Any juicers out there?

[DisFam95]

Ok I just watched "Fat Sick and Nearly Dead". Pretty inspiring. Not sure I want to do it like Joe and Phil did but maybe just occasional and a rebbot every now and then.

I have a major sweet tooth and pretty rarely eat fruit and never a vegetable! I'd love the thought of drinking them but if I'm going to do that I'm going to do it myself and not the V8's full of other stuff.

SO I've been researching a ton and have basically learned there are the Breville (centrifuge type) that runs at 13000 rpms. They are louder, produces more foam, has a larger opening (less prep time), really seperates juices like tomato to look like a grey liquid and the other half is foam.

The Omega juice is a compression type that runs at 80rpms! Much more quiet, smaller opeing (more prep w/ chopping), smaller unit. The tomato juice actually looks like tomato juice! The Omega has slightly more pulp left in it. Seems like the Omega is 'better' but so many people swear by their breville.


Not sure which is better. "They" say that the faster Breville causes too much oxidation of the food w/ the high spinning and damages the nutrient value - not sure how true this is.

Anyhoo - do you have one? Do you like it or not - or another brand??

Thanks!

 

[saysay]

I got the breville. I did a 15 day reboot where I had 5 days of juice and one meal, 5 days of just juice, then 5 days of juice and a meal. I felt GREAT, my skin never looked better and I was sleeping wonderfully. I still juice though getting ready for another reboot.

The Breville is very easy to clean and does make some foam sometimes. I put greens in EVERYTHING so most of my juice is green, though beets make a beautiful red color. I find my juicer gives me juice the color of the fruit or veggie, but thing is when you mix alot of stuff together, you can get brown or funny looking.

I think the nutrient loss is very small with the centrig juicers from what I read.

I just got a good deal on a IKON and we went with it.

Juice on!

jointhereboot.com has lots of great info regarding fasting and there is a very active facebook page as well for Fat Sick and Nearly dead or you can friend Joe Cross.

 

[Belle2667]

Hi -

Just received my Omega 8006 juicer yesterday. Of course, I had to run out and get some fruits and veggies to try it out!

I was pleasantly surprised at how easily the pieces went together. Clean up was a breeze, too. This "juicer" also grinds coffee and flour. It will make pasta and nut butters. I think it does more, too, but that's all I remember at the moment.

In one of my Whole living magazines, there were some juicing recipes so I used one of those. 2 grapefruit, 5 carrots, some ginger. I got over 24oz of juice from those and the pulp was pretty dry. The juice tasted pretty good, too. (I really want to do more greens, but since DH and DS16 wanted to try it too, I thought it might be better to start them with something sweeter.)

So, now its off to the reboot website to plan out my new healthy future. I do not need to lose weight (DH does), but I am looking for the health benefits so I think I might do juicing for breakfast and/or dinner. Juicing for lunch at work would be too much.

Hope this helps. Happy juicing!