A healthy lifestyle begins with healthy habits.  One of the best choices you can make for your family is to bring the habit of juicing into the home.  All members of the family can benefit from the nourishment of raw fruits and vegetables and with the help of a juicer machine everyone can enjoy their favorite juices as a healthy snack or meal.

Raw foods retain all the nutrients and vitamins that are damaged in the conventional cooking process.  The vast majority of people cook every meal that they eat, whether by stove top, oven, grill, or microwave.  This results in an intake of nutrients that is far less than adequate for the body to be healthy.  Other than eating the occasional salad or raw carrots, most people do not know how to get more fresh vegetables into their diet.  Juicing provides a way to create a variety of raw meals as a healthful addition to the traditional diet. The process of juicing removes the water and nutrients from the fiber of fresh grown foods.  Both the juice and the pulp (fiber) can be used in a variety of ways such as soups, smoothies, and more.

While juicing helps maintain a healthy lifestyle, some people opt for a more intense experience with their juicer machine.  Juicing all meals for a period of one to five days is a cleansing method that allows the body to heal and detoxify itself.  The potential benefits of a juice cleanse include improved digestion, more energy and mental clarity, and relief from many chronic conditions.

By adding juicing to your dietary choices you’ll be taking a step toward a healthier and enjoyable way of living.  Juicing can be a great introduction to the concept of a raw food diet or simply a fun way to offer healthy snacks to your family.  For more information and some creative recipes for juicing, try The Juicing Bible.

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Hey friends!  Just wanted to let you know about a new juicer that I recently heard about called the Hurom Slow Juicer.  This is a single auger masticating juicer that juices fruits, vegetables, wheatgrass, even soybeans and walnuts!  Other single auger juicer machines are limited in what they can juice, but this one seems to handle everything.

How about no froth on the top of your juice?  Watch the video below and you’ll see that the Hurom Slow Juicer produces virtually no froth.  And while you’re watching, notice the bright color of juice it produces (which means more antioxidants and other nutrients in the juice).

Sometimes when I’m juicing two different kinds of veggies (in my centrifugal juicer) I wish I could clean the unit in between to keep the juices and pulp separate. Well this juice machine is self cleaning!  In between juicing you can run water through the Hurom Slow Juicer to clean it.

Wow.  This juicer seems to answer all my wishes, but I’ve yet to try it.  A couple of people on twitter have tried it though and you can read their reviews here: VeganVegetarian and yogadarla.

Have you tried this juicer? Please comment and let me and my readers know!

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Summer is a good time to do a single food cleanse.  There are so many great fruits available in the summer.  In this video Dr. Mark Brinson explains how to do a watermelon juice cleanse for a short period of 24-48 hours.
Watermelon has many benefits and contains lots of antioxidants – vitamin c, beta carotene, vitamin a and lycopene.  It also acts as a diuretic to help cleanse the kidneys and as an anti-inflammatory.  It is not necessary to put the watermelon into the juicer machine.  Simply eat the melon when you feel hungry and continue to drink water throughout the cleansing process.