Juicing for Life: A Guide to the Benefits of Fresh Fruit and Vegetable Juicing (U)

Filled with exciting new information, The Juice Lady's Juicing for Health and Healing offers new remedies, research, recipes, and answers to common questions from Cherie Calbom's millions of fans and readers.The Juice Lady's Juicing for Health and Healing shows how anyone can use delectable fresh fruit and vegetable juice combinations to help lower cholesterol, overcome jet lag, boost the immune system, slow the aging process, lose weight, look more beautiful, reduce the risk of many serious diseases, and relieve scores of common ailments, including arthritis, chronic fatigue, hypertension ... even cellulite!After relating her own story of juicing her way to health, Cherie reveals how juicing can supercharge anyone's personal nutrition program, offers juice recipes with specific health benefits, presents a section of juice-related "Health Boosters" and "Beauty Boosters", and relays "Stories of Hope": selections from the countless letters she has received from readers attesting to the renewed health and vitality they found through Cherie's juicing and dietary program. Publishers Weekly While Calbom and Keane promise no quick fix for various ailments, their simple-to-prepare natural ``potions'' fit the contemporary demand for instant--and healthful--gratification. Arranged alphabetically by ills (which range from acne to age spots to chronic fatigue syndrome, varicose veins and water retention), juice ``cures'' are touted here as ``vitamin and mineral cocktails'' that can detoxify the body and supplement the diet. Many of the same juice recipes work on sundry and specific ills; recipes for potassium broth, ``very veggie'' cocktail, ``Cherie's cleansing cocktail,'' ``ginger hopper,'' ``garlic express'' and ``chlorophyll cocktail'' are among the repeated panaceas. At the very least, juicing raw produce is a relatively direct means of introducing the vegetables recommended by nutritionists into daily habits. So while some will pigeonhole Juicing as just another New Age treatise, others--convinced of the place of the occasional juice fast in the diet--will find the volume fascinating, and well worth the investment in a juicer and organic produce. (Feb.)