PRESIDENCIA MAURICIO MACRI (2015-2019)

Juicing fresh vegetables and fruits is a fantastic way to accelerate your journey towards optimal health. There are three main reasons why juicing will help you:

1. Juicing helps you absorb more nutrients from vegetables.

If you have H pylori, gluten sensitivity and associated gastrointestinal damage, you may not be digesting your food effectively. Even if you are eating fresh, organic foods, you may not be deriving optimal benefit from them because you simply cannot break them down. Juicing essentially pre-digests your vegetables thereby reducing stress on your digestive system and allowing you to derive optimum benefit from the vegetables.

2. Juicing enables you to eat raw vegetables easily. The cooking process actually removes nutrients from many vegetables. Through juicing, you have easy access to all the nutrients in the raw vegetables without the need to expend energy digesting them.

3. You can add a wider variety of vegetables to your diet. If you do not rotate your food regularly, you run the risk of developing food allergies to the foods you eat most. This is especially the case if you have a damaged digestive system.

Juicing allows you to rotate your vegetables and also eat ones that you may not like because you can mix them with other vegetables and foods.

Vegetable Juice versus Fruit Juice

Fruit juices generally contain more sugar than vegetable juices. Major fluctuations in blood sugar levels are a significant cause of stress on your body and should be avoided. Along with mental and emotional stress, hidden inflammation from gluten and digestive infections, unstable blood sugar can

You should therefore only juice small amounts of fruit and take care with vegetables such as carrots and beets. These below-ground vegetables are higher in sugar and can cause blood sugars to rise too steeply, leading to a sharp drop.

Nevertheless, one or two small carrots and a small amount of beet can work well to enhance flavour and add additional nutrients to your juice, as can green apples and pears. It is also worth noting that the less ripe fruits are, the less sugar they will contain, but the harder they will be to digest.

Juicing For Breakfast

Breakfast is typically a meal where people do not eat vegetables. However it is easy to consume vegetables for breakfast if you juice them. Some of the best vegetables to juice are:

Celery Cucumber

Courgette / Zucchini Fennel

Carrot Beets Apple Pear

Do not use more than one to two small carrots or a small piece of beet per sitting. If you would like to add a little fruit, I suggest half of or one small peeled apple/pear but no more than that otherwise your blood sugar may go too high.

The next set of vegetables to introduce can include:

Lettuce (all kinds) Endive

Escarole

Spinach (baby spinach is good) Cabbage

Bok Choy Asparagus

Finally, you can introduce the bitter leafy vegetables to taste.

These tend to be a little harder to digest. If you feel digestive symptoms after drinking vegetable juice make a note of the vegetables you have used. You may find a pattern where, for example, every time you drink some cabbage juice, you get stomach pain or wind.

Kale

Collard Greens (with leaves attached to stalks for optimal nutrition)

It is not essential to add all these different vegetables – use the ones that taste pleasant to you and experiment with them to find the combinations that you like most. If you experience any increases in your symptoms when you add some of the green leafy vegetables, particularly bloating, stomach pain or cramp, it’s probably best to leave those vegetables out – not everyone can deal with large quantities of raw vegetables.

Juicing As Part of a Meal

I prefer to drink my vegetable juice 15 minutes after a meal.

This ensures that the juice mixes with the protein and fat of the meal and doesn’t cause blood sugar fluctuations. I eat the bulk of my meal first and then have the juice right at the end.

This is an excellent way to achieve a balanced meal with lots of high quality nutrition and it makes it easier to consume vitamins and minerals at breakfast.

Juicing As a Snack

I do not recommend using vegetable juice as a snack without adding protein and fat. If you would like to take vegetable juice as part of a snack, make sure you have it after some protein and fat: a boiled egg or some roast chicken or beef slices, for example.

Making Juice Itself into a Balanced Meal or Snack Vegetable juice is packed full of valuable vitamins and

minerals but it does not contain fat or protein. For this reason, in its own right it should not be used as a meal. You can, however, add other foods to the juice to make it into a more balanced meal. Some of the following recommendations may not be to your taste but they are worth trying if you’re feeling adventurous. Have fun playing around with the recipes and see which ones suit your particular taste. You will need a blender to make these recipes.

UÊ Use a raw egg. This will provide great fats and protein to the juice. Only use organic eggs, however, as the battery-farmed eggs may contain harmful bacteria, including H pylori! It is not recommended to add raw eggs into the juice if you are pregnant because there is a possibility that raw eggs can lead to biotin deficiency.

UÊ Add a tablespoon of organic, cold pressed extra virgin olive oil. This will add plenty of healthy fat to your juice and may help inhibit H pylori growth.

UÊ Add coconut juices from a fresh coconut, or bits of shredded coconut for texture. Coconut is a healthy source of fats and oils and its lauric acid content is known to have antibiotic properties that may be helpful in controlling H pylori.

UÊ Fresh or frozen cranberries may be blended into your juice.

Cranberries are packed full of important antioxidant nutrients and have been shown to inhibit the growth of H pylori.

UÊ Ginger adds a lovely kick to the juice and is also great for digestive health. A small piece of stem or root ginger works well. Add to taste.

UÊ A single clove of raw garlic can be very useful as a weapon against H pylori. I don’t recommend using more than one clove though as the juice may become too strong and cause a burning sensation in your throat and stomach. Add to taste.

UÊ Consider adding a protein powder to your juice, or add your vegetable juice to a smoothie recipe. The quality of the protein powder is important and I do not recommend using brands other than those listed on the smoothie recipe page at www.H-Pylori-Symptoms.com/smoothies.

Smoothies can also be used to help provide healing nutrients for the stomach and intestinal lining. Amino acids such as glutamine can assist greatly in repairing damaged gut lining caused by the likes of gluten and digestive infections.

My Favourite Juice Recipes – always taken at the end of a meal and I only take 4-6oz in one sitting:

1. 2 x small carrots, 1-2 sticks celery, 5-6 large handfuls baby spinach, small cut of ginger stem (I sometimes add ½ a small apple instead of carrot)

2. 2 x small carrots, ½ cucumber or courgette/zucchini, 3-4 large handfuls of spinach, small cut of fresh ginger stem.

3. 1 x small green apple, 1 x carrot, ½ cucumber and a little ginger root.

I always juice the garlic and ginger first and finish with the carrot or celery because there is a lot more juice in the latter.

the best active ingredients to include in juices or smoothies for working against H pylori are as follows, but I repeat that I do not think these foods alone are potent enough to completely clear H pylori in most people:

Garlic Olive Oil Coconut Cranberries Raspberries Strawberries Blueberries Ginger

Always ensure that you drink your juice as soon as you have made it. If you leave it standing, the juice will oxidise. To see an example of this just juice a carrot and see it turn from orange to brown in only a few minutes, or cut an apple in half and watch the flesh quickly turn brown.