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| Monday, February 06, 2012 | ||
JUICE DIET
Why Not Eat the Whole Food?
We are in no way
advocating that one should stop eating.
If one can assimilate what one eats, then eating whole foods is the best
form of nutrition available. In
fact, a balanced diet should contain a variety of RAW vegetables. However, we are suggesting that as an
adjunct to eating a healthy diet, one can use the healing, rejuvenative power of
freshly made juice to supercharge your bloodstream with powerful plant medicines
and concentrated nutrients.[i]
Dr. Gabriel Cousens has
stated that the great advantage of juices is that they focus and concentrate the
energy of enzymes, minerals, vitamins, and phytonutrients. Juices carry the amplified healing
energy of vegetables and fruits.
So the answer to our
initial question: Why not eat the vegetables is easy. Solid food takes hours to digest. Given the impaired, congested, and
diverticular condition of the modern digestive tract, we are lucky to assimilate
anything that is eaten. Juices can
be quickly digested and assimilated into the body in a matter of minutes with a
minimum of effort on the part of the body.
To be unaware of the
nutritional and recuperative value of fresh vegetable and fruit juice is to
remain sadly in the dark.
Why Fresh and not Bottled Juice?
It is imperative that
nutrition be organic (meaning life-containing in this instance) in order for
minerals, vitamins and salts to be assimilated by the human body for the
rebuilding and regeneration of the body cells and tissues.[ii] The sun’s rays send billions of atoms
into plant life, activating the enzymes and in so doing change inorganic
elements into organic or life-containing elements for food.
The primary elements
contained in our bodies are oxygen, carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, Calcium,
phosphorus, potassium, sulphur, sodium, magnesium, iron, iodine, chlorine,
fluorine, silicon, and manganese to name only a few.
The body is out of balance when the
blood, cells, tissues, organs, and glands do not contain these elements in
proper proportion or are deficient.
The result is a condition known as toxemia or just plain poisoned.
In order to have
excellent health, most of the food we eat must contain live, vital, organic
elements also. These elements are
found in fresh-raw vegetables, fruits, nuts, and seeds.
When juice is bottled,
or pasteurized, it is the same as being overprocessed or cooked. The vitality of the juice is lost in
the pasteurization process. As soon
as food is cooked above 115 degrees Fahrenheit, its oxygen is lost, the protein
is denatured, and the enzymes are largely destroyed. By then most of the vital
force needed for nourishment is dissipated.
Therefore we should juice our vegetables, sprouts and fruits with a
quality juicer, and drink them soon after for maximum benefit.
Fresh Juices and Benefits:
Juices extracted from
fresh-raw vegetables and fruits are the means by which we can furnish all the
cells and tissues of the body with the elements and the nutritional enzymes that
we need in the easiest way possible.
Common Juices and a few
of their benefits:
Anti-Aging Benefits of Juicing
Juicing, and in
particular, juice fasting, is a quick way to repair the body and reset the
epigenetic memory of the body. A
“youthing” effect occurs on the
physiological level as fasting works by rapidly removing dead and dying cells
and toxins. Aging occurs when we
have more cells die than are being built.
Youthing happens when more new cells are produced than are dying.
After fasting, the
experience of “youthing” abounds.
Senses get sharper, food tastes better and there is more mental and physical
energy.
Humans Have Always Eaten Cooked Foods
Dr. Norman Walker lived to be 116 years
old living primarily on raw juices, and eating raw food. In his best-selling book,
Raw Vegetable Juices, Dr. Walker
eloquently discusses the fact that for generations, millions of people have
lived, and are living, who have rarely, if ever, eaten anything but cooked
foods. He explains, however, that
still does not prove that their being alive is the result of eating cooked
foods.
Stated another way, Dr.
Walker means that just because humans have always eaten cooked foods does not
mean that they are living in a state of excellent health. In reality, humans are generally
living in a state of decadent existence which is confirmed by the sick and toxic
condition of their bodies. Else, why
the overcrowding of inadequate hospital facilities? Why the millions of pounds of
painkillers sold annually? Why such
a high rate of cardiovascular problems, heart trouble, diabetes, cancer,
arthritis, emphysema, premature senility, fibromyalgia, lupus, constipation,
allergies, and premature deaths?
Our bodies were created
with a colossal amount of tolerance.
When we eat or drink anything that is bad for us, or that is incompatible with
sound nutrition, we suffer. The
suffering may not occur immediately, or may not manifest right away because of
the body’s amazing tolerance. We may
wait days, months or years, but eventually the body breaks down, and we
erroneously believe that the “sickness” just happened, and that there was
nothing we could have done to prevent it.
Yes, Nature eventually catches up with us for violating her laws.
Drink Up
Once we discover the
natural means to regain, and to maintain our health at a high rate of vibration,
we experience bliss. It seems,
strange, twisted, and pitiful that so many people will not consider how easy it
is to avoid sickness, but will instead deliberately continue into inevitable toxic
illness in the form of modern disease.
For your health, drink
fresh juices and often.
[i] Steve Meyerowitz.
Power Juices Super Drinks: Quick, Delicious Recipes to Prevent and
Reverse Disease. Kensington Publishing Corporation, New York, NY 1st
Edition April 2000.
[ii] Dr. Norman Walker.
Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices: what’s missing in your body? Norwalk
Press. Prescott AZ. 1970.
Cousens, D. G. (2000). Conscious Eating.
Berkeley, California, USA: North Atlantic Books.
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