Juice Fasting

[rawsurfer]

I am seriously considering beginning a fast today, but i was wondering... I don't have a juicer that preserves all the enzymes. mine is just a standard shred em up juicer and i am slightly concerned that i wont get enough nutrients if i am using this for a fast. its probably not a big deal but anyone with experience in this, any help would be greatly appreciated.

[mattm]

Hi there, I've got a bog standard centrifugal juicer and, when it came to especially those green leafies like tender-leaf spinach and watercress, I had the same concerns as you about the loss of nutrients due to the low output it was giving. The way I worked around it was to juice the easier veg and fruit (the ones that gave a large amount out and were more fibrous: apples, celery, cucumbers, brocolli, zucchini, kohlrabi etc) and then smoothie the juice with the tender leaves of the greens. This way I knew I wasn't wasting any of the nutrients and could still have something that would be assimilated virtually just as well as a juice.

All the best

[Gwena]

Don't know how you'd feel about this method, but I love it.

We have three juicers. A huge industrial one, and two Champions. I don't use any of them, and I'm currently on a 92 day juice feast!

My juicing method of choice is to grind up the fruits and veggies in my vitamix with little bit of alkaline water, and squeeze out the juice with a nut milk bag. It works like a charm, and from what I've read, all the good stuff like vitamins and enzymes are left intact.:)