Juicing Gone Wrong… What Not To Do

JAMES COLQUHOUN, FILMMAKER (FOOD MATTERS AND HUNGRY FOR CHANGE)

If I could summarize my top advice for vitality in one word, it could very well be ‘juicing’! I wholeheartedly believe that juicing is fundamental to healing, longevity and abundant health. It is absolutely essential to any wellness plan. 

Juicing gives your body a super dose of liquid vitamins, flooding your bloodstream with essential nutrients, minerals, antioxidants, enzymes and phytochemicals. This elixir of goodness supercharges each and every cell in your body to slow down ageing, boost immunity and help your body to function in peak condition. 

If you are juicing already, that’s awesome! You are taking a big step forward in your wellness journey. If you aren’t juicing, now’s the best time to start and I’d love to help you avoid some of the biggest mistakes I encountered when I first discovered this incredible practice...

So whether you’re a ‘green’ juicing newbie or a total veteran of the Cold Press, here’s my top tips to squeeze the maximum goodness out of every juice you make!

Mistake: Raw Gone Wrong

Most fruits and vegetables are highly nutritious when eaten in their raw state. However, certain veggies are definitely best eaten cooked, as heat disables certain enzymes in these foods which are difficult to digest. Eggplant, potatoes, certain beans, zucchini, sweet potato and rhubarb all contain such enzymes and are best left out of your juices. 

Additionally, some fruit and veggies contain cyanogenic glycosides, which are toxic (even fatal) when consumed in high doses. These are found in the pits or seeds of apples, apricots, plums, peaches and cherries. Just like you wouldn’t munch down the seeds raw, make sure you only juice the flesh of these fruit. 

Solution? Don’t juice from the list of ‘no-go’ raw veggies and strictly remove the seeds and pits from fruits containing cyanogenic glycosides. 

Mistake: Too Much Tooty Fruity… (It can literally make you toot!)

In its whole form, fruit is high in vitamins, fiber, nutrients and phytochemicals. In its juice form, it is also high in fructose, a source of natural sugar.

When fruit is juiced and the fibre is extracted, fructose is taken from the fruit and concentrated in the liquid juice. This can spike your blood sugar levels, cause flatulence, affect your mood or make it harder to maintain a healthy weight. If you struggle with candida or diabetes, this may also worsen your condition. 

Because fruit is sweet and tastes oh-so-good, it’s very easy to use too much when you’re new to juicing. After all, I’m not gonna lie… green vegetables juices can be an acquired taste (although your tastebuds really do adjust, I promise!)

Solution? Stick to one piece of fruit in your juices to add a little sweetness and take away the bitter edge. You can also add lemon, lime, ginger, cayenne (if you like spice) and mint to nicely flavor your juices. Cucumber also dilutes any bitter taste quite well. 

Mistake: It’s Just Bad Timing

As soon as your juice is made and exposed to heat and light, these factors start to oxidize and break down nutrients and enzymes. Therefore, the optimal time to drink your juice is when it’s fresh from the juicer and buzzing with nutrients! 

Ideally, it’s also helpful to try to drink your juice on an empty stomach, at least half an hour before a meal. Drinking your juice on an empty tummy will optimize absorption of the juice and flood your bloodstream quickly with an abundance of nutrients. 

Solution? Drink your juice within 15 minutes after it’s made. If you absolutely cannot do this, store your juice in a dark airtight container within the fridge, and consume as soon as possible. 

Mistake: The Crux Of Cutting

Preparing your food for juicing is a somewhat double-edged sword. On one side, prepping your produce does take time and you don’t want to waste unnecessary time in the kitchen. On the other hand, not preparing your veggies properly can affect your juice and even damage the machine. Here’s a few tips:

• Cut your veggies according to the size of your machine’s specifications. Especially for cold-press slow juicers, big chunks can strain and even crack the parts. Stick to manageable pieces that the machine can process without making weird squeaking or grinding noises - this can indicate the parts are straining to process your pieces. 
• Invest in good cutting equipment! A non-slip cutting board, vegetable peeler and sharp knife will make life so much easier! If you juice a lot, a vegetable julienne dicer with a ‘cube cutting’ function can also cut down cutting time.

Mistake: Not Spreading Around The Veggie Love!

Our bodies need dietary variety, plus it’s also true that you can have too much of a good thing! Try not to be too repetitive with the ingredients that you use in your juices to ensure that you’re getting a wide range of nutrients. Aim for a rainbow of variety, as different colors in vegetables tend to indicate different nutrient profiles. 

In particular, it’s advisable to rotate your greens and other veggies which are high in a natural plant chemical called goitrogens. Goitrogens are natural compounds that can interfere with your thyroid hormone production, if you have a thyroid condition. Goitrogens are found in many green leafy and cruciferous vegetables. Therefore, if you have thyroid issues, it may be helpful to regularly cycle the types of green leafy and cruciferous veggies that you use in your juices. 

Other Solutions? Light blanch then freeze greens before juicing. This breaks down the enzyme myrosinase, which helps to reduce the goitrogenic load of food. You can also increase your intake of foods rich in iodine and selenium (such as kelp, nori, seaweed, brazil nuts, fish and sunflower seeds) as these also counter the effects of goitrogens. You can learn more about goitrogens here!

Mistake: Not Enough Green Envy

Whilst we’ve just talked about the importance of mixing up your veggies, also ensure that you’re regularly including plenty of greens in your regular juice repertoire! Green juices are rich in chlorophyll, which alkalizes and oxygenates your body’s cells. Greens also assist with detoxification, circulation and increased energy. Plus, they won’t interfere with your blood sugar levels. Greens are your all-round good guys for vitality!

Solution? Include a regular hit of greens in your juices… Just make sure to rotate the types you use (eg spinach, kale, silverbeet, romaine, dandelion greens, rocket, lettuce). 

Mistake: You Need To Chill Out With Your Juice…

It’s important (and so much nicer) to drink your juice in a relaxed state of mind. Digestions slows down when you’re in a stressed ‘fight or flight’ mode. Therefore, take the time and care to sit down, relax and slowly enjoy your revitalizing beverage.

Furthermore, instead of gulping down your juice like a shot of tequila, try to sip your juice slowly and mindfully. As weird as this may sound, even hold or ‘swish’ the juice in your mouth for a moment before swallowing. This allows the juice to mix with saliva and trigger the initial stages of digestion, which all happen in the mouth, not the stomach, as many of us have been lead to believe!

Finding The Perfect Model 

Whilst it’s a higher initial investment, buying a quality juicer does save you time and money in the long-term. A cold-press, slow juicer will extract significantly more liquid, creates a higher quality juice (by causing less heat and physical damage to the cells and enzymes of your produce as it is processed). Plus they are often quieter than cheaper centrifugal juicers, easier to clean, come with a good warranty, and provide an awesome range of other cooking functions. 

Solution?  Read our full Juicer Buying Guide here to find the perfect juicer for you!

Mistake: The Dirt On, Well...Dirt!

There are a few cleaning faux pas with juicers that can cost you unnecessary time and effort.

Speaking from personal experience, once you’ve left a dirty juicer for any length of time, you won’t be in a hurry to do this again any time soon! The fine pulp leftover from your juice dries out very quickly and assumes a cement-like quality in no time. 

Not only does this make for hard scrubbing and soaking (then scrubbing and soaking again!) but it’s also unhygienic. Food borne bacteria love opportunities like this to make a home in our kitchens! Plus, your equipment winds up stained and worn down much quicker. 

Solution? Wash your juicer as soon as you’ve finished with it - it’s truly so much faster to clean! If you absolutely can’t get to it straight away, at least disassemble the parts and soak in some warm, (eco) soapy water. A toothbrush can also be handy to clean out those nooks and hard-to-scrub spots!

Have you had any juicing mishaps before?

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Juicing Is Bad For You And The Earth

Pulverizing food until all the nutrients have been squeezed out is a dangerous fad. There’s a reason we’ve been cooking what we eat for several thousand years.

There’s a reason your mother told you to eat your vegetables, not juice them.

But no one seems to be listening these days. According to IBIS World, the market for juices and smoothies is $2 billion annually and expected to grow by hundreds of millions of dollars over the next few years. You can scarcely go a week without hearing about a coworker or celebrity being on a “juice cleanse,” either.

Juicing is not just another fad though: it is a privileged, wasteful form of food consumption that’s worse for you than cooking and bad for the environment; juicing is the triumph of marketing over science.

When juiced, a basket of fruit would probably serve half—if not less—the amount of people as it would if eaten whole. Lost to juicing are fibers that satiate (including the skin which is loadedwith heart-healthy, cancer-fighting flavonoids), vitamins, and most importantly, fat. Fat matters because the body needs it to absorb a whole host of vitamins like A, D, E, and K (PDF). Without fat in that juice combo, those vitamins pass right through you.

That sounds sort of like a “cleanse,” but what is being cleansed from the body to begin with? After all, the liver is the body’s own cleanser and it is so powerful it can repair itself in less than 24 hours under normal conditions.

Juicing fruits or vegetables high in sugar (like beets instead of leafy greens), can raise blood-sugar levels as much as drinking a can of Coca-Cola. That’s because fruit sugars (fructose) are consumed without fiber to control how fast they’re absorbed.

There’s a reason humans cook food instead of pulverizing and drinking it: we get more calories and nutrients.

Boiling, steaming, and frying foods unlocks antioxidants, phytochemicals like lycopeneand specific vitamins for the body to digest, according to a 2007 study in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry. As Rui Hai Liu, a professor of food science at Cornell University put it in 2009, “the heat from cooking breaks down a plants’ thick cell walls and aids the body’s uptake of some nutrients that are bound to those cell walls.”

Think of cooking as a second, third, or fourth stomach like those inside cows, sheep, and goats who use each one to break down food. Moose spend their days chewing, swallowing, and digesting. Humans spend only a fraction of time eating compared to other animals because we learned how to break down food before eating it with heat and fermentation.

Juicing might even be worse for the environment than it is for you.

After the juice has been squeezed out of food, tons of pulp is left behind, thrown into landfills where they emit significant amounts of methane, a greenhouse gas 21 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Only two U.S. cities, San Francisco and Seattle, have a required composting program that would prevent pulp from going directly into a landfill.

As always, mom was right: eat your veggies, just cook them first.

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4 Surprising Health Benefits Of Juicing Raw Marijuana

4 Surprising Health Benefits of Juicing Raw Marijuana

 By Healthy Holistic Living

Did you know that marijuana is a vegetable? Yup – it’s true.

The marijuana plant’s leaves and buds are actually loaded with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer compounds. These compounds are known as cannabidiols (CBD) and they make marijuana, cannabis, or whatever you want to call it, a superfood.

Yup – it’s true.

Don’t Get Dazed And Confused

But when heated, all of that goodness evaporates – it goes up in smoke and is blown away. Instead, be blown away by the health benefits of juicing the raw marijuana plant.

When heated the psychoactive compound – tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)  – is released from the plant. Most people don’t want medicine to get “high” though. Our bodies were made to receive cannabidiols and the plant does not need to be heated to get these healing properties.

We have cannabinoid receptors built-in to our bodies. Getting CBD into your body can normalize functional systems like cell communication and immune functions. This means that the systems that make up your body, from cells to organs, will talk to each other better, have a better understanding of what’s going on, and help to clean things up.

Whole Lotta Love

It’s like a good relationship – both people should talk to each other and work with each other to keep the house clean.

And with cannabinoid receptors in our brains and pretty much no other way to get cannabidiol, marijuana seems to be the perfect medicine to ensure our bodies are working at peak performance. Major league sports would disagree.

CBDs bridge the gap of neurotransmission in the central nervous system by providing a two-way system of communication that completes a positive “feedback loop” says Dr. William Courtney, a medical marijuana expert and founder of Cannabis International. This is instead of a one-way transmission which promotes chronic inflammation.

CBDs mimic the body’s natural two-way communications system.

Stairway To Heaven

“The endogenous cannabinoid system acts as a modulator in fine-tuning a lot of these systems, and if something is deranged biochemically in a person’s body, it may well be that a cannabinoid system can bring things back into balance.” – Dr. Ethan Russo, a Seattle area physician, Senior Advisor to GW Pharmaceuticals.

Juicing marijuana ensures you’ll get the healing benefits of the plant without the high. No smoking, no high, and you can ingest higher doses of the drug, which will inevitably have your system running more smoothly and you feeling better. Juicing the plant also offers versatility: you can add other fruits and veggies to make delicious juices and incorporate cannabis into your diet.

Communication Breakdown

Smoking promotes inflammation which leads to infection and potential dysfunction or communication breakdowns in your body. While lots of doctors suggest vaporizing over smoking, most promote edibles over vaporizing. But you still need to heat up the drug to make edibles. That’s why, medically speaking, juicing the plant works best.

4 Health Benefits To Juicing Marijuana

Dr. Courtney and others are working hard to legalize the drug and work it into mainstream diets. They’ve found that using cannabis as a food (instead of a smokeable) it can help prevent, diminish, and fix:

1. Autoimmune Disorders
2. Cellular Dysfunction
3. Chronic Inflammation
4. Cancer Cells

Of course, be sure to talk to a doctor – not a dealer – when expressing interest in the drug. It is only currently legal in Colorado, Washington, Alaska, and Oregon, but it has been allowed for medical use in 23 other states.

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By Healthy Holistic Living

How To Remove Uric Acid From Your Joints

Simple recipe worth saving

This juice causes a mild pain, which is actually a sign that it does its job!

Remove uric acid crystals from your joints
To make this juice you need:

• 1 medium-sized cucumber
• 2 celery stalks,
• 1 lemon slice
• 1 young ginger (an inch-sized piece)

Preparation:

First, you need to clean the ingredients well. Cut your cucumber and celery into slices. Slice half of the lemon, and keep the rest in your fridge. Shred the ginger root.

Combine the ingredients into a delicious juice and drink it once or twice a day until you see some improvement.

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4 Surprising Health Benefits of Juicing Raw Marijuana

4 Surprising Health Benefits of Juicing Raw Marijuana

 By Healthy Holistic Living

Did you know that marijuana is a vegetable? Yup – it’s true.

The marijuana plant’s leaves and buds are actually loaded with antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, and anti-cancer compounds. These compounds are known as cannabidiols (CBD) and they make marijuana, cannabis, or whatever you want to call it, a superfood.

Yup – it’s true.

Don’t Get Dazed And Confused

But when heated, all of that goodness evaporates – it goes up in smoke and is blown away. Instead, be blown away by the health benefits of juicing the raw marijuana plant.

When heated the psychoactive compound – tetrahydrocannabinol (THC)  – is released from the plant. Most people don’t want medicine to get “high” though. Our bodies were made to receive cannabidiols and the plant does not need to be heated to get these healing properties.

We have cannabinoid receptors built-in to our bodies. Getting CBD into your body can normalize functional systems like cell communication and immune functions. This means that the systems that make up your body, from cells to organs, will talk to each other better, have a better understanding of what’s going on, and help to clean things up.

Whole Lotta Love

It’s like a good relationship – both people should talk to each other and work with each other to keep the house clean.

And with cannabinoid receptors in our brains and pretty much no other way to get cannabidiol, marijuana seems to be the perfect medicine to ensure our bodies are working at peak performance. Major league sports would disagree.

CBDs bridge the gap of neurotransmission in the central nervous system by providing a two-way system of communication that completes a positive “feedback loop” says Dr. William Courtney, a medical marijuana expert and founder of Cannabis International. This is instead of a one-way transmission which promotes chronic inflammation.

CBDs mimic the body’s natural two-way communications system.

Stairway To Heaven

“The endogenous cannabinoid system acts as a modulator in fine-tuning a lot of these systems, and if something is deranged biochemically in a person’s body, it may well be that a cannabinoid system can bring things back into balance.” – Dr. Ethan Russo, a Seattle area physician, Senior Advisor to GW Pharmaceuticals.

Juicing marijuana ensures you’ll get the healing benefits of the plant without the high. No smoking, no high, and you can ingest higher doses of the drug, which will inevitably have your system running more smoothly and you feeling better. Juicing the plant also offers versatility: you can add other fruits and veggies to make delicious juices and incorporate cannabis into your diet.

Communication Breakdown

Smoking promotes inflammation which leads to infection and potential dysfunction or communication breakdowns in your body. While lots of doctors suggest vaporizing over smoking, most promote edibles over vaporizing. But you still need to heat up the drug to make edibles. That’s why, medically speaking, juicing the plant works best.

4 Health Benefits To Juicing Marijuana

Dr. Courtney and others are working hard to legalize the drug and work it into mainstream diets. They’ve found that using cannabis as a food (instead of a smokeable) it can help prevent, diminish, and fix:

1. Autoimmune Disorders
2. Cellular Dysfunction
3. Chronic Inflammation
4. Cancer Cells

Of course, be sure to talk to a doctor – not a dealer – when expressing interest in the drug. It is only currently legal in Colorado, Washington, Alaska, and Oregon, but it has been allowed for medical use in 23 other states.

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She Drank Carrot Juice Every Day For 8 Months: You Won’t Believe What Happened…

Ann Cameron is the author of many children's books, but it's a new book about her personal life that she has written which is catching everyone's attention.   In 2005 Ann's husband died of lung cancer despite undergoing the process of chemotherapy. Ann later, would also be diagnosed with cancer but she refused to go the same route as her husband, but instead opted to turn to health and diet.


She told her story on the chrisbeatscancer.com blog, where people who successfully cure cancer through health and nutrition or alternative means come together.
 

“In June 2012, I was subjected to surgery for my colon cancer, and after that I refused chemotherapy treatment. Every day I felt better, but after six months the control studies revealed that the cancer had spread to the lungs, and the colon cancer, entered the fourth stage.”

 

 Ann explains that researched incessantly and came across the story of Ralph Cole who was diagnosed with skin cancer at 26 years of age, and according to his story, cured himself by consuming 5 pounds of carrots as juice daily.
 
Desperate with stage 4 cancer, she decided to give it a try and after eight weeks medical studies revealed that her cancer had stopped spreading, and the tumors began to shrink! This continued until after eight months the cancer had disappeared!

Carrot juice is rich in fatty alcohol and natural pesticide anticancer properties, and carotene from carrots acts preventive on creation of tumor cells.
 
Ann has since wrote a book, called Curing Cancer With Carrots which can be found on Amazon.
 

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