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Juicing has been shown to provide concentrated nutrition in ways that eating whole fruits and vegetables cannot. Juicing frees the important vitamins and nutrients from the fiber allowing your body to use them immediately and get them in higher quantity.  Here are five more reasons to get into juicing.

1. Relief from arthritis and other inflammatory conditions. 8oz of carrot, celery, beet, and parsley juice has been declared to be as good as any anti-inflammatory drug.
2. Live uncooked foods helps flush your body of toxins leaving you relaxed, refreshed, and energized.
3. Fights off flu and colds: citrus, pineapple, and cranberry juices have been found effective.
4. Higher concentrations of beta carotene than you can get by eating whole vegetables where over 90% remains locked in the fiber. Beta carotene is an important prevention agent for cancer and many other diseases.
5. Chlorophyll, from juicing leafy green vegetables, appears to combat tumor growth and helps with clearing arteries.

My favorite juice is apple, carrot, celery, it tastes great and helps combat fatigue:

2 Medium Apples
2 Large Carrots
2 Stalks of Celery
1 Parsly Sprig

If you’d like more background, find out more health benefits, and some recipes, here is a good book: Juicing for Life, by Cherie Calboum, Maureen Keane.

If you don’t have a juicer consider this one.

Green Star GS-1000 Juicer FREE SHIPPING to 48 States

It costs more than one you might find at Walmart but when you examine it’s features you will see it is something that you will find no where else. One of it’s best features is low speed to avoid heating during the extraction process. Heat will destroy some of the nutrients you are after. Whether you get this juicer or one from a retailer get started it’s an investment in the health and well being of your family.

A final note, if you are taking medication, allow a couple of hours between taking your medicine and taking juice. Following this advice you will get full effect from your medicine along with all the benefits of juicing. For more information check out this New York Times blog post.

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