WHY JUICE???This article, with permission, is copied from the Hallelujah Health Tip issue #111.
When God created the first man and woman, He placed them in a garden setting, and told them in Genesis 1:29 what was to be the fuel (food) they were to consume in order to sustain life: "And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed (raw vegetables), which is upon the face of the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed (raw fruit): to you it shall be for meat (food)." Thus man was to be a forager for his food. Just like all the other vegetarian animal creations of God (Genesis 1:30), man was to walk through God's nature, pluck these raw fruits and vegetables, and consume them in their natural raw form for their sustenance. Later, man planted gardens and orchards, which made food gathering easier. It is interesting to note that even after the fall of Adam and Eve, after sin had entered the human race, on these raw fruits and vegetables man lived an average of 912 years for the next almost 2,000 years, without a single recorded instance of sickness. It was not until after the flood in Genesis 9:3, when God allowed meat to be added to the diet and man started to cook his food, that sickness entered the human race. In 1976, after being told I had colon cancer, I went searching for an alternative way of dealing with it, rather than the traditional medical modalities of chemotherapy, radiation and surgery, which I felt had been the cause of my mother's death (she had been diagnosed with colon cancer before me). It was at this time that I came in contact with evangelist Lestor Roloff, who encouraged me to not go the traditional medical route! Rather, he simply encouraged me to change my diet from the Standard American Diet (a meat based, sugar dessert, cooked food diet), to the raw fruits and vegetable as found in the Genesis 1:29 diet. He also encouraged me to drink a lot of carrot juice. Overnight I made the diet change, and for the next year did not put a single piece of cooked food into my body, while drinking one to two quarts of carrot juice a day. Almost immediately I started to get well, and by the end of that first year, saw not only my baseball sized tumor disappear (without medical intervention), but also saw all my other physical problems disappear! Since making that diet change in 1976, I have not experienced as much as a cold.
When God created us He placed within us a digestive system so that we could process the raw fruits and vegetables He provided in nature. This digestive system was designed by God to take the raw materials found in nature and break them down into a form that would make them useable at the cellular level of our bodies as fuel. Listen to what H. E. Kirschner, M.D., says about this digestive process in his book LIVE FOOD JUICES, on pages 20 and 21: "Why not just eat the raw vegetables? As we have indicated in the previous chapter, for optimum health you need far more than you could possibly eat. The stomach just couldn't handle that much bulk. Then too, if modern research is correct, the power to break down the cellular structure of raw vegetables, and assimilate the precious elements they contain, even in the healthiest individual is only fractional--not more than 35%, and in the less healthy, down to 1%. "In the form of juice, these same individuals assimilate up to 92% of these elements. The juice of the plant, like the blood of the body, contains all the elements that build and nourish. It is a well-known fact that all foods must become liquid before they can be assimilated." Thus, by juicing, we do the work of the digestive system (removing the fiber) BEFORE we put the food into our bodies. By removing the fiber, which contains no nutritional value (fiber is only the carrier of the nutrients), we are putting only the part of the vegetable that contains the nutrients (the liquid part) into our bodies. By doing this, we eliminate the need for it to go through the digestive process. With the fiber removed, the nutrients can go directly to cellular level in mere minutes, and this raises the percentage of nutrients reaching cellular level from less than 35% to more than 90%. This is one of the KEYS to the results people experience on the Hallelujah Diet. And this is one of the primary reasons that within six months or less, from the time a person makes the diet change that we teach, over 90% of all physical and even emotional problems are gone. You see, the body has within it not only the ability to rebuild itself when given the proper building materials, but also the ability to heal itself of almost anything that ails it. This self-healing mechanism was placed there by God at creation, and has been passed down to each of us through genetic coding. So, first, if we want to get well, or stay well, we stop putting into our bodies the toxic foods that have been causing harm (all animal products, sugar, salt, white flour, and caffeine). Then we start putting into our bodies the raw building materials the Lord designed our bodies to run on, especially in the form of concentrated raw vegetable juices, and the miracle usually follows.  "Bless the Lord, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name. Bless the Lord, O my soul, and forget not all his benefits: Who forgiveth all thine iniquities; WHO HEALETH ALL THY DISEASES; WHO REDEEMETH THY LIFE FROM DESTRUCTION; who crowneth thee with loving kindness and tender mercies; WHO SATISFIETH THY MOUTH WITH GOOD THINGS; SO THAT THY YOUTH IS RENEWED LIKE THE EAGLE'S." (Psalm 103:1-5) 
It takes approximately one pound of carrots to make an eight-ounce glass of carrot juice. There is no way a person could eat a whole pound of carrots at one time, and even if they could they would lose over 65% of the nutrients in the digestive process. By drinking an eight-ounce glass of carrot juice, you are putting into your body the nutrients contained in a whole pound of carrots, and over 90% of those nutrients are reaching cellular level. An eight-ounce glass of carrot juice, mid-morning and mid-afternoon, gives the body incredible energy as well as taking away hunger. At the Gerson Hospital in Mexico they are healing terminal cancers using (8) eight-ounce glasses of carrot juice per day, along with a vegetarian diet. It was one to two quarts of carrot juice per day, 24 years ago, that restored my body to health, and carrot juice has been a major part of my daily diet ever since. There is no substitute for freshly extracted carrot juice. All carrot juice that comes in cans is dead; the nutrients have been destroyed by pasteurization. Frozen carrot juice and powdered carrot juice have suffered loss and will not give the same results. It is important to me that the carrots be grown in California because California carrots are grown in mineral-rich soils. It is the trace minerals that make carrots sweet. 'Look Mom' or 'Bunny Luv' are two brands of California carrots that are available in most supermarkets or health food stores. The most economical way to buy carrots is in 25-pound bags, which will fit in most refrigerators and if kept sealed will stay fresh for a month. Twenty-five pounds of carrots will produce approximately 25 eight-ounce glasses. Rhonda and I go through at least 25 pounds of carrots per week. For all those who have a juicer, try to add at least two glasses of carrot juice to your diet each day for the coming week, and if you don't have a juicer, you might consider purchasing one. I recommend the Champion juicer, the Green Life juicer or the Green Power juicer, especially if a person is dealing with a serious physical problem. A spinning basket juicer is certainly better than nothing if that is all one can afford. Blenders do not produce carrot juice--they only blend the fiber and juice--thus defeating the very purpose of juicing.
 
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