And the best juice combinations?
What ever you like. Keeping in mind that fresh juice of any vegetable or fruit (well, not too much fruit with all that sugar), should be used as an addition to your diet, not in place of, a fresh, varied diet with the right kind of fibre.
And if you're very ill, I would be taking a concentrated, home made chicken broth - light, nutritious & highly medicinal according to Chinese medicine. (I used to leave mine in the fridge overnight so that the layer of solidified fat can be skimmed off the top, then strained to remove any odd bits). The nutritional and recuperative value of fresh vegetable and fruit juices is helpful and can't be denied, but I'm a fan of chicken broth used by the Chinese when you're weak, unwell or recuperating from an illness.
The one & only book on my shelf specifically on juicing, is by
Dr Norman W Walker published in 1970.
Dr Walker says.........
"It is foolish to say that juices are a concentrated food. Nothing could be further from the truth. A concentrated food is a product which has been dehydrated, from which its water content has been dissipated. Juices on the other hand are very liquid food, mostly organic water of the finest quality with the nourishing atoms and molecules in comparatively miroscopic volume. It is the microscopic volume for which the cells and tissues of the the body are starved!"
"A diet consisting wholly or mainly of devitalized foods inevitably results in the breaking down of these cells, creating a condition of sickness or disease"
I've never bothered looking for other books on juicing in the 70's as he says it all.
Although.................... I
am a great fan of the late
Dr Bernard Jensen, Nutritionist. His books
Nature Has a Remedy (it can be physical, mental or spiritual),
Foods that Heal (based on the original works of Hppocrates, V G Rocine, & Bernard Jensen) & a fascinating little book
In Search of Shandgri-La (A Personal journey to Tibet) are favourites.
He must have got something right, born in 1908, he passed away in 2001, a month short of his 93rd Birthday. He talks about juices & juicers in his book, Nature has a Remedy.
I'd better do a review of Dr Bernard Jenson's books for my next Books on My Shelf review I think.
He was a remarkable man & had a remarkable Life & despite having bought his books
many years ago, I still refer to them to this day.
And by the way (as I said on another post) my favourite juice is still (all organic of course - even with thorough washing or peeling of ingredients, non-organic, would give you a powerful kick of pesticides etc),
2 large sticks of celery including the leaves (the greener the better)
1/4 long continental cucumber,
2 medium carrots (yes, I know they're high in sugar)
& one large cored & de-pipped green Granny Smith apple.
Occasionally I would add 1/4 of a small beetroot (
beets in the US) - watch for the reddish urine & stools if you use beetroot - I got quite a fright the first time I added beetroot to a juice mix. Haven't juiced for a few years, but since my brother is taking me shopping tomorrow, I might get some extra vegies at the organic shop & do some juicing (& my brother can carry the heavy load). A treat for the week.
I think fruit juiced is too high in sugar & you're better off eating the whole fruit & getting all the fibre.
But that's just my opinion. Drink whatever you like (as long as you don't overdo it).
I have a centrifugal juicer which can take very large pieces in the chute, but the best juicers are the hydraulic press ones that triturate the fibres in order to extract the vital elements into the liquid.
But
any juicer is better than no juicer is my motto.
Victoria
