Detox & Juicing Hugh | 08 Mar 2007 08:28 pm
Welcome! - Detox
Hi and welcome to Detox.
We all are living such stressful lives and exposed to so many toxins and chemicals these days, as well as facing so many challenging health issues, that detoxing is a choice many are making as part of taking back control over our health.
Hi, my name is Kate, and we at Vitality4Life come across so much information about this subject - personal experiences, articles, resources, that we decided to put it all together in one place.
My background is as a yoga teacher, trained in the Japanese tradition. Part of the focus of my training was “food as medicine” and nutrition. I am also a mother of a beautiful 5 year old girl who has just started at school. Being a parent you become so aware of how our health is being challenged. All last year I had to wash my hands to enter the preschool room because there were two anaphylactic children in my daughter’s class.
Kids are grappling with asthma, allergies, obesity, diabetes and other chronic conditions at alarming rates and it doesn’t have to be that way.
One of the simplest ways people start on a cleanse is to begin juicing. What is the benefit you ask? Well with a recommended daily dose of between 8 - 12 cups of raw fruit and vegetable, most of us cannot keep up the amount. So we are chronically depleted in the goodness we get from fruits and vegetables which leads to a whole range of immune system and hormonal issues. So juicing is a valuable way to increase your dosage of living foods. But then there are things we need to know about juicing…
Only last week I visited my friend, Sally who had decided to put herself on her regular 6 monthly cleanse. She was spending the weekend consuming only juices and water. On the Sunday I visited her. Sally was experiencing common cleanse symptoms - lethargy, claggy mouth, skin irritation. I went into the kitchen and there was a mound of wonderful looking vegetables and fruits. Then she started to juice…and she was using a standard domestic centrifugal juicer which was noisy and churned out the juice. I didn’t have the heart to say that because of the electric motor and heat and speed generated, that the juicer was killing most of the enzymes in the juice -reducing greatly the cleanse benefit of the juice (I told her later when she was post-cleanse!).
I look forward to sharing this journey with you….
Kate Ingham
on 02 Jul 2007 at 9:47 pm 1.juicy fruity said …
Oscar Juicer, New Oscar Juicers
Oscar Juicer is the finest single gear juicer available, finely tuned by the original maker of the single gear juicer to be a living juicer and food processor.
on 02 Jul 2007 at 9:47 pm 2.juicy fruity said …
What you may not currently know…
A single gear juicer extracts over 60% more nutrition from fruits and vegetables than a common high speed ‘centrifugal’ juicer.
A single gear juicer ‘cold presses’ fruits and vegetables to produce a ‘living juice’ with a shelf life of up to 48 hours, whereas a common high speed ‘centrifugal’ juicer draws in high levels of oxygen which quickly deteriorates the quality of enzymes, nutrients and vitamins in the juice.
A single gear juicer with the Oscar patented 3 stage auger yields more juice and less pulp than a centrifugal juicer.
An Oscar juicer can juice leafy green vegetables and grasses whereas a centrifugal juicer and some other single gear juicers cannot. Leafy greens and grasses (such as wheat grass) are nutrition power houses.
on 02 Jul 2007 at 9:48 pm 3.juicy fruity said …
An Oscar juicer is also a multi-purpose food processor
As if the benefits of a single gear juicer wasn’t enough, take a look at all the other tasks your Oscar juicer can perform.
Ice cream & Sorbet maker
Choose fresh fruits, cut them into pieces and store in refrigerator.
Add some milk and yoghurt to make a delicious fruit shake or rich yoghurt.
Seasoning mincer and chopper
Chops and minces seasonings such as garlic, scallion, onion, red pepper, ginger, radish, and many others without destroying their natural flavour and nutrition.
Food mill
Grind coffee, crushed ice, bread sticks and more
Noodle or Pasta Maker
Make your own 100% fresh noodles or pasta at home.