Got Juice?- Juicing & Juicers

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. If you do decide to do a juice fast (which can be very healthy for you) it is best to see a physician first to make sure there are not any health issues that would be complicated by such a fast.

Many juicing enthusiasts, like Jay Kordich (The Juiceman), have some amazing stories to tell about how juicing saved their lives. The movie Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead with Joe Cross is another fantastic example of the health benefits.

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.

Personally, 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 there are many helpful reviews on Amazon.com. The Breville juicers that they use in the movie Fat, Sick & Nearly Dead seem to be well rated.

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