The Wonders Of Fruits

We believe fresh fruits are mankind’s provision of the finest and best source of vitamins, minerals and enzymes our bodies need.

Most fruits have very high concentrations of one kind of vitamin or mineral that our bodies so crave.

When we regularly consume a variety of fruits, it provides the vitamins, minerals and enzymes our bodies so need to keep it in its most optimum form.

Nature created our bodies to be self-building, self-repairing and self-rejuvenating. When we fail to nourish it, when we are stressed, and when we abuse our bodies by addiction or even because of the polluted air we inhale, the cells in our body start to deteriorate. This is when the ugly degenerative diseases surface.

And this is when fruits help. But why wait till it's too late? Start making wise choices now concerning your health. Choose to live healthy. But, if disease has already shown its ugly face, then fight it with the very "miracle foods" that our natural choice has given—fruits.

When you follow a healthy eating regimen, a diet that is rich in nutrition, coupled with a healthy lifestyle, you can prevent many diseases, or even reverse a condition.

The National Cancer Institute of the US has in recent years, been recommending five servings of fruits and vegetables daily. This recommendation was made based on their years of cancer research study on the abundance of nutrients found in fruits and vegetables that may not only prevent, but also cure many ailments.

Researchers are continually searching and researching for chemicals in plants that can prevent and cure cancer. These plant chemicals, known as phytochemicals, have been found to prevent or cure some of the most deadly diseases, as well as some of the more common diseases, like cold, allergies, asthma, arthritis, etc.

Most of these phytochemicals are known to be destroyed or removed by modern food processing techniques, including cooking. Thus, processed foods contain very little or almost none of the beneficial nutrients.

We hope you have been following us, because we promise you that it will definitely make a whole world of difference in your future choices for food. Choose only what's best for you, and your family... Nature-given nutrition-loaded foods.

But Why Juice?

There are many good reasons why you should juice. We are not advocating that you should juice all your fruits and vegetables. What we do suggest is that you drink juices regularly, on top of your intake of other fruits and vegetables. Here are only some of the reasons:

Juicing helps to "pre-digest" your food.

As a result of our poor food choices over the years, most of us have bodies that have become weak in absorbing the nutrients that we need. Juicing "pre-digest" the fruits so that they are readily digested and assimilated before it gets eliminated from our body.

You will need one or two pounds of fruits daily to obtain the optimum level of nutrients needed for your body.

By juicing, it allows you to accomplish this easily. You don't want to be eating so much fruits that it makes you sick of fruits. Moreover, this would violate the principle of regular food rotation and increase your chance of developing an allergy towards a certain kind of food.

Juicing removes indigestible fibre

The nutrients we are after are trapped in indigestible fibre. For example, when you eat a carrot, you are only able to assimilate 1% of the beta-carotene. But wonder of wonders, when you juice, you are able to assimilate nearly 100% of the beta-carotene!

Easy digestion and assimilation

Solid foods require many hours of digestion before any nutrient is made available to the cells. Juices are assimilated within 15 minutes of consumption, with very little effort on the part of the digestive system. Because it is in liquid form, the enzymes are not wasted to fuel its own digestion. As a result, the body can quickly distribute the much-needed enzymes to other parts of the body to heal, build, restore and repair.

Juices are cleansing

Only with sufficient amount of nutrients in the fruits through juicing, can the juices be cleansing to the blood. Blood is life. By keeping our blood clean and loaded with nutrients, we can expect to live better and longer.

You will have to eat one or two pounds
of fruits daily to obtain the optimum level
of nutrients needed for your body.
This can easily be achieved through juicing.

What Fruits To Juice

We suggest you get acquainted with the different health qualities of the variety of fruits listed on my healing foods list (the list is being constantly added).

We have chosen and listed some of the most healing fruits. Taken in rotation and regularly, they provide all the vitamins, minerals and anti-oxidants that our bodies require to stay in top form. They are some of the best inner cleansing and purest food you can ever find.

Some of the fruits listed cannot be juiced but we have listed them because of their healthful virtues. These are the fruits you should be eating whole, on top of the juices from the juice able fruits.

Bookmark this site and do come back. This site is constantly being added to, the work is never finished. All these preparation on juicing knowledge is guiding us towards the final product ... the wonderful fresh juices.

If at this point you still don't like fruits, reread this page and understand what fruits can do for you. Read it again and again if you must, and get the facts into your heart. Once you have done this, you will start to make an effort towards healthy living. Choose to live healthy.

If you are a beginner and not used to juicing, you may want to begin with the following:

apple

carrot (root vegetable)

watermelon

These are the easiest to drink and to digest. They taste really flavoursome and are packed with purest cleansing virtues. Once you get the hang of it, you may add on any other fruits.

How Much Juice Can Be Taken Safely?

Once you understand the health benefits of fresh fruit juicing, you want to drink more and more. Just how much juice can be taken safely? Answer: as much as you can comfortably drink!! As long as you do not force yourself, you may drink away.

As a general guide, a beginner may safely drink up to three glasses of juices a day, at about 250 ml per glass. Please read the important lessons first before you start. When you're used to it, you may drink up to six glasses a day.

When you do your own juicing research, some sites will tell you to avoid fruit juices. But we believe that, if done correctly, you can safely drink as much as you want, to your heart's content.

I have heard of a man with bowel cancer, he could hardly eat anything. He went on a carrot juice diet for a year and ate almost nothing else. At the end of a year, his hospital report proved that he was absolutely free of the cancer!

While you are all excited about fruit juices, please remember this: When you have no access to fresh fruit juices, never ever opt for canned fruit juices. You might as well drink plain water than drinking canned fruit juices.

Commercially bottled or canned fruit juices are usually diluted with tap water and contain added sugar. They are not fresh and may have lost a large percentage of their potent nutrients. Most of these are packed with chemical additives.

These chemical additives are not natural to your body and when consumed, are like foreign substances in your body, which rob you of energy, affect your immune system defences, and may even contribute to liver damage.

Juicing Lessons

10 important things you need to know
before you start juicing.

Juicing is about a changed lifestyle. A new lifestyle you choose, towards a new and healthier you.

Let's get you prepared for a lifetime journey to successful juicing. This page is for you if you are new to fresh fruits and vegetables juicing.

Once you understand the true benefits of juicing as I have led you through in the other pages, you are ready to begin. Take heed of the following lessons to see the marvellous effects juices have on your overall health:

Lesson # 1: Important—Your current health

Fruit juice causes a rapid rise in blood sugar. In a normally healthy person, fresh fruit juicing would not pose a problem as the sugars in fruits are easily assimilated and digested. But, if you are suffering from candidacies or are prone to suffer from thrush, please refrain from consuming fruit juices. Opt for vegetable juice instead.

Or, if you suspect that you may have a yeast infection in the digestive tract, check with your doctor before you embark on a fruit juicing diet. This advice also applies to those with low blood sugar level (hypoglycaemia) or diabetics.

Vegetable juicing when done correctly, however, would not be a problem in these cases

Lesson # 2: What to expect when you improve your diet

When you start consuming superior quality foods (fresh fruits and vegetables that are nutrient-rich), your body gets to work by ridding the inferior material and tissues to make room for the superior materials to make new and healthier tissues.

For example, when you stop taking your daily stimulant "fix" such as coffee, tea, chocolate, or the like, headaches or migraines may occur. This happens when your intelligent body discards toxins like caffeine or theobromine from your tissues and transporting them in your bloodstream.

As these toxins travel on its way to their final destination for elimination, these irritants register as pain. It could be a headache, or a joint pain, or weakening of a limb, etc.

Another letdown that can occur in your body during this time—when you choose superior quality over inferior quality food—could be a slower heart action which your mind may translate as lethargy, or a decrease in energy.

When you encounter these symptoms, do not give up. Your body is going through a regeneration process, which on average may take about seven days to a couple of weeks, depending on the toxicity level in your body. Take this period to rest, as your body recuperates and prepares for better health ahead.

Be persistent and wait out this period. When these symptoms happen, know that your choice to improve your diet is the right thing to do, and that a renewing is happening within you.

Your success starts here, as you understand the process, knowing that you are on the way to a healthier and new you.

Lesson # 5: Rotate fruit/vegetable juices intake for best results

To maintain and promote optimum health, our bodies need adequate amounts of the following:

Essential amino acids

Vitamins

Minerals

Enzymes

Essential fatty acids

Carbohydrates

Fibre

Water

We need all these sufficiently, constantly, and variedly in order to help accelerate and enhance the process of restoring nutrients to your nutrient-starved tissues.

When we regularly eat a mixed-variety of these fruits and vegetables, the vitamins, minerals, enzymes and all the abundance of health-building elements from these juices work together in a synergy. The results of these combinations on your health can be simply amazing!

While we may not get all the above-mentioned essentials from fruits/vegetables alone, there are some other healing foods that you may add to your dietary to ensure balance.

Some suggestions of other healing foods that you can add to your dietary:

Protein powder: I do not agree in getting protein from milk. Consider taking protein powder, which contains glutamine, an amino acid that plays an important role in protein metabolism.

Cod liver or fish oil: The green vegetable juices that you drink are abundant with vitamin K, which helps to "stick" the calcium to your bone matrix. But, in order for this to happen, you need some fats (from cod liver or fish oil) to assist with the vitamin K absorption.

Chlorella and spirulina: Fruits and vegetables contain very little or no vitamin B. You may add chlorella and/or spirulina in tablet/powder form as a supplement. These two algae have very high content of vitamin B.

Lesson # 6: How safe are fruit juices?

The concerns I am going to mention below are not major concerns. We have come this far and understand that the abundant health benefits of fruits far outweigh these little-understood issues.

A common nagging question for most people who want to start a juicing lifestyle is, "how safe is it to drink fruit juices?" I've been there too, so I can understand these concerns.

Concern 1: The sugar

Of course, if you don't fall into the category of those suffering the conditions I mentioned in Lesson # 1 above, there is simply no need for you to avoid fruit juices.

The natural sugar in fruits and fructose can be easily assimilated and digested, unlike table sugar, which is totally harmful to the body. Fructose has a low glycemic index (GI), which means that it doesn't make the glucose level in the blood rise as fast and as high as a high GI food.

However, only when drinking some very sweet fruit juices do I suggest you dilute them with water, or with other juices that are less sweet, like coconut or lime/lemon juices. When giving any fruit juice to young children, dilute them with water.

Examples of very sweet fruits are like pineapple, grapes and mangoes. For these, dilute them according to taste.

A word of WARNING, though: These natural sugars and fruit acid, when left in the mouth,
may corrode your teeth enamel.
Therefore, it's important that you brush your
teeth or rinse your mouth, after your "juice fix".

Concern 2: The pesticides

We know that commercially grown fruits and vegetables are sprayed with pesticides and other chemicals. This is not something that we can avoid, as not all of us are blessed with easy access to organic or pesticide-free produce.

One very effective way I've found to remove these toxins from fruits and vegetables is to soak them in clean water with a mixture of a small capful of apple cider vinegar.

Vegetables tend to catch more of the pesticides. When preparing them, tear (not cut) them up from their bunch and soak them in this solution. In place of apple cider vinegar, you may use normal cooking vinegar and add some salt.

Soak it for about 10 minutes and you will start to notice the water smell. This means the pesticide has come off. Rinse the vegetables a couple more times and it's ready for juicing. Do the same thing for fruits.

Fruits and vegetables are already fully equipped with antioxidants and are super blood cleansers. Should the little toxins somehow find their way into your body, the amount of goodness from the juices will easily cancel out the toxins that are consumed at the same time.

Concern 3: The wax

What about the wax on fruits like apples? Again, no concern here, really.

The thin layer of wax used on fruits is applied to contain its moisture, prevent it from shrivelling and weight loss, therefore, improving its storage life. The wax used on fruits is non-petroleum based, natural and edible.

In most fruits, nutrients are most concentrated just under the skin. So, if you peel the skin off, you lose all those precious goodness. Some people, however, would prefer to just peel off the skin and recover the precious goodness by eating more fruits.

The decision is up to you, but in this case, neither option is harmful.

Lesson # 7: What about the pulp?

The pulp, or the fibre, is also known as roughage or bulk. These are the parts of the fruits/vegetables that your juicer retains behind when it separates the juices from the plant foods.

There are two categories of fibre - soluble and insoluble fibre. Your body needs both of these. When consumed, these fibres do not get digested but passes through your digestive system unchanged. On its way to being eliminated from your body, it adds bulk to your stool and softens it, preventing constipation.

Depending on what I'm juicing, I sometimes add the pulp back to the juice for its fibre. It may take a slightly longer time for digestion but it is also very healthy. A high-fibre diet may lower your risk of haemorrhoids, irritable bowel syndrome and diverticular disease (formation of small pouches in the colon).

The soluble fibre has been known to lower blood cholesterol levels and slow the absorption of sugar, reducing the risk of developing type 2 diabetes.

So, where possible, add the pulp back to your juice for these added health benefit.

Juicing should be a pleasant experience. The juices should taste pleasant and not nauseating. I can't emphasize enough, the importance of listening to your body.

After drinking juices, your stomach should be calm the whole day long, not churning and growling and leaving you with a queasy feeling. If this happens, your body is telling you that you have probably consumed something that your stomach is not accustomed to. You can condition your stomach by taking the same thing in smaller amounts in the future, and slowly increasing the amount.

When you start noticing pains and aches with your new juicing dietary, do not stop juicing. Read Lesson # 2 again and understand what your body is doing.

Lesson # 9: Drink your juices right away

With good juicing equipment, preparation of fruits, cutting them up, juicing and washing up should take only about 15 minutes (not including the fruits "de-pesticide" soaking time).

Once juiced, juices do not keep as long as its natural whole form. When it gets exposed to the air, it starts to lose its nutrient rapidly and quickly spoil, so must be consumed almost immediately after being juiced.

If you must juice and keep it for 'later', you can do so by carefully keeping the juice in a thermos flask, or an airtight glass jar. Fill the juice to the brim, leaving very little space for air as the oxygen in the air can oxidize the juice.

If using a glass jar, wrap the glass jar in aluminium foil to block out the light, and store it in the refrigerator for no more than 24 hours. Light destroys enzymes. Take the juice out 30 minutes before drinking, as it's best to drink your juices at room temperature.

Lesson # 10: Clean your juicer properly.

One of the more important factors when you choose a juicer is that it must be easy to assemble, dismantle and clean. If it takes you 10 minutes to juice and another 15 minutes to clean up, you will not enjoy juicing.

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Fruits/vegetables residue left behind on your juicer can easily contaminate with mould growth. To prevent this microbial proliferation, clean your juicer as soon as you can, after use.

To clean, dismantle the juicer parts and rinse it under running tap water. For the strainer, use an old toothbrush to get the remnants out. When you juice citrus fruits, the juicer tends to have a slight oily feeling. Simply clean this with a mild detergent solution. Rinse well.

We hope this information will be of benefit to you and your health.

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