Our Kidneys are quite important….it is our filterating system and if it becomes infected or congested, bladder troubles, urinary tract infections and serious problems can arise. Yet we don’t really speak much about how to take care of our kidneys, so we thought we would write a short blog about what we have studied in these past three decades on how to take good care of our Kidneys. First and foremost let us say that freshly made, organic Cranberry, or Watermelon juices are some of our favourites. Combined with other fruits helps make them even more important such as combining the Cranberries with the Apples. More on this below. ** The ingredients in these juices help keep our kidneys in good functioning order and working at their optimum.Also, certain foods we eat can greatly impact the health and overall longevity of our kidneys. Foods such as flour, either white or wheat, sugar, crackers, red or white meats can greatly harm our kidneys from functioning optimally. Millions of Americans were eating high protein, flesh food diets to drop weight but they didn’t realize their kidneys were being negatively impacted by the high protein, no fiber foods. That would include macrobiotic diets as well. They don’t recommend drinking much water…and our kidneys NEED a flow of water to keep them buoyant, and functioning at their optimum, yet drinking vegetable juices and/or purified water is important, drinking liquids all at once can harm them as well, so try to stretch your liquid intake throughout the day.
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Here’s a great recipe we have been using for many decades:
Cranberry-Apple (Our Pink Flush!)
2 Cups Organic Cranberries (fresh)
2 Organic Red Delicious Apples
Alternate in between juicing the Cranberries with the Apples so that the thick Cranberries get flushed through properly.
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Here’s a great tonic we use in the summertime when Watermelon’s are at their peak.
WATERMELON WHIP!
1 small, Organic Watermelon
Directions: Cut into long strips, using the entire Watermelon.
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Question? On your cranberry-apple tonic , what do you mean to alternate in between juicing the Cranberries with the Apples?
Hi Howard,
Alternating between juicing the cranberries and apples means that you would juice some of your cut up apples, then juice some cranberries, then right after that add more apples.
When you juice in this way you maximize the amount of juice you get from the cranberries or other low water content fruit.
For example if you were juicing berries or had a juicer that was not that good at juicing leafy greens, you would alternate juicing the high water content fruits or veggies first then adding low water content fruit or veggies in between like a sandwich. This also ensures that the fibers do not get stuck in your juicing grid/cutter.
Hope that helps
Hyacinth
Hello my name is teresa I am a native of great California. I would like to say thankyou for such a great informative web site. My husband Ernie showed up with bladder cancer this year and we have learned very quickly of how important it is to eat the proper whole food to kill the cancer and to prevent it from regrowing. Through our reshearch we learned that you Jay had bladder cancer when you were a young man while playing football. We read that you juiced carrot and apples and the bladder cancer dissappeared. We would sincerely appreciate it if you could give us more info on how long you juiced carrot and apple and what you may have also done to control the bladder cancer from returning.
I too had cancer and have been juicing for years. Keep juicing Teresa and you and your husband will also find rewards from doing something this simple. I am 11 years cancer free and i now also teach others the benefit of juicing! Good luck to you.