If you have never taken a mouthful of cantaloupe juice you simply have not lived, or strawberry juice mixed with apple. Sipping blueberry juice is a taste of liquid heaven.

The produce in supermarkets is grown with chemical fertilizers. Fruits and vegetables are usually sprayed with various pesticides, thus toxins become lodged in the fibers. When juicing, most of the toxins are left with the discarded pulp. Because fruit is far lower on the food chain than animal products, toxic build-up is much less. Cows, pigs and chickens accumulate and concentrate toxic chemicals and pollutants from the environment. Unlike meat, fruit and vegetables are equipped with antioxidants and detoxifying agents that help keep the body clean of toxins.

Yes, fruits and vegetables do have pesticides and toxins present, but eating a diet high in raw fruits and vegetables will assist your body in remaining protected, mucus-free and clean. If you are blessed enough to afford organic, pesticide-free produce, then we encourage you to enjoy. But for most of us, organic is simply not an option. Juicing standard produce from the local grocery store has healed many desperately sick, even with terminal cancers. As Keith Green sings, you do your best and God will do the rest. During a cleansing fast, do not start resorting to bottled dead juices that have been on the shelf for six months. You are setting yourself up for a more difficult fast. There is a rush of wellbeing when you swallow a mouthful of living juice.

A good juice extractor is an essential tool. All the essential nutrients in fruit and vegetables are locked within the fibers. A juice extractor frees these essential nutrients so that they can be absorbed directly through the stomach wall without need of digestion. Metabolic energy is then used fully to cleanse waste from cellular tissue.

Fruit and vegetable juices are the cleansers, energizers, builders and regenerators of the human system. A combination of either fresh raw fruit or vegetable juices will supply all the enzymes, vitamins, minerals, protein and fats critical to increased vitality!


Juice Machine Nightmare
Tom and I went on a quest for the Perfect Juice Machine. After many calls to health food stores, manufacturers and distributors, we finally chose what we thought was the perfect machine—the Ultra Miraclematic. This state of the art beauty had a one-quarter horsepower motor to chew through carrots like butter. Made with brushed stainless steel, weighing in at ten pounds, it even had suction cups attaching it solidly to the counter.

Are you ready? $600 plus tax!

Tom bought it! With great anticipation, we unpacked this extraordinary piece of machinery. The carrots were peeled and ready. We turned it on.

It was so loud, the vacuum cleaner hid in the closet. Yelling over the machine, Tom asked me to hand him a carrot. As the carrot disappeared down the chute, a quiver like a small tremor reverberated throughout the entire house. A look of concern swept across Tom’s usually calm brow. The moment of truth—he screamed, "Pass me a wedge of beet!" With trembling hands, he dropped the beet down the chute. The need for suction cups became all too clear to us as we watched in horror as ten pounds of stainless steel vibrated violently on the counter. A distinct smell of smoke told us that something was wrong. I screamed at the top of my lungs, "Turn it off! Turn it off!" Finally, with a sigh of relief, Tom was able to find the "off" switch, putting the machine out of its misery.

A silence fell over the kitchen. We stared at one another in disbelief. Tom phoned the distributor to try and get his money back. Because they refused him a refund, there now sits under the counter, behind a pile of pots and pans, a $600 juice machine—a painful reminder of buyer beware. Now, on the counter, there sits an $80 machine that has quietly produced thousands of gallons of juice, including the ever-troublesome beet.

In our opinion, a good juice machine is the most significant step you can make in improving health. It will become the most important appliance on your counter.


Extracting The Nutrients
According to how healthy you are, the average person is able to assimilate between 1% to 35% of the nutrients in vegetables. All nutrients of vegetables are locked within the fibers. Your digestive system acts like a juice extractor. Through chewing, the action of saliva, digestive juices and enzymes, the body separates fiber and nutrients for absorption through the colon wall into the bloodstream. As the waste and fiber exit the body, soft sponge-like tissues gently clean and massage the colon wall.

A juice extractor is able to extract 70% to 98% of the nutrients from vegetables. When you pass a carrot through the juice machine, it effectively separates the juice that is locked in the fibers. In drinking the juice, the majority of nutrients is absorbed directly into the bloodstream without the work of digestion. An abundant supply of nutrients in conjunction with minimum digestive effort is a perfect healing environment.

This is not to say that all vegetables should be consumed in the form of juices. Roughage is vital to human health. Although fiber has no nutritional value, it is necessary for maintaining a healthy bowel and removing toxic waste in the colon.

The juice of the vegetable is like the blood of the body, containing all necessary elements that build, cleanse and nourish.

When was the last time you sat down and ate a 5 lb. bag of carrots? Yet, in juicing 5 lb. of carrots, your body is able to assimilate phenomenal amounts of minerals, vitamins, trace minerals, and complex simple sugars, depositing vital enzymes into your enzyme bank.

It is best to consume the juice as fresh as possible. However, if you are working while juice fasting, making juice three to four times per day is impossible. Juice can be made in the morning and stored in a thermos. Although the juice will have a lower enzyme content, vitamins and minerals will be present, supplying the body with the nutrients needed for healing.