Here are some great juicer recipes that you can make at home that are ideally suited for the Jack LaLanne power juicer machines. With each juice recipe I have included some of the great health benefits that specific juice can provide. You can even read our article about the Jack LaLanne Power Juicer here.
Jack LaLanne Power Juicer Recipe #1 –Greens Galore
2 green apples
handful of spinach leaves
handful of kale leaves
There are actually so many health benefits to making a juice containing such healthy produce like apples,kale and spinach that I don’t think I can write it all here. However here are some of the key benefits this juice can provide.
First of all kale and spinach are loaded with antioxidants and because of this they are considered super foods. Antioxidants benefit our health because they protect our cells form oxidative damage that can lead to many health problems. This oxidative damage is caused by free radicals,rogue unstable oxygen molecules that are the natural byproduct of metabolic process in the body and are also found in sunlight,polluted air and polluted water. These free radicals are only a big problem if there are more of them roaming inside us than there are the antioxidants that disarm and stabilize them. So the more antioxidant rich foods we consume the better! Especially as pollution is a big problem these days and greatly increases the amount of free radicals we are exposed to.
There are many different kinds of free radicals and interestingly enough there are many different kinds of antioxidants in food that disarm this variety of free radicals. So lets take a look at one of the antioxidants found abundantly in spinach and kale –chlorophyll. The health benefits of chlorophyll are potent and is one of the reasons that the health benefits of green juices are so highly praised.
Research shows that chlorophyll has powerful anti-cancer properties because it is particularly effective at disarming the free radicals that attack the DNA in our cells. Although the body has a strong tolerance for this kind of DNA damage and will repeatedly repair the DNA cells they can eventually ‘cave in’under the pressure. There is a higher risk of this occurring during times of oxidative stress. Once this happens the DNA code is irreversibly damaged and that specific code will become altered and give out the signal for the creation of mutated cells instead of the original healthy ones. This process will slowly but surely develop into a cancerous tumor! What kind of cancer will depend upon which kind of DNA cell is affected.
And that’s not all for chlorophyll,it is also helps to create healthy blood. Chlorophyll helps detoxify the blood of pollutants and also aids in the process of building new red blood cells. The chemically structure of chlorophyll is almost identical to a part of our red blood cells called hemin and when we digest chlorophyll it is actually converted to hemin!
Jack Lalanne Power Juicer Recipe #2 –Immune Boosting Fruits
3 kiwis
3 cups of blackberries
This simple but very tasty power juicer recipe is great for boosting the immune system. Kiwis and blackberries are both a great source of the key antioxidants and vitamins that are essential to the proper functioning of the immune system –vitamins A,C and E. Between them,vitamins A and C are needed to create more than half of the antibodies that make up are white blood cells that defend us from harmful viruses,bacterias and other pathogens;while vitamin E regenerates vitamins A and C after they have ‘gone down in battle’so they can live to fight again. So making a daily kiwi juice or blackberry juice (or a mixture),in your Jack LaLanne power juicer,can go a long way to keeping your immunity in tip top shape.