How You Can Improve Skin, Bone Strength, Teeth and Memory and To Losing Weight!

Would Like To Live To Over 100 and still have healthy skin, all your teeth, good memory, strong bones, and weigh the same as you did in your teens?

Did you know that there are people in the Hunza Valley of Pakistan that are living well beyond a hundred years of age and they still have all their teeth, good memories, strong bones, and healthy skin. Their diet is high in natural carbohydrates and low in protein. They also are not easily exposed to the harmful customs of western society. The majority of their diet is raw unaltered nutritious foods. It is not unrealistic for you to improve your health and wellbeing and maybe you can live longer and healthier.

You too may be able to live to over a hundred with all the health and vitality that they have in the Hunza Valley.
Juicing is a great way to improve your overall wellbeing and receive an abundance of nutrients to help you look and feel better each day. Juicing the right fruits and vegetables can help to shed a few unwanted pounds, shred body fat, help you look younger, fresher and may even help your body cure or reverse many illness or health complications you may have. Hippocratres believe that "foods should be your medicine and your medicine should be your food". He believed that the body can heal itself when provided the proper nutrients. The nutrients don't heal you, your body does that, it is the nutrients you provide that will help your body heal itself.

Juicing can also provide a enjoyable drink that can taste great when you add apples, celery, parsley, carrots, lemon, wheat grass or any of your favourite fruits or vegetables. I enjoy making different combinations of juice that keep me energized throughout the day. Juicing also provides me with a quality serving of the required nutrients to keep my body in good shape and have a good sense of wellbeing. It is a good idea when juicing to use organic or pesticide free fruits and vegetable whenever possible.

Juicing also is a great way to cleanse the body. Many have tried juice fasts and found them to be very helpful. If you do decide to try a juice fast, seek the advice of your health care professional before attempting it. If you are overweight, have high blood pressure, diabetes or high cholesterol it is best to limit using certain fruits until you normalize these conditions. You can juice lemons or limes as they have virtually no sugar or fructose that cause most of the complications for any of the health complications mentioned.

Why is it good to juice? Well as I have said in a previous post, our diet should be made up of at least fifty five per cent (55%) raw foods. Why raw food? Whenever you cook or process food it destroys the micronutrients by altering their shape and chemical composition that would have normally been provided by that particular food. Cooking and processing of food destroys the micronutrients so much so, that the body’s immune system reacts to it as being a toxin and the body goes on high alert to protect itself. This is an added burden on the digest system and creates more stress on the body. Even light steaming destroys some of the nutrients, so this is why it is recommend that over 55% of your diet be raw food. By consuming over 55% raw food in your diet, you will provide your body with the essential nutrients to improve your health and wellbeing.

JUICERS -Is there a difference in juicers and how they juice? There are many makes and models of juicers on the market. You may remember the ones on the tv infomercials that do all the work for you. There are basically to types of juicers you will be considering, they are masticating juicers and then there are the centrifugal juicers. Which one is better?

The centrifugal juicer is probably the most common type of juicer and most affordable that you will find in retail stores or on tv infomercials. The centrifugal juicer loads the vegetables and fruits down a chute then grates the vegetables and fruits to a pulp spinning at high speeds. Then it uses a spinning motion at a high speed that creates a centrifugal force that forces the pulp against a screen that strains the juice to a container whilst the pulp is retained or sent to another container. Centrifugal by definition means “moving or directing away from a center axis.” When you juice with a centrifugal juicer there is heat created that destroys some of the enzymes and nutrients in the juice. This is the reason I opt for a masticating juicer.

Now a masticating juicer is a better juicer in my opinion especially when juicing wheatgrass and leafy vegetables. The definition of masticating is “to chew, grind or knead into a pulp.” A masticating juicer grinds the vegetables and presses or squishes out the juice. Masticating juicers work at low speeds and tend to yield more juice. With masticating juicers you will require less vegetables and you may find as I did, that you get more juice and a dryer pulp than that of a centrifugal juicer.

The best juicer I know of is the Norwalk which is pricy being over two thousand dollars but well worth it. The Norwalk will yield the most juice and have the driest pulp.

Then there is the Lexen which is very affordable at just over two hundred dollars and does a great job for the investment of two hundred dollars. The Lexen is the best value. It is also good for making pasta or baby food. It is a great product in my opinion.
If you spend a little more you can get the Champion juicer which is about two hundred and fifty. This is another very good quality juicer.

My recommendation is the new Super Angel 5500 Juicer which is roughly a thousand dollars. I find it produces more juice and is made of metal instead of plastic. Easy to clean up afterwards as well.