Benefits of Juicing Celery and Celeriac

Juicing celery benefits weight loss and health, to effectively improve your digestion and immune system. Celery was originally used for medicinal purposes to purify the blood. No calories and high in fiber, celery juice is a stimulating tonic and a great addition to a healthy eating diet.

Celery and celeriac juice is traditionally used for asthma, constipation, fever, fluid retention, gout, headache, inflammation, insomnia, kidneys, liver, lungs, migraine, nervous problems and weight loss. Fresh celery juice has a mild diuretic effect and helps curb the craving for sweets which benefits weight loss.

Rich in magnesium and iron content, with up to 95% water, fresh celery juice provides valuable nourishment for blood cells. Juicing celery will provide a good source of potassium, which is great for a hydrated and healthy skin. A major benefit in consuming celery juice is that it also helps to regulate blood pressure. Vitamin C found in celery helps to support the immune system and is a cold fighter. Fresh celery contains cancer-fighting compounds that detoxify pollutants including cigarette smoke.

Common salt or inorganic sodium chloride is harmful to the body, whereas organic sodium in celery juice is most beneficial. Sodium is called the youth element because it removes acid from the body, reduces stiffness and loosens the muscular skeletal frame.

Celery juice is useful for people who have high acidity resulting in calcification and degenerative bones and joints. This harmful accumulation is obtained from the over-indulgence of animal protein, too many grains, refined and concentrated sugars and concentrated starches. The body can benefit from an increased consumption of celery juice which helps to eliminate calcium deposits before they accumulate and cause harm.

Drinking one or two glasses of fresh celery juice can benefit people afflicted with nervous disorders and insomnia. Celery juice is a revitalizing brain tonic, enhances memory, and is good for dizziness. Some have even discovered the sobering qualities of raw celery juice as an antidote to alcoholic indulgences.

The juice from celery root or celeriac is valued as an appetizer that stimulates digestion. Celeriac juice has an almost immediate beneficial effect on the body when it is sipped. It is amazing how much juice you can extract from these large, hard, dry-looking roots.

Ideal in tropical climates, celery juice is a natural coolant and protector in hot weather. A glass of organic celeriac juice will keep you dry and comfortable, while those around you perspire. Great if you enjoy a vigorous workout like I do, celery juice can be used as a natural sports drink to replace valuable fluid and mineral loss due to sweating.

The higher the chlorophyll content, the darker is the celery. Use the stalks and green leaves of celery, which contain both sodium and insulin. Only juice firm celery stalks with fresh leaves. Celery can add a refreshing but salty taste to your juice recipes and is best juiced with carrots or apples.

The health benefits of juicing celery and celeriac are enormous. Introducing celery juice into your daily diet can not only improve long term health but also encourage weight loss. So get out your juicer and start juicing celery today!

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Pre-Packed Juice, is it Good for You?

Processed bottled juice on supermarket shelves comes in all forms – plastic or glass bottles, canned, refrigerated cartons or vacuum packed and can last up to 2 years.

The fruit processing industry uses powerful yet the same low speed extraction process as the cold press juicers to extract the maximum yield of juice from the fruit.

Once cold pressed, fresh fruit juice is quickly pasteurised or heat treated at around 90?C. This heating process has been shown to destroy certain nutrients and changes the pH from alkaline to acid. Most antioxidants are heat sensitive and can reduce by 15% each time a juice is heated.

By the time the juice is packed and sold in the supermarket or deli it may have been heated at 2 or 3 locations to get in the final bottle and the long term storage of pasteurised juice leads to a further breakdown of nutrients over time.

If you look closely at the ingredients, you will see that a lot of juice companies use juice concentrates to save costs, but regardless of whether the juice is made from concentrate or not, the alkaline properties and naturally occurring nutrients are greatly diminished. These juice concentrates are often imported and typically involve hours of heating to remove the water, leaving little nutritional value behind.

Hugh Moran is a qualified Naturopath with 5 years clinical experience. His background is in the food and health food industries.

Hugh comes from a family that was in the fruit processing industry for 32 years and he has also worked extensively as a health foods retailer.

He has a life long passion for health and wellbeing and you can visit Hugh's detox blog for great health recipes and healthful tips

Make your own V8 Juice!

3-4 Tomatoes - a great alkalizer when consumed without sugars or starches!

2 Carrots - supports the immune system!

½ Beetroot - a great blood builder!

1 Stalk of Celery - to improve digestion!

½ Red Capsicum - good for skin, hair & nails!

¼ cup Cucumber (or 1 Lebanese cucumber) - a natural diuretic

2 Apples - to aid liver function improve taste!

Pinch of Parsley - high in minerals including potassium!

For more great health recipes, visit our healthy recipes page and start your healthy eating plan today!

Article written by Hugh Moran - Resident Naturopath at Vitality 4 Life.

The information on the properties of living juice was taken from Dr. Norman Walker’s book - Fresh Vegetable & Fruit Juices RRP $20.

Which Juicer is Right for Me?

n order to maintain a healthy diet, it is vital that you have a good Cold Press Juicer that preserves all the nutrients and all the nutrients from these powerful raw foods. This juice is 'alive' with flavour and goodness!

Compare our Juicers

We feel we stock the best juicers in the world, and with good reason. But how do you choose between them?

Below are our most popular juicers and below them is a Juicer Comparison Chart, so you can compare our juicers side by side.

For the health inclined:
The best single gear juicer you can buy.

For the Chef:
Versatile and powerful the champion juicer is a complete kitchen appliance.

For the Raw Foodist:
Magnetic Twin Gears give this juicer the edge in nutritional content.

	Champion 2000 Juicer	Oscar VitalMax 900 Juicer	Greenpower Hippocrates Twin Gear Juicer
Weight	11kgs	7.8kgs	8.7kgs
Colors	Grey, Almond, White, Black	Chrome, White	White
Gears	Masticating	Single Gear Auger	Twin Gear Screw Press
RPM	1425	80	180
Input Voltage	90-240V	90-240V	90-240V
Warranty	10 years on motor, 3 years on parts.	20 year waranty on motor / 5 years on parts.	12 years on motor and parts.

For more Juicer Comparisons please visit www.juicercomparisons.co.uk, they have a large range of juicers. cold press and centrifugal, that you can compare against each other as well as consumer reviews. It's a great resource for anyone trying to find the right juicer.

What is a Conventional/Centrifugal Juicer?

Centrifugal juicers work by using a flat cutting blade on the bottom of a rapidly spinning strainer. The cut produce is forced against the juicing strainer through the use of centrifugal force. This force separates the juice from the pulp through the tiny holes in the juicing strainer.

While still hugely popular these juicers do have their downfalls. They are noisy, the high spinning speed creates a lot of heat that destroys vital nutrients and they clog often throughout the juicing process so continuous juicing is not possible. Probably the greatest fall back of the Centrifugal Juicer is the effort required to clean these machines. The strainers are huge and can be a real pain to clean, they can’t do wheatgrass or leafy green vegetables and as the pulp builds up in the strainers the efficiency falls rapidly. The process also involves drawing a lot of air into the machine, which oxygenates the fruit and vegetables and therefore produces a ‘dying’ juice.

This is probably why so many good intentions fall by the wayside as the effort starts to outweigh the rewards.

Vitality 4 Life has pioneered the new fleet of [storelink id="kitchen-appliances/cold-press-electric-juicers" keyword="Healthy Juicers into the UK"]. These new juicers are not centrifugal but “Masticating” and work by crushing/chewing the produce instead of cutting it. They have been proven to produce not only more juice but also a higher quality of juice with more of the vital nutrients and enzymes intact. We call this “Living Juice” and this is one of the main reasons so many health nuts and raw foodists have started raving about them.

So what juicers does Vitality 4 Life recommend?

In our experience any juicer is better than none and definitely better than pre-packaged juice, but if you want a juicer that is easy to clean and gives you more juice for your money then choose a “Masticating” or “Cold Press” Juicer.

For the general family:
A reasonably priced juicers that is easy to clean and the whole family can use.

For the health inclined:
The best single gear juicer you can buy.

For the Chef:
Versatile and powerful the champion juicer is a complete kitchen appliance.

For the Raw Foodist:
Magnetic Twin Gears give this juicer the edge in nutritional content.

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What is Living Juice?

The concept of living juice was first introduced by Dr. Norman Walker (1874-1983). Walker declared that the enzymes in fruit and vegetables die at temperatures which exceed 50 degrees Celsius. Walker explained that any juice extractor that used high-speed blade or centrifuge created friction heat leading to the destruction of enzymes. Nutritionists advise plenty of fresh, raw fruit and vegetables as essential to well-being but we only obtain the maximum benefits from them when the goodness is released from the fibre. Juicing is an effective method, a highly concentrated nutrient drink. For optimum benefits the process must extract the goodness without destroying vital elements through heat. Living juice extracted at a low temperature holds up to 60% more nutrients - minerals, vitamins and living enzymes - for a nutritionally superior juice.

Non-Living Juice
Pre-packed juices lose much of their goodness in the bottling process, and the mass production methods of the fruit and vegetables can leave residual contaminants. Juicing machines will allow you to take control of the quality of the produce, but extraction methods can still destory vital nutrients, vitamins and living enzymes. Essential enzymes in fruit and vegetable juice die at temperatures exceeding 50 degrees Celsius. Any juicer extractor using a high-speed blade or centrifuge creates friction heat and destroys the vital nutrients. Only Living Juice extractors like the Oscar Vital Max and Greenpower Hippocrates create the superior Living Juice.

Superior Juice
Maximise the benefits of juicing and give you body optimum goodness. Unlock the key elements from the fibre in fruit and vegetable without destorying vital nutrients and living enzymes. The unique juice extracting methods which achieve Living Juice, are available through Vitality 4 Life’s Products. The exceptional juicers are the Oscar single gear juicers and the twin gear Hippocrates by Greenpower.

Living Juice - for optimum health and vitality, naturally achieve healthy living, fight aliments and provide a powerful energy source for detoxing.

Juicer FAQs

Vitality 4 Life have put together some of your frequently asked questions about your juicer and juicing.

Can you make Frozen Desserts with the Champion Juicer?

You can make frozen fruit icecream with the juicer. You simply use the mincing screen instead of the juicing screen and this stops the juice separating from the pulp, creating a delicious frozen fruit dessert.

Alternatively, you could freeze some yogurt, cut into pieces and alternate it with the frozen fruit and a drizzle of honey or maple syrup, fresh or dried pitted dates.

Just remember to leave anything frozen to stand for 10 minutes first to avoid damage as sometimes frozen food can be as hard as a rock. Then you're only limited by your imagination!

If you require any further information please don't hesitate to contact us.

Do you provide service and repair for the champion juicer?

We offer a great after sales service for our products and have a full repair and parts centre available.

The champion parts list and prices are as follows (all prices include GST)

Cutter - £75
Funnel - £12
Tamper (food pusher) - £12
Screen holder - £15
Feeding Chamber / Body - £45
Blank - £15
Fruit Screen - £15
Optional Large Hole Screen - £15

The Whole front-end - £160
The complete Champion User Manual - £10

Freight for all parts - £10

My Oscar juicer has a soft fruit problem?

It's possible you've been juicing so much that your auger has worn down!

Are the edges which rotate into the juicing screen still quite sharp?

Alternatively, it could be the quality of the produce you are buying compared to what you used initially; the Oscar won't take kindly to 'floury' apples for example, they need to be crisp. Its also good if you alternate your soft fruits with vegetables like carrots, silverbeet, etc or maybe the soft fruits are just too pulpy at certain times of the year and need to go through the mincing screen to make yummy frozen fruit desserts rather than juices.

The technology of the cold pressed juicers are really geared towards being brilliant at juicing root and green vegetables as that is where the vital nutrients are that we need and often don't have in our bodies. If you try a few carrots with your soft fruits, you'll find the Oscar loves the fibrous matter and its better for your health too!

Dr Norman Walker who started the cold pressed juicing movement was a firm believer that we should eat our fruit and juice our vegetables.

Large quantities of fruit juices can mean a significant increase in sugars which can affect the body's sensitive chemical balance.

So we recommend that you use fruit in your juices to help make the juice more palatable, thereby ensuring you are getting the maximum healthy start with a litre of vegetable juice every day.

Below are some great books on this subject.

Fresh Vegetables and Fruit Juices

Juices are fundamental in achieving optimum health and for treating aliments and therapeutic combinations have consistently given beneficial results. This complete guide to raw juices and their elements explains how to use juice therapy for maximum results. The book describes 150 ailments and recommends which juices to use, in what proportions and why.

Living Foods for Optimum Health by Brian R. Clement with T.F.Digeronimo

Where can you find the optimum nourishment your body needs to stay strong, healthy, and vigorous? For millions of people, the answer is in the health and healing properties of living foods - foods that are eaten raw and produced without dangerous, nutrient-robbing chemicals or additives. For more than forty years, the Hippocrates Health Institute has been teaching people how to cleanse and heal their bodies with naturally potent living foods. In this book, the first-ever sponsored by the Institute, authors Brian R. Clement and Theresa Foy Digeronimo explain why living foods are vital to good health and offer a sensible plan for making the switch to a living foods diet. With step-by-step instructions, lifestyle suggestions, and more than 100 healthy, delicious recipes, Living Foods for Optimum Health provides everything you need to take control of your health and well-being.

“An important and eminently readable book for the new era of self-care." - Marilyn Diamond, co-author of Fit for Life

Do you provide an Oscar front end upgrade?

Thank you for your enquiry about our Oscar 900 front end upgrade.

With the newly designed patented 3 stage auger and patented silicone seal around the juicing screen, the new front end delivers a less pulpy juice, more yield and its much easier to clean.

The parts are made with the strong quality we've come to expect from Oscar, all this results in a much more economical and enjoyable juicing experience.

The cost of the Oscar 900 front end is £180 + £10 f&h.

This includes:

1 auger
1 drum
1 drum cap
1 hopper
1 juicing screen
1 mincing screen
1 set of 6 pasta nozzles
1 plunger
1 user manual

The Locking Clip is required if your current juicer is not an Oscar, this part is an additional $20.

If you need to change the locking clip, this is easy enough to do; there's 4 Phillips screws holding the locking clip in place and you will need to use a Phillips head screwdriver to remove them.

Can the Champion Juice wheatgrass?

Although the Champion is great for juicing, especially solid fruits and vegetables, it doesn't juice wheatgrass and the leafy green vegetables as well as our other cold press juicers. When doing so we do reccommend you to put the wheatgrass or the leafy greens in with a piece of fruit (otherwise it doesnt extract the juice as well).

After juicing your juice with the Champion it is best to drink the juice within 10 mins. As it is a masticating cold presing juicer it is a little faster and therefore doesn't hold the living enzimes and nutrients for as long as other cold pressed juicing - eg, the Oscar VitalMax and Hippocrates juicers keep the enzimes and nutrients for up to 48 hours.

All in all the Champion juicer is a fantastic juicer, but if you are after a juicer to juice mainly wheatgrass I would highly reccommend a slower functioning juicer eg Oscar VitalMax or Hippocrates Greenpower.

I have gathered the specifications of each juicer, as follows -

Oscar Vital Max
80 to 100 RPM
Polycarbonate Gear
Versatile
Lower price
Juice lasts up to 48 hours

Hippocrates
Slightly faster juicing    160 RPM
Twin stainless steel gears
Produces maximum juice
Produces less pulp
Juice lasts up to 72 hours

Champion
Stainless Steel motor shaft
1/3 horsepower motor
All parts are 100% FDA nylon and stainless steel
Weight: 12 kg
Height:  25cm
Length:  43cm
Depth:    17cm

Which Juicer should i choose?

We have the 3 best juicers in the world in stock....

Oscar, Greenpower Hippocrates and Champion

The Hippocrates is considered the ultimate juicer. The twin gears mesh together more finely than ever before, so more of the cellulose wall is opened during the extraction process - releasing the maximum quantity of enzymes and nutrients into your juice.

In October 2007, Choice; Australia's leading consumer authority, tested the claim that non-centrifugal juicers produce juice that lasts longer and contains more nutrients.

They found that the manufacturers' claims are true - and Vitality 4 Life has the best juicers!

In fact, Choice has rated the Greenpower Hippocrates #1 and the Oscar Vital Max 900 as #2!

To view the Choice video on this test, please visit the Choice website..

http://www.choice.com.au/viewArticle.aspx?id=105980&catId=100168&tid=100008

To read more about the test results, please see the attached file.

The Champion doesn't process wheatgrass or green leafy vegetables so well, but there is a grain mill attachment available which is a feature no other juicer has.

The Champion is also famous for producing the creamiest of ice-cream.

Oscar has been designed for folk that wish to make lots of vegie juice everyday.........if that's what you want to do, you'll love it.

Oscar uses a patented crush and squeeze action so as to extract the maximum amount of juice (pulp is very dry) and open the cellulose wall to release enzymes and nutrients into your juice.

Oscar has many advantages....

* 20% more juice than other single gear juicers

* less parts for easier cleaning

* silicone seal around the juicing screen means less juice escapes with the pulp

* solid, hard wearing parts

* go to this link to compare our Oscar with other single gear juicers.

http://www.oscar-living-juicer.com/juicers-juicing/oscar-900-juicer-vs-samson-bg-9001/

Here's a couple of questions most customers ask when trying to decide which juicer to buy.

How do I know which juicer is right for me?

Firstly, determine what you want to juice, how often and for how many people. For those who want to juice wheatgrass and green vegetables, an Oscar or Hippocrates is more suitable as the Champion will only do so in small increments. The Hippocrates and Champion can grind to varying degrees and the Oscar includes pasta making attachments. All of the motors are durable and built to last; the Oscar has the slowest RPM, then the Hippocrates followed by the Champion.

Can you explain the different types of extraction?

All of the 3 juicers use a different type of extraction process. The Champion is a masticating juicer; it has stainless steel blades which are attached to the cutter that spins at 1425 RPM. The Oscar is a single gear juicer; t has a food-grade polycarbonate "screw" uses a mortar and pestle action to crush and squeeze the produce into the juicing screen at the rate of 80-100 RPM. The Green Power Hippocrates is a twin gear juice extractor; the produce is crushed between the stainless steel twin gears which mesh together at 4/1000 of an inch apart, while the gears rotate in opposite directions at 160 RPM.

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