Why juicing helps with diabetes, cancer,...

Froggy said:

The $386 product I checked is a Korean brand http://www.teltron.com/en/common/pr...t&a_cd=3&a_item=1&lclass=i_50&sm=4_5&po_no=20

The other simply no brand, sad.

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For $386 you might as well get the following http://www.amazon.com/Ultrasonic-Ve...&sr=1-1&keywords=ultrasonic+vegetable+cleaner

It is a more complete solution with a container & electronics. It is big at 12.8 litres.

However I will be getting a different ultrasonic cleaner. My main purpose for getting one of these ultrasonic cleaners is to make liposomal vitamin C. The secondary reason is to use it to clean fruits & vegetables. I already have an ozone generator & can use it with the ultrasonic cleaner to do the same job as these food cleaners.

The reason I was looking for ways to clean veggie was because I ran out of what I currently used. Looking around NTUC for some kind of vegetable/fruit cleaner & only found a NTUC house branded product. I then looked at iHerb & found a more interesting product called eatclean.

http://sg.iherb.com/Eat-Cleaner-All-Natural-Fruit-Vegetable-Wash-12-fl-oz-354-ml/63428

It costs about the same as what is available at NTUC.

You can visit the manufactures site at http://www.eatcleaner.com/

I recently tried drinking almond milk & found that I liked it. It is also healthy. I intend to mix it with a meal replacement powder like http://www.iherb.com/Madre-Labs-Zenbu-Shake-Meal-Replacement-Powder-Chocolate-16-4-oz-465-g/69283 & make it part of my daily routine.

1st the benefits of drinking Almond milk:

[video=youtube;fVl1bX7AHkw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fVl1bX7AHkw[/video]

I don't like eating almonds but drinking it is different. All you need is some almonds, vanilla extract, himalayan salt & dates or some natural sweetener.

The problem with the ones you find ready made at the supermarket is that you don't know how diluted a product is or what ingredients they have added. So I decided to make almond milk myself. You can do it using a blender:

[video=youtube;3RabfvRbCUI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RabfvRbCUI[/video]

Initially I looked at those specialised products designed to make soya milk e.g. Joyoung, Phillips,.. usually selling for about $200 but then I decided to go with a Blendtec http://www.natures-glory.com/kitchenware-juicers-and-blenders.asp which is a great blender which can also be used to blend veggie smoothies. It is more powerful than a Vitamix &seems to have fewer problems than a Vitamix.

So in future I might be blending rather than juicing because I don't have that much free counter space in my kitchen

johnny333 said:

People who are diabetic should avoid juicing fruits because of the sugar content.

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Yes, I agree:
sammyboy.com/showthread.php?235609-How-Big-Sugar-Enlisted-Harvard-Scientists-to-Influence-How-We-Eat&p=2513241#post2513241

flatearther said:

gongkia said:

I drink food juice containing beetroot which is very sweet.

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But it's much healthier to eat the fruit than to drink its juice.

In fact, the juice might not even be healthy enough because both the fruit's dietary fibre and the important polyphenol phytonutrients bound/stuck to the fibre have been removed:

nutritionfacts.org/video/juicing-removes-more-than-just-fiber

[video=youtube;U6tyu1Df1d4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6tyu1Df1d4[/video]


nutritionfacts.org/video/apple-juice-may-be-worse-than-sugar-water

[video=youtube;D4eynlnjzO0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4eynlnjzO0[/video]


http://nutritionfacts.org/video/best-fruit-juice

[video=youtube;IqM1Fmnxc3I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IqM1Fmnxc3I[/video]

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flatearther said:

bodycells said:

Processed sugar is bad.

Natural sugar from fruits and vegetables is good for your body.

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Actually, even the natural sugar in fruits and vegetables, i.e. fructose, is unhealthy.

But fruits and vegetables are still healthy because they contain Vitamin C, dietary fibre and the polyphenol phytonutrients that are bound/stuck to the fibre:

nutritionfacts.org/video/if-fructose-is-bad-what-about-fruit

[video=youtube;sHEJE6I-Yl4]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sHEJE6I-Yl4[/video]

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flatearther said:

johnny333 said:

Sugar is probably a contributor to the high rates of cancer we are seeing today.

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Yes, and I dare say sugar is certainly one of the two main activators of "cancer genes" to produce cancer cells, like what I've said before in another thread:
sammyboy.com/showthread.php?235124-Chemotherapy-a-friend-just-want-for-it&p=2506131#post2506131

flatearther said:

Leongsam said:

The best defense against cancer is "good genes".

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I agree.

But just like "fat genes" have to be activated by an unhealthy diet and lack of exercise before such a person can become fat (and I think you will agree with me on this because you've posted about this issue before), people with "cancer genes" can only contract cancer if those "cancer genes" are activated by an unhealthy diet, mainly meat and sugar:

Sugar Doesn't Just Feed Cancer, It Causes Cancer - Cancer Defeated Newsletter #77
cancerdefeated.com/newsletters/Sugar-feeds-cancer-and-causes-cancer.html

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And here are the key sections from the above long article I linked to:

There's something different about fructose. I'm going to briefly explain what it is. If you have a taste for science and you'd like to know the details, check out a 90-minute Youtube lecture by an M.D. named Robert Lustig, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco.

Dr. Lustig is an expert on child obesity and a leading critic of sugar — both table sugar and HFCS — because both these sugars basically come down to fructose. He's the source of most of what was in the New York Times Magazine article and most of what I'm telling you here.

He didn't conduct the scientific studies himself, but he's a very effective speaker and he passionately believes sugar is a poison. He actually uses the word "poison" 13 times in his lecture. You can quickly find his talk by Googling "Sugar: The Bitter Truth".

[video=youtube;dBnniua6-oM]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBnniua6-oM[/video]

Sugar: The Bitter Truth - UCTV - University of California Television
http://www.uctv.tv/shows/Sugar-The-Bitter-Truth-16717
("Robert H. Lustig, MD, UCSF Professor of Pediatrics in the Division of Endocrinology, explores the damage caused by sugary foods. He argues that fructose (too much) and fiber (not enough) appear to be cornerstones of the obesity epidemic through their effects on insulin. Recorded on 05/26/2009.")

The two-minute explanation of how fructose messes you up

The quick summary is that, unlike glucose, fructose has to be metabolized in the liver by way of a very complex and inefficient process. Your digestive system quickly breaks down a potato or a grain of rice into glucose, the "good" sugar. The glucose then passes through your intestinal wall into your bloodstream, and your cells are able to take it up and "eat it" with no problem.

Not so with fructose. Your liver has to convert fructose into glucose, the food your cells can take up. It's about like trying to turn a bowl of fish soup into a fish. The resulting process is so complex it puts a great strain on the liver. And here's the thing researchers say is key: 30 percent of the fructose is converted into fat and stays in your liver.

The growing load of fat in your liver causes disastrous damage over a period of many years. It appears to be the main cause of "metabolic syndrome" or "insulin resistance syndrome" — the breakdown in your insulin system that leads to heart disease, diabetes, hypertension — and cancer.

Glucose good (sort of), fructose bad (definitely)

If you eat "good" glucose-generating carbs, only one calorie out of five is stored in the liver. What's more, it's stored in a harmless form called glycogen. Your liver can store any amount of glycogen without getting sick.

When you eat fructose, three calories out of five are stored in the liver — three times as many as when you eat glucose. And the fructose calories are stored in the liver as a highly toxic fat.

The researchers in the field believe this accumulation of toxic fat in the liver is THE cause of the chronic degenerative diseases such as cancer and heart disease.

Fructose is a dietary catastrophe

According to Dr. Lustig, eating a high-fructose diet is effectively like eating a high-fat diet. That means you can think you're following a so-called low-fat diet when you really aren't at all. For more than 30 years, conventional medicine has told us to cut way back on fats for a healthy heart. Eat all the carbs you want, they've told us, eat all the pasta you want, but give up fats, especially saturated fats like those found in beef or butter or even guacamole.

In his lecture, Dr. Lustig provides persuasive evidence that this advice is all nonsense. You can eat a very low fat diet, but if you eat a lot of sugar — and Americans eat MASSIVE amounts of it — you'll still get fat. You'll still have an unhealthy heart and unhealthy arteries, you'll have hypertension, and very likely you'll get diabetes or cancer.

You can eat and eat and still feel hungry

Fructose has another oddity: You can eat a huge amount of calories and still feel hungry. Dr. Lustig says a kid can drink a Coke containing 200 calories and still go into McDonald's raving hungry and eat a heaping plate of food. The reason is that fructose does not suppress ghrelin, the "hunger hormone."

When you're hungry, your stomach and pancreas secrete ghrelin, and this hormone signals your brain that you need to eat. You feel hungry. Once you've eaten, ghrelin production falls off and you don't feel hungry anymore. Unless you've eaten fructose.

Ghrelin levels don't go down after consuming fructose, according to Dr. Lustig. You still feel hungry even though you've taken on board a huge dose of calories.

It gets worse. Most food stimulates the body to produce leptin, a chemical that signals the brain you've had something to eat. According to Dr. Lustig, this response fails to occur if the food is high in fructose. Your brain never gets the message you're full.

Fructose literally changes the way your brain perceives what you've eaten. You don't know whether you're hungry or not, you don't know whether you've eaten or not. Sometimes a new-agey alternative doctor will tell a sick person, "You're out of touch with your body." I"ll say!

Now you know why you're sick. . .

Fructose is a likely answer if not THE answer. There are other factors involved — certainly toxic chemicals and heavy metals, in the case of cancer. But fructose looks more and more like a major explanation for our problems. I'm convinced we'd see a rapid increase in health and well-being in our society if every gram of sugar disappeared tomorrow, for good.

Instead, we eat five times the amount of fructose people ate a hundred years ago. And most of their fructose calories were from fruit. Most of ours are from the pure junk, like mainlining heroin.

Here's a thought form the New York Times article: "One of the diseases that increases in incidence with obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome is cancer. . .The connection between obesity, diabetes and cancer was first reported in 2004 in large population studies by researchers from the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer. It is not controversial." (We wrote about the diabetes-cancer connection in issue #35.)

The Times also quotes Craig Thompson, President of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York. While the article does the usual song and dance that we need more studies (and it's true; we do), Dr. Thompson dropped this bombshell:

"I have eliminated refined sugar from my diet and eat as little as I possibly can, because I believe that ultimately it's something I can do to decrease my risk of cancer."

This comes from the very heart of America's cancer establishment. If the world's leading enemies of alternative medicine are saying this. . .well, you do the math.

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I follow the Gerson Therapy guidelines & juice green veggies like kale, celery, beet root & swiss chard. These veggies are very healthy but can be bitter.

I've gotten used to the above mixture but I still like add an apple & a carrot to add some sweetness to the mix.

For fruits like strawberries & blue berries I add them whole to my Budwig protocol mix of blending flax seed oil with cottage cheese. After adding yoghurt, honey, the fruits & chia seeds, they make a very tasty breakfast or brunch.

johnny333 said:

...cottage cheese...yoghurt...

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On the whole, your diet seems quite healthy; but one serious flaw in your diet is that if you consume those dairy products everyday or nearly everyday, you increase your risk of:
wikipedia.org/wiki/Hip_fracture
and
wikipedia.org/wiki/Osteoporosis
simply because the acid in animal milk (not just cow's milk) acidifies your body's pH, triggering the existing calcium in your bones to neutralize the acidifying effect of the milk, resulting in a calcium deficit after calcium is pulled out of your bones and leaves your body via your urine:

Debunking The Milk Myth: Why Milk Is Bad For You And Your Bones
saveourbones.com/osteoporosis-milk-myth
("Milk depletes the calcium from your bones")

[video=youtube;rxnBDDqXSjk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxnBDDqXSjk[/video]

In addition, animal milk contains unhealthy saturated fat and cholesterol.

Much better and safer sources of calcium and protein are soya beans (not tofu or tau kwa) and almonds:
nutritiondata.self.com/facts/legumes-and-legume-products/4375/2
nutritiondata.self.com/facts/nut-and-seed-products/3087/2
wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietary_Reference_Intake#Current_recommendations

[video=youtube;2i0fu3r3DZg]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2i0fu3r3DZg[/video]

Furthermore:
collective-evolution.com/2015/12/31/dairy-is-fucking-scary-the-truth-about-milk-explained-in-5-minutes/

[video=youtube;UcN7SGGoCNI]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcN7SGGoCNI[/video]

I'm aware of the problems with drinking cow's milk and that is why I am drinking milk made from Almonds.

Been reading more about blending https://www.amazon.com/Blender-Girl...d=1475711757&sr=1-1&keywords=the+blender+girl & learning about inhibitors & the importance of soaking.

Blending requires more planning than juicing.

johnny333 said:

I'm aware of the problems with drinking cow's milk and that is why I am drinking milk made from Almonds.

Been reading more about blending https://www.amazon.com/Blender-Girl...d=1475711757&sr=1-1&keywords=the+blender+girl & learning about inhibitors & the importance of soaking.

Blending requires more planning than juicing.

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Where did you get your Almond milk from??? Did you get it from supermarket shelves or you make your own?

Look at how stupid this is????




But lowlife sinkie shit losers are more stupid than this.

bodycells said:

Look at how stupid this is????

But lowlife sinkie shit losers are more stupid than this.

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Just curious, are you allowed to do this ?

bodycells said:

Where did you get your Almond milk from??? Did you get it from supermarket shelves or you make your own?

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Initially I got an unsweetened version of almond milk with organic almonds from NTUC.

After trying it out I've decided to add it to my diet. I was looking around at various methods to DIY & finally decided to get a blendtec blender because you can easily make almond milk yourself & can use the blender for other things like smoothies. I also want to see if making smoothies is more convenient than juicing.

Just picked up my new Blendtec blender & what surprised me is that the unit is not heavy
I had visited Tang to view some of the different blenders in the market & some of the units were really big & heavy & big.

The blender comes with a book with many interesting recipes, including almond milk
The Blentec unit is also more compact than a Vitamix & that's the reason I chose to go with the Blendtec

[video=youtube;pAG3mZgGxfk]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAG3mZgGxfk[/video]

johnny333 said:

The reason I was looking for ways to clean veggie.... [/url]

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Found a tip from the book "The Blender Girl" she recommends cleaning veggies by using a mixture of:

1 tablespoon of baking soda &
1 tablespoon of cider vinegar or lemon

I don't juice anymore as washing the juicer damn lecheh..so I use a blender.. Throw in an orange. Spinach and kale n some frozen fruit like blueberries..and blend it and drink... Tried blending apples...but taste like crap.

The_Hypocrite said:

I don't juice anymore as washing the juicer damn lecheh..so I use a blender.. Throw in an orange. Spinach and kale n some frozen fruit like blueberries..and blend it and drink... Tried blending apples...but taste like crap.

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I'm using an Angel juicer & it is a great juicer & I would recommend it for anyone following the Gerson Therapy. The trouble with a juicer is that you have to cut up the produce into small sizes that will fit the machines feed slot. Washing a juicer is also is more time consuming. With a blender you only have to fill it up with soapy water & turn on the blender.

The reason the Gerson Therapy recommends a juicer is because sick patients lack the strength to process what they eat. Juicing is a more direct way to feed a patient's body because the juicer has already extracted the nutrients from the veggies & fruits.

I have been going through the recipe book that came with my blender & there are many interesting recipes in it for making breakfast, sauces, marinades, soups, grains, deserts,.... A blender is more versatile & it's more like a food processor.

i like to eat the fruits directly leh.
nice to eat plus can get the fibre in also

I've made my 1st batch of almond milk & I've almost finished consuming all the almond milk. In future I will probably use 5 cups of water instead of 4?

I've used the almond milk to mix with a meal replacement powder. It goes very nicely even though I haven't added any sweetener to the mixture.
I've also used it with my corn flakes & raisins. By corn flakes I'm not talking about the kellogs corn flakes you get from the supermarket but buckwhear flakes that are made from buckwheat http://sg.iherb.com/Arrowhead-Mills-Organic-Maple-Buckwheat-Flakes-Gluten-Free-10-oz-283-g/29484 They are organic & tasty but they do contain cane sugar.

I'm now looking for a nut milk bag to filter the milk from the left over pulp. I'm saving the pulp left from making the almond milk for future use when I will be adding it to a recipe for buckwheat pan cakes.

I haven't even had a chance to use my blender to make smoothies. My 1st smoothie will probably be a Dr Oz green smoothie. The recipe is very close to what I was using when I was juicing.

Take a look at the Omega J8006 Juicer

If you look at the length of the part sticking out horizontally.

https://juicer360.com/omega-j8006/

It's a really nice machine.

This is by far the best juicer

https://juicer360.com/omega-j8006/