Can Juice Made From Raw Foods Unlock Powerful Nutrition?

I have always been one of those folk who likes to make sacrifices to be “healthy.” You figure an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Though I’ve never had any major health issues, I suspect that diet and exercise play a critical role in helping us all stay healthy. It seems like every study published agrees that a healthy diet and challenging physical fitness program can help us maintain our well being and increase our longevity. Unusually (and in my normal over-achieving geek-like way) I started working out in 6th grade with a running program. My father thought it’d be good for us all to get in better shape so my sister and I started jogging 3 miles a day with him after school.

Since then, I have played sports in school and have always been active, kept my weight in line, and received a good health check from the doctor. In fact, I thought I was doing pretty darn well.

But I have just been reading a book called “The China Study” which is actually making me reconsider the “diet” portion of the equation and ponder whether I am on the right track.

According to the China Study, which is a wonderful, articulate research-based book quoting over seven hundred systematic studies, animal protein, including eggs, milk and meat, is not the cure for good health and muscle-growth that we have all been given to understand. I was fully surprised to learn that skim milk isn’t a super-food when it comes to strong bones, teeth and muscles. Basically, the author is compelled to realize that – much to his dissatisfaction since he grew up on a dairy farm – a diet free from animal protein is truly perfect for enhancing our health and reducing the signs of aging.

The China Study book suggests a vegan diet rich in unprocessed plant-based foods.

Many adherents to this philosophy take this approach a step farther and concentrate on eating raw plant foods, forgoing foods like rice, barley, and pasta, for example. These raw food adherents believe that we preserve and ingest the most nourishment from our foods when we do not prepare them by cooking them.

One of the biggest challenges to preparing and eating a large amount of plants is that it can just plain take a very long time. Cutting, washing, for example. Is a time consuming process. Particularly once you begin to look at incorporating plants like lettuce, spinach, kale, and celery – greens that are important to our growth.

That’s where a powerful juicer can solve your issues. Making juice out of your fruits and fruit with the Breville Juice Fountain Elite is a good way to combine your fruits and fruit into a fresh, nutritious and mouth watering drink which may guarantee you get all the nourishment you want, even if you are on the go.

Consider recipes like carrot-apple-ginger juice or blueberry, strawberry, grape and kale juice. Green smoothies made with bananas and spinach are a favourite raw-food vegan classic – the fruit is cheap, the taste is great and it’s vitamin-packed!

If you have a regular blender (for making margaritas!), or perhaps a name-brand juicer like Jack LaLanne’s from TV, you can find that they do not hold up to regular juicing, they’re tough juicing, they are tough to use because they are under powered, or they just don’t clean-up well.

The Breville Juice Fountain Elite solves all these issues. It is German-engineered to be a top-of the line juicer for people who make juice each day and need a quick-and-simple way to make their juice. Essentially, you can produce an 8-oz glass of juice in under 5 seconds and as the juicer takes Huge pieces of apple, carrot and other hard fruits – you don’t have to do much cutting. THe juicer even does a pleasant job with leafy or stringy products like lettuce and celery. Including veggies like this in your juice will truly increase their nutritive value.

If you are prepared to make some changes in your diet to become healthier, more energetic, and perhaps increase your longevity – commence with including more fruits and veg. Like the Omnivore’s Dilemma advocates – Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.

Start your program for better health and nutrition with tasty juice from local organic produce made with the Breville Juice Fountain Elite.