Getting the Best Out of Your Juicer : title: Featuring a Comprehensive Dictionary of Juices author: Lee, William H. publisher: McGraw-Hill Professional isbn10 | asin: 0879835869 print isbn13: 9780879835866 ebook isbn13: 9780071401852 language: English Fruit juices--Health aspects, Vegetable subject juices--Health aspects, Natural foods. publication date: 1992 lcc: RM255.L43 1992eb ddc: 641.3/02 Fruit juices--Health aspects, Vegetable subject: juices--Health aspects, Natural foods. Page 1 Getting the Best Out of Your Juicer Featuring a Comprehensive Dictionary of Juices Page 2 Keats Titles of Related Interest The Herb Tea Book Dorothy Hall The Pocket Handbook of Juice Power Carlson Wade The Bircher-Benner Raw Fruits and Vegetables Book M. Bircher-Benner, M.D. Book of Raw Fruit and Vegetable Juices and Drinks William H. Lee, R.Ph. Therapeutic Uses of Vegetable Juices Dr. Hugo Brandenberger Page 3 Getting the Best Out of Your Juicer Featuring a Comprehensive Dictionary of Juices William H. Lee, R.Ph., Ph.D. Keats Publishing, Inc. New Canaan, Conn. Page 4 Getting the Best Out of Your Juicer is not intended as medical advice. Its intent is solely informational and educational. Please consult a health professional should the need for one be indicated. Printed in the United States of America Published by Keats Publishing, Inc. 27 Pine Street (Box 876) New Canaan, Connecticut 06840-0876 Design and production: Image & Word Getting the Best Out of Your Juicer Copyright © 1992 by William H. Lee All Rights Reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form without the written consent of the publisher. The Appendix and portions of Chapter 2 are reproduced from the author's publication The ''How Do I Know if I Need Vitamins and if I Do Which Ones?" Handbook, © 1987, 1991 by William H. Lee ISBN 0-87983-586-9 Page 5 Contents Foreword 6 1. You & Juice Why: Homemade's Best 10 2. Vitamins & Minerals: A Few Basics 16 3. What's In It For You: A Dictionary of Juices From 36 Alfalfa to Watermelon 4. Index of Therapies: Juicing for Everything from Acne 90 to Water Retention 5. Juices for Cleansing . . .Juices for Healing 122 6. Buying a Juicer: Your Home Juice Bar 128 7. Juiced for Fun: Drinking Your Health 136 8. Juice Dieting: For Easy Weight Loss 156 Appendix Vitamin/Mineral Tables 158 Page 6 Foreword If I had known I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of myself. Songwriter Eubie Blake, on approaching his hundredth birthday How many times have you had the strong conviction that there was something you could do, some lifestyle change, that would make your life healthier and, with a little bit of luck, longer? That's probably happened fairly often, and just as often you've found that you weren't sure of it or, when you got right down to it, you weren't going to do. it. The truth is that there are any number of things we can do to make an improvement (mainly because there seem to be so many things we're doing wrong) such as exercise programs, meditation, and a huge variety of diets. And the trouble is, most of them involve a lot of effort or time or are plain boring. There is one immense improvement you can make in your way of living, a change that is comparatively easy, quite interesting and profoundly effectiveyou can learn to prepare and drink substantial quantities of fresh fruit and vegetable juices. Page 7 To answer the very natural question of what on earth fresh juices can have to do with good health and longevity, let's take a somewhat roundabout approach and start with the observation that we humans have the distinction of being the only inhabitants of this planet to cook the food we eatmost of it, in fact. It wasn't always thus. Our remotest ancestors ate what they pulled from the ground, knocked from the trees or ran down on the plains, raw. Fruits, vegetables, wild grains and nuts formed most of their diet, with all the vitamins, minerals, enzymes and fiber intact and in the best form to nourish the eater. Neanderthal and CroMagnon peoples discovered and used fire, and presumably found that its action on foods softened them, made them keep longer, and added some interesting elements to their taste. Nobody Noticed for Several Tens of Thousands of Years That Cooking Severely Reduced the Nutritional Value of Foods. What nobody noticed for several tens of thousands of years was that cooking also severely reduced the nutritional value of foods, leaching away minerals and vitamins in cooking water and destroying enzymes by the action of heat. Recent nutritional studies have shown this, and many others have shown that diets substantially composed of raw fruits and vegetables promote good health and longevity. A large body of verified information suggests strongly that the standard modern diet in this and other industrial countries fosters poor healthobesity and Page 8 degenerative diseases in particularand even antisocial and criminal behavior. But there's a big gap between what studies show and what people do, between what we know makes sense and our ingrained prejudices and habits. Many people will turn to raw fruits and vegetables, and benefit from that; many more won't. This is where fresh fruit and vegetable juices come in. They are easy to prepare, and contain an abundance of the important nutrients, particularly the living enzymes, present in the original source plants. Those who would find it hard going to get through several raw vegetables in the course of a day can get most of the benefits quickly by means of the juice, supplying their bodies with an abundance of vital nutrients and digestive factors. Juices should not be looked at as a substitute for a sensible diet, but their use will add to the benefits of any diet. You can take them just because you enjoy their taste and want to assure yourself of a good supply of important nutrients; for that purpose we've supplied a number of good-tasting juice recipes. Or you can use them for specific therapeutic purposes, from prevention or treatment of disease to weight management; chapter 4 discusses this in detail. Preparing the juice is all-important, since if it's too