differences between juicing with high speed blender & juicer

hi

I want to throw something out there. I must disagree with some of you.

I am going to break this into 3 posts.

The ist (this one) discusses the hows of partaking in juices and also healing and repair versus digestion, and some benefits of juicing and blender juices/smoothies as well as oxidation.

The 2nd post discusses juicer made juicers superiority when it comes to making nonorganic organic

The 3rd post speaks of the increasing benefits of higher and higher percentages of raw vs cooked foods and assimilation which is pretty shocking to me.

There is a difference in juices made in a juicer versus a blender and both types are health producing.

These strained juices made in a high speed blender like a vitamix would be better considered as green smoothies and smoothies as despite straining some pulp does get in the product.

Where juicers made in a juicer can be superior is for healing and repair as it is crucial that when uses juices to heal the body one takes them with no pulp or food on an empty stomach.

When you do this, it is assimilated within 5 or 10 minutes and all the vital elements like enzymes, nutrients, phytonutrients, atoms, molecules etc go to healing and repair.

When any fiber/bit of pulp is left in the juice than much of the vital elements go to digestion leaving a lot less for healing and repair.

This is why Dr Norman Walker who is called the father of the modern juice movement and who invented the first juicer (the top of the line Norwalk) said in his book fruit and vegetable juicing (I am going to put a link in this forum next on where to download his book free) that it does not matter if one eats the best raw foods, if they don't include fresh (pulpless) juices healing will be greatly slowed.

One should consume all juices made in a juicer within 20 minutes. chew the juice and do not refrigerate but make fresh each time as it breaks down quickly.

Victoria Boutenko (rawfamily.com) showed in one of her book the difference between a green smoothie and a green juice in breaking down and it was definitely noticeable.

A green smoothie can also be very health giving. Victoria Boutenko did a study of a town where all the people were told to make no changes to their diet or routine other than adding a quart of green smoothies a day. Her and her family made the green smoothies each day for the 100 or so people in the study and drove 200 miles to bring it to their participants.

At the end of the one month study ALL participants reported various health benefits such as losing weight, more energy, better thinking-and concentration, better elimination etc and all said they would definitely want to continue taking the green smoothies on their own and being motivated from the experiments to make more healthy changes to their diet and lifestyle.

I have heard before that the high speed of the vitamix can oxidize the food so though I ten to make smoothies in it and strain them daily and use it a lot (I love my vitamix) I also try not to neglect the juicer.