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Heartburn can be very unpleasant. I remember having heart burn, waking up in the middle of the night with a fire in my chest, or I would eat a meal and shortly after – up it came – with that awful acid taste. Other symptoms included indigestion, sluggish bowels and low energy levels. Fortunately, as a young guy I started to wake up to the importance of eating healthy. When I was younger, I ate all sorts of crap and way too much of it. You know what I’m talking about when I say “crap” – grease, foods high in saturated fat, pizza, tv dinners high in sodium, loads of red meat and fries almost everyday with a total aversion to vegetables, unless it was the tomato and lettuce that you get in a fast food burger! What amazes me now, is that I had no idea how bad all that shit was for me at the time!

The good news is that these days, I never get heartburn! I attribute that 100% to what I eat and what I don’t eat. Now I eat loads of vegetables and I think this is probably the most important change. There is rarely a meal that I eat that doesn’t have vegetables in it! If I make something like chicken breast and rice and there is no vegetables in the dish, then I will make a side salad to go with it. The second most important thing is what I don’t eat or what I eat less of. I stay away from artificial sweeteners, most of them are extremely acidic. I eat red meat now and then and if I do, I go for lean cuts. The dairy I eat is the least acidic kind like cottage cheese, low fat yogurt, skimmed cow’s milk and some low fat hard cheese. So, I totally believe that the best home remedy for heartburn is to make dietary changes.

Other things I learned about were how alkaline diets help you……….

Alkalinity:
So it makes sense to me that if you eat more alkaline foods, acidic conditions like heartburn and GERD will lessen. I am not a strict adherent to the Alkaline Diet and alkaline foods, because I am a little to lazy, but I whole-heartedly recommend it. The good news is that almost every vegetable in existence is alkaline. There are only a few vegetables that are mildy acidic – sweet potatoes and spinach if cooked. Fruits are less clear cut. With some of them being a little acidic and some alkaline in nature. The fruits that are most alkaline forming include, apples, blackberries, mango and papaya and are all great home remedies for heartburn.

Juicing:
Apart from simply eating more vegetables and fruit I also make a lot of fresh juices to drink. Juicing is a great way to get alkaline vegetables and fruits into your diet. I would be very surprised if drinking one alkaline based juice a day plus eating a lot more vegetables won’t reduce if not eliminate your heartburn problems. So here is a list of juicer recipes that can be used as heartburn home remedies.

Heartburn Remedies Juice #1 – Blueberry and Apple

2 cups of blueberry
1 apple

Wash berries thoroughly, remove stem from apple and juice. Even back when I was suffering with heartburn I found that eating an apple helped a little as a heartburn remedy.

Heartburn Remedies Juice #2 – Alkaline Greens
1/2 cucumber
1 cup of spinach
1 cup of kale
1 cup of parsley
1/2 apple

No need to peel the cucumber if it’s organic. Wash the parsley, kale and spinach well. De-stem the apple and juice all the ingredients. Drinking greens is not to everyone’s taste, so adding apple and cucumber helps the juice become a little sweeter and palatable. If you need it sweeter, add more apple.

Heartburn Remedies Juice #3 – More Alkaline Greens
1 cup of broccoli heads
2 stalks of celery (including leaves)
4 large carrots
1″ slice of fresh ginger root (optional)

This juice is very alkaline. The sweetness of carrots help with making green juicer recipes more tasty. Ginger is also very good for acid reflux and digestion.

Heartburn Remedies Juice #4 – Alkaline Heaven
1 cup of spinach
1/2 cucumber
1 stalks of celery (including leaves)
3 carrots
1/2 apple

Another super alkaline juice.

Heartburn Remedies Juice #5 – Tropical delight
1 papaya
1 guava
2 mango

Remove the skins and any pits from the fruits before juicing. Papaya contains an enzyme called papain, which is great for helping with digestion and heartburn.

I hope this helps you with your heartburn, I am sure it will!





In health
Darren Haynes

More and more people are beginning to look towards natural foods and remedies for rheumatoid arthritis relief. Research studies show that different food nutrients can help people with arthritis pain relief and in slowing down the progression of this disease. People with rheumatoid arthritis are finding that by increasing the intake of fruits and vegetables, they are able to reduce or even eliminate their symptoms. Avoiding inflammation causing foods such as meat and other foods high in saturated fats is also helping to reduce symptoms of rheumatoid arthritis.

Juicing fruits and vegetables is a great way to get lots of fruits and vegetables into your diet. Juicing also allows you to extract high doses of the vitamins, minerals, and other antioxidants found in produce. Plus you get these nutrients directly from the fresh food source, which can greatly improve their digestibility and assimilation into the cells of the body.

If you have arthritis in the hands and/or wrists arthritis gloves may help.

Antioxidants:
Ronenn Roubenoff, MD, a nutritionist at the Tufts University School of Medicine, claims that “Much of the damage rheumatoid arthritis inflicts upon the body is probably the result of so-called free radicals.” Free radicals are harmful atoms that attack our bodies cells and are the primary reason for why we age. They occur naturally in the body as a result of chemical reactions involved in releasing energy from food and also from exposure to sunlight. The problem these days is that we are bombarded with a whole lot more free radicals from pollution, toxins and smoking. Furthermore, our intake of antioxidants, which disarm these free radicals, can be decreased due to convenience foods and intensive farming methods.

So what are these antioxidants?

Vitamins C and E are both powerful antioxidants and also have the added benefit of being good anti-inflammatory nutrients. Studies on both these vitamins have shown that they can help with natural arthritis relief – for pain management and slowing down the progression of this disease.

Selenium is the pick-me-up tonic for vitamins C and E. Vitamins C and E become deactivated when they disarm a free radical and selenium comes along and reactivates them.

Vitamin A and zinc are also important antioxidants. Furthermore, they are necessary for producing and maintaining healthy synovial membranes.

Calcium – although not an antioxidant – is also important for building and maintaining healthy bones along with vitamin D. (Vitamin D is only obtained from animal and fish sources and exposure to sunlight)

Juicing for rheumatoid arthritis:
The great news is that there are 2 fruits which contain all of the above nutrients! Blackberries and kiwis which also taste great together! Try to use organic if you can, as research shows that the chemicals used in non-organic farming has inflammatory effects. Other great produce that may induce pain relief for arthritis include, all berries, broccoli, carrots, spinach, cucumber and kale.

Rheumatoid Arthritis Relief Juice #1 – Kiwi and Blackberry
3 kiwis
3 Cups of blackberries

Peel the kiwis and thoroughly wash the blackberries. Juice and enjoy!

Rheumatoid Arthritis Relief Juice #2 – The Capple
4 carrots
1 apple

Rheumatoid Arthritis Relief Juice #3 – Alkalizing Vegetables
1/2 cucumber
2 carrots
1 cup of spinach
1 cup of kale
1/2 apple

Best wishes for your health
Darren and Veronica

We have 6 wonderful orange juice recipes for you. From plain OJ to a Tropical Storm!

Benefits of Juicing Oranges
Oranges have become synonymous with vitamin C and has taken the throne as the “morning juice”. You will see more variety of orange juices at the supermarket than any other type of fruit juice recipes. Though, I don’t think packaged orange juice tastes half as good as freshly made juice. Furthermore, the health benefits of juicing fresh oranges beats the benefits of packaged juice hands down.

Apart from its high vitamin C content, there’s other nutrients in oranges. It is a good source of folate and a fair source of vitamin A. It is also a fair to good source of minerals such as potassium, calcium, phosphorous and magnesium. And that’s not all – oranges also contain powerful antioxidants called hesperidin and tangeritin. Both of these nutrients have been shown to have anti-cancer and heart health properties.

Juicing Oranges:
Remove the peel from the orange, but always try to leave as much of the white skin on the orange as possible. The peel will produce a very sour taste if juiced, but the white skin contains a lot of nutrition. The pith is nutrient dense, so I would also recommend juicing that to achieve the best juicing benefits of oranges. Follow this advice for all the following recipes.

Orange Juicer Recipe #1 – Plain Ole’ Orange Juice

5 oranges

Follow above instructions, stick them in your juicer and bingo – fresh juice.

Orange Juicer Recipe #2 – Breakfast Buddies

3 large oranges
1 grapefruit – red or yellow is fine

Prepare the grapefruit for juicing exactly as you would the oranges.

Orange Juicer Recipe #3 – Citrus Mix with Kiwi

1 orange
1 grapefruit
2 kiwi

Peel the kiwis. Adding some cold sparkling mineral water to this is real nice on a hot day.

Orange Juicer Recipe #4 – Tropical Heaven
1 orange
1 cup of strawberries
1 cup of pineapple

Wash and top the strawberries. Only use the flesh of the pineapple.

Orange Juicer Recipe #5 – Citrus Mix
2 oranges
1 grapefruit
1 tangerine (or mandarin)
1/4 of a lemon

Prepare the grapefruit and tangerine as you would the oranges. Only use the flesh of the lemon. This one will make you stand up straight!

Orange Juicer Recipe #6 – Tropical Storm
1 orange
1 cup of pineapple
1/2 mango
1 small papaya
1 small guava

Only use the flesh of the pineapple. Peel and remove pit from mango. Peel papaya and the guava. Juice and give it a good stir. Add some ice if you want it nice and cold!

In Health
Darren and Veronica

There are actually more than 100 types of arthritis! The most common form is osteoarthritis, also known as degenerative arthritis or degenerative joint disease. Osteoarthritis is caused by the wearing down of cartilage in our joints over time, causing the joints to become stiff and painful. Certain joints are more susceptible to developing this health condition, such as the knees, hips, hands, neck and the lower back. However, every joint can develop osteoarthritis symptoms. The cause of this degenerative joint disease is unclear, though definite risk factors include aging, joint damage/injury, obesity and heredity.

At present there is no known cure for osteoarthritis. However, there are treatments for osteoarthritis joint pain reduction, maintaining joint movement and slowing down the degeneration. These osteoarthritis treatments includes drugs (such as NSAID’s and cortisone shots), alternative methods such as acupuncture and the arthritis diet. Here we will focus on some key vitamins which can be obtain through juicing.

Vitamin D:
A study has found that vitamin D is beneficial for those who suffer from osteoarthritis in the knees. The Framingham Osteoarthritis Cohort Study of 1996 suggests that elderly people with a low intake of vitamin D and low blood levels of vitamin D were 3 times as likely to see their osteoarthritis symptoms worsen.

Vitamin D is not found in fruits and vegetables, so it is not something we can obtain from juicing. Great food sources includes, fish, eggs and vitamin D fortified orange juice.

Vitamin C:
1) Pain Reduction – Several studies have suggested that vitamin C is beneficial as an osteoarthritis treatment for pain. A double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled, crossover trial was performed on 133 patients. Those that were given 1g of calcium ascorbate per day (containing 898mg vitamins C) had significantly more pain reduction than those given a placebo. Another study also showed that taking 200mg of vitamin C a day reduced the chance of developing osteoarthritis knee pain.

2) Degeneration reduction – Taking 120-200mg of vitamin C per day has been shown to decrease the progression of this disease threefold.

3) Connective tissue and cartilage – Vitamin C is necessary for the production of connective tissue and cartilage and is suggested that it may help with some joint repair.

Vitamin E:
Vitamin E is a powerful antioxidant for mopping up free radicals that attack all the bodies cells, including the cells in joints. Vitamin E is also a good anti-inflammatory agent. Many sufferers claim that vitamin E helps reduce their pain.

Osteoarthritis Treatment Juicer Recipe #1 – Berry Bonanza
1 cup of blackberries
1 cup of blueberries
3 kiwis

Wash blueberries and blackberries thoroughly. Peel the kiwis. Juice them and then give them a good stir and enjoy.

Osteoarthritis Treatment Juicer Recipe #2 – Apple Zing!
3 Apples
1/4 of a lemon

Pick 3 of your favorite tasting apples, peel and core them and remove the stem. Scoop out the flesh from a 1/4 of a lemon, but don’t juice the rind as it will taste too sour. Juice and enjoy.

Osteoarthritis Treatment Juicer Recipe #3 – The Subtle Strawberry
1/3 cup of strawberries
1 cup of blueberries
1 apple

Wash and top the strawberries. Wash the blueberries. Peel, core and remove stem from the apple. Juice and enjoy! This one is real tasty.

Wishing you the best in health
Darren and Veronica Haynes

Eating carrots help you see in the dark my grandparents would tell me. Although they had no idea of the science behind this, it has been known for a long time that carrots really are good for your peepers and do indeed help prevent night blindness.

Vitamin A
Vitamin A is the nutrient most associated with eye health (and carrots) and is actually one of the most important nutrients for eyes. Why so? Vitamin A is a water soluble antioxidant. It can work within the eyes to prevent cell damage from free radicals and reduce the risk of developing eye diseases such as age related macular degeneration (AMD). Vitamin A can help prevent cataracts from developing and vitamin A deficiency will lead to night blindness. If the deficiency continues, night blindness will progress into xerophthalmia causing dry eyes and corneal ulcers and eventually complete blindness.

Juicing for Vitamin A Food Sources: carrots, spinach, kale, broccoli, tomatoes, kiwi, blackberries, oranges and watermelon.

Vitamins C & E
Vitamin C and E don’t have as high a profile as vitamin A for eye health, but they also play an important role in the well being of our eyes. Both vitamin C and E have been associated in studies with delaying age related macular degeneration. Vitamin C can reduce the risk of developing cataracts and may also prevent glaucoma.

Vitamin C Food Sources: oranges, blackberries, watermelon, kiwi, grapes, carrots, broccoli, cucumber, kale and spinach.

Vitamin E Food Sources: blackberries, apples and Kiwi.

Juicing Recipes #1 – Plain O.J




5 oranges.

Peel, juice, enjoy. Supplies vitamins A & C

Juicing Recipes #2 – Carrot and Apple
4 carrots
1 apple

Top and tail carrots. Remove stem from apple. Juice and mix well. vitamins A, C and E

Juicing Recipes #3 – Apple, kiwi and blackberry
1 apple
2 kiwi
1 cup of blackberries

Remove stem from apple. Peel kiwis. Wash blackberries thoroughly. Juice and enjoy. This juice is high in vitamin C and E with some A.

Juicing Recipes #4 – The Lemony Cucapple
1 apple
1/2 cucumber
1/4 of a lemon

Remove stem from apple. Wash cucumber well. Use only the flesh of the lemon. Juice and stir well. High in vitamin C, with fair amounts of A and E.

Juicing Recipes #5 – Berry Good Eyes
1 cup of blackberries
1 cup of blueberries
1 cup of raspberries
1 cup of strawberries

Wash all berries thoroughly. Top the strawberries. This juice is high in C and E

Juicing Recipe #6 – Eye Eye Captain
4 carrots
1 cup of kale
1 cup of spinach
1/2 an apple

Top and wash the carrots. Wash kale and spinach thoroughly. Remove apple stem. This juice is a super dose of vitamin A for your eyes.

Happy Juicing
Darren and Veronica