Gary Null, and juicing

After what I read about white button mushrooms on another thread, I think we should make them a must in every concoction we make up for ourselves.  I'll go look for that paper and post it.

Thanks to Calico for this bit of good news:

http://www.cityofhope.org/Media/ReleasesMedSci/ChenMushroom121506MS.htm

I knew they were good, but I didn't know they were this good.

"The idea of exploring foods for cancer prevention is very important, because prevention is much better than treating a disease," Chen said. "You don't need a strong effect to cause cancer prevention. Eating 100 grams [about 3.5 ounces] or even less of mushrooms per day could have an effect on preventing new breast cancers."

Just an FYI for us juicers:  This is the list of foods when eaten raw can inhibit us from absorbing iodine:

Goiter also can be caused by eating too much of certain foods that contain the antithyroid substance goitrogen. Dietary iodine cannot counteract the effect of goitrogen. Foods rich in goitrogen include the following:

• Broccoli
• Brussels sprouts
• Cabbage
• Cauliflower
• Kale
• Kohlrabi
• Mustard
• Peaches
• Peanuts
• Radishes
• Rutabagas
• Soybeans
• Spinach
• Strawberries
• Turnips 

Which is pretty much my entire list of juicing vegetables with the exception of a few. 

Hi, I can tell you that Juicing is the best thing you can do for your health in a natural way, I wrote about this before"Juicing for life" look it up. there you will find the recipe for the anti-cancerous juice, I make it every day and I enjoy it very much.  Juicing has great benefits, specially for us.

Drink to your health

Angie

I just read a write-up on this problem.  Basically it said the same thing as we're all thinking, don't give up on these vegetables, but I'd watch for changes in yourselves if you usually eat from that group.  I can't imagine giving up juiced spinach.   It seems to be a problem with them being raw not as much with them cooked.  I guess this was Mother Natures way of making sure we didn't overdo iodine. There's plenty of other veggies not on the list that have plenty on vitamins and such.

Yes, I read the same thing Anne about spinach needing to be slightly cooked to release something or other.   

http://www.whfoods.org/  has the write-up on Goitrogens food. He's saying it's not a problem if you don't already have a thyroid condition.

Celery is really good juiced, too. As is flat leaf parsley and kale.

I get conflicted about juicing. I love getting the vitamins, yet I know I need the fiber, and drinking some types of juices (high-glycemic value fruits and veggies) can mess with your blood sugar--which we don't need.

So, I try to eat whole foods, butsometimes I just gotta have the juice.

My favorite still is the green lemonade that someone (sorry I can't remember who!) posted--lemon, greens, ginger, apple. Man, that's great!

Anne

Can you take one more comment about juicing?

I bought the Norwalk juicer (2nd hand).  It cost me $1300 Cdn.  It's a marvelous juicer and, if you aren't careful with the pusher, it will spew things upward.  It doesn't take much to learn how to use it neatly.  The juice is fantastic.

I thought I might go on the Gerson therapy diet and that's why I got it.  However, I'm on herceptin and navelbine and juicing carrot and apple juice in the morning and green juice (lettuce, swiss chard, cabbage, beet tops and green apple) two other times.  The Gerson diet is very stringent and calls for 13 juices a day but also says you have to detoxify the liver with coffee enema because you can overload the liver with too much of the juice.  So, one has to be careful about how much juice (fiber free nutrition) is taken in.

But back to the juicer...this Norwalk juicer is the best!

Okay, I've got to ask--how does a coffee enema detox the liver? An enema removes the stool from the descending colon. How does that do anything for the liver? The colon is a thick membrane--I don't see caffeine doing anything but causing fluid to be pulled into the colon, perhaps. The volume of the fluid causes the bowel to contract and expel stool.

althea, I usually use a half-inch to inch long piece of ginger, and I peel it, though I'm pretty sure I don't need to with my juicer (Jack LaLanne.) I didn't know about keeping fruits and veggies apart. Why is that?

Anne

I just use organic powders of 3 juices everyday: Carrots, Beets, and Barley . Its 15 servings worth, takes 3 minutes to mix and drink, and very reasonable price. I get it from a company called Aim. I also take Fiberblend and would recommend reading PH and health booklet for dietary choices and monitoring.

I just use organic powders of 3 juices everyday: Carrots, Beets, and Barley . Its 15 servings worth, takes 3 minutes to mix and drink, and very reasonable price. I get it from a company called Aim. I also take Fiberblend and would recommend reading PH and health booklet for dietary choices and monitoring.  

I use the Jack Lalanne juicer and I like it.  I also use the Vita Mix.  This is what I do.  I buy a bunch of red kale, a can of pineapple juice, 2 lemons, and a bunch of celery.  I put the pineapple juice in the Vita Mix, put in the kale and the white part of 2 lemons (natural quercitin).  Blend it up real good.  I then juice the celery with my Lalanne juicer.  I then combine the pineapple/kale/lemon mix with the celery.  When I drink it, I add 1 tsp of chorella.  Celery is suppose to turn on the cancer suicide gene.  I like the taste of this concotion.  I dilute it if its too sweet.