pineapple 1 bunch black grapes	1 apple 1 grapefruit (peeled)
Potassium Juice	Power
1 handful of spinach 1 handful of parsley 2 stalks of celery 4-6 carrots	6 carrots 1 apple 2 stalks of celery � handful of wheatgrass � handful of parsley � beet
Energy Shake	Water Retention Zapper
handful of parsley 6 carrots	Watermelon cut into strips & juice (rind and all)
Cantaloupe Juice	Sunshine Cocktail
Cantaloupe cut into strips and juice (rind and all)	2 apples 4-6 strawberries
Rejuvenator	The Waldorf
handful of parsley 3 carrots 2 celery stalks 2 cloves of garlic	1 stalk celery 2 apples
Holiday Cocktail	Body Cleanser
2 apples 1 large bunch of grapes 1 slice lemon with peel	4 carrots � cucumber 1 beet
Evening Regulator	Digestive Special
2 apples 1 pear	Handful of spinach 6 carrots
Orange or Grapefruit	Bromeiain Special
3 oranges (peeled) or 1 grapefruit (peeled)	Pineapple (skin & all, except top greens)
Carrot/Apple Juice	Liver Mover
6 carrots 2 apples	2-3 carrots � beet