I know this should interest many of you. It's summer, it's hot, we want to have more energy, we're tired of carrying that extra weight, it's hard for us to "diet" (quote, unquote) and we want to make a change. Juicing isn't something new, I just got away from it. My joints hurt, my eyesight was fading and my blood pressure was way up. I wasn't eating enough vegetables. I saw friends of mine start juicing and admired them for their energy and vitality. It was time for me to get started. I did my research. I figured out what juicer I wanted. I watched a lot of videos on YouTube and learnecd what I could. We were visiting this one friend who juices and I asked her to get her juicer out and make us some vegetable juice. All too happy to convert someone she did, a pile of carrots, a couple celery sticks, some baby salad greens and an apple. Cut the stuff up about like you would for a vegetable platter and turned her juicer on and proceeded to slowly feed the thing. About five minutes later we each had an 8oz. glass of green juice. It was really tasty and you felt the "buzz" from it right away. Not that fake nasty buzz you get from RedBull or one of those other energy drinks, this is a really clean feeling.
Why not just eat a lot of vegetables, what's the big difference ?? Being your body does not have to break down the vegatable matter to get the nutrients in the extracted juice you feel what it is doing right away. It's very satisfying and stays with you a big part of the day. Some days I juice twice. I eat pretty much what I want for lunch and dinner - juice is my breakfast, I get about 16 oz. of juice. I like carrot, celery, a beet, a peeled orange and maybe some romaine or spinach. Your best results will be with mostly vegetables in your juice, but at first a peeled orange or a cut up apple help sweeten and make the juice more palatable. You get to realize these vegetables have lots of sweet flavor of their own. Our neighbors are growing tomatoes and cucumbers, we juiced one of their cucumbers the other day. WOW !!
I did a LOT of research. You know me I am always preaching (yeah I am) that you should take advantage of all the info on the internet, read reviews on Amazon and retail sites, watch videos on YouTube and then you decide for yourself. But for me (and my friends) the Omega VRT350HD is what I liked and bought. It's not cheap, but I looked around long and hard. What separates the Omega from other juicers ?? Well most juicers use blades and very high RPMs (revolutions per minute) to extract the juice. This high speed and friction actually heats the juice and oxidizes it which strips it of much of it's nutrient values. Not the Omega VRT350HD. It runs very quietly at 80rpm and uses an auger to CRUSH the vegetables to extract the juice. No pulp and very sweet and like I said it just makes you feel great.
The best deal I could find and I looked hard, was to register online with Bed, Bath and Beyond and they email you a 20% off coupon which you PRINT and take to the store in your area (I looked to see mine had them in stock, YES). You cannot just show them the coupon on your mobile device, they need that coupon to turn into corporate. It's a no hassle deal. Instead of it being almost $400.00 it was $308.00 out the door. Smart shopper !! And IF you should have a problem you simply return it there. The VRT350HD comes with a 10 year warranty on the juicer and an 8 year warranty on the auger. Who gives you a 10 year warranty on anything any more ??
Lastly let me talk to you about what it has done for me, besides the extra energy I feel every day. I'm 66 and as many know am going blind from open field glaucoma. It also has helped me with my arthritic joints - part of this improvement is I also quit drinking diet soda. You read any of the articles on how the artificial sweeteners in soda drinks are actually bad for you. How they can cause any number of illnesses ?? If you have kids or drink diet sodas yourself, read those articles. I switched back to Coke and drink it watered down and far less often. So in a month of juicing and no diet soda I stopped taking naproxin for joint pain 3 times a day, and now take it once every three days. Yeah a nice thing. I don't like taking pills. I'm not Superman and seeing thru walls yet but when I went for my last eye appointment last week (3 weeks into juicing) my eye pressure was down to 8 and 9, thats 3 points lower than it had been last visit - he lowest it has ever been. That high eye pressure (in the low 30s) I started with is what was robbing me of my eyesight.
So friends do think about this juicing. If you're into vegetables or want more vegetables in your diet but it's hard to get your daily minimum think about it. I wish you all good health no matter what.
Juicing workbowl with 7 carrots cut up, one beet, 3 celery stalks, some watermelon chunks, 1 peeled orange and 1 apple. Really awesome juiced.
Worlbowl with my usual: 6 or 7 carrots, 2 celery stalks, 1 cut up red bell pepper, 1 peeled navel orange and one pipping apple. YUMMY !!!! The wife takes hers to work in insulated cup with a screw on cap. So good !!
Why not just eat a lot of vegetables, what's the big difference ?? Being your body does not have to break down the vegatable matter to get the nutrients in the extracted juice you feel what it is doing right away. It's very satisfying and stays with you a big part of the day. Some days I juice twice. I eat pretty much what I want for lunch and dinner - juice is my breakfast, I get about 16 oz. of juice. I like carrot, celery, a beet, a peeled orange and maybe some romaine or spinach. Your best results will be with mostly vegetables in your juice, but at first a peeled orange or a cut up apple help sweeten and make the juice more palatable. You get to realize these vegetables have lots of sweet flavor of their own. Our neighbors are growing tomatoes and cucumbers, we juiced one of their cucumbers the other day. WOW !!
I did a LOT of research. You know me I am always preaching (yeah I am) that you should take advantage of all the info on the internet, read reviews on Amazon and retail sites, watch videos on YouTube and then you decide for yourself. But for me (and my friends) the Omega VRT350HD is what I liked and bought. It's not cheap, but I looked around long and hard. What separates the Omega from other juicers ?? Well most juicers use blades and very high RPMs (revolutions per minute) to extract the juice. This high speed and friction actually heats the juice and oxidizes it which strips it of much of it's nutrient values. Not the Omega VRT350HD. It runs very quietly at 80rpm and uses an auger to CRUSH the vegetables to extract the juice. No pulp and very sweet and like I said it just makes you feel great.
The best deal I could find and I looked hard, was to register online with Bed, Bath and Beyond and they email you a 20% off coupon which you PRINT and take to the store in your area (I looked to see mine had them in stock, YES). You cannot just show them the coupon on your mobile device, they need that coupon to turn into corporate. It's a no hassle deal. Instead of it being almost $400.00 it was $308.00 out the door. Smart shopper !! And IF you should have a problem you simply return it there. The VRT350HD comes with a 10 year warranty on the juicer and an 8 year warranty on the auger. Who gives you a 10 year warranty on anything any more ??
Lastly let me talk to you about what it has done for me, besides the extra energy I feel every day. I'm 66 and as many know am going blind from open field glaucoma. It also has helped me with my arthritic joints - part of this improvement is I also quit drinking diet soda. You read any of the articles on how the artificial sweeteners in soda drinks are actually bad for you. How they can cause any number of illnesses ?? If you have kids or drink diet sodas yourself, read those articles. I switched back to Coke and drink it watered down and far less often. So in a month of juicing and no diet soda I stopped taking naproxin for joint pain 3 times a day, and now take it once every three days. Yeah a nice thing. I don't like taking pills. I'm not Superman and seeing thru walls yet but when I went for my last eye appointment last week (3 weeks into juicing) my eye pressure was down to 8 and 9, thats 3 points lower than it had been last visit - he lowest it has ever been. That high eye pressure (in the low 30s) I started with is what was robbing me of my eyesight.
So friends do think about this juicing. If you're into vegetables or want more vegetables in your diet but it's hard to get your daily minimum think about it. I wish you all good health no matter what.
Juicing workbowl with 7 carrots cut up, one beet, 3 celery stalks, some watermelon chunks, 1 peeled orange and 1 apple. Really awesome juiced.
Worlbowl with my usual: 6 or 7 carrots, 2 celery stalks, 1 cut up red bell pepper, 1 peeled navel orange and one pipping apple. YUMMY !!!! The wife takes hers to work in insulated cup with a screw on cap. So good !!
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