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Juicing floods our system with far more nutrients than just eating healthy foods ever could. The essence of life takes place almost exclusively in plants. All life on this planet emanates from the green of the plants. Plants are the basis from which animals and humans sustain life. Raw or live juices are the “life blood” of vegetables and fruits, and contain vital enzymes and hundreds of vitamins and minerals essential for maintaining a healthy body.

Much of the food eaten today has been so processed that it is almost completely devoid of any life-giving forces. Cooking produce puts it in an altered state, in fact, cooked food can be described as nutritionally dead food. And you can’t feed or energize and vitalize your body 100% with anything that’s dead. Vegetable and fruit juices you buy in cans, bottles, or boxes have been pasteurized, and the high heat from pasteurization destroys their life-giving enzymes and amino acids. The nutrition facts you read on the label of the container is the nutritional analysis of the juices before pasteurization.

So why juicing? Why not just eat the raw produce? Well, for optimal health, the digestive system cannot assimilate the recommended volume of raw vegetables and fruits that it would take to give us 100% of the food value recommended by USDA in sufficient quantities just by eating them; we can’t consume that much bulk. In fact, nutritionists now say the USDA daily recommended 3-5 servings of vegetables and 2-4 servings of fruits should more accurately be stated as pounds instead of servings to take into account the mineral and other nutrient depletion of the soil in which produce is grown.

Juicing solves this problem. It’s easier to drink the recommended allowance of fruits and vegetable than it is to eat them. So instead of having to eat several pounds of produce, with a juicer the solids are eliminated, and what you have left is concentrated juice only, the live, life-giving source so essential for sound health. It’s still important to eat some amount of vegetables and fruits for the fiber or roughage they contain. Fiber is essential for scouring toxins and waste out of the colon.

Bear in mind that when you drink juice, you’re drinking a very concentrated form of nutrition, and this nutrition, which includes sugar, is released into the blood stream within minutes. Be advised that you should consult your physician before starting a juicing regimen, if you suffer from any blood glucose health related issues such as diabetes.