Health

Is Organic Important?

Organic food costs more. It’s harder to find (for most of us). Food grown organically usually looks less “perfect.” So here’s the question we all want to know: Is organic important?   i.e. Should you spend your hard-earned cash on more expensive organic food? Let’s Spray Poisons on Our Foods!   At a basic level, [...]

How to Get the Best Vegetables for Your Juice

Let’s talk about where your food comes from. As you go deeper in the journey of juicing, healthy weight loss and detoxification, you’ll become more and more interested in who grows your food and how they grow it. It’s empowering to discover more about the food you eat. The health information, yes–whether it’s good or [...]

Get Some Spring Water Into Your Life

If you’re concerned about your health, then you definitely want to think long and hard about where you get your water. Water is a deep subject. At first glance, it seems so simple–you just turn on the tap, and there it is! Maybe you filter your water before you drink it because you don’t trust [...]

Health Beyond Danger

Preventable illness is one of the greatest tragedies sweeping the modern world. You and I have the power of choice. We can choose to be healthy. Being healthy isn’t inspiring enough, though. Let’s aim higher. Let’s Aim for Radiant Health — Health Beyond Danger   In the Taoist system of tonic herbalism, the goal is [...]

Green Smoothies or Green Juice?

If you explore the health world for any length of time, you’ll quickly discover various factions that fight over the territory of what is (and isn’t) healthy. Sometimes these fights are friendly, sometimes not. I don’t really know why someone would take the time to debate either/or over whether a green smoothie or a green [...]

How to Get More Nutrition In Your Juice

After you’ve been juicing for a while, you may find yourself wondering, “What’s next?” You’ve figured out that it really isn’t that hard to develop the juicing habit. You’ve gotten over that weird resistance that keeps the juice gathering dust instead of being used, and you’re getting better and better and speeding up the whole [...]

Juice for People with Candida

Have you ever heard of ? This diet is geared toward people who suffer from candida and other opportunistic infections due to yeast, fungus and parasites. Recently, I started reading this book based on the recommendation of one of my favorite health gurus–Truth Calkins. (Truth doesn’t really have much of a web presence, but if [...]

A Fruit and Vegetable Diet:
How Can Juicing Help?

The field of nutrition and diet is pretty hilarious if you follow it for any length of time. On the surface, things change rapidly and often in totally opposite directions. One diet is telling you to eat only meat and lettuce while another is touting the benefits of eating 100% raw food. Yet another diet [...]

Green Juice:
The Best Coffee Replacement You’ll Ever Find

A few years back, I tried my first green juice. I believe it consisted of cucumber, celery, romaine, a little flat leaf parsley and a little lacinato kale. A friend made that juice for me, and he knew what he was doing. The juice tasted smooth, a little sweet and totally delicious. It had none [...]

Juicing for Health

While juicing certainly has its detractors, you probably won’t be surprised to find that I’m not one of them. I love juicing, and I heartily recommend it. Here’s everything you need to know about juicing for health so you get started right and keep going for a long time to come. When it comes to [...]