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| The Vitamix Blender and Juicing Thank you to Hallelujah Acres allowing us to provide you this answer that appears on their web site at: http://www.hacres.com/html/vmix.html After checking out your statements about the Champion Juicer, I found it was better than other juicers. But what about the Champion versus the Vita-Mix? I don't know, but the Vita-Mix seems superior. Answer by Rev. George Malkmus Over the past 17 years, in my search for the best way to nourish the human body and restore the sick body to wellness, the most difficult thing I have had to contend with is weeding through all the misinformation and misleading advertising on behalf of "healthy" foods and products. It would appear that some are more concerned about selling their product and making a buck than they are about telling the truth and helping people. This has been very distressing to me. Here at Hallelujah Acres, we want most of all to help people get well and stay well! It is a ministry to us! And while we must make a profit in order to stay in business, the most important thing to us is that what we share is factual and accurate to the very best of our knowledge. God is our witness! Seventeen years of personal experience and research has revealed to us that the fastest way to restore wellness is to stop putting into the body the things that have caused the physical problem to develop in the first place, and then give the body the nutrients it needs to repair and rebuild itself. The body is self-healing when the infraction is stopped and proper nutrients provided. Shortly after being told that I had colon cancer seventeen years ago, on the advice of a friend, I switched overnight from a typical American diet of meat, dairy, sugar desserts and pizza... to an all-raw diet of fruits and vegetables, with one to two quarts of carrot juice daily. Immediately I started to get well, and within one year, every physical problem I had was gone! All these years of personal experience and research have revealed that the fastest way to restore the body to wellness is through the use of raw vegetable juices! We have found that many digestive systems are not functioning well and the sicker the person, the more difficult it is to digest and assimilate the nutrients in raw vegetables, because they contain the pulp or fiber. But with the pulp or fiber removed, the nutrients can pass directly into the blood stream and within minutes are feeding the cells and restoring the immune system. But here is where the problem begins. What kind of juicer. My research has revealed that there are only two basic types of juicers on the market today, although there are many different manufacturers. They are the centrifugal juicers (any juicer with a spinning basket) and the mastication juicers. Both types separate the juice from the fiber so that you can drink the pure juice. With the pulp or fiber removed, the nutrients do not have to go through the long and energy-consuming process of digestion... thus the nutrients can pass directly into the blood stream. It is almost like intravenous feeding! The most important thing to remember about juicing is that the very purpose of juicing is to remove the pulp or fiber so the nutrients can go to work immediately without going through the digestive process. Advantages in bypassing the digestive system are that this allows for very minimal loss of the nutrients before they reach our cells, and also this saves our body from expending energy for digestion. We need fiber in our food, but not in our juice. So if we are going to purchase a juicer, should we buy a centrifugal or a mastication type juicer? At the Gerson Clinic in Mexico, they are healing the "incurables" (lung cancer, spreading melanoma, lymphoma, brain cancer, breast cancer, multiple sclerosis, lupus, migraines, etc.) through the use of freshly-extracted raw vegetable juices. These people at the Gerson Clinic are the most knowledgeable people I know to ask what kind of juicer works best. So what do they teach? They teach that only mastication-type juicers will do the job because centrifugal juicers leave most of the nutrients in the pulp, which then gets thrown away. ( I have seen a laboratory report where they ran five pounds of carrots through a centrifugal juicer and a mastication-type juicer, and the mastication-type juicer removed three to four times more nutrients than the centrifugal.) The mastication-type juicer leaves very few nutrients in the pulp. We recommend only mastication juicers. So where does the "Vita-Mix" fit into what we have been talking about? First of all, IT IS NOT A JUICER! Listen to their own words in a recent ad: "The 'juice gurus' on television claim that their juice extractors provide phenomenal nutritional benefits. A recent laboratory study reveals that juice extractors actually decrease the number of vital nutrients you get from fruits and vegetables. That's because they extract and discard the most nutritious part - the pulp.... You'll easily get 4 to 6 times more fiber by drinking Vita-Mix Super Juice instead of regular juice!" Actually, the "VITA-MIX" is nothing but an expensive, glorified blender that blends the juice and pulp into a thick mush, to which you have to add water in order to drink. Listen to their own words again: "Only Vita-Mix makes 'total juice' which includes the cholesterol-lowering fiber... What is 'total juice?' It's made by pureeing whole fruits and vegetables to the consistency of pudding. This fiber-rich, vitamin-rich puree is then treated just like ordinary juice concentrate and diluted to a delicious juice consistency." But what they don't tell you is that because there is pulp in the juice, the nutrients cannot pass directly into the blood stream as does pure juice from a juicer, and thus must go to the stomach and through the digestive process. Because this blended pulp and juice is in a liquid form, it does not get chewed in the mouth where the digestive enzymes would normally be released as when whole raw foods are chewed. And so this "puree" goes directly to the stomach without the digestive enzymes and becomes a difficult substance for the body to deal with. Because of this, very few of the nutrients find their way to the cellular level of the body, which is where nutrients must go if we are to receive any benefit from the foods we eat or the juices we drink. Thank you to Hallelujah Acres allowing us to provide you this answer that appears on their web site at: http://www.hacres.com/html/vmix.html |
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