WHY REGULAR JUICING IS A KEY PART OF AN ANTI-CANCER DIET

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The best way to extract huge amounts of vitamins, minerals, enzymes and phytonutrients from fruits and vegetables, and get them into your body fast, is through juicing! Cancer patients on the Gerson Therapy drink 12-13 juices per day, but I drink 6 large glasses of carrot, celery, beetroot and ginger juice each day. This adds up to around 2.0 litres, while the generally accepted minimum quantity to be effective for cancer patients is 1.5 L. Although organic fruit and vegetables are more expensive than their conventionally-grown counterparts, you should, if you can afford it, try to use them in your juices as organic fruit and vegetables are richer in essential nutrients than non-organic varieties. For instance, Amylase is a digestive enzyme that acts on starch in food, breaking it down into smaller carbohydrate molecules, and organic carrots have been shown to have double the amount of Amylase enzyme activity than non-organic carrots.

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There are a lot of mistaken beliefs when it comes to juicing which I’d like to talk about here. Firstly, some people think that juice can only be fully nutritious if it’s drunk fresh i.e. immediately it's been extracted. Imagine trying to consume a minimum of 6 large glasses of juice straight after preparing them, let alone the 13 that cancer patients have to drink each day on the Gerson Therapy! Clearly, the only ‘fresh’ juice is the first one or two of the day, but as long as it’s refrigerated, your juice will keep perfectly well throughout the day and you’ll still gain great nutritional value at the day’s end. Simply store it in air tight glass bottles or mason jars, leave as little air as possible at the top and keep it in the fridge.

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A second fallacy is that high-speed juicing creates a great amount of heat which destroys many of the nutrients in the juice. However, the truth is that high-speed juicers don’t generate that amount of damaging heat and so enzyme activity is still very high in juices from all different types of juicing machines, whether they’re high speed masticating ones or centrifugal juicers. A third misconception is that store-purchased juice is as nutritious as the freshly-made variety. If it’s pasteurised, this is certainly not true as pasteurisation destroys the valuable nutrients, but if it’s same-day-produced and unpasteurised, that’s a good replacement. A third misconception is that store-purchased juice is as nutritious as the freshly-made variety. If it’s pasteurised, this is certainly not true as the pasteurisation process destroys the valuable nutrients, but if it’s same-day-produced and unpasteurised, then that is a good replacement.

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OK. So now you know why juicing is an imperative part of an anti-cancer diet and have more clarity about some of the misconceptions out there which should set your mind at rest. If you’re convinced about the value of juicing, your next step is to buy a juicer. The first thing to understand is that a juicer isn’t a blender. A blender simply makes smoothies out of whatever you put into the machine, usually fruit. A juicer extracts juice from the fruits or vegetables themselves and leaves the pulp in the machine. When investing in a juicer, you should consider certain factors like how much juice they can actually extract, how durable they are and how easy they are to clean as some with quite a few moving parts can take an age to clean. However, if you have cancer and are about to start a hardcore daily juicing routine, this is one product that really deserves your investment.