This post has had a lot of good information. I have been considering juicing, since my DH won't come within 10 feet of a vegetable. I have a friend that juices for her family and they have a small glass of juice before their evening meal. They get their veggies in, and don't eat so much dinner.

we juice from time to time- mostly when fresh fruit and veggies season begins. We immediately noticed a huge difference.. Had more energy, more focus, felt so much better, lost weight....

Our main juice consists of lots of kale, carrots, apples... doesnt look pretty but its not bad tasting.. the apples give it a nice sweet taste..
we can juice any veggie i know i wont eat raw... ive learned i dont like tomatoes and celery... and beets only in small small quantity.. lol.. but mangos, apples, grapes seem to sweeten anything up for me to be able to drink..

yes and make ony what you are going to drink right then and now.. doesnt hold over very well..

"Fruit juice 'as bad' as sugary drinks, say researchers"


Adding fruit to your vegetables when juicing is not the same as drinking processed fruit juices.

I juice in the summer from the garden-not as a fast but as 1 meal replacement.You get tons of nutrients in a glass and because I am diabetic I juice veggies and seldom juice the fruit.I put the fruit in a blender with almond milk and mix veggies and fruit.when I drink a fresh made juice everyday in the summer I feel so much better.we grow kale and carrots and beets just to help with keeping the costs down for juicing.

Thanks to this thread, I have a much better idea of what I'd like to have on hand when my Breville arrives!

I found this website today that has good information about sugar spikes and juicing:
http://www.quickanddirtytips.com/hea...ood-sugar-bomb

Cannot imagine myself having the discipline to do a juice fast. Love the idea of drinking a small glass of veggie juice before dinner.

It's not the processing of fruit juices that's the bad thing (lots of supermarket fruit juice products have no added ingredients), it's the concentrated sugar that is part of fruit juice. It would be hard to find a nutritionist who recommends fruit juice over actually eating the piece of fruit whole.

See the link in the post above this one: it describes perfectly the problems with juicing.

By the way, juicing fruit and veges at home is 'processing'. It's a loaded word and can mean a lot or nothing.

It might be of interest that organisations such as the American Public Health Association are now looking at fruit juice as being a link between both obesity and metabolic disease, particularly for children.

http://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi...rnalCode=ajph&

A 200ml serve of some fruit juice contains as much as 25.8g of sugar (29% of your recommended daily allowance). In comparison the average cola soda has 18.81g of sugar per 200ml.

Update: Well, the Belville juicer arrive and dh did the honors of the first juicing yesterday. He tossed in 2 carrots, a big leaf of kale, 3/4ths of a red bell pepper, and 1 pear. I was a bit appalled when that produced a full glass of juice, as I was expecting to drink something more similar in size to a couple of shot glasses. But, I tasted it and it actually tasted good! I downed the entire glass with no problems. Cleanup of the machine was easy and fast. Really, the most work involved is in getting the veggies out, washing them and trimming them.

Seems like a proportion of 1 fruit to 4 veggies will be pretty good, especially if one of the veggies is a carrot. This makes the drink palatable but still primarily made of vegetables.

Regarding childhood obesity and metabolic disease, I believe those studies all involve drinking fruit juice. Most people who are juicing at home are, like me, juicing primarily veggies and adding a few fruits in only to make the juice easy to drink.

I could not have eaten 2 carrots, a kale leaf, and 3/4ths of a bell pepper in one day (even if everything was cooked) without having my IBS kick up blazes, so it looks like this is going to be a healthy way for me to up my veggie intake on a daily basis.

Prism99 why is juicing better for your IBS? My daughter suffers and I am curious.

If you scroll back a bit in the thread, you will see my explanation about the difference between soluble fiber and insoluble fiber. For lots more good info about IBS and why it's important to know the difference, I recommend going to this website: http://www.helpforibs.com/ . By following her recommendations, I have been able to control my IBS without medication (and with a lot more comfort!).

Edit: Just to be clear, juicing removes the *insoluble* fiber of veggies and fruits. It is the insoluble fiber that causes problems for people with IBS.

Here is a link to the benefits of soluble fiber for IBS:
http://www.helpforibs.com/diet/fiber1.asp

And here is a link to the difficulties that insoluble fiber can cause for IBS:
http://www.helpforibs.com/diet/fiber2.asp