Experts Estimate 90% of Americans suffer mineral imbalance or deficiency

JES Organics now carries Trace Minerals:

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Your body is an intricate circuit board of electric charges and impulses. In order for it to stay balanced and perform at optimum efficiency, you need to constantly replenish yourself with the minerals and trace elements found in ConcenTrace®.*  If you are one of the 90% of Americans experts estimate suffer mineral imbalance or deficiency, your body is lacking these essential elements, causing your body to misfire so you feel rundown and tired.*

Power up with ConcenTrace® from Trace Minerals Research. It’s highly concentrated and contains over 72 ionically charged trace minerals that have been extracted from the world’s oldest inland sea, the Great Salt Lake. ConcenTrace® is the perfect solution for replenishing your body with the nutrients you need to maintain optimum health.*

ConcenTrace® is extracted directly from a natural source that took thousands of years to create. Over these thousands of years, the minerals in ConcenTrace® have been broken down to their most natural state where they have become naturally charged, living minerals that are bioavailable and soluble in water.* In addition, the solution is in precisely the same proportion as healthy human fluids without synthetically produced compounds or deadly heavy metals.
The ionic minerals in ConcenTrace® also have the power to maintain and even improve the pH balance in your body.* By preventing excessive fluctuations in acid-base balance, the body may be more apt to heal itself from chronic forms of illness.*

ConcenTrace® is so essential to human health that you’ll find it in every one of our quality products. ConcenTrace® is the perfect way to replenish your body with all the elements you need to plug in and recharge.*

An All-Natural Solution of Living Minerals

Uses  and Applications
1.      Bone - Joint & Health–Taken as directed, many people have experienced dramatic results in improving and strengthening bones, joints and teeth, and eliminating unwanted calcium deposits.*

2.      Re-Mineralize Distilled Water–1/4-1/2 teaspoon per gallon for fresh spring water taste.

3.      Electrolyte Replacement–Increased energy, vitality, and improved health by replacing and balancing soluble minerals in the body fluids. Soluble minerals are the electrolytes which conduct the body’s electrical energies.

4.      Maintain pH Balance in the Body–The most important nutrients in our bodies for maintaining acid-base balance are minerals like those found in ConcenTrace®.*

5.      Hair and Skin–Use internally to nourish from within, externally as a rub (Very concentrated. Must be diluted. Keep out of eyes or areas of broken skin unless highly diluted).*

6.      Helps Normalize Bowel Functions–Cleansing.*

7.      Calcium Assimilation–Reports show that calcium assimilates much better when taken with magnesium. ConcenTrace® is high in magnesium.*

8.      Circulatory Health–Minerals play important roles in decalcification, antioxidant and cleansing functions in the body. The heart requires magnesium with every beat. Potassium is used to contract the heart muscle.*

9.      Vitamin Enhancement–Complete nutrition is more power nutrition. Vitamins without minerals DO NOT work. Trace minerals help assimilate vitamins.*

10.   Gardens and Plants–A study done by Rutgers University and other studies done by the USDA noted the severe mineral imbalance and depletion in American soil. For years many avid gardeners have used ConcenTrace® on their gardens as well as in the flower beds. It is also very beneficial to house plants when diluted with water. See the difference in your plants.

11.   Pets–Ever noticed your pet eating grass or dirt? More than likely your pet is lacking essential minerals. For years, pet owners have added ConcenTrace® to their pet’s food and water.

12.   Athletic performance–There are many examples of improved athletic performance including improved cardiovascular performance to improved blood serum nutrients.*

13.   Body Building–A study of a number of international body builders using ConcenTrace® reported excellent results.*

14.   Add to Carbonated Beverages–A recent study has shown that a few drops per glass balances soda pop to greatly reduce the potentially harmful effects of carbonation.

15.   Magnesium Supplement–One of the highest quality, least expensive, most assimilable magnesium supplements on the market.*

16.   Cooking–Studies show mineral depletion in our soils. We frankly are not getting the minerals in the foods we eat. ConcenTrace® remineralizes these foods and adds flavor.*

17.  Magnetize your water (Reverse Osmosis, Distilled water cannot be magnetized without adding in minerals).  Purchase Ceramic Magnet and set you water on this magnet.  The water with minerals will hold the magnetic charge for up to 48 hours. 

Vegan, Kosher, Gluten Free

*These statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration. This product is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

Avoiding Artificial Sweeteners? This Study Will Surprise You...

By Dr. Mercola

For those of you who are aware of the health dangers posed by artificial sweeteners and dutifully avoid them, the featured study findings may come as a shocking surprise...

Researchers have found that the artificial sweetener sucralose (Splenda) is a widespread contaminant in waste water, surface water, and ground water. In a recent test, water samples from 19 U.S. drinking water treatment plants serving more than 28 million people were analyzed for sucralose. The sweetener was found to be present in:

• The source water of 15 out of 19 of drinking water treatment plants tested
• The finished water of 13 out of 17 plants, and
• In 8 out of 12 water distribution systems

The average amounts of sucralose in source water and finished water was 440 ng/L and 350 ng/L respectively.
According to the study:

"Further, in the subset of [drinking water treatment plants] with distribution system water sampled, the compound was found to persist regardless of the presence of residual chlorine or chloramines ... The results of this study confirm that sucralose [is] an indicator compound ... for the presence of other recalcitrant compounds in finished drinking water".

Recalcitrant compounds are organic or synthetic compounds that resist being broken down by chemical processes, such as those employed by water treatment facilities. This is troublesome, particularly as sucralose can be quite detrimental to human health, and the contamination appears to be very widespread in US water supplies.

Sucralose Destroys Healthy Bacteria

Three years ago, an animal study published in the Journal of Toxicology and Environmental Health reported that sucralose:

• Reduced the amount of good bacteria in the animals' intestines by 50 percent
• Increased the pH level in the intestines
• Contributed to increases in body weight, and
• Affected P-glycoprotein (P-gp) levels in such a way that crucial health-related drugs could be rejected. In terms of human health, this P-gp effect could result in medications used in chemotherapy, AIDS treatment and treatments for heart conditions being shunted back into your intestines, rather than being absorbed
• Is absorbed by fat cells (contrary to previous claims)

The fact that Splenda can destroy up to 50 percent of your healthy intestinal bacteria is truly disturbing as these help maintain your body's overall balance of friendly versus unfriendly micro-organisms, and support your overall immunity and general health. Many people are already deficient in healthy bacteria due to choosing highly processed foods, which is why a high-quality probiotic is one of the very few supplements I recommend for nearly everyone. And now we discover that this artificial sweetener also contaminates a majority of US municipal water supplies as well...

Splenda has NEVER Been Proven Safe for Human Consumption

Did you know that only two human trials on sucralose were completed and published prior to the FDA approving Splenda for human consumption? And these two trials included a total of 36 human subjects. Worse yet, the longest running trial lasted only four days, and looked at sucralose in relation to tooth decay, not human tolerance. As for determining the absorption of Splenda into the human body, a mere eight men were studied. Based on that singular human study, the FDA allowed the findings to be generalized as being representative of and regarded as "safe" for the entire human population!

This is a potentially devastating mistake, as some groups are far more susceptible to adverse effects than others, such as infants, the elderly, and the chronically ill.
You've probably heard the claims that the FDA has reviewed over 100 studies on Splenda and are satisfied that it's a safe product, but what you don't hear is that most of those studies were on animals, and that they actually revealed plenty of problems! For example, some of these studies revealed:

• Decreased red blood cells -- sign of anemia -- at levels above 1,500 mg/kg/day
• Increased male infertility by interfering with sperm production and vitality, as well as brain lesions at higher doses
• Enlarged and calcified kidneys
• Spontaneous abortions in nearly half the rabbit population given sucralose, compared to zero aborted pregnancies in the control group
• A 23 percent death rate in rabbits, compared to a six percent death rate in the control group

It May be Made from Sugar, But it's Nothing Like it...

Don't let the name fool you. Sucralose is NOT some magical calorie-free sugar, despite Splenda's famous slogan, "Made from sugar, so it tastes like sugar." It is in fact a chlorinated artificial sweetener cooked up in a factory, and scores of consumers have testified to its devastating effects. It does start off as a sugar molecule—to which three chlorine molecules are added. At the end of the patented process, the chemical composition of the sugar has been altered to the point that it's actually closer to DDT and Agent Orange than sugar.

This type of "sugar" molecule does not occur anywhere in nature, and therefore your body cannot properly metabolize it. This is why Splenda is advertised as having "zero calories"—because your body cannot digest or metabolize it. Essentially, it passes right through you. Or at least that's the claim. However, according to the available research, between 11-27 percent of sucralose is in fact absorbed into your digestive system, and according to the study mentioned above, it is also absorbed into your fat cells.
The question then becomes, just what kind of impact might a DDT- or Agent Orange-like molecule have on your health?

Furthermore, few people realize that only about one percent of that packet of Splenda is actually sucralose. The remaining 99 percent is maltodextrin—a type of sugar! Each packet actually has four calories, but because the amount of sugar is less than one gram, they get away with saying it has "no calories" due to a loophole in the labeling law.

Common Side Effects of Sucralose

Just like other artificial sweeteners (such as aspartame), sucralose can wreak havoc on your health. The personal testimonials on my site alone, submitted by people who have suffered adverse reactions to Splenda, surpass the number of people that were formally studied in the research submitted for FDA approval. The web site www.truthaboutsplenda.com also lists consumer complaints from Splenda consumption.
Some of the most common symptoms, usually noticed within a 24-hour period following consumption of Splenda products, include:

Gastrointestinal problems: bloating, gas, pain, nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, or bloody diarrhea	Seizures	Blurred vision	Blood sugar increases
Headaches and migraines	Dizziness	Allergic reactions, including swelling of the face, eyelids, lips, tongue, or throat	Weight gain
Allergic skin reactions: Redness, itching, swelling, blistering, weeping, crusting, rash, eruptions, or hives	Breathing problems: wheezing, tightness, cough, or shortness of breath	Stuffy nose, runny nose (clear, thin discharge), sneezing	Heart palpitations or fluttering
Joint pains and aches	Bloodshot, itchy, swollen, or watery eyes	Anxiety or sensation of being "spaced-out"	Depression

How is Splenda Ending up in Drinking Water?

Well, its presence in water supplies may very well be a sign of just how prevalent its use is, because as revealed in that one absorption study, sucralose is expelled in urine and feces pretty much unaltered... I'm not sure which is more concerning, the thought that so many people use and excrete Splenda that it's becoming a drinking water contamination hazard, or that sucralose is so persistent—so difficult to break down that it can pass right through your body, and go through chemical water treatment, and STILL be present to have another go through the system of another unsuspecting person having a drink of water!

The other issue to remember is that many researchers believe sucralose has an element of fat solubility so you wind up storing some of it in your fat; certainly more if you are drinking ever increasing concentrations in your tap water. Remember this chemical is in the same class as DDT and Agent Orange, and we have NO long term toxicity studies done on this as they were not required.

Avoiding sugar is a crucial component of a healthy lifestyle, but, instead of consuming a naturally low-sugar diet based on whole foods, some people are still trying to have their cake and eat it too. Unfortunately, the belief that artificial sweeteners can allow you to have the best of both worlds is a carefully orchestrated deception. So if you're still consuming artificially sweetened foods, snacks and beverages because you think it'll help you manage your weight, please understand that you've been sorely misled.
In reality, "diet" foods and drinks destroy your body's ability to count calories and actually promote weight gain. For example, drinking diet sodas has been found to double your risk of obesity! Complicating matters further, artificial sweeteners also appear to be highly addictive. It's important to understand that sugar cravings is typically a sign that your body needs fuel. Using artificial sweeteners will NOT trick your body into thinking it has had its fill. Instead, artificial sweeteners can increase sweet cravings because your body didn't get the energy boost it was expecting from that sweet taste.

If you're determined to sweeten your foods and beverages, I urge you to consider using stevia extract—a safe and natural sweet herb. Avoid stevia-based sweeteners like Truvia and PureVia however, as these do not contain the whole stevia plant, which may compromise its safety.

How to Remove Splenda From Your Drinking Water

Remember that Splenda is not the only contaminant in your water supply. There are loads of drugs in your water that wind up there the same way Splenda does. A reverse osmosis system will not only remove Splenda but nearly every other drug and contaminant from your water. A carbon filter will also work to remove Splenda and other contaminants but it is not quite as effective and will require you to reduce the rate of flow through the filter media. The more carbon you have that contacts the water, the more effective it will be.

Source: Environmental Science and Technology August 31, 2011

Source: Green Med Info

Resveratrol and vitamin D synergistically team to boost metabolism and prevent obesity

Monday, September 19, 2011 by: John Phillip

(NaturalNews) Resveratrol has been on the nutritional radar of researchers because of its proven ability to mimic some of the life-extending characteristics provided by calorie restriction as seen in animals and humans alike. Scientists publishing in the journal Molecular Nutrition and Food Research draw a solid link between resveratrol, vitamin D and other phytonutrients as agents that may lend a helping hand in the life-threatening battle against overweight and obesity.

Researchers document the newly discovered effect of the nature-derived nutrient on lipid metabolism, and they demonstrate that supplementation along with the sunshine vitamin and quercetin synergistically decreases the formation of new fat cells in the body. This finding is significant because it may provide a critical metabolic aid to children and adults that suffer the health-damaging effects of obesity every day. Further evidence exists to hail the trio in the genesis of osteoblasts in bone marrow that may offer a new therapy for osteoporosis that affects the mobility of millions of aging adults.

Scientists studying metabolism in aging adults have found that stem cells differentiate in favor of adipocytes (fat cells) and to the exclusion of osteoblasts (cells necessary for the formation of new bone). This means that as we age, our body has evolved to store fat as an aid to our survival. As metabolism slows, we continue to eat the same number of calories that helps to fill the newly acquired adipocytes. While building and maintaining bone structure may sound like a good idea to us, it is not pre-programmed into our genetic matrix.

Development of new fat cells has evolved as a protective mechanism, although the vast majority of older adults really don't need this genetic advantage. Researchers found that supplemented resveratrol, vitamin D and quercetin work together to regulate our genes and down regulate the production of fat cells while boosting the production of osteoblasts. Naturally it is important to practice caloric restriction as we age. Many aging adults will be able to utilize this phytonutrient trio to prevent excess weight gain and the debilitating effects of osteoporosis.

In addition to the well documented anti-cancer and longevity benefits previously ascribed to supplemented resveratrol, health-minded individuals will want to include resveratrol and other phytonutrients as an aid in the fight against abdominal fat accumulation. Researchers concluded: "It should be noted that combining resveratrol with other phytochemicals may provide an extraordinary potential for preventing obesity and osteoporosis. These phytochemical synergies may make possible novel safe, potent and efficacious therapies." Be sure to include resveratrol (25 to 50 mg per day) in your dietary arsenal to assist weight loss and boost metabolism and to prevent bone loss.

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More evidence Alzheimer's and other dementia can be prevented: save your brain by preventing diabetes

Tuesday, September 20, 2011 by: S. L. Baker, features writer
(NaturalNews) Currently, an estimated 24 million people world-wide are living with Alzheimer's disease or some other type of the mind and personality-robbing affliction known as dementia. And the numbers keep climbing. But why? Mainstream medicine puts the blame on the fact people are living longer and genetics offers little hope to stop dementia unless Big Pharma comes up with some miracle pill - an approach that so far has failed miserably.

However, now there's evidence much dementia could be triggered by another disease that is often preventable and even reversible with natural health strategies.

A new study just published in Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology, reveals diabetes significantly increases the risk of developing dementia. And type 2 diabetes, the most common form of the disease which has reached epidemic proportions, is due primarily to obesity and inactivity. That suggests that by taking control of your health with good nutrition and exercise, you may be able to not only prevent diabetes but also dementia.

"Our findings emphasize the need to consider diabetes as a potential risk factor for dementia," said study author Yutaka Kiyohara, MD, PhD, of Kyushu University in Fukuoka, Japan, in a media statement. "Diabetes is a common disorder, and the number of people with it has been growing in recent years all over the world. Controlling diabetes is now more important than ever."

The research found people with diabetes were more likely to develop both Alzheimer's disease and other types of dementia, such as vascular dementia. Vascular dementia results when blood vessels become damaged and interrupt oxygen-rich blood flow to the brain.

In all, the scientists studied 1,017 people age 60 and older who were given a glucose (sugar) tolerance test after fasting overnight in order to test for diabetes. Then, over the course of about 11 years, the research subjects were followed and tested for dementia. During this time, 232 people developed the memory destroying disease. People with diabetes had double the risk for dementia when compared to those with normal blood sugar levels.

These findings remained consistent even after the researchers accounted for other factors such as hypertension, high cholesterol and smoking. The risk of dementia was also higher in people who did not have diabetes, but had impaired glucose tolerance. This "pre-diabetes" condition is also part of a cluster of symptoms (including being overweight, having high cholesterol, high blood pressure and high blood glucose levels) known as metabolic syndrome which has become widespread and is already known to raise the risk for heart disease as well as diabetes - and now dementia can be added to this list.

The new study findings are actually positive because, as NaturalNews as previously covered, there are numerous ways to reduce and sometimes even reverse type 2 diabetes -- by keeping weight under control, exercise and adding specific foods to a healthy diet.

For example, last summer Harvard School of Public Health investigators discovered eating two or more servings of brown rice per week slashed the risk of type 2 diabetes (http://www.naturalnews.com/029143_b...).

In addition, a study published in the Archives of Internal Medicine found that adding a daily serving of mixed nuts to the traditional Mediterranean diet (which consists of whole grain cereals, vegetables, fruits and olive oil, a moderate intake of fish and alcohol and a low intake of dairy, meats and sweets) is a delicious, natural and effective way to treat metabolic syndrome (http://www.naturalnews.com/025098_n...).

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A Special Interview with Cherie Calbom who Recovered from Chronic Fatigue & Fibromyalgia

DM: Dr. Joseph Mercola, DO  (The Easiest Way to Eat ALL the Veggies You Need Every Day...)

CC: Cherie Calbom
 
Hello everyone. This is Dr. Mercola. I’m joined today with Cherie Calbom who is really an expert in juicing. We’re going to engage in a discussion for awhile and answer some of the questions that have been submitted to us. We’re going to talk about juicing. It’s a really powerful tool that you can use to implement into your lifestyle to help accelerate your progress towards optimal health.

I first became excited about juicing when I was in practice and had a patient come in who was in her 60s or maybe even 70s and she looked like she was in her 40s. She attributed most of her youthful appearance to juicing. I said, this is something that I’m going to do so I started juicing back then. I made a bunch of mistakes. I’m sure we’ll review some of those here. And then I stopped juicing for awhile because I was following more of a really rigid nutritional typing program but you still can implement it. We’ll talk about that too.

Now, I’ve been juicing again and I typically juice on the weekends because of my schedule. So three days out of the week, I’m juicing. Ideally, I think it should be everyday but we’ll discuss some of those options.

Cherie, why don’t you let us know what your background is, how you became interested in juicing and tell us a little bit about your program.

CC: Thank you for inviting me here -- my favorite topic on Earth. I’m known as the Juice Lady. I got the title way back when I started working with the Juiceman company back in ’91 when juicing was just taking its surge.

DM: Is that the Jay Kordich machine?

CC: Yes. I was getting my Masters, completing my Masters Degree in Whole Foods Nutrition at Bastyr University. So I would go out and do the juicing seminars on the weekends and come back and go to school during the week. It was a great, great time of learning but also meeting with people and finding out what their needs were.

I got into juicing way back long before I got into school in Whole Foods Nutrition. I, years ago, had chronic fatigue syndrome, fibromyalgia in my late 20s, hypoglycemia, allergies, candidiasis -- a long list of problems and no hope that anybody gave me, seeing doctors, no hope to get well.

I decided I was going to find a way, there had to be a way to get well. So I started going to health food stores and reading. I found an old Norman Walker book, you know, where it had the numbers, one to whatever. It would list B in apple or a carrot or something.So I thought, okay I’m going to design my own program. I got my first juicer and I embarked on this five day vegetable juice cleanse and continued that through three months of juicing. I changed my diet completely. One morning, I woke up and thought somebody gave me a new body in the middle of the night. It was like wow! I felt just completely healed.

DM:  So your fatigue had improved.

CC: Completely.

DM: Disappeared.

CC: But along the way, I felt worse before I felt better. No one had talked about the detox reactions. My dad kept saying -- because I had to move home I couldn’t work any longer and I was living there -- he was saying, "I think you’re killing yourself with this juice program." I said, I’m dying on a glass of carrot juice because there is no other hope for me. I was definitely detoxing. But one morning, I felt just brand new and it certainly wasn’t just one day that happened.

DM: How long did it take?

CC: Three months. My body had been cleansing, rebuilding and it just came to fruition one day and I just felt brand new. I thought, wow, that was the best cure on Earth. I slowly started going back to some of the junk food and old way of eating and my symptoms started coming back and it scared the daylights out of me.

DM: Do you know what they call that? In Chicago at least, they call it a clue.

CC: A clue, yes, the light bulb goes on.

DM: Interestingly, it took three months to improve. That happens to be the length of time of the average red blood cells. In three months you should have renewed all your red blood cells. Is that the typical time that you expect most people to see some significant improvement?

CC: Yes, and I work with a lot of people as a nutritionist and it is about three months. Often though, within about three weeks, people will tell me they’re noticing some good improvement, some differences. And along the way, they’ll have some detox symptoms, most people. But in three months, usually most people notice a big change.

DM: That’s an interesting history. Since that time, your health has been maintained. You haven’t really had any major health challenges occurring which could be disabling and crippling. I’ve treated many patients with that and I treated many viewers watching this who suffer with this problem. 

CC: It’s very disabling. I couldn’t work. There were some mornings I was so weak and tired, I would be almost crawling down the halls. Some mornings I did. I couldn’t even stand. It was just the most depressing thing thinking I had to live like I felt like I had the flu for the rest of my life. Achy all over. I definitely had the trigger point pain points and just feeling so discouraged about the whole thing and then to have my life back. That quickly totally amazed me. That’s when I said, I got to go back to school and get my Masters and become a credible source of information.

DM: How long have you been working since you’ve had your Masters?

CC: 20 years.

DM: That’s a large amount of clinical experience that you have under your belt that you’ll be able to share with us today which is great.

CC: It’s been a wonderful journey and thousands and thousands of people who have been helped by juicing. My first book, Juicing for Life, I wrote in ’91. It came out in January of ’92. It sold 2 million copies since then. People have contacted me from all over the world saying, this has changed my whole life getting on this program, this live food coming into the body.

DM: The Juice Lady’s Turbo Diet which is your book, a big part of that is really oriented towards one of the major health challenges we have in this country today which is obesity. Technically, over a third, in some cases 30% even 40% of specific States are obese and then two-thirds, rapidly approaching 70% of the United States population. Seventy percent, that is just shocking that 70% of people are overweight.

There are a number of reasons for it. I happen to believe fructose is a big reason. There is this reliance on corn and high fructose corn syrup that’s integrated into all processed foods and obviously lack of exercise. Whatever the cause is, the end result, that’s where we’re at today.

Why don’t you enlighten us as to your experience with using the juicing program for helping someone to reach an optimal body weight. I’m sure our viewers would really love to understand what your experience has been.

CC: I wrote the Turbo Diet because of that. Because I started noticing when people got on this program they were losing weight. People often came to me for other issues.

DM: So it’s an artifact. You didn’t recommend it for weight loss. You recommended it for health benefits, not weight loss.

CC: I did and then I noticed people were losing weight and people would say to me, "Wow, I just lost 3, 4, 5 lbs." They were losing some water and some fat in this one week and they came to me for other reasons. I heard this over and over and over again. So I started looking at what is going on. And then there were two studies last year, I believe it was, Baylor College of Medicine UC Davis, Vegetable Juicing and Weight Loss and they found that the people that included two glasses of vegetable juice a day lost four times the weight of the non-juice drinkers. So I thought that was rather interesting and significant that in that study.

One of the studies, the majority of the people in it had metabolic syndrome, insulin resistance. I found that very interesting. That’s a tougher one to work with and see weight loss results. I’ve worked with a lot of people. A lot of women in particular with that syndrome and it’s a tough one. They were seeing weight loss results with them.

Then I really got excited and that’s when I put this book together giving people the whole program of how to integrate it into your lifestyle, menu plan, shopping list, recipes and what’s going on.

Since that time, I’ve heard from people all across the country who have said, they’ve given this a try and they’re losing weight where nothing was working for them before. But the diet part of the program, I think is important as the juice. It’s low glycemic. It was the diabetic diet originally and then they noticed the people on the low glycemic diet were losing weight.

So I thought, let’s combine the two, let’s combine vegetable juicing and a low glycemic diet and see what we can really accomplish. It’s been the program for me in working with diabetics and insulin resistant, metabolic syndrome people that’s been more effective than anything else that I’ve used. It’s working over and over and over again.

I’ve had so many women contact me lately who just said that they’ve tried everything at their wits’ end and got on this program.

I also include coconut oil because coconut oil does also help with weight loss. Studies on that have shown.

DM: What’s the typical daily dose of the coconut oil?

CC: A college hospital in Nigeria used three tablespoons a day for therapeutic dose to kill the yeast. People often have to work up to that. It depends on how well functioning the liver is.

DM: Because it is a fat and there is 9 calories per gram and a tablespoon is 15 gm…so that’s a lot of calories.

CC: It’s a lot and it depends…that would be too much for me.

DM: It’s over 400 calories just from coconut oil. 

CC: That would be too much for me just my body. But a tablespoon a day is great. And use it for cooking. That’s what I do. Any place where you would melt butter, use coconut oil. There are some people who are -- they love the taste of butter, organic pasture raised, but they’re combining it with coconut oil making a spread, a nice blend. That’s an option. It’s a good option. Some people like to do that or olive oil in combo with a little bit of butter.

DM: It’s an interesting combo. I hadn’t thought of that but it would make sense because most of the time you’re going to store the butter in the refrigerator and coconut oil would be a solid in the refrigerator. But if you leave it at room temperature in the summer it’s going to melt quite a bit. That’s the only caution.

CC: Yeah, and then you just got a liquid little puddle there.

DM: Yeah, just put it back in the fridge. That’s an interesting combo. If you put it in toast -- I guess the butter is going to melt on toast anyway. There are some obviously breads that are better than others. You know it’s high on carbs. There are some that would serve well.

CC: So that’s the program and a couple of times a day getting that juice in. What people have told me, has helped them so much is that their appetite has just gone way down, cravings have gone way down. A lot of cravings -- well, it can be so many reasons. If you’ve got candidiasis, sugar cravings it’s the yeast. They’re screaming for more carbs, more sugar.

We often crave what we’re allergic to. There is that huge topic. When we start getting the juices because they are so replete with nutrients it’s really sending a signal to our body that we’re well fed. I believe a lot of times where people think they’re hungry, they’re starved for nutrients. The body is still sending a message, the brain is a sending a signal. We don’t have all the nutrients we need here to do the reactions we need to do.

But when you’ve got a big glass of veggie juice, you’ve got a lot of full complement of nutrients. The body is getting a good message. I think that’s one of the reasons that people notice a lot of the cravings just start going away. So many ladies have said to me. I got in your program and my sugar cravings are just about gone. I’ve had them report back in one week or two. The sugar cravings that just have been climbing the wall, white knuckling it to try and avoid, just gone, like mist before the sun, it just left.

DM: That is really the major challenge for most people are those cravings. So if you can have an effective intervention that really addresses that successfully and is helping you from a health perspective, I think that’s how much better does it get. Typically, what’s the range of amounts of juice that one is consuming on this program that when they’re seeking to implement it for weight loss?

CC: The minimum is 16 oz.

DM: So at least a pint.

CC: Yes, at least a pint a day. Ideally, for a lot of people I found it’s a quart. That has helped them tremendously.

DM: And not all at once. You would split throughout the day.

CC: Yes, split it up. Ideally mornings, some time during the morning, and afternoon. Some people notice the afternoon slump where they feel so tired. They want to go take a nap and of course can’t. Instead of coffee or something sweet, why not have a glass of juice. It picks your body back up and you’ve got sustaining energy for the rest of your day or just before dinner if you want to cut down in your appetite, not eat so much and cut that real strong hunger just before dinner.

DM: So most people, a quart a day. If you’re going to juice that amount juice, my personal recommendation would be to juice it all at once just from a time perspective. And then to use ideally a Food Saver or at least put it in a glass bowl jar filled to the very top so there is no oxygen and put it in the fridge immediately. You’re probably going to retain well over 90% maybe even over 95% of the nutritional value if you do it in that way and to consume it within 12 hours or so.

CC: Yes, that’s my guess too.

DM: I don’t know if there has been formal studies because really one of the most important ones are the biophotonic emissions. We really don’t have the equipment in this country for the most part to do that analysis.

There is a large number of recipes in here. I would strongly recommend using the book and integrating it with your program and doing the juicing because I think it would be really helpful. It’s really inexpensive.

The key thing is the recipes. For myself, personally, I’ve always found that the celery and the cucumbers are really the bulk juice where you get lots of the water from. If you have to, leave the skins on the organic cucumber. It’s going to be a lot easier to juice. And then throw in the deep dark greens and just rotate those as you feel the need to.

If you need some sweeteners you can either use liquid stevia or some frozen cranberries or lemon or limes. That usually is enough to really make the taste issue and the bitterness, really a non-issue for most people. It would be very difficult to find someone who objected from a compliance perspective that they integrated some of those. They’re going to really address almost everyone’s palate.

CC: It does. I’ve worked now with a lot of people and most people say, "Yeah, I can do this." Some people like that little ginger in there for a little extra spice and flavor too. So yes, you don’t have to have a bunch of fruit in there to have good flavor. That’s what it’s all about as I see. What I try to pack into so many of my recipes is flavor because we have a lot of flavor. We feel satisfied along with enough good fat. There is satiety. We feel like we’re satisfied. We’ve had a good meal.

DM: I’m wondering if you can comment on your experience with wheat grass and any recommendations you have on that.

CC: I love wheat grass not the taste but what it does for me. I can feel it as soon as I drink it. You need a masticating type of juicer to do that. You can’t do it in a centrifugal. I’ve tried. It just spins around and shoots the grass out. You’ll taste just a tiny little but you get very little out of it. It’s a waste of money. So you need a masticating type of juicer or buy it at a juice bar, like you said, where they do it fresh for you.

A little shot -- you’re right, a 1 oz shot is 2, 3, 4 dollars depending on which juice bar you go to. It’s so good though. It’s new life. It’s a grass. It’s like a sprout. It’s new life. It’s loaded with chlorophyll and all of these wonderful vitamins and minerals and enzymes and biophotons and some amino acids. It’s just powerful.

DM: It’s usually harvest fresh. You typically get it as a plant. They cut it. It’s just locally harvested, absolutely as fresh as you can get which is not true for almost all the other vegetables unless you have your own garden.

CC:That’s right. I buy flats of it at times. I don’t juice that everyday but when I do, I buy flats of it and I just cut off some, take my knife, cut off some and juice it right on the spot. It is very powerful. I can feel it like right away. They say that the chlorophyll molecule in there is similar to our hemoglobin molecule.

DM: Chlorophyll is the same in any vegetable. It should be but you’re right, there is very little difference. The only difference is the swapping of magnesium for an iron. Well, not only but the major difference is swapping the magnesium for an iron.

CC:Yes. You’re right it is the same everywhere but it’s loaded. It’s so dark green. It’s loaded with this chlorophyll.

I’ve consulted at a center that uses wheat grass juice for people who come and go through this program, 2-1/2 oz twice a day. I’ve seen just amazing things happen for these people drinking wheat grass juice like 5 oz a day, 2-1/2 in the morning and 2-1/2 in the afternoon. Try it. That’s all I can say. Just give it a try.

DM: But be really careful because it is very bitter and most people have major challenges with it. There is something you want to definitely use the lime or stevia to mask the flavor of that.

CC: A little slice of lemon or lime is good. 

DM: Actually lemon and lime, of all the fruits, they have virtually no fructose. It’s almost a fructose free fruit. It’s the lowest on the list. So you’re not going to have a problem with that wherein almost like all the other fruits you would.

I’m just personally curious, where do you find these wheat grass flats? Is it like a regular grass where you can cut it and then it grows back and then you harvest it again or once you cut it, it’s gone?

CC: Sometimes once I cut it, it’s gone. But mostly, if it’s a really wheat grass it will grow back and I’ll get a second growing and then after that, I don’t get much more. I buy them from our local co-op. I have to order a flat from them or Whole Foods. You can get a flat from them. You can order it.

Mostly, you see it in containers about this size, you know, a small little container in the stores. We have even one of our other just local chains in our area carries wheat grass about this size. This size, a small one, I get about 2 oz enough for my husband and I each to have an ounce of wheat grass juice. But a flat, I will get juice for several days. I just keep it on the counter. I spray it a little bit a couple of times. Not even everyday but a couple of times during the week and it does beautifully.

DM: Put it in the sunlight.

CC:I keep it up in front of the window and it just does beautifully. It’s fresh as you can get just like you said.

DM: Great. Excellent. We’ll talk about detox in a moment because wheat grass is particularly promoted for that. I’m not sure specifically why but it is -- is the juice bars. In my experience some Whole Foods have juice bars and some don’t. I live in Chicago. The juice bar here is actually a pizza and shake and hamburger -- or actually a regular bar. It’s a regular bar. They serve alcohol there which is shocking. I’m actually considering a campaign to petition them to change that because even if it’s not a major revenue producer, it’s not consistent with health which is their core message.

What is your experience with places like Whole Foods or other juice bars or any recommendations or guidance that you would give our viewers to select the juice bar and things you might look for. Any experience there.

CC:  That’s an interesting one that you brought up. Some of the juice bars are selling things that are not even juice. I mean, they’re giving smoothies and they’re claiming that there is all this fresh stuff in there and they’re using frozen, they’re using ice cream or they’re using sweetened yogurt.

DM:Jamba Juice is one.

CC: Yes. It’s not healthy. It’s not even a healthful drink that you’re getting except for the wheat grass juice. Any bar that has the wheat grass and they’re cutting it off fresh -- to 
my knowledge, no one is spraying wheat grass. I haven’t read yet that they’re putting any pesticides.

DM:  So it’s all organic.

CC:It should all be organic. So that’s fine. Wherever you go no matter where it is. But the rest of it, what is that juice bar using? Are they using organic? It would be good to question them. Are they just getting conventional produce? How fresh is the produce that they’re bringing in?

Most of the juice bars I’ve been to are small. They’re privately run. The people there are so committed like we have right next to the club where I workout. A young guy and his girlfriend started it up and they’re just gung-ho and so committed and everything is fresh and beautiful. They’re making juices right on the spot. It’s delicious and it’s trustworthy.

DM: For those who are time challenged, it’s a convenient way to sort of delegate that responsibility because it takes some time. In your experience, how long does it take if you’re going to start juicing from beginning -- the light pops in your mind, okay it’s time to juice -- to the point where everything is cleaned up and you’re on to doing the next project in your schedule?

CC:I’ve got it down to about 10 minutes.

DM:Ten minutes, that’s pretty good.

CC:  If it’s going to take a long time, most people won’t juice. If you can just get things organized as far as your vegetables and fruit -- if you’re using lemons, limes, green apple or some berries, that’s about all, it goes pretty fast. I don’t peel anything. I cut the ends. I only use a couple of carrots. I cut the ends off of those and just scrub them.

I wash everything else quickly and it’s pretty fast. I’ve got it down. A lot of parts of juicers can go right in the upper rack of the dishwasher. Rinse them off and put them there. Many of the parts, you rinse them once and they’re clean. So you don’t even have to put them in the dishwasher.

DM: Let’s talk a little bit now about detox which is one of the reasons why many people juice especially with the wheat grass as you mentioned. It’s my understanding that it really provides the nutrients that accelerate and facilitate detoxification especially in the liver where most of the body’s detox occurs.

What I’ve learned recently though is that about a hundred times more of the toxins are stored in your fat than in your blood. That the vegetable juicing itself isn’t going to help your body eliminate those stored toxins from the fat. That you really need a more aggressive intervention to do that.  Detox has always been a challenge for me. It’s really one of the reasons I haven’t done a lot or actually have a lot of articles on the site because it’s always been somewhat controversial. I recently encountered a clinician, a physician, surgical oncologist, who has a very good detox program. I have found out that actually Hippocrates was doing something very similar.

This is one uses a high dose niacin to cause lipolysis or breakdown of the fat but essentially done in conjunction with some exercise to get the body core temperature up. Then going into a sauna, infrared sauna, for 40 minutes and doing this process like everyday for a month actually causing the body to excrete those stored toxins from the fat. Interestingly, we’ll talk about this too, you can use juicing to help you lose weight and when you’re using weight, hopefully you’re not losing muscle, you’re losing body fat.

Really one of the most important concepts that almost everyone that discusses detox, at least I haven’t seen people discuss it, fail to mention is that one of the most powerful ways is to lose body fat. That’s where your toxins are. If you lose the fat, the toxins disappear. I guess that’s one of the ways that juicing would work is because it helps you lower your body fat.

The other beneficial way because is this accessory micro nutrient that go and help your liver detoxify and actually do the heavy lifting of conjugating them to materials that will either cause them to be excreted in your urine or your sweat because if you have don’t have these nutrients, you can’t do that and then they can cause problems.

But it’s interesting, the sauna in combination with the niacin and exercise is a way to help facilitate that but integrating juicing should be a marvelous component. I know you’ve used it therapeutically and clinically with the people that you consult with and then personally. Maybe you can share with us. That’s my experience, I wonder if you can share your experience on it.

CC:  Yes, I’ve used juicing personally to detox. It’s loaded with antioxidants. We need those to bind up the toxins when they start getting released. So people are doing like a juice fast. Some people call it a juice feast. That’s a nice way to look at it, where you’re just drinking juice. There are a lot of questions about that.

You are going to be losing fat and when those fat cells are breaking down and all those toxins are getting released, you need a lot of antioxidants to get them out of your system and render them harmless. That’s where juicing is just powerful.

The beta carotene and other carotenes are wonderful for the liver and a wonderful part of detox. I’ve worked with a lot of people on various cleansing programs that I’ve designed and juicing is a big part of that along with nutrients and herbs to help the liver detox. I wouldn’t be without it. I don’t like just a straight water fast. There are people who talked to me about that. Actually, when I did an internship in our area with a nutritional medical doctor, he had some people coming in that had done just straight water fast and have gotten into major problems because of it.

So I think it’s very important to have our hearty vegetable juices for cleansing or detoxing our bodies. People that do, even though you get symptoms, the Herxheimer reaction they call it, the detox symptoms seem to do a whole lot better when they’ve got the fresh vegetable juices than when they don’t. I love what you were talking about with the sauna detox.

DM: Infrared sauna.

CC: Yes, the infrared. I would like to do one myself. I’ve been reading about that and I’m thinking how powerful to combine it all, to get the fresh juices in there and the infrared sauna and the nutrients.

DM: I think it could be quite dramatic. This physician who I had met recently, actually had a 8-million dollar grant from the government (Department of Defense) to treat Gulf War veterans and 9-11 victims for detoxing. He was actually doing pre and post surgical fat biopsies which is the gold standard. He was finding phenomenal changes. So it’s really exciting.

He had used this niacin. Just for the viewers, if you’re interested -- first of all, 20 to 25 percent of people cannot tolerate niacin. It causes massive flushing. It’s really at the dose that’s used. It’s a vitamin but that the dose he uses is as a drug. It starts at about 100 mg and progresses all the way up to 5000 mg which is a massive dose. You’ll be beet red. I mean, absolutely beet red. You want to progress to this very slowly.

Ideally, and the reason he uses it is that it just helps breakdown the fat and causes the toxins to be released and then facilitating through the infrared sauna, you know, they’re conjugated now. I didn’t get into the details of the accessory micro nutrients he recommends to facilitate liver detox.

That’s really the organ which is responsible for binding these toxins once they’re released. So that you can properly excrete them because if you don’t have those nutrients, your liver is not going to be able to work well but it’s a massively effective program. That’s just something I’m considering doing in the near future too.

You had mentioned the juice fast or feast. I’m probably wrong on this but I’ve personally been opposed to fasting not for everyone but for myself and maybe for you who are strong protein types because of the need for more amounts of protein. Obviously, in the juice fast, you’re getting some protein but pretty minimal.

My concern and fear is that you’re going to have muscle loss too because you’ll lose weight of course but we don’t want to lose muscle. We really want to lose fat. So that’s been my concern and really one of the reasons why I tend not to do it personally.  I'm certainly open to the fact that I'm seriously confused on this issue and there just benefits that I'm just not aware of and my concerns are just really not justified.  Anyway that's my fear at this point is just losing muscle mass. 

CC: Short fast, I haven’t noticed that. Two, three days a lot of people can do. I’m a protein type and I did a five day that one time to kind of kick off my program. It’s wonderful to give your system a rest where your body is not having to work, to breakdown all of this stuff that we eat. When it has a rest like that where it’s just pure liquid, not high fructose stuff but just hearty greens and your vegetables. It gives it such a great rest. It can really begin to work on detox, on repair, on rejuvenation. I’ve done one about every year for three days and I always add in wheat grass.

DM: Do you feel hungry in the fast?

CC: The first day I do. And then the second day, I don’t. The third day, I usually don’t. But then it’s time to start eating and I break that with like a cold soup, raw soup and maybe a dehydrated cracker so it would be all raw to break that. I not just think I’ve experienced it for myself and many people I’ve worked with, giving the system a rest maybe a couple of times a year, is a great idea.

There are a lot of people who like to take one day a week and just give their system a bit of a rest. A nice way to do that is to do an all liquid dinner and a liquid breakfast and lunch and now you don’t feel so deprived. You’ve slept through most of it and yet, you’ve given your system a real rest and a chance to do some cleansing and then just have a really healthy dinner the next night.

DM: So when you’re doing a juice fast, how much juice would you consume during the typical day? Is it a quart, two quarts?

CC:A quart to two quarts. Two quarts is better in my estimation. If you can get wheat grass in there I think that’s just excellent because you’re getting a lot of those nutrients that the body needs. Giving the liver a rest and giving your whole system a rest is a really great idea. But a long juice fast concerns me. There are people who have gone on long juice feasting and that’s where I’m concerned about muscle loss.

DM:Okay, so anything more than a week.

CC:Yeah.

DM: You’d be concerned about that. From a historical perspective, I’m sure our ancestors were far different than we had. Obviously, they didn’t have the food transportation system or food storage system that’s sophisticated that we all really have access to for the most part. There were times of scarcity. 

It would seem that we were somewhat designed to go through those and maybe some benefits for it because that’s where our body systems are based on is to expect some intermittent fasting. From that perspective, it seems to make sense. I’ll probably change my position and be juice fasting at some point in the future but right now, I haven’t done it.

With respect to the specific vegetables, we’ve had a number of questions as to have your opinion on the priority of vegetables and sort of maybe list them as to the highest beneficial ones; maybe some of the vegetables that are your top three or five or ten and maybe focus on those.

CC:  My top vegetables are the dark greens for sure; again, the collards and Swiss chard, kale. Those are just wonderful. They are at my top.

DM: And really inexpensive. Those are some of the least expensive vegetables you’re going to be buying.

CC:There are vegetables that many people would never eat. Until I started juicing them, I don’t know that I’ve eaten them. I had never done anything with a collard green. I don’t remember doing hardly anything ever with Swiss chard.

DM: The only people in this country outside of people that are juicing would be the African-Americans from the South where they have collard greens. It’s usually cooked of course. So there may be somewhat of a challenge to find it in a lot of grocery stores.

CC:Yes. We’re fortunate where I live. We have them. They may be challenging to find but if you can keep in mind anything dark green is wonderful.

Here is another thing I do, it’s good economy. I save broccoli stems and juice them. I cut them up. I’ve always got broccoli stems. I save the bottom of cauliflower and juice that. I just include it in a juice recipe. It’s great economy. In the summer when you’ve got your fresh asparagus, save the stems. That’s a natural diuretic and it helps to cleanse the kidneys. So I save those.

Ginger root would be right up there at the top just because it’s got the wonderful nutrients and the anti-inflammatory properties. I always have ginger root in my fridge. I always keep lemons because I love the flavor and you’re getting some vitamins C and bioflavonoids. I would peel the lemons because those I don’t find organic too often. That’s where you want to get rid of those outer….

DM:  But if you had an organic lemon, you would juice the rind?

CC:You can. You don’t have to.

DM:I thought they’re somewhat bitter. 

CC:They are somewhat bitter. It’s not like oranges or grape fruits where you have to peel it. There are some toxic oils in those.

DM:So don’t do oranges or grape fruit.

CC:Never juice those peels. But lemon and lime, I prefer to peel always even if it’s organic. It’s just a little bitter to me, that peel, so I always peel them. I’ve always got lemons around. Then you start going down the list what’s next -- maybe celery. I always have cucumber. I get a lot of juice out of cucumber, it makes me wonderful. It’s like, "Oh, look at all that juice." Plus it dilutes your juice.

DM:And it’s so much better with the skins on if it’s organic.

CC:Yes.

DM:That’s a major benefit of this interview. Really improve my juicing by keeping those skins on.

CC:Yes, it’s so much easier with those skins. And then, as I head on down the list, if you want a little carrot in there always buy organic carrots. You don’t want to buy conventional with those. They’re so easy find now but they’re usually up near the top of the dirty dozen list.

DM:I don’t think I’ve been in a grocery store in the last few years that hasn’t had organic carrots. They all have it.

CC: They’re easy to find and they’re not very expensive.

DM:They’re really cheap.

CC:I don’t use a lot of them but I use a little bit. It adds a little flavor and you’re getting a lot of carotene out of it. I always have some of those around. Parsley, I don’t always have it but parsley is a great herb to juice. It’s so rich in vitamin C. If you look at the charts, it’s right up near the top -- vitamin C, bioflavonoids. It’s got iron. All your minerals. It’s loaded with chlorophyll. So it’s a great thing to include.

DM:Do you like the curly or the Italian?

CC:I use both. Whatever looks good when I’m shopping. You don’t get a lot of juice out of it if you had a centrifugal juicer. People have to roll it in a big leaf and baby it along and tap it through to get some juice but a masticating juicer, you’re going to get a lot of -- comparatively speaking, you just have a lot of juice but comparatively speaking, you’ll be getting a lot more.

DM: And it’s bright green, lots of chlorophyll.

CC:Yeah. I always feel so good, any chlorophyll. It’s like, here is real life coming into my juice. So those would be my top things and beet greens too. I love juicing beet greens.

DM:Not the beets.

CC:No. Beets are in your medium category of sugars. They’re higher than carrots.

DM:So you can have a little bit. They’re much higher. So you have to be really careful. I don’t particularly care for the taste of beets but a lot of people do and certainly it will sweeten up your juice.

CC:They like them but a little bit. If it’s a little tiny beet, some of them in the summer, the little tiny ones, that’s okay. If you’ve got a great big beet, you just want to cut off a little piece of it. Beet is nice for the liver. It’s a naturopathic liver cleanse but the sugar is too high so you really want to dilute it. But if you’re adding just a little piece of beet and you’ve got a great big cucumber and all your greens, it should be okay.

DM:I just want to emphasize a point you’ve mentioned which was the carrots. You can use them. I occasionally do but in the last month or two, I haven’t used any. My purpose is not to and since I’ve had frustrations, I found the stevia.

But there are a number of people who use large amounts of carrots -- I mean, pounds of carrots --so much so to the point where they actually become orange or yellowish orange. I think it’s not wise to do that for a number of reasons probably overdosing on that but also there is too much sugar.

I wonder what your experience is with the type of therapy -- I think it’s Gerson that uses it for cancer. They use large amounts of carrot juice. Am I correct, is it the Gerson approach?

CC: Yes. Carrot and apple is one of the mainstays of that program. I think they alternate it still. The original Max Gerson program was to have a glass of juice every hour for about 10 hours during the day. They would alternate between carrot-apple and a green blend. Carrot-apple is so much sugar. It could about knock me out with a hypoglycemic reaction.

DM: Or someone with Candida. There is a challenge with that which is you know these yeast -- there are a number of people who know they have it and there is probably 10 times as many people who have it or don’t appreciate that but any fruits would just devastate you.

CC:Yes. Carrot juice as well. Anybody with Candidiasis, I always recommend really limit your carrot maybe one or two with a lot of your greens all diluted down but no more than that. That program is interesting to me, the Max Gerson program because Dr. Gerson had all of these wonderful results. That book Cancer Fifty Cases. 16

I did my Masters thesis actually on nutrition and cancer so that was one of the things that I looked at and studied many different programs. I found it interesting because cancer cells like sugar and here is all these sugar that we’re giving with the carrot-apple and yet he did have wonderful results. But it’s not my recommendation for anybody with cancer or Candidiasis or diabetes or hypoglycemia.

DM: His program, I think there is very few people who would dispute that it worked. I mean, it clearly did. That’s not the issue but it may have worked in spite of the carrot-apple juice not because of it.

CC:That’s what I’m thinking. That people were just so depleted and had such a terrible diet and then got on this wonderful live foods diet that it did. It worked in spite of and then they had the balance though of the greens. I would have liked to have seen it all put together. If you’re going to have that in one glass, it would have diluted things way down.

DM:Sadly, he passed away awhile ago so we can’t interview him to get his feedback on that but it would have been wonderful to have his insights. We could just speculate at this point.

CC:Yes, that’s right. Now that we’re talking about cancer, my recommendation always for everybody that I’ve worked with is to get those sugars way down in your diet and just no sugar at all, no fruit except for lemons and limes and a lot of vegetables and vegetable juices.

DM: I couldn’t agree more. There is two primary issues with cancer, well three actually. The basic principle is it’s a lot easier to prevent it than it is to treat it. It’s just so much easier. You can prevent almost all cancers. I’m firmly convinced that if you follow a healthy lifestyle you will be virtually immune to any cancer. That’s my belief. I could be wrong but that’s my belief. So that’s the big principle, prevention.

The second one would be vitamin D. You don’t have to swallow it. Ideally you should get it through the sun, you know, adequate sun exposure in enough skin, because if you just go outside like this with my hands and my face exposed and that’s it, it’s not going to work. I mean, I need to take my shirt off, wear shorts and be in the sun for an hour or two to get enough sunshine.

Optimal vitamin D levels and normalizing your insulin levels. You’re not going to do that with fruits. You just aren’t. I mean, some people will tolerate it but you know, having a lot of fruit is going to decrease your insulin sensitivity and as a result, your insulin levels will rise as with your blood sugar which tends to accelerate most malignancies. I mean, Dr. Warburg got actually a Nobel Prize for that in the 30s. It’s definitely something to look at. 17
With respect to these vegetables, I’m wondering if you can comment. The deep greens, I couldn’t agree more. The deeper the better and you get a little variety in there, you don’t want to do the same thing.

I want to point in this variety because when I first started juicing in the 90s, I had a garden. I grew a garden and just harvested. One of the things I grew was Swiss chard. At the time, I didn’t know it, I planted a lot of Swiss chard. A Swiss chard is an interesting vegetable because you can actually harvest it and it will grow again. You can get lots of harvest from one plant. It’s just a phenomenal plant. You can get tons of Swiss chards.

I was juicing lots of Swiss chard fresh from my garden everyday for weeks, maybe months it was, I don’t remember. As a result, I actually developed a sensitivity to it now to the point where even the look of Swiss chard, I get nauseous. I guess the caution here is that -- generally, not just my experience but in general, if you consume a food even a very healthy food for awhile you can get into problems. So the variety issue. So if you can comment on that.

CC:  Yes. Rotate. That’s my suggestion all the time, rotate your vegetables. Try different recipes and different things. So you might for awhile see that black dino kale is in the store so you’re having that for awhile but then you’re moving on and having something else. So I kind of rotate. I have some collards then I have black dino kale or other, the curly kale or the chard. I rotate things around. It is a great idea to rotate things.

There are some things that are kind of my mainstay. They seem to be a kale, a little cucumber, a little lemon and ginger. But the more that we can rotate the better because you’re right, you can develop a sensitivity if you just do something so much all the time. I noticed on the questions that people have sent you. One lady had said she does, I think it was carrot-apple and something else every single day. Not probably the best idea to that every single day.

DM:  Even from the fact not the sensitivity but the issue of so much fructose. One of the questions with the juicing is the foaminess that’s in the juice. Some people objected to the foaming so I’m wondering if you can have any comments on that.

CC:Well the centrifugal juicers seem to produce more foam because they’re getting more air, more oxygen in there. All of them produce some foam for sure. Most of the masticating juicers have little screens on top of the container to kind of catch that foam and you just rinse that off throw that away. Some people absolutely do not like the taste of that. They can’t stand it in their juice. Other people like it. Some people dump the foam back it, caches it and they dump it back in. I’m not worried about the foam. You’re right about the masticating. You’re going to get less because you’re not going to get as much air in there.

DM: I’ve heard people who that’s an issue or concern, you can if your juicer doesn’t have a screen you can use a little filter screen. 
CC: Or like a tea strainer with the handle.

DM: You just pour the juice through that and actually use clean finger because the juice will tend to back up and you can kind of squash it through that and get rid of the foam if that’s an issue for you.

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