Easy Way to Happiness

I have always been one of those people who likes to make sacrifices in order to be “healthy.” You figure an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.

Although I’ve never had any major diseases I feel that diet and exercise play a critical role in helping us maintain our health and increase our functional lifespan. In truth, I walked the walk and began going out for three mile runs with my pop back in 6th grade.

I have always joined sports teams and been active, kept my weight under control, and have always gotten a good bill of health from the doctor annually. I thought I was doing great.

But now I’ve started reading a book called “The China Study” which is really making me reconsider the “diet” portion of the “good health” equation and wonder if I’m on the right track to better health.

According to the China Study, which is an excellent, articulate research-based book citing over seven hundred systematic studies, animal protein, including eggs, milk and animal protein isn’t the cure for good health and muscle-growth that we’ve all been taught. I was fully surprised to learn that skim milk is not a super-food when it comes to powerful bones, teeth and muscles. In reality, the author is compelled to realize that – much to his discontent since he grew up on a dairy farm – a diet free from animal protein is truly perfect for boosting our health and reducing the symptoms of aging.

The China Study book endorses a vegan diet rich in unprocessed plant-based foods.

Many adherents to this philosophy take this approach a step farther and concentrate on eating raw plant foods, forgoing foods like rice, barley, and pasta, for example. These raw food adherents believe that we preserve and ingest the most nourishment from our foods when we do not prepare them by cooking them.

One of the hardest issues to deal with when preparing and eating lots of plants is that it can just plain take a particularly long time. Cutting, washing, for example is definitely a laborious process. Especially after you begin to have a look at incorporating plants like lettuce, spinach, kale, and celery – which seem especially tedious to wash and dry. We need them, though: greens that are important to our growth.

That is where a robust juicer can solve your issues. Making juice out of your fruits, veggies and greens with the Breville Juice Fountain Elite is a good way to mix your fruits and vegetables into a fresh, tasty and mouth-watering drink that might guarantee you get all the nourishment you would like, even if you don’t have time to sit down to “a healthy breakfast” of bacon and eggs.

Consider recipes like carrot-apple-ginger juice or blueberry, strawberry, grape and kale juice. Green smoothies made with bananas and spinach are a fave raw-food vegan classic – the fruit is inexpensive, the taste is great and it’s vitamin-packed!

If you have a regular blender ( for making margaritas!), or even a name-brand juicer like Jack LaLanne’s from Television , you can find that they don’t hold up to regular daily juicing, they are hard to use because they are under powered, or they just don’t clean-up well.

The Breville Juice Fountain Elite solves all these problems. It is German-engineered to be a top-of the line juicer for folks who make juice every day and need a quick-and-simple way to make their juice. In fact, you can produce an 8-oz glass of juice in under 5 seconds and because the juicer takes BIG chunks of apple, carrot and other hard fruits – you do not have to do much slicing. THe juicer even does a nice job with leafy or stringy products like lettuce and celery. Including veggies like this in your juice will truly increase their nutritional value.

If you are prepared to make some changes in your diet to become healthier, more energetic, and perhaps increase your longevity – commence with including more fruits and veg. Like the Omnivore’s Dilemma advocates – Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.

Start your program for better health and nutrition with juicy juice from local organic produce made with the Breville Juice Fountain Elite.