importance of this in cancer, injuries, or any disease or depletion issue is
obvious.
When you’re healthy, drinking fresh raw juices just makes you healthier.
It is important to realize, however, that raw roughage from fruits and
vegetables is essential for good bowel health. When refined grains, mixed
with other cooked foods and meats became the staple diet in the U.S., bowel
cancer in this country went from being the fourth highest incidence of cancer
to being the first. Currently it is #2, only surpassed by lung cancer.
Thirty years ago I used to fight the medical establishment over the
importance of fiber. Their claims were that my program damaged and
irritated conditions like gastritis, enteritis, colitis or diverticulitis. They didn’t
realize that the reason for these inflammatory conditions, including the
“pocketing” of the intestines, was from a lack of fiber. Nowadays however,
most doctors realize the importance of fruit and vegetable fiber. Grain fiber,
on the other hand, can be too rough for our GI tract. We learned that by
using too much bran in the 1960s and 70s.
There are many books on the market on vegetable and fruit juices. I
recommend, The Complete Book of Fresh Vegetable and Fruit Juices by NW.
Walker; Juicing by Michael T. Murray; and Juicing Therapy by my friend
Bernard Jensen, Ph.D. Keep it simple, but do explore and enjoy the
tremendous power of these juices.
I would suggest at least two to four 10-ounce glasses of vegetable or fruit
juice a day, along with a raw food diet. The best time to prepare fresh juice is
just before you intend to drink it. However, in our busy society, I find people
get tired of juicing because of the clean-up issues. I suggest juicing for the
whole day storing the juice in a glass container, and keeping it in the
refrigerator for no more than two days.
Please refer back to Chapter 6, Modules 6.7 and 6.8, and read about juice
fasting for more encouragement about the tremendous benefits of juices.
Remember fruit juices are great brain, nerve and glandular foods. They are
the cleansers of the body as well. Vegetable juices rebuild the structure of the
body especially bone, muscle and connective tissue.
Your body will go through cycles in which you will crave fruit juices
and fruits only. Then there will be a time when your body craves vegetable
juices and vegetables. Listen and flow with these cravings. The body knows
what it is doing and what it needs. One of our greatest shortcomings is that
we don’t listen. People don’t listen to God or to their own bodies. We think