These Juicing & Smoothie Recipes Are Great for Beginners Before we describe these great juicing and smoothie recipes, just a quick word about juicing equipment. Blender vs Juicer Blenders make lousy juicers! A blender and a juicer are two different contraptions with two distinct functions. If you want to separate the juice from the pulp, […]

Lemon Juice Is Packed With Disease-Fighting Nutrients! Historical Highlights Lemons are actually considered a berry! They are thought to have originated in China. Mentioned in the Old Testament as early as the first century, lemons reached Southern Italy via the Romans approximately 2000 years ago. From there they made their way to the Middle East […]

Wheatgrass Is the Most Nutritious ‘Superfood’ of Them All! Wheatgrass is becoming more and more popular as a key ingredient in home-made juices and smoothies. It is so rich in nutrients – vitamins, minerals, amino acids, enzymes and many other phytonutrients. You should seriously consider adding a little wheatgrass to all of your juice and […]

Research Has Found Nutrients In Blueberry Juice That Enhance Memory & Fight Aging! Historical Highlights While earliest historic information places the origins of blueberries to the Americas, data indicates they also existed in Turkey, Europe and Africa. Research most often cites Native American folklore as first to mention blueberries for their medicinal and dying purposes […]

Historical Highlights Greens have been consumed for millennia in a myriad of varieties throughout the world. The use of leafy greens in South Africa dates back as long ago as 120,000 years! For thousands of years they’ve been collected from the wild and have long been eaten for their nutritional and medicinal power. Ancient cultures […]

Pick & Juice Nutritious Edile Greens Growing Naturally Right in Your Own Back Yard! Editor’s Note: Blanche Cybele Derby is a foraging lecturer, filmmaker and author. She also happens to be my neighbor. Foraging, for those who may be new to the term, is using weeds around your home and community for food. Foraged greens […]

Delicious Power Juice and Smoothie Recipes Top Energy Producing Foods and The Best Power Juice and Smoothie Recipes This article introduces a healthy way to turbo-charge your energy by juicing or blending special combinations of fruits and vegetables. Here are the top 10 nutrients that create energy, the fruits and vegetables with the highest concentrations […]

The Benefits of Green Tea Are Absolutely Amazing! Add Some to All Your Juice & Smoothie Recipes! A Little History Green tea has a lengthy history throughout Asia beginning in China, dating back further than four thousand years ago. It was legendary for its medicinal properties, used to promote digestion, heal wounds, control bleeding and […]

Carrot Juice Has Known Anti-Cancer And Perhaps Even Anti-Aging Properties Brief Historical Highlights Archeologists have discovered carrot seeds dating to the Mesolithic period – as old as 20,000 years ago! From early Greek and Roman to Medieval and Byzantine times, carrots have been used for their curative powers, utilized as a remedy for certain cancers, […]