Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing

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Penguin, Nov 1, 1991 - Health & Fitness - 368 pages
Eating fresh fruits and vegetables can boost your energy level, supercharge your immune system, and maximize your body's healing power. Convenient and inexpensive, juicing allows you to obtain the most concentrated from of nutrition available from whole foods.

This A-Z guide shows you how to use nature's bounty in the prevention and treatment of our most common health disorders. This accessible book gives complete nutritional programs for over 75 health problems, telling you which fruits and vegetables have been shown effective in combatting specific illnesses and why. Along with hundreds of delicious, nutrition-rich juicing recipes, this book provides dietary guidelines, and diet plans to follow in conjunction with your juicing regimen.

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Contents

The Basics
9
The Benefits of Juicing
15
What You Should Know About Juicing
19
The Disorders
27
AGE SPOTS
30
AGING
33
ALLERGIES
38
ALZHEIMERS DISEASE
40
HAIR LOSS
171
HERPES SIMPLEX I AND II
176
HYPERTENSION
180
HYPOGLYCEMIA
183
INDIGESTION
187
INFECTIONS
191
INFLAMMATION
195
INSOMNIA
198

ANEMIA
44
ARTHRITIS
47
ASTHMA
54
ATHEROSCLEROSIS
57
BACKACHE
62
BLADDER INFECTION
64
BRONCHITIS
67
BRUISING
70
BURSITIS
72
CANCER
75
CANDIDIASIS
80
CANKER SORES
86
CARPAL TUNNEL SYNDROME
89
CATARACTS
92
CELLULITE
96
CHOLESTEROLEMIA
100
CHRONIC FATIGUE SYNDROME
108
CIRCULATION PROBLEMS
114
COLITIS
117
COMMON COLD
122
CONSTIPATION
126
CRAVINGS
130
CROHNS DISEASE
138
DEPRESSION
142
DIABETES MELLITUS
147
DIARRHEA
153
DIVERTICULITIS
156
EATING DISORDERS
159
EPILEPSY AND SEIZURES
163
GOUT
167
LYME DISEASE
201
MEMORY LOSS
205
MENOPAUSAL SYMPTOMS
208
MENSTRUAL PROBLEMS
211
MIGRAINE HEADACHE
214
MOTION SICKNESS
218
MUSCLE CRAMPS
221
OSTEOPOROSIS
224
OVERWEIGHTOBESITY
228
PERIODONTAL DISEASE
231
PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME
234
PROSTATE ENLARGEMENT
237
PSORIASIS
240
SORE THROAT
244
STRESS
248
SURGERY PREPARATION
252
THROMBOSIS
255
TINNITUS
258
ULCERS
262
UNDERWEIGHT
266
VARICOSE VEINS
269
WATER RETENTION
272
The Diet Plans
281
Special Needs Diets
289
Cleansing Diets
295
WeightLoss Diets
315
Suggested Reading List
319
References
321
Index
340
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Cherie Calbom, M.S., has been known for her work with juicing and health for more than a decade. She has appeared regularly on QVC for the past eight years with the JuiceLady juicer, the Salton Juiceman juicer, and the George Foreman grills. She is also the author of eleven books on health and nutrition.

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