Vegetables for Juicing-part 2 C Vegetables

Vegetable juices are so good for soothing the nerves and to gently carry away toxic and accumulated waste matter. Raw Vegetable juices are good for many common health problems. Drink vegetable juice at least half an hour after meals. Follow the general rule to not drink vegetable juices before meals or with fruit juices.

Use these favorite vegetables for good health.

CABBAGE, both the red and white, are valuable ingredients in a salad but only in reasonable quantities, because the sulfur and chlorine content is high. Red cabbage has 50% more sulfur than white. White cabbage has about 65% more potassium, nearly ten times more iron and about three times as much silicon as the red cabbage. If not properly chewed, cabbage will cause gas, and if you combine cabbage with vinegar, salt, or sugar it can irritate the digestive tract.

CARROTS are one of our most complete foods. Finely grated pulp of raw carrots is one of the most soothing, efficient ways to heal a diseased colon. Raw carrots contain all the elements and all the vitamins that are required by the human body. This is not true of cooked carrots. Carrot juice is a good cleanser of bile and waste matter coagulated in the liver from years of wrong eating. If the skin becomes discolored, after drinking carrot and other juices, it is a result of coagulated bile in the liver dissolving so fast that sluggish kidneys and bowels were not able to take care of its elimination quickly enough, resulting in the lymph carrying this toxic matter out the pores of the skin. If this happened to me I would be grateful to have the cleanse going on rather than the alternative. Drinking raw carrot juice will bring relief to eyes and reduce fatigue resulting from working or driving in bright lights.

CAULIFLOWER is very good to eat raw. It is high in potassium, phosphorous and sulfur, and protein. Like other members of the cabbage family, it has the tendency to irritate the kidneys if you eat too much. It is nourishing and used sparingly is good for you.

CELERY, the stalks along with the green leaves should be used because in addition to very high sodium content they contain insulin. Celery, our best food for organic sodium chloride, has four plus times more organic sodium than calcium. This is why raw celery juice is a wonderful drink for hot weather. It provides organic salt which is much better for the body than inorganic salt. It helps with nerves, sleeplessness, and sobering a drunk. Eating too much starch leaves deposits of inorganic calcium in our bodies. When we eat celery the organic sodium in celery aids in maintaining the inorganic calcium in solution until at least some of it can be eliminated from the body before it accumulates and causes trouble. The high magnesium and iron content of celery is good for the blood cells.

Why We Need Raw Food, Especially Fruits and Vegetables

Did you know that from thirty to eighty-five percent of the nutrition in foods is destroyed in cooking? Did you know that fresh, raw foods contain the highest level of enzymes? Did you know that unless you supply enzymes for your body, the enzymes present at birth in your body will eventually run out and you will die of degenerative disease? Each of us receives a supply of enzymes at birth. This supply is not limitless; it must supply our bodies with life sustaining enzymes for our whole lives.

What are enzymes and why are they so important?

“An enzyme is a biocatalyst — something that makes something else work or work faster. Chemical reactions are generally slow things, enzymes speed them up. Without enzymes the chemical reactions that make up our life would be too slow for life as we know it. (As slow as sap running down a tree in winter). For life to manifest as we know it, enzymes are essential to speed up the reactions. We have roughly some 3000 enzymes in our bodies and that results in over 7000 enzymic reactions. Most of these enzymes derived or created from what we think of as the protein digesting enzymes. But while digestion is an important part of what enzymes do, it’s almost the absolute last function. First and foremost these body wide proteolytic (protein eating) enzymes have the following actions:

· Natural Anti-inflammatory

· Anti Fibrosis

· Blood Cleansing

· Immune System Modulating

· Virus Fighting”

William Wong N.D., Ph.D., Member World Sports Medicine Hall of Fame

Enzymes are needed for the digestion and absorption of foods as well as for the production of cellular energy. Enzymes are needed for most of the building and rebuilding that takes place constantly in our bodies. Metabolic enzymes are used by the heart, lungs, kidneys, immune system, and for brain functions; digestive enzymes convert protein, carbohydrates and fat into fuel to maintain our bodies. Requiring the body to supply digestive enzymes can reduce the supply of metabolic enzymes. Eventually, the body becomes enzyme-deficient, introducing weaknesses and disease. It is understandable that glands and major organs suffer most from enzyme deficiency.

We can prevent our bodies from depleting its own supply of enzymes by providing those enzymes in raw foods. Food enzymes will start the digestion process in the stomach, but if there are no food enzymes the body will have to produce enzymes for digestion and thereby deplete the supply of systemic enzymes.

Fresh, raw foods contain the highest level of enzymes. When we cook food it kills the enzymes, so we end up with dead food that will not replenish the enzymes we have used up in the body. From the time food is harvested the quality of the enzymes goes down. Enzymes are powerful biochemical catalysts, which speed burning or building reactions in the body according to our need. They are specialized proteins, often with long complicated names ending in -ase. Cooked food passes through the digestive tract more slowly than raw food, tends to ferment, and throws poisons back into the body. Colon cancer is second only to lung cancer as a killer in America and is related, in various ways, to eating enzyme-deficient cooked food.

"Following a strict vegetarian diet is not as important as eating a diet rich in fruits and vegetables. A vegetarian whose diet is mainly refined grains, cold breakfast cereals, processed health-food-store products, vegetarian fast foods, white rice, and pasta will be worse off than a person who eats a little chicken or eggs, for example, but consumes a larger amount of fruits, vegetables, and beans." Joel Fuhrman., MD, board-certified family physician specializng in preventing and reversing disease through nutritional and natural methods.

Why Are We Iodine Deficient?

Some health practitioners and nutritionists say we get plenty of iodine in our diet and we don't need to worry about it. I think it isn't true that we get plenty of it. Most people eat iodized salt and think that is taking care of their need. I think there is something wrong with that picture. My reasons have a lot to do with Halogens and the chemical properties of them.

Chlorine, Fluorine, bromine and Iodine are all halogens. The more reactive halogens will replace the less reactive halogens in the body. The higher the molecular weight the less reactive the halogens. The most reactive would be Fluorine, then Chlorine, then Bromine and then Iodine. Most municipal water supplies are treated with chlorine so unless we do something to clean up our drinking water we are getting chlorine from our water into our bodies. Many supplies have added fluorine to the drinking water also plus toothpaste and deodorant and baking powder. We get bromine in much of our baking powder. Salt is made up of Sodium and Chlorine and some salt has iodine added to it. Of all these four chemicals, iodine is needed more in the body and is the least reactive halogen so it will get replaced if any of the other three are present.

It has been estimated by some medical doctors that 99.9 % of the people in the world are iodine deficient. It is widespread everywhere except in Japan where they use a lot of seaweed and kelp. If this is true, we all should pay attention to getting a better source of iodine in our diets so we can have our endocrine systems functioning up to capacity. We should also pay attention to cutting down on the other halogens so the iodine can be absorbed by the body.

Juice Fast For Weight Loss and Cleansing

Having tried juice fasting before, and having talked to others about it I chose a time when I wasn't going to have a lot of stresses in my life. I had been told that the first 3 days would be the hardest and then would get easier. The following is what I did and what I found.

For the cleanse the very most important thing is to drink often, so I set the goal of drinking a glass of something every hour. First thing in the morning is a good time to drink a full glass of lemon water. That helps the liver and the whole body cleanse. Then the next hour water, the next hour juice, then water. Every two hours I try to drink a juice or tea or vegetable broth of some kind. A variety gets you more of the nutrients your body needs. On the opposite hours I drink a glass of water. My goal is to drink 4 or 5 swallows every half hour and I often squeeze lemon into my water.

It is good to use fresh fruits and vegetables mostly so you will get enzymes as well as the vitamins and minerals your body needs. There are proteins in some of the green things as well, but that is a nutrient one has a hard time getting on a juice fast.

Another thing you don't get is fiber. Fiber is necessary to clean the bowel and because you don't get fiber on a juice fast it is recommended that you do a bowel cleanse daily. This can be done with enema, high colonic, or colon hydrotherapy. My colon Hydrotherapist told me that when you don't chew your peristalic movement in the bowel stops. The up side of this she said, is that the plaque in the bowel comes away from the walls of the large intestine. That is why you need to take the opportunity to clean it out.

One recipe for healthy fresh juice is the juice of a potato, a beet, carrots, and celery. Potato gives you potassium, beet is for the liver and gull bladder, carrots for blood sugar and energy, and celery is for sodium. This works well, and on these foods I have not found myself low in energy.

This juice fast, I have concentrated on using low sugar, low glycemic raw foods because I am trying to get rid of some candida.

It is really great to have juicers available in my home to process my raw food into juice. That way, I can juice whatever I have access to or want to eat. My citrus juicer works well to juice the lemons and grapefruit I have juiced. The wheatgrass juicer has worked great for the kale, lettuce, chard, and other leafy things. The centrifugal juicer is what I prefer for juicing the apples, carrots, beets, and peppers, onions, cucumbers, celery, and other hard fruits and vegetables. I have juiced pineapple with this juicer as well.

The hardest part of the fast has been to fix my husband and grandchild their tasty meals and then sit down to drink my glass of juice while they are eating chops and ribs and salads.

This juice fast has gone quickly. I am half through with my 21 day fast and I have lost 8 1/2 pounds and the itching from the candida is going away also.

Juice fasting is a great way to get toxins out of the body that are stored in the fat. It is great to get back on track to healthy eating and healthy living. It is great to get rid of the left over holiday weight. My friend jumpstarted his 78 LB weight loss with a juice fast. It gets you more healthy. This friend was able to get off all 3 diabetes medicines and the high blood cholesterol medicine he had been taking and his blood looks really good. I would recommend a juice fast for anyone who wants to feel better and get healthy.