Fresh Juices

Each morning I start my day with a freshly extracted glass of raw fruit and vegetable juice.

Today I started with two large carrots, a nice handful of flat leaf parsley and a Granny Smith apple. I use carrot as the base for all my juicing, because it has a pleasant taste and can be consumed in unlimited quantities.

In the early 1990´s, I was gifted with a wonderful Juicer, a real workhorse that is still going strong. I had been wanting one for several years and was blessed beyond measure to have been given one.

Being a vegetarian for most of my adult life, I became interested in the benefits of juicing. Back in the late 1970´s, when fresh raw juice was becoming popular, there was a Green Grocer in the neighborhood where I was living, and where I enjoyed shopping. It had a juice bar, which offered the most wonderful selection of juice combinations that you could ever imagine. Without fail, whenever I was in the store I would visit the juice bar. Buying these juices was quite expensive, so you can imagine the joy I had when I was gifted with one of my own, some years later.

Because extracted juice has no fiber it can nourish the body almost instantly, while the solid food (vegetable or fruit) requires many hours of digestion before it can begin to nourish the body.

The quantity of, say, two carrots, one handful of parsley and an apple would require alot of chewing and digesting before the benefits could be obtained. Not to be misunderstood, I do eat my fruits and vegetables, because I like them and because their fiber is beneficial to the bodies digestive process. But try to imagine eating two large carrots, a nice handful of parsely and an apple in one setting, three or four times a day, in order to have the nourishment of a few glasses of juice. Sheesh, what a workout that would be. Also, in juicing just twice a day I have found that I have almost boundless energy. And a bonus is that my children really like them. Ellis eats very few vegetables, so this is a way that I have been able to get them in him.

There is much that can be learned about the benefits of fresh raw juices. Besides that, they are a wonderful way to enjoy fruits and vegetables, full of nutrients and wonderful flavors. How I appreciate these colorful and varied foods that God created for us to enjoy and sustain our lives...

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