Does anyone here juice their fruits & veggies?

[ariesgem]

After years of putting crap in my body my 41 year old stomach can no longer handle junk food and I've always hated vegetables (I do like fruit). I was watching an infomercial about Jack Lanne's juicer and the health & healing benefits of juicing fruits and vegetables so I bought the thing. Well it arrived and I just bought a bag full of fruits & veggies. My questions are:

What is a good combination of veggies to start with?

And -

For those of you that may have abused your body over the years and decided to juice for health & healing, how long did it take before you start feeling the benefits?

Thanks

[Francesca]

1. carrots and oranges are a great combo

banana, pineapple and oranges as well...
My personal opinion is that a diet based on Juicing alone is not going to cut it.. It's a great addition but you need protein in there somewhere and quite a few other things as well...

[RebelOne]

2. I don't own a juicer, but am thinking about buying one.

In the meantime, I drink lots of V-8.

[Francesca]

5. since we are on the topic of health

I always recommend that people avoid high fructose corn syrup at all costs..which is difficult as its such a common ingrediant..from what I have read corn syrup has played the largest role in the dramatic increase of the last 20 years in diabetes.. My husband and I cut it from our diets in an attempt to increase our energy (we were feeling sluggish and this can relate to blood sugar swings so we gave it a shot). It worked. The other positive was my husband dropped 15 pounds in 5 months and he changed nothing else.. I also lost weight (which was not good for me as I am already too thin) so I have been gorging on cheese...

[ariesgem]

4. Oh no - I haven't stopped eating meat.

I needed to add veggies to my diet. I hate the taste of them cooked so I chose juicing because I can grind up all those vegetables I learned to hate and drink it down in one shot. As far as meat is goes, I'm now eating leaner cuts of meat and cutting back a little on red meat.

[Francesca]

6. Fish is great as well but you have to watch

out for mercury (especially in light of bush's failure to regulate emmissions....asshole)

[Crankie Avalon]

3. Not sure what the difference between a "juicer" and blender is...

...but with my blender, I love mixing fresh papaya with ice and some apple juice. WOW!!!

[ariesgem]

8. I think the difference is

that you can put whole fruits including rinds, stems and seeds into a juicer to extract juices and vitamins from them and then the juicer separates the left-over rinds into another container for storage or disposal.

[Crankie Avalon]

9. Sounds good...

...there's a type of papaya as small as a large pear. I'd love to have something where I could just drop it in without having to peel it and scoop out the seeds, beforehand.

I wonder if a juicer could handle a mango with that skin and big pit they have?

[ariesgem]

10. I know that the juicer that I purchased

can take most seeds but suggests not to grind larger pits (peaches, mangos, etc)because they can damage the blade.

[Gore1FL]

7. I owned a juicer

too expensive to operate. I could get more juice in a bottle that cost $4 than with $10 of produce. I threw mine out.