Talks at work places and the hidden baddies in food.

Hi All,
the latest talk Juice Therapy Australia did was at Cavalier Homes North West. Cavalier Homes is run by Chris and Lorraine and they do a great job with house and land packages. I was brought in to show their staff how easy it is to juice and to sample some of our special mixtures. It is always great to see people's faces of interst when they realise just how tasty the vegetable juices are and how nutritious they are. We discussed the merits of eating raw foods, the ways ingredients are hidden into foods, what foods to juice vs what to blend. The fun bit is always the tasting once you get the information bit over with!!
I made one interesting discovery that morning while buying my fruit and vegies. I always like to make some yummy date balls (learn more at my talks on these delicious goodies) and was looking at one set of dates thinking how lovely they looked and in nice packaging, placed in the gourmet vegetable section so thinking these beauties must be really good, BUT NO, look at the ingredients and they are dates laced with glucose sryup!! I did not think I would have to look at the ingredients, but it just goes to show you have to look at everything to know just what you are buying!! This makes me so angry. The dates really should be in the lollie section...

Enough ranting from me. Next week is a girlie afternoon eductating some ladies on the easy way to lose weight without feeling like you are on a diet. Stay tuned for how that turns out.

Cancer and Juicing

I have been asked by quite a few people lately about what I would recommend for people with cancer. Is there a particular juice that I would recommend for different types of cancer is one popular question. Juice Therapy Australia’s aim is to promote a healthy system inside the body to create an environment that does not promote the growth of cancer cells, not matter what the type of cancer one is affected by. An acidic environment promotes rapid growth of cancer cells, so to create an alkaline environment is very important.

So how to promote an alkaline environment:

By limiting the amount of processed foods in our diet is the most important thing you can do. Most people get despondent when they find out that they have to make radical changes to their diet. They tend to focus on what they cannot have, rather than what they can have. This serves no purpose and you should not allow yourself to think like this. Juicing and raw foods may sound very daunting in the beginning but once you realise how much better you feel and what alternatives there are such as tasty juices, you will be converted.

Juicing extracts all the essential vitamins, minerals, antioxidants, and many other nutrients from within the fibre of the fruit and vegetables you are juicing. By extracting the fibre, the body does not have to work its way through the fibre in order for it to be absorbed by the body. It truly is liquid gold of the nutrient world. Many people with cancer are unable to digest big meals, are too tired to make nutritious meals. They may be under stress, the list is endless. By juicing the food, the juicer is doing all the hard work for you so the minute it hits the stomach and then into the intestines it is ready for immediate absorption.

Be sure to add wheatgrass (an excellent alkaline product), or protein sources such as wheatgrass, avocado or yoghurt (by blending into the juice) to help with any muscle wastage that can occur due to the cancer.

Who else can benefit?

It never ceases to amaze me when I see my clients and their families in my clinic in the sense that the person with the ailment is the only one doing the things I recommend while everyone around them continues to eat the unhealthy lifestyle that the client used to eat. They are drinking coke at appointments while I am making up the juicers. We all need wake up calls. In order for is to keep our bodies in tip top condition to help it to cope with whatever we encounter means maintaining an alkaline environment. There is a great deal of stress surrounding those with cancer diagnosis. If it is a child, mother, father with the diagnosis that comes with its own stress and we need to make sure as the carers that we do not get sick. It also takes away the pressure of the client feeling isolated that they are making all the changes.

Feel free to add any comments at the end of this blog.

Juicing with Type 2 Diabetes

Type 2 diabetes is on the rise in the Western World. What used to be seen as a late adult onset disease, this condition is becoming more prevalent in the younger age group which is an alarm bell for improving ones diet. I am going to share some juicing tips for those who have Diabetes Type 2 or may be pre-diabetes (with raised blood sugar levels but not enough to warrant medication).

With Type 2 diabetes the pancreas is overworked and becomes exhausted and does not respond to fluctuating blood sugar levels correctly.

The best dietary approach is to slow the effect of blood sugar fluctuations. Diabetics do need to exercise caution when drinking fruit only juices due to the resulting rapid rise in blood sugar levels. Juicing with cabbages has been found to have a slowing effect on blood sugar rises. Another tip is to add avocado into your freshly made juices, and juicing cabbage into the juice to buffer the fruit sugars and assist in regulating the release of fruit sugars into the bloodstream.

Juices blended with higher proportions of vegetables and only moderate amounts of sweet fruits like apple and apple are preferable for diabetics. Adding plain yoghurt (full of acidophilus and with no sugar), Spirulina, Juicemaster Superfood Blend, Wheatgrass, or ground linseeds all help with adding protein and fibre to the juices, or adding and essential fatty acid oil blend (such as flaxseed oil) all help with buffering the fructose and slow the rise in blood sugar levels. The protein also helps with feeling satiety feeling.

Careful management of one’s diet can help reduce the need for medication but this must be done under the supervision of your health practitioner. It is recommended that you monitor your blood sugar levels closely with any major diet changes. By the reduction of processed foods and well as the inclusion of at least two vegetable juices daily can help improve one’s overall health, all under the supervision of your health practitioner.

Juice Talks now in action to the public.

JUICING FOR HEALTH & WEIGHT LOSS!

JUICE THERAPY AUSTRALIA is going to be a Michelle’Z Sweet Temptations doing talks on juicing fruit and vegetables. Talks take approximately 1 hour with plenty of time to taste test some wonderful creations for both adults and children. Talks are aimed at:

v  Juicing for Weight Loss

v  Juicing to Promote Good Health

v  Juicing to Cleanse your system

v  Juicing to increase your energy and vitality

Julie Dargan comes with a wealth of knowledge with a Nursing background for 20 years and now a Naturopath (BHSc).

When: Thursday 20^th September 10am   Cost: $20.00pp* (includes Juicing Book RSP $19.95)

Where: Michelle’Z Sweet Temptations 132 Inglis Street Ballan

Bookings Essential.       Email: juicemaster47@gmail.com       Phone: 041 407 6310

Blog: http://juice007.blogspot.com.au/

*Opening discounted offer, Classes normally $40.00 (including Juicing Book)

Ballan Rotary

Last night I did a great talk for the Ballan Rotary Group. The venue was held at Michelle's. Must say the lentil casserole we were served was delicious and sticky date pudding was a treat I have not had in a while. I do not usually do a talk to a group of men; most of my talks are aimed at women so it was a challenge. One participant already juices which always helps in a talk. Another participant was not happy when he saw me putting cucumber into the juice as he simply cannot tolerate the taste of cucumber. Great news is that he enjoyed my concoction!! I juiced 2 apples, chunk beetroot, chunk cucumber, chunk courgette, spinach leaves, some pineapple and wedge of lemon. Glasses were up for the ready (first juice was the sherbet lemonade which they loved) and down the hatch. The result was thumbs up all around. I was told it was a talk with a difference, and that is our aim, to make a little difference, to get the ripple effect going. Thank you to Ballan Rotary for having me.

ABOUT OUR TALKS

JUICE THERAPY AUSTRALIA

It is always a wise employer who will invest in their employees’ health and wellbeing. By being more proactive with their staff to have a positive attitude to health and wellness the workplace becomes a place of vibrancy, less sick leave and better team building. With clarity of mind, targets are met in less time than the national average. This is better for the employee with less time needed at work and better for the employer with more deadlines being met. It is a win-win situation.

 ABOUT JUICE THERAPY AUSTRALIA

At Juice Therapy Australia, our ethos is to promote healthy eating by education people about how to make the right food choices. There is so much conflicting information being pushed by groups with no interest in health and wellbeing, with money as their focus, making it difficult for people to make healthy food choices.

Julie Dargan leads the team of Juice Therapy Australia. Julie was a Registered Nurse for 20 years and found herself getting despondent with the attitude of the patients she would see come and go from the hospital. Very few people took the initiative to invest in their own health and take control of their lives. They seemed to be surrendering to the medical profession, taking their prescribed medication every day, without a thought as to how they could improve their health with initiatives such as walking every day, or making their own meals with more fruit and vegetables instead of processed foods. These people did not lack the want, they lacked the education. They did not know where to go to find such information. Hence Julie left nursing, and studied full-time to become a Naturopath with a Bachelor of Health Sciences. Now she is on a mission to educate anyone willing to listen.

WELL BEING PROGRAMS

Talks can be as small as 30 minutes, to half day to full day sessions.

Talks always include a Raw Food and Juice Samples, Recipes, Recommended Book to take home, question and answer session.

Presently we are based in Melbourne, but plan to venture to other states in due course.

 

 

For more information you can contact Juice Therapy Australia on:

juicemaster47@gmail.com

http://juice007.blogspot.com.au/

Phone: 0414076310

 

 

Going to a meet and greet tomorrow in Ballan, really looking forward to sharing ideas with some like minded people. I am taking along with me some home made raw chocolate.
Here is a sneak preview of what I am making:

Slowly melt 1/2 cup Raw Organic Cacao Butter with 1/2 cup of Virgin Coconut oil. Mix in Cacao powder a little coconut sugar and raw cashews. Spread into a tray, leave to set, cut up into pieces. Enjoy.

So, let us dissect the ingredients:
Cacao Butter: 
Can be truly referred to as one of nature's greatest superfoods. The core ingredient in chocolate (but not the chocolate that you might be used to), when consumed in its raw unprocessed state it is extremely rich in nutrients and health benefits.
Cacao contains the highest concentration of antioxidants of any known food by far, more than that found in blueberries, goji berries, red wine or green tea. It is an excellent source of magnesium which helps heart function and brain power whilst maintaining the body's alkalinity.

Cacao is rich in iron, chromium, zinc and sulphur (which help keep the skin beautiful. Cacao Butter is created when the pure edible fat is separated at low temperatures from the cacao bean solids. The result is a beautiful (stable) pale yellow butter with a mild chocolate taste and aroma.
It is also a good source of Vitamin E (beta- and gamma- tocopherols) essential fatty acids Omega-6 and monounsaturated Omega-9 (oleic acid, like olive oil) as well as stearic acid - an unusual fat in that it neither increases nor decreases blood cholesterol.

Organic Coconut Sugar: I am not an advocate of agave syrup, which many people are touting as the best sweetener but I disagree in its uses. In saying that, I always maintain a little bit of sweetness in life is okay, I only added 1 teaspoon of coconut sugar to this recipe which is not a lot. Some people make this chocolate without any sugar, whatever your taste buds are go with it.
Coconut sugar can be in place of cane sugar for me in much smaller quantities. It is richer in micro and macro nutrients than brown cane sugar and has a glycaemic index (GI) of 35 much lower than that of cane sugar. Therefore it is popular with those who wish to monitor their blood sugar levels. Coconut sugar is a great source of amino acids and minerals such as magnesium, nitrogen, phosphorous and potassium.

ENJOY THIS WONDERFUL TREAT, will let you know how it goes!

Linseed Crackers

A few clients have expressed I put this recipe up on my blog so here it is:

For those of you out there looking for a basic linseed (flaxseed) cracker here is a great recipe (does require a dehydrator).

1 cup linseeds (flaxseeds) soaked in one cup water for ½ hour. You will then see the mucilage come out of the seed and makes for a slimy mixture. Spread this mixture onto one or two dehydrator trays lined with sheets. Dehydrate at 45⁰C (110^oF) for about 3 hours. Then turn the mixture and dehydrate for another 3 hours until crackers are dry and crisp. Then simply break the pieces once cooled. This is a very basic recipe and once you have this mastered you can make many variations. Enjoy.

COCONUT OIL

Many people do not realise the benefits of coconut oil. Even though this oil is solid at room temperature do not let this put you off incorporating coconut oil into your diet. It is truly one of the most remarkable foods both internally and externally.
Coconut oil is referred to as a medium-chain triglyceride (MCT). This refers to the molecular size or length of the carbon chain in the fatty acid. MCT are easily digested and absorbed. Unlike other fats, they put little strain on the digestive system and provide a quick source of energy necessary to promote healing.  Due to the small size of the  MCT molecules, they require less energy and fewer enzymes to break them down for digestion. They are digested and absorbed quickly and with minimal effort so great news if you are under stress or suffer from digestive problems.
Eating coconut oil on a regular basis supplies the body with strong anti-viral, anti-fungal, anti-bacterial and anti-protozoal properties. They are also essential building blocks for the immune system. If you take coconut oil on a regular basis, you are constantly replenishing the body, rather than waiting for an infection to take place in which you then have to mount a massive counterattack!

FOR WEIGHTLOSS
Many people have the misconception that all fats are bad for you. NEWS ALERT, COCONUT OIL IS NOT the enemy. Coconut oil increases the body's metabolism as well as promoting a reduction in dyslipidemia thus promoting a reduction in abdominal obesity. (Lipids Journal 2009). Coconut oil has also been shown to regulate a healthy functioning thyroid gland and helps to combat hypothyroid symptoms such as fatigue, weight gain, and skin/hair/nail disorders.

FOR CARDIOVASCULAR HEALTH
Virgin coconut oil has been shown to reduce total cholesterol, triglycerides, LDL and VLDL cholesterol levels, as well as increasing HDL (the good cholesterol). It also helps in the prevention of LDL oxidation (one main component of heart disease we should be avoiding).

SPORTS NUTRITION
Due to coconut oil being easy to digest and absorb than other saturated fats they provide energy fast. This is great when coconut oil is incorporated into energy bars. The MCT's in coconut oil provide a longer release of energy and decrease the amount of muscle broken down!

SKIN BEAUTY
The antioxidants and fatty acids in coconut oil when applied to the skin rapidly penetrate the underlying tissues. It can help with reducing the appearance of stretch marks, as well as preventing the premature ageing of the skin. Coconut oil absorbs readily into the skin and keeps the skin soft and smooth. It also has a SPF factor of 5.
Coconut oil acts as a great hair conditioner when applied to the scalp and when used as a pre-wash conditioner can help to combat dandruff as well as strengthening the structure of damaged, devitalised hair.

USES IN COOKING
Coconut oil is highly heat resistant, it does not denature when exposed to high temperatures which can happen with other cooking oils. It can be blended easily into smoothies, dips, my special bALL's recipe (see my blog next week), as well as many raw food recipes (more at my talks).

WHAT PRODUCT DO I RECOMMEND?
When it comes to deciding which brand to purchase I always recommend a Virgin Cold-Pressed Coconut Oil. Nothing else should be in the ingredients. Expect to pay Aus$12-$15 for 500ml.
If buying in winter, you will find the oil hard in the jar. Make sure to buy oil in a glass jar. As summer sets upon us, you can expect to find your oil jar in the cupboard to liquefy.