The fact is that nothing has changed. The truth is that our bodies need the nutrients from juicing more than ever. Why? Because our livers and other internal organs are stressed to the max from these main assailants: pollution, artificial ingredients, impure water, drugs and pesticides.

These chemicals are inescapable and your body’s screaming for nutrients that detoxify your liver and cells. It doesn’t matter what brand of juicer you get, as long as it can juice without creating a lot of heat. Here are five powerful juices that really help:
1. Liver cleanser: beets, parsley, carrots, celery, add five crushed tablets of VitaLiv
2 Blood purifier: carrots, parsley, broccoli sprouts
3. Preventer: carrots, kale, broccoli stems and florets, garlic clove, kale
4. Skin and blood vessel booster: strawberries, oranges, apples, pomegranates, 1t SuperGreens PhytoFood powder
5. Heart happy: grapes (organic and with seeds), pepper, guava, pineapple

How often should you juice? Every day, first thing in the morning. All of these juices will offer support beyond the target areas. Energy is one of the greatest extras from a daily regimen of juicing. Bottom’s up!

Even though the notion of demons and black bile causing your illnesses is a thing of the past (hopefully), your liver still needs some loving, nutritious attention. This is because the liver is responsible for so many functions that, if it’s not working up to speed, you may start to complain like a hypochondriac!

Feed your liver real, whole foods such as beets, dandelion greens, carrots, milk thistle and spinach. If you can’t eat all these foods regularly, at least take VitaLiv, which contains these foods and more. You need your liver for producing good cholesterol, breaking down fats, creating important hormones, processing toxins and making vitamin A out of carotene-containing foods. When you feed your liver, you feed your health in more ways than can be counted.

Eating should be about putting nutrients in your body. Nutrients are needed by every cell for disease prevention, healing, energy, immunity and so on. But we pay outrageous amounts of money that are associated with eating — money that you may not have thought about or even connected with eating. There are costs of food, of course, but also, as a result of wrong food, there are medical expenses, missed work, the priceless cost of feeling crappy, supplements, pills, drugs, inhalers, hot water and stress. Stress is a biggie. It costs you in years off your life.

There is an antidote: eat less and get more. You can eat less food, but increase the quality. Bad foods are almost everything that comes in a box, can or wrapper. Good foods, which are less money but actually build your health, are vegetables, fruits, seeds, nuts and good fats (coconut butter, olive oil). If you get meat out of your diet, your grocery bills will come down so far that it may make your cutting board spin in circles!

Lastly, why pay for vitamin pills when you can have the whole food in a supplement? You should look into this as well, because whole food supplements will add to your nutrient bank account.

People in the U.S. consume an average 240 micrograms (µg) of iodine a day. In contrast, people in Japan consume more than 12 milligrams (mg) of iodine a day (12,000 µg), a 50-fold greater amount. 1

Japan has the lowest cancer rate of any nation. According to researchers, this is not a coincidence. 1

IS YOUR BODY STARVED FOR IODINE?

Iodine is vitally important in making cells function, including those involved in hormone health. The enemy of iodine is something called a halide — a substance that sneaks into the cellular slot where iodine belongs and takes its place. These halides cause health problems, including cancer, and include fluoride, bromide and chloride, to name a few. Even worse, your body becomes starved for iodine when you have these metals in your body.

If you have enough iodine in your diet, it is harder for halides to become lodged in your system and do damage.

IODINE IS IMPORTANT FOR ALL CELLULAR FUNCTION

Whereas western doctors claim that iodine is important for thyroid health, some researchers, including David Brownstein, MD, reminds us that iodine is needed for virtually every cellular function, so the recommended allowances set by the government are far too low and do not even remotely come close to the amount of iodine that the Japanese consume in their diets.

According to Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD: “There is growing evidence that Americans would have better health and a lower incidence of cancer and fibrocystic disease of the breast if they consumed more iodine.” 1

GET MORE IODINE IN YOUR DIET

Here are Great Sources of Iodine in Foods:

cod
shrimp
tuna
organic milk
organic eggs
seaweed

Bottom line: Eat more seafood — fish and seaweed. Ionized salt, however, is not a good form, because table salt is refined and toxic.

1. Are Americans Getting Enough Iodine? – Donald W. Miller, Jr., MD

by Vic Shayne Ph.D.

Research at the University of Arizona found that people who use citrus peel in cooking, baking or in their tea have less risk of skin squamous cell cancer. Other research published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that people who eat more grapefruit, lemons and oranges, and other fruits and vegetables high in potassium, have reduced risk of stroke. The membranes of citrus fruits offer pectin, a soluble fiber that is good for digestion and controlling cholesterol.

Citrus fruits such as lemon also contain terpenes, phenols, and isothiocyanates—phytochemicals that prevent cancer.

You may remember this from history class: Way back when, lemons and limes were discovered to be the cure for scurvy, a disease that ravaged sailors on the high seas. After centuries of disfigurement, death, tooth and gum disease and plague-like sores, British sailors started eating lemons (also called limes at that point) from the tropics and realized that they didn’t suffer from scurvy any longer. This is why the British were given the name “limeys.”

Vitamin C is one of the most fantastic ingredients in lemons, limes and other fruits, including the heralded acerola cherry (which is why it is a main ingredient in the FlavoC formula that I developed).

But health depends on more than vitamin C alone. Inside the fruit you’ll also find bioflavonoids, which not only support the function of vitamin C, but also keeps your blood vessels strong and is now recognized as essential for eye health and the prevention of bruising.

Lemons are also high in potassium, and contain limonene, which produces anticancer properties in laboratory animals. Limonene increases beneficial enzymes in the liver. And vitamin C is a natural antihistamine so well-known for causing the discomfort of allergic reactions.

The highest quality camu-camu contains fifty times more Vitamin C than an orange, plus bioflavanoids, and a combination of phytonutrients unique to the camu-camu fruit.!

Not many people know this, but when it comes to vitamin C we’ve been sold a bill of goods — marketing hype. Vitamin C is a fantastic, important vitamin when it’s in food, but that’s not what you’re getting when you go to the health food store and pick up a bottle. Instead, you’re getting a chemical derived form corn syrup that the manufacturers sell as vitamin C/ascorbic acid. It’s a chemical.

Vitamin C, to be most effective as a nutrient, needs to be contained in its original food such as berries, fruits and vegetables. One of the best sources in the world comes from a special plant that grows along the river banks in the Amazon rainforest called Camu. The highest quality camu-camu contains fifty times more Vitamin C than an orange, plus bioflavanoids, and a combination of phytonutrients unique to the camu-camu fruit.!

We cannot overestimate the importance of vitamin C in fruits (not in isolated vitamin pills), because it is vital for the adrenal glands, heart, lungs, skin, teeth and gums, bones and brain.

Camu is available in a capsule and is a great source not only of vitamin C, but also other important nutrients that only exist in nature’s whole foods from plants.

You should be taking Green Nutrients each and every day.

Eating vegetables is a thing of the past for most Americans. Sadly, because a diet full of organic, fresh vegetables and fruits has been shown over and over to prevent and heal disease. But you’ll be happy to know that our Green Nutrients whole food supplement contains broccoli, as well as other deep, dark greens full of vitamins, minerals and other nutrients recognized by your cells as “healers” and “builders.”

Some of the important minerals in broccoli that help prevent cancer and other diseases, include calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus. potassium and selenium. With these minerals, your body has the building blocks for bones, healthy organs, heart and eyes. Some of the important vitamins are vitamin A, C, K, B complex and folate (especially important for growing bodies and pregnancy). Broccoli is even a source of protein! If you’re like a lot of people and can’t eat enough vegetables, you should really be taking a daily dose of Green Nutrients — six to eight tablets a day. They’re great for children as well.

Source: Nutrient data for this listing was provided by USDA SR-21

Back in 1982, I wrote that people’s food choices are rarely based on what’s good for them. Oddly, though, most people will tell you what’s healthful to eat, but they completely ignore their own guidance.

A 2003 comprehensive study showed that most people base their food choices on taste, cost, and convenience.1

These are insignificant factors when it comes to health care. The biggest problem then, is that there is a disconnect between what people eat and how this relates to their state of health. On what, then, do you base YOUR food choices?

HERE’S a quick checklist to understand how NutriPlex Formulas’ whole food supplements can play a role in your daily nutritional outlook:

1. If eating the typical American diet in which you or your family member bases all food choices on taste, cost and convenience, take, per day, 6 tablets of Whole Food Complex, SuperGreens PhytoFood and BFood Complex;

2. If you eat s a good diet, then use the supplements to bolster your “weak” spots. For instance, you may need to address anxiety or low energy, so you can add BFood Complex; or if you need to address bone health, take Green Nutrients and ProMin Complex;

3. If you are working through an acute or chronic problem, use the appropriate nutrition. For example, BFood Complex for chronic fatigue, GTF Complex for blood sugar imbalances, or FemPlex or Male Support for hormonal irregularities, respectively. Reading through product descriptions will help you easily identify how to bolster your nutrition with specific products.

Sources:

1. Washington State University Nutrition Dept 2009
2. Produce for Better Health Foundation. State of the plate: Study on America’s consumption of fruits and vegetables. 2003. Wilmington, DE: Produce for Better Health Foundation

What came first, the egg or the barage of negative press about them? The latter. Eggs have long been a source of food for man and beast alike. But over the past few decades eggs have been beaten, whipped, fried and boiled over comments that they may provide a health risk. But before delving into this yellow topic, here’s one item of truth: Factory farmed eggs are bad for you because they contain drug residues, pesticides, hormones and other chemicals. Plus, chickens are treated inhumanely at these factories to such a degree that if you saw your neighbor treating his pet in the same way, you’d call the police without hesitation! It’s worse than brutal, it’s psychopathic. Now for the health of the matter…

Who is down on eggs? It seems to be the same people who are down on other fats despite the fact that fats are essential to human life, health and healing. The truth is that BAD fats are bad for you, but GOOD fats are essential. Eggs fall into the good fat category. Much of the slandering of fat foods is politically motivated.

The Weston A. Price Foundation reports:

Research on the current plague of heart disease and cancer has focused on dietary fats. Modern diet gurus assert that the Standard American Diet has become “richer” during the middle decades of the 20th century. “. . . we have gradually increased our intake of butter, milk, other dairy products and eggs. The proportion of calories from fats has increased from a national figure of 30 per cent in 1910 to over 40 percent [in 1966]. . . ” writes Jeremiah Stamler, M.D., in a little volume called Your Heart Has Nine Lives. Stamler, a prolific writer and longtime member of the American Heart Association, has been promoting the “lipid hypothesis” for more than three decades. He has lived to see the entire American medical establishment fall in behind the theory that cancer and heart disease in America have been caused by the increased consumption of saturated fats and cholesterol from butter, cream, eggs and meat. The solution, he asserts, is to substitute polyunsaturated oils for traditional dairy fats and lard. (Your Heart Has Nine Lives was sponsored by the Corn Products Company, makers of Mazola margarine and corn oil.) (westonaprice.org)

Americans consume far too much of one kind of EFA (omega-6 EFAs found in most polyunsaturated vegetable oils) but not enough of another kind of EFA (omega-3 EFAs found in fish, fish oils, eggs from properly fed chickens, dark green vegetables and herbs, and oils from certain seeds such as flax and chia, nuts such as walnuts and in small amounts in all whole grains.) (Am J Clin Nutr 1991 54:438-63)

Clare M. Hasler, Ph.D,  University of Illinois, stated, “eggs have not traditionally been regarded as a functional food, primarily due to concerns about their adverse effects on serum cholesterol levels.” However, “it is now known that there is little if any connection between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol levels…” she states.

In addition, Dr. Hasler notes that “…it is now known that there is little if any connection between dietary cholesterol and blood cholesterol levels….eggs are an excellent dietary source of many essential (e.g., protein, choline) and non-essential (e.g., lutein/zeaxanthin) components which may promote optimal health.” (Nutritional Conference: Where Would We Be Without the Egg? A Conference About Nature’s Original Functional Food,”Amelia Island, Florida, February 25-27, 2000)

There are critics who claim that the big cholesterol scare has more to do with selling more cholesterol-lowering drugs (it’s a billion dollar market) than helping people choose the right foods.

Astragalus is an herb that has grown in popularity as of recently, though it has been in use traditionally for thousands of years. It’s an ingredient within the whole food supplement CellPower and ImmuneSupport, both of which are used to support the immune system and energize the body.

Animal studies and preliminary human clinical studies suggest that astragalus may improve functioning of the immune system and might possibly enhance the effect of conventional immune therapy for some cancers. The scientific evidence for the ability of astragalus to enhance the immune system and fight diseases, including cancer and heart disease, comes mostly from laboratory and animal studies. Researchers at The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center found that astragalus extract enhanced the cell-destroying ability, or cytotoxicity, of the conventional immunotherapy treatment interleukin-2 by improving the immune system’s response. It also partly restored the immune function of cells in test tubes. Astragalus has also been found to reduce the length of colds and stimulate the production of interferons, a group of substances produced by the body as part of the normal defense mechanism against viral infections. — American Cancer Society

University of Michigan researchers state:

Astragalus contains numerous components, including flavonoids, polysaccharides, triterpene glycosides (e.g., astragalosides I-VII), amino acids, and trace minerals.3 Several preliminary clinical trials in China have suggested that astragalus can benefit immune function and improve survival in some people with cancer.4 Given the poor quality of these trials, it is difficult to know how useful astragalus really was. One Chinese trial also found that astragalus could decrease overactive immune function in people with systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), an autoimmune disease.5 Further trials are needed, however, to know if astragalus is safe for people with SLE, or any other autoimmune disease.

A double-blind trial found that, in people undergoing dialysis for kidney failure, intravenous astragalus improved one facet of immune function compared to the immune function of untreated people.6 Further study is needed to determine if astragalus can help prevent infections in people undergoing dialysis. Early clinical trials in China suggest astragalus root might also benefit people with chronic viral hepatitis, though it may take one to two months to see results.7

In preliminary trials in China, astragalus has been used after people suffer heart attacks.8 More research is needed to determine whether astragalus is truly beneficial in this situation.

Astragalus has no known side effects when used as recommended.