Vegetable Juicer – Alive Juice, Alive Body

by Collin on February 9, 2012

Vegetable Juicer - Alive Juice, Alive Body

Vegetable Juicer - Alive Juice, Alive Body

One way to level up your health and level down on all the negatives that lead to disease and compromised health is to transform your lifestyle.  You’re thinking “transform my lifestyle?”  Does it take a lot of work?  A good first step in the process is to become a vegetable juicer and  make some juice.

Alive Juice, Alive Body

Who doesn’t enjoy a glass of fruit juice in the morning.  The defacto American juice has always been orange juice, but all juices on the market are pasteurized which kills all the beneficial enzymes and nutrients.  When you become a vegetable juicer you cast your vote for live food in your life and the life of this country.

An important analogy is to imagine if your body was heated up to 160 plus degrees.  You would be dead.  So is the juice that is pasteurized.  Dead juice = dead body.  But, if you supplant this dead juice with true-to-life juice from the unbrutalized, naked fruit or vegetable; you will have a nutritionally superior and alive juice that is gonna work for you.

Level-Up the Veggies

Nowadays the old food pyramid is recommending more and more fruits and vegetables as part of a well-rounded diet.  When you become a vegetable juicer, you can drink down your daily quota of fruits and vegetables in a colorful concoction that really does a body good.

Juicing is like Dividend Stocks

Juicing takes a little more time than pulling the plastic thingy in a quick twirl around the cap and gulping down dead juice.  Good things come to those who wait and invest.  Just like dividend stocks, with a little bit of research, an injection of capital, and as long as you have done your homework correctly, times pays you back nicely.   Become a vegetable juicer and you will reap the enzymatic-enhanced benefits of full body nutrition.  This is an investment in a prevention plan to destroy disease before it can come knocking on your door.

The Colorful-Centrifugal-Sexy Work

Now if you are the lazy wanna-be healthy person, there are ways to minimize the time-investment, but you can’t avoid doing some work.   Doing the work is sexy anyway.  Haven’t you ever seen those commercials where a immaculate feminine hand is raising a strawberry to bright red lips.  Sex appeal.

  • Do the work and reap the rewards.If you don’t have a vegetable juicer, get yourself one.  There are centrifugal, masticating, and triturating juicers that range in price from $100 to $2000.  A good juicer is a good investment.  You can find good juicers in the $100 price range.
  • Start with carrot juice.  This is a good general tonic for the body, it’s easy to make, and acts as a good base for adding other juices later on.
  • Get some organic carrots in bulk at a local health food store.  Get some friends or family to help you to prep the carrots by soaking them, cutting the ends off, and peeling if you want a less earthy tasting juice (Peeled juice tastes better, but takes more time)
  • When you get your vegetable juicer out and plan on doing the work, make a bulk amount of juice (4 quarts or more) to make the effort spread out over a longer period.  One good rule of thumb is to get the vegetable juicer out once a week and make enough for a week.   Keep enough out for a couple days and freeze the rest.  (when you freeze the juice the majority of the nutrients stay intact; unlike heating).

Put Creativity in the Drivers Seat

When you get your basic carrot juicing routine down, start adding a plethora of various palate-pleasing fruits and vegetables to the mix.  This creativity spark is not only good for your spirit, but for your body, as well.  One excellent combination is carrot (75%), coconut milk (25%), and beet juice (5%).  Find a concoction that rapports with your body and chase it with a wheat grass shot.

When you nutritionally transform into a vegetable juicer you will have made an investment in your future cellular well being.  Juice, I dare you, for yourself, for your loved ones, and for the earth; you will epic-win your way to optimum health.

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Getting Started Growing Wheatgrass at Home

by Collin on February 6, 2012

Getting Started Growing Wheatgrass at Home

Growing Wheatgrass at Home

Wheatgrass can be a potent punch in your disease prevention life-style strategy, so always having a fresh supply at home is an important consideration.  Growing wheatgrass at home doesn’t have to be an Olympic undertaking, condensed down to a few simple steps you will be on your way to green-growing-goodness.

Do Like Thoreau:  Simplify, Simplify, Simplify

Wheatgrass at home can be very easy if broken down into smaller steps that let you step back and see it from a great distance and not get swept up in the details.  The process of growing wheatgrass at home is simple from stage 1 to stage done, so let’s break it down and make it easy.

How Much Juice Could a Juicer Juice if a Juicer Could Juice Wheatgrass

To start growing wheatgrass at home, you have to envision the end before you start growing the means.  The purpose is to get the nutritional benefits stored as moisture in the grass, right?  So that means you have to separate the nutrient-rich water from the fiber.  That means a juicer.

You need to make sure you have a capable juicer that will allow you to juice your wheatgrass at home.  A vegetable juicer may not cut if for your home-scale wheat grassing campaign.  Look for greens-specific juicers that can handle wheatgrass.

Source the Seed and you will Succeed

Find a good organic wheatgrass source.  If you can’t find organic, look for one that is vocal about the seed being grown in a natural way.  Seeds are the starting point in the process, so it’s important to get good seeds.   You will need  1 ¾ of a cup of seed per tray you grow.

Trays

Growing wheatgrass at home means you have to have some supplies, including an indoor bed for your wheatgrass seedlings.  This is accomplished with the standard 11 x 21” seedling trays that the majority of wheatgrass growers use for their growing needs.

Wheatgrass Green-Tip

Make sure when purchasing trays for your wheatgrass at home project you buy double the amount of trays you plan on growing.  You will need one tray for the soil medium and one to act as a cover at the time of planting.  This is to accommodate the need for the initial wheatgrass sprouts to be grown in darkness until they are roughly 3” in height.

Soil Medium—A Place for the Wheat Grass Babies to Bed Down

Find a loose and airy potting soil that contains Peat moss, a small percentage of soil, and either pearlite or vermiculate for aeration.  Try to get a natural potting soil that does not have chemical additives.

You will also need a basic rock fertilizer like azomite to give the seedlings a nutritional push in the right direction.

Fill up your tray with soil to the top.  Some growers say only fill up the tray 1-2”, but filling it up to the top gives your wheatgrass roots more spreading area and makes the harvesting process easier.

Soaking and Seed Spread Out

After soaking your seed overnight, spread out the seed evenly over the top of the soil.  Do not cover with soil; the seed needs to lie on top of the soil.  You will be recreating the darkness effect with a lid.

Daily Care

For the period in between setting the seed and harvesting, you will have to make sure the wheatgrass gets enough water to keep the soil moist.  Don’t overwater!  Think golden mean.  Not sopping; not dry as a bone, but even moistness.

Harvesting the Green

The grass ready point will vary, but usually falls between 10-14 days at a height of 10”.  Cut and harvest at this time.

Then juice, drink, and absorb the wheatgrass benefits.

Growing wheatgrass at home, just like the whole-body health lifestyle itself, doesn’t have to be daunting, but it can be rewarding, easy, and fun.

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