Anise Juice with Strawberries

This healthy recipe for a great tasting juice is a vital addition to your raw food diet. Use your living juice extractor to draw out all the nutrients from these powerful raw foods. This juice is 'alive' with flavour and goodness!

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There are many raw foods and supplements out there that are flavonoid rich and can help increase blood flow around the body. Our resident Naturopath, Rick Hay, talks about how to naturally alleviate poor circulation.

Strawberry & Yogurt Roll-Ups

If you are trying to maintain a healthy diet, but still love to snack, this recipe for Strawberry & Yoghurt Roll-Ups will be the prefect addition to your raw food diet. Not only are these delicious roll-ups a healthy snack, but they taste great.

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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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.