juicing and raw foods

[lunar_prodigy]

I thought i would take a poke out in the community and see who actuality does this in their daily routine?

in recent years my health has been showing a decline but its built upon a life time of eating unhealthy. Really surprises me when the big picture opens up to me and i realize that 99% of people these days are just as unhealthy and it does not take some body fat to signal it so. The problem is because 99% of the food in the grocery store is made to attract you to its smell color taste or addict you. and the single goal of the producer is to make money or fill their product with so many chemicals to ensure it survives just long enough for you to buy it. as the video says, "we do not eat food anymore, we eat food like product".

at any rate, far be it for me to be the mascot for a cause, because there is nothing more personal than your own body. So you are the only one who can make a decision to change.

for the curious, check out this short documentary and you may learn a lot, or have what you already knew reinforced.  I have been thinking a lot about this stuff for quite awhile now. finding daily exercise both more accessible than ever, yet more exhausting than ever. It never occurred to me that a healthy life style does not start with the treadmill. it starts by healing my body with nutrition back to a state where i can then have the energy to work out daily.

my friend Greg recommended a specific juicer, and i have learned a lot in the last month alone of just sitting down and studying. It is time i start paying attention to my body and not ignoring it. Health comes from the inside out, not because you are unhappy with the way you look on the outside.

HUNGRY FOR CHANGE:
http://www.1channel.ch/watch-2732528-Hungry-for-Change


specifically though, i was curious who in the community already uses a high end juicer and organic produce on a daily basis? or at least a weekly basis?  as i am new to it myself, i am looking to tap some experience in others in terms of tricks of the trade. Good herbs to try, recipes, tips on storing produce etc. I am not exactly going vegan, but am definitely taking a step away from all the fake foods i have become ill eating after a life time of nutritional abuse.

(this is the juicer that I ordered and will be getting next month)
omega vrt350hd
http://www.youtube.com/user/rawfoods/videos
10 Minute Green Juice Challenge with the Omega VRT350 HD Juicer

[kohl]

I thought you meant Steriods :P

No one looks cool eating carrot sticks and broccoli.

[Neox]

I thought you meant Steriods :P

No one looks cool eating carrot sticks and broccoli.

Nobody looks "cool" doing it, no; but it doesn't stop me from doing it to keep myself in good health.  Nobody looks cool having to tell people he/she is a diabetic, either; but hey, I guess I'm shit-outta-luck for that one too... and it's one of the main reasons why I HAVE to eat healthy.

I don't use juicers.  The closest thing I come to doing so is when I make myself a protein smoothie after the gym, and even then, I just throw a bunch of shit in a blender and hit frappé.  (Banana, apple, milk, orange juice, an egg, and whey protein powder, maybe some honey, sometimes a carrot or two...)  I just buy fresh produce and try to aim for the locally-grown organic food.  It costs more, yeah, but not, like... HUNDREDS OF DOLLARS more; more like... $10-$20 per shopping trip.

You don't need to go out and buy hundreds of dollars of expensive equipment to eat healthy, man.  Just pay closer attention to the stuff you grab to munch on.  Less chips and Chinese at game-night and more garden-salads with small portions of meat and grain before you leave home so you're not tempted by grotey food when you go out.

[Drake Wingfire]

The closest I have really come to doing anything healthy like that's falls along the lines of what Neox was getting at (smoothies). The biggest problem is how we as a society have put healthy food decently high on the ladder for price. Even restaurants with even remotely healthy stuff, its cheaper to get a burger than a salad usually.  :-X

[lunar_prodigy]

The closest I have really come to doing anything healthy like that's falls along the lines of what Neox was getting at (smoothies). The biggest problem is how we as a society have put healthy food decently high on the ladder for price. Even restaurants with even remotely healthy stuff, its cheaper to get a burger than a salad usually.  :-X

the scary thing is that so called " heath food" like supplements, protein shakes, slim fast products, or even food marketed as healthy ( like compressed fruit bars or energy bars" are loaded with chemicals and junk and preservatives... the more we move away from packaged, and realized we can get much better nutrition from fresh uncooked food, the better health we will be in. a juicer just makes it a lot more tasty and easy to get the good stuff in foods like kale, parsley, cilantro, spinach, beats, and a load of other things that are far less tasty. When juiced and mixed with fresh real apple or carrot juice ( as apposed to the sugar laden stuff in the cartons) makes it takes great .


i suggest looking into " green juices"

there are cheaper juicing machines out there for around $100 and you will get nourishment. a good quality juicer just makes it more efficient so you get 99% of the good stuff rather than inefficient juicing which leaves the nutrition bonded to the fiber like a sponge making it hard to absorb ( so like 70%). not to mention oxidizing the juice if it mixes to fast and so forth.





but there's a ton of topics and no real right way. Ive tried like 10 different diets over 10 years and the best thing that ever worked for me was military grade exercise which i admit was intense. and 10 years later my body would crumple under such pressure. running a treadmill daily 10 years ago was a breeze, now my kneecaps feel like they will fall apart and i end up immobile for days after if i work too hard to fast. again i think that simply taking care of nourishing my body before i try to loose weight is finally the smart idea i have ignored for so long because i kept avoiding the simple ideas, or i kept lying to myself about what i was eating. i would say " it is health food so its good for me" wrong. or. " milk and bread and other non processed foods are healthy"...oh wait they are just as processed....  or the big lie.... i eat enough raw veggies a day or every few days ..... bad. not enough.

[Neox]

the scary thing is that so called " heath food" like supplements, protein shakes, slim fast products, or even food marketed as healthy ( like compressed fruit bars or energy bars" are loaded with chemicals and junk and preservatives... the more we move away from packaged, and realized we can get much better nutrition from fresh uncooked food, the better health we will be in.

I wasn't saying for you to drink protein shakes; I was saying that it's probably the closest thing to juicing that I will ever do.  I think of myself as a pretty damn healthy guy and I don't feel like I need expensive machinery to help me get the food I need to stay healthy.  I know that a protein isolate has a bunch of other shit in it that isn't necessary for me to be consuming, but I am working on gaining muscle mass by cramming food into myself and hitting the gym 4 days a week, and protein isolate is what I need in order to gain.

You don't just go to the store and start devouring everything in the "health food" section.  Yes, "health food" isn't exactly healthy for you unless you know what you're doing.  It's like my friend, Ricky, from high school.  He thought drinking protein shakes every day would make him huge.  It did.  He got fat as fuck because he didn't work out.

And as much as you try to avoid foods with chemicals and preservatives in it, EVERYTHING has some kind of chemical.  I mean shit, we have chemicals in the air we breathe and the water we drink.  When we go to bed, the dyes and detergent residue in our sheets and blankets are seeping chemicals into our skin.  Our bodies have the ability to filter most of that shit out as long as you keep in shape and strong.  Keeping healthy isn't JUST about the food you eat; it's mostly about how you conduct your lifestyle.  Your body just needs food as fuel and for vitamins, it'll process-out the shit it doesn't need.

[lunar_prodigy]

I wasn't saying for you to drink protein shakes; I was saying that it's probably the closest thing to juicing that I will ever do.  I think of myself as a pretty damn healthy guy and I don't feel like I need expensive machinery to help me get the food I need to stay healthy.  I know that a protein isolate has a bunch of other shit in it that isn't necessary for me to be consuming, but I am working on gaining muscle mass by cramming food into myself and hitting the gym 4 days a week, and protein isolate is what I need in order to gain.

You don't just go to the store and start devouring everything in the "health food" section.  Yes, "health food" isn't exactly healthy for you unless you know what you're doing.  It's like my friend, Ricky, from high school.  He thought drinking protein shakes every day would make him huge.  It did.  He got fat as fuck because he didn't work out.

And as much as you try to avoid foods with chemicals and preservatives in it, EVERYTHING has some kind of chemical.  I mean shit, we have chemicals in the air we breathe and the water we drink.  When we go to bed, the dyes and detergent residue in our sheets and blankets are seeping chemicals into our skin.  Our bodies have the ability to filter most of that shit out as long as you keep in shape and strong.  Keeping healthy isn't JUST about the food you eat; it's mostly about how you conduct your lifestyle.  Your body just needs food as fuel and for vitamins, it'll process-out the shit it doesn't need.

well said ^_^

don't mistake me as some health nut or pessimist though. i have done like 10 different diets over 10 years and i have just reached a point of frustration and emotional defeat when the things i have tried never worked. I also have learned a lot along the way lol. the first thing i said above was that its a tricky subject to bring up because what people do with their bodies is their business. meaning only they can make change and no one likes it when others get into their business and tell them what to do. Especially with a topic as personal as their own body. hell ive tried to get my mother to stop smoking for years now and i gave up because only she can do it.
as for health food. and all the jazz you talked about. i still eat bad food, though i try not to lol. i was just stating a fact that like 99% of the food in markets is horrible for people to eat. I wasn't trying to be a poster child for this topic. ^_^
the only real reason i am posting this topic is that i am getting a new juicer and am quite excited about it and was wondering who else juices? ^_^ Also my friend greg has the same model and has had a lot of success with it.

if people watch that "hungry for change" video; they can learn a lot that sounds better coming from more qualified and experienced people than me. ha ha. showed it to my mother and roommate and they applauded it ^_^. just trying to introduce it to others