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Anyone else use a juicer? - Mojofabulous - 03-02-2012 11:10 PM
My family has been juicing for about six months now. It's great! I am off both my prescriptions i was taking and am doing better than i ever did on them(and it's something i can easily tell the difference in). We all have more energy, sleep better and feel happier. Our total mood is just so much better. My mom's best friend has been overweight for years. She's been juicing four months now and has lost around fifty pounds from juicing. She looks sooooo much thinner too.
We were using a $300 centrifugal juicer but recently upgraded to a norwalk. It's slower but you get more juice from the same amount of produce and the nutrient content is so much denser than from any of the other centrifugal juicers.
UPDATE: i just want to make it clear for anyone who might read his thread and is new to juicing..i do not recommend getting the norwalk juicer. It has turned in to a total disaster. Read my posts below for a better explanation.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - agsilverbear - 03-02-2012 11:29 PM
(03-02-2012 11:10 PM)Mojofabulous Wrote: My family has been juicing for about six months now. It's great! I am off both my prescriptions i was taking and am doing better than i ever did on them(and it's something i can easily tell the difference in). We all have more energy, sleep better and feel happier. Our total mood is just so much better. My mom's best friend has been overweight for years. She's been juicing four months now and has lost around fifty pounds from juicing. She looks sooooo much thinner too.
We were using a $300 centrifugal juicer but recently upgraded to a norwalk. It's slower but you get more juice from the same amount of produce and the nutrient content is so much denser than from any of the other centrifugal juicers.
We have an old juicer that we use for Carrot/Apple juice maybe twice a month. I would like to juice more, especially during the growing season when we're over-flowing with produce. I would like to get more into it.
Is this close to what you have?
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RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - silverexplosion - 03-03-2012 12:13 AM
You want a kick, try Shakeology. Its the best, hands down.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - Mojofabulous - 03-03-2012 01:57 AM
(03-02-2012 11:29 PM)agsilverbear Wrote:(03-02-2012 11:10 PM)Mojofabulous Wrote: My family has been juicing for about six months now. It's great! I am off both my prescriptions i was taking and am doing better than i ever did on them(and it's something i can easily tell the difference in). We all have more energy, sleep better and feel happier. Our total mood is just so much better. My mom's best friend has been overweight for years. She's been juicing four months now and has lost around fifty pounds from juicing. She looks sooooo much thinner too.
We were using a $300 centrifugal juicer but recently upgraded to a norwalk. It's slower but you get more juice from the same amount of produce and the nutrient content is so much denser than from any of the other centrifugal juicers.
We have an old juicer that we use for Carrot/Apple juice maybe twice a month. I would like to juice more, especially during the growing season when we're over-flowing with produce. I would like to get more into it.
Is this close to what you have?
That is exactly what we have, lol. That one is slower than i am used to with the centrifugal juicer. But the norwalk is much better for you in terms of nutrients and quantity of juice extracted.
I drink about 1.5 to 2 quarts a day of juice
I combine ginger, celery, apple, carrot, cucumber and lacinato kale. I drink about half my daily calorie intake in that juice
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - Mojofabulous - 03-03-2012 02:00 AM
Buy some glass mason jars with the screw on type lids and you can store the juice you make for about a week. Apparently you can freeze the juice too, i havent tried.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - .9999 - 03-03-2012 12:33 PM
I have a Vitamix.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - John Winger - 03-03-2012 06:04 PM
(03-03-2012 12:33 PM).9999 Wrote: I have a Vitamix.
LOL, not quite a juicer. More like a demolisher.
I've been rocking an Omega 8005 for 7-8 years now and it hasn't failed me yet. Made some almond meal the other day with it. Probably the most versatile machine out there.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - weylin - 03-03-2012 07:59 PM
I've been seriously considering juicing for about a month now. A guy I work with went on an all juice diet. Said the first week was hard since he stopped eating solid food but after that he's full of energy and lost a lot of weight.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - Mojofabulous - 03-03-2012 10:14 PM
You don't HAVE to stop eating solid food either. I drink half my calories in juice, the rest comes from solid food. Just be careful to watch your calorie intake. You can easily gain weight juicing if you keep eating the same amount of food AND drink juice.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - agsilverbear - 03-03-2012 10:35 PM
(03-03-2012 01:57 AM)Mojofabulous Wrote:(03-02-2012 11:29 PM)agsilverbear Wrote: [quote='Mojofabulous' pid='2385' dateline='1330747847']
My family has been juicing for about six months now. It's great! I am off both my prescriptions i was taking and am doing better than i ever did on them(and it's something i can easily tell the difference in). We all have more energy, sleep better and feel happier. Our total mood is just so much better. My mom's best friend has been overweight for years. She's been juicing four months now and has lost around fifty pounds from juicing. She looks sooooo much thinner too.
We were using a $300 centrifugal juicer but recently upgraded to a norwalk. It's slower but you get more juice from the same amount of produce and the nutrient content is so much denser than from any of the other centrifugal juicers.
We have an old juicer that we use for Carrot/Apple juice maybe twice a month. I would like to juice more, especially during the growing season when we're over-flowing with produce. I would like to get more into it.
Is this close to what you have?
That is exactly what we have, lol. That one is slower than i am used to with the centrifugal juicer. But the norwalk is much better for you in terms of nutrients and quantity of juice extracted.
I drink about 1.5 to 2 quarts a day of juice
I combine ginger, celery, apple, carrot, cucumber and lacinato kale. I drink about half my daily calorie intake in that juice
Whoa!! Two quarts a day? You must be like Superman!
Drinking that much veggie juice could give a person a real high.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - Mojofabulous - 03-04-2012 12:02 AM
I have tons of energy. I'd be superman if i actually worked out, which i don't, lol.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - uk_kris - 03-04-2012 11:47 AM
Wow, glad too see some other silver stackers who are also into juicing/natural health.
I juice every day for breakfast, and sometimes for dinner, with my other meals 70-80% raw veg. I basically follow an alkaline diet (http://www.phmiracleliving.com/ or google 'Dr Robert Young' for more info).
My partner took this diet up properly 4 years ago, when she was diagnosed with advanced stages of a rare form of terminal cancer called Pseudomyxoma peritonei. The specialist doctors could only offer her an 18 hour operation of which there was a 50/50 chance of survival, and those that do survive can have a greatly reduced quality of life.
As I have said it has been 4 years since this diagnosis and since we changed our lifestyles. She has a scan every year at the hospital and they can find no recurrence of the disease, in our GP's own words this is "miraculous". She also feels healthy and balanced within her own body and knows that there is nothing wrong with her anymore.
Sorry if the post is getting a little personal, but we both share this story with as many people as we can, so that people can realise there is a real alternative to the medical model, and that your health is really in your own hands.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - John Winger - 03-04-2012 03:07 PM
(03-04-2012 11:47 AM)uk_kris Wrote: Sorry if the post is getting a little personal, but we both share this story with as many people as we can, so that people can realise there is a real alternative to the medical model, and that your health is really in your own hands.
No need to apologize. It's great you shared that story. People cure the uncureable all the time and you never hear about it because it's no benefit to "them."
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - kshymkiw - 03-05-2012 04:54 PM
I have a juicer and love it. It isn't nearly as nice as the juicers you guys have.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - SilverSal - 03-07-2012 06:05 PM
I love juicing but cleaning them is 1/2 hour at least. I have and old juice man and sometimes I feel a wonderful rush after a fresh 16oz. or so. (Brother John has me thinking about eveything in ozs.)
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - Sulla - 03-30-2012 04:07 AM
The Norwalk Juicer is the grandaddy of all the modern juicers.
Please try and read all of Norman Walker's book if you have not done so yet!
I have an Angel from Korea which takes the principles of the Norwalk but has combined them in to the one unit.
First it screws (crushes) the fruit/vegetable and then presses it up against a very fine mesh screen.
http://www.angel-juicer.com/
Can get up to 800 grams of juice from a kilogram of carrots!
Some good info on the site and worth a look.
Great juicer but a pita to clean!!
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - agsilverbear - 04-29-2012 02:25 AM
(03-03-2012 01:57 AM)Mojofabulous Wrote:(03-02-2012 11:29 PM)agsilverbear Wrote:(03-02-2012 11:10 PM)Mojofabulous Wrote: My family has been juicing for about six months now. It's great! I am off both my prescriptions i was taking and am doing better than i ever did on them(and it's something i can easily tell the difference in). We all have more energy, sleep better and feel happier. Our total mood is just so much better. My mom's best friend has been overweight for years. She's been juicing four months now and has lost around fifty pounds from juicing. She looks sooooo much thinner too.
We were using a $300 centrifugal juicer but recently upgraded to a norwalk. It's slower but you get more juice from the same amount of produce and the nutrient content is so much denser than from any of the other centrifugal juicers.
We have an old juicer that we use for Carrot/Apple juice maybe twice a month. I would like to juice more, especially during the growing season when we're over-flowing with produce. I would like to get more into it.
Is this close to what you have?
That is exactly what we have, lol. That one is slower than i am used to with the centrifugal juicer. But the norwalk is much better for you in terms of nutrients and quantity of juice extracted.
I drink about 1.5 to 2 quarts a day of juice
I combine ginger, celery, apple, carrot, cucumber and lacinato kale. I drink about half my daily calorie intake in that juice
That's exactly the ingredients we are using! Oh, and radishes. We watched Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead the other night. What a great video. I'm probably taking half my calories or more from juicing the last 2 days and John's doing a pure juice fast probably for 2 weeks. He has high blood pressure now so he is on metoprolol.
It's great to read that you were able to get off your prescriptions by juicing, that gives me added hope. From everything I've read and heard lately it seems like it may be the answer. There were even a few nurses, etc at the hospital who recommended juicing to John.
We didn't get the Cadillac of juicers like you have but we got a decent Breville.
Great thread Mojo, you got me thinking more about juicing when you posted it but it took a crisis for me to actually start, lol.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - Mojofabulous - 04-29-2012 02:31 AM
The norwalk juicer has actually turned in to a total nightmare. We're about to try to get a refund(probably won't be able to).
The stupid thing stopped working properly and we had to send it in for repairs. We got it back monday, I made juice that night and it started having the same exact problem. We're gonna have to send it back again. When you consider the machine costs 2500 bucks and it costs about 80 bucks to ship it to them for repairs(It's really really heavy and you have to insure it) you can see how I might get frustrated quickly.
If the thing is working it's a great machine. The quality of the juice is unparalleled. But it is really really slow compared to centrifugal juicers, takes longer to clean and you have the ever present risk of a super expensive machine breaking. It isn't worth the stress. I consider it one of my family's worst purchases ever. As soon as the thing stops working correctly you find yourself trapped with a really expensive piece of junk that becomes more expensive as you get it repaired.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - Mojofabulous - 04-29-2012 02:32 AM
Don't take my previous post as a knock on juicing though. My family is still totally dedicating to juicing. I still drink 1-2 quarts a day.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - Bill Spencer - 04-29-2012 11:18 AM
We have a juicer too, not such an expensive one, but it works great. My wife and I really enjoy the fresh juices as nothing comes even remotely close to it. If you have your own garden to grow the veggies and fruits you are really blessed. We have to buy them, but we make sure we buy local as much as we can and if we buy imports, we buy any other country than imported from the US, where possible. Please don't get mad now but we don't trust the farming in the US anymore. The are to maximize profits and gladly sacrifice quality using nasty chemicals or gene modified stuff, of course all approved, but we don't care for that.
It be batter to import from countries where farmers do not use such chem corporate waste to put on the fields...
Also, we bought a nice book on juice recipes, Watermelon vs. Papaya so as Carrot vs. Pears vs. Apple are my favorites...
Fresh juices not only taste great but they provide the body with vitamins and the all so important trace elements. Without these the body is likely to develop cancers. That is of course something the medical industry does not want people to know as they would loose most if not all there well paying cancer customers...
another of my 2 cents worth
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - agsilverbear - 04-29-2012 02:31 PM
Mojo, sorry to hear about your juicer. It's very frustrating when you spend that much for a top of the line item which never works properly or stops working. The worst purchase we ever made was for a 2K laptop that turned out to be a piece of junk from day one. So many things nowadays are made to sell not to work, and the manufacturers don't make the customer whole.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - agsilverbear - 04-29-2012 02:38 PM
(04-29-2012 11:18 AM)Bill Spencer Wrote: We have a juicer too, not such an expensive one, but it works great. My wife and I really enjoy the fresh juices as nothing comes even remotely close to it. If you have your own garden to grow the veggies and fruits you are really blessed. We have to buy them, but we make sure we buy local as much as we can and if we buy imports, we buy any other country than imported from the US, where possible. Please don't get mad now but we don't trust the farming in the US anymore. The are to maximize profits and gladly sacrifice quality using nasty chemicals or gene modified stuff, of course all approved, but we don't care for that.I agree with everything you said!
It be batter to import from countries where farmers do not use such chem corporate waste to put on the fields...
Also, we bought a nice book on juice recipes, Watermelon vs. Papaya so as Carrot vs. Pears vs. Apple are my favorites...
Fresh juices not only taste great but they provide the body with vitamins and the all so important trace elements. Without these the body is likely to develop cancers. That is of course something the medical industry does not want people to know as they would loose most if not all there well paying cancer customers...
another of my 2 cents worth
We heard that if you use conventional produce you can soak it in a light brine which will pull out a lot of the chemicals. Organic is better of course but more expensive here in the US. I will be growing a lot of carrots, cukes, and leafy greens for juicing this year which will be 'organic'. I expect that will save us hundreds if not thousands of dollars.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - Mojofabulous - 04-29-2012 02:43 PM
Btw, if you can get your hands on it, try lacinto(or lacinato)kale. I never remember to check the spelling on it when i buy it. I think it has a superior taste and it juices muuuuch better than the standard kale most grocery stores carry.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - agsilverbear - 04-29-2012 04:27 PM
Thanks for the tip, Mojo. That might even be the kale we bought - Kroger's only had one kind. Next time I'll be sure to look for that kind for juicing. I will also see if I can find Lacinato kale seedlings and/or seeds to grow.
RE: Anyone else use a juicer? - Mojofabulous - 04-29-2012 05:07 PM
looks like this:
![[Image: LacinatoKale.jpg]](http://0.tqn.com/d/localfoods/1/0/x/5/-/-/LacinatoKale.jpg)