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Complete Book of Juicing: Your Delicious Guide to Youthful Vitality
“A must-read for anyone interested in juicing as a part of a healthy lifestyle.”
—Jay Kordich, “The Juiceman”
Freshly squeezed juice is the tastiest way to satisfy your nutrition needs while you quench your thirst. Now, one of the world’s leading experts on natural nutrition and health offers you clear information on the healing and revitalizing power of various fruit and vegetable juices combined with a mouthwatering collection of over 150 recipes. The Complete Book of Juicing reveals how specific juices can help:
• Combat cancer
• Relieve arthritis
• Lower blood pressure
• Resist aging
• Reduce high cholesterol
• Treat kidney stones and ulcers
• And much, much more!
You also get detailed nutritional information for each recipe plus a safe and effective (and optional) guide to fasting with juices. This is the only juice book you’ll ever need!
—Jay Kordich, “The Juiceman”
Freshly squeezed juice is the tastiest way to satisfy your nutrition needs while you quench your thirst. Now, one of the world’s leading experts on natural nutrition and health offers you clear information on the healing and revitalizing power of various fruit and vegetable juices combined with a mouthwatering collection of over 150 recipes. The Complete Book of Juicing reveals how specific juices can help:
• Combat cancer
• Relieve arthritis
• Lower blood pressure
• Resist aging
• Reduce high cholesterol
• Treat kidney stones and ulcers
• And much, much more!
You also get detailed nutritional information for each recipe plus a safe and effective (and optional) guide to fasting with juices. This is the only juice book you’ll ever need!
368 pages, Paperback
First published June 22, 1992
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About the author
Michael T. Murray
86 books22 followersDr. Murray is one of the world’s leading authorities on natural medicine. He has published over 30 books featuring natural approaches to health. His research into the health benefits of proper nutrition is the foundation for a best-selling line of dietary supplements from Natural Factors, where he is Director of Product Development. He is a graduate, former faculty member, and serves on the Board of Regents of Bastyr University in Seattle, Washington.
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March 10, 2012
This book is out of date and should be avoided.
The parts about juicing and the recipes for juices in this book are solid, but the general information given on diet is of such a low quality and could potentially cause so much harm that this book cannot be recommended even for the juice recipes.
This book recommends that you eat only tiny amounts of protein, almost no fat at all and a whopping 65-75% of your daily calories as carbohydrates.
Despite them being traditional foods for thousands of years, healthy fats and proteins are apparently causing the modern epidemic of diabetes and other diseases and so we need to eat massive amounts of carbohydrate to get better. Hmmm... It couldn't possibly be the massive increase in the amount of sugar and refined carbs we are eating, could it? That the NEW foods are what is causing these NEW diseases and health problems? And not the old fashioned foods that have kept many generations before us so healthy?
I feel extremely ill and gain weight very quickly eating even 50% of my calories as carbohydrates and that is without me eating the 4 bread rolls a day or two large pasta servings this author recommends, and eating almost all of that intake as vegetables, a little bit of fruit and honey and a single daily serve of steel cut oats. I'd also be hungry and weak all the time, and never not feel hungry as that is what eating too many carbs does if you have blood sugar issues. For me even 40% is too much. Eating what this author recommends would make me incredibly ill.
I also 'only' have hypoglycemia and insulin resistance, and not diabetes. I hate to think what this diet would do to a diabetic.
Following the advice in this book will make most of us feel worse, and will probably make you gain weight as well, as if feeling terrible and ill and moody wasn't enough.
It seems to be based on a vegetarian agenda. Nothing wrong with eating and drinking huge amounts of veggies but the healthiest diets combine this with eating adequate healthy fats and proteins as well, is all. This is the diet we evolved to eat. Fats and protein are so important to health.
There are lots of better books out there on the topic of diet and weight loss that are science based and just full of useful advice. The first two that come to mind are Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats and The Schwarzbein Principle: The Truth About Losing Weight, Being Healthy, and Feeling Younger.
The first book focuses on maintaining good health, and also features a special health building diet for very ill people, as well as a plan to help you lose weight healthily. It also explains that saturated fat and cholesterol are not bad for you and that the lipid hypothesis is not based on science. What we need to do to be healthy is eat real old fashioned food as this is what we are genetically adapted to!
The second book focuses on weight loss and the author explains in detail why high carb diets don't work for those with diabetes etc. and why she can no longer give her patients this bad advice.
Both books basically recommend eating healthy fats and high quality proteins until satiety then adding lots and lots of non-starchy vegetables, plus a small amount of starchy vegetables and fruit - but no more than your body can cope with without you feeling ill or being overweight.
Another excellent book on this topic is Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage) by Gary Taubes. This book explains why calories in, calories out doesn't work and is bunkum, and why high carb diets make so many of us fatter.
For information on why we need unrefined salt in our diets to be healthy, see Salt - Your Way To Health.
The author of this book also heavily pushes a brand of juicer made by a company that he has affiliations with. It amounts to an ad for this product within the book. This is the only type of juicer recommended by the book and it's a centrifugal juicer as well! The worst sort! (They are okay if they are all your budget allows for, but single or twin auger juicers are far superior.)
A far better book on juicing is Juicing, Fasting, and Detoxing for Life: Unleash the Healing Power of Fresh Juices and Cleansing Diets.
I'm tempted to not take this book back to my library, as it really should no longer be in circulation.
As another reviewer said, spend the money you might have spent buying this book on a juicer or buying some more lovely veggies to juice!
Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E.
The parts about juicing and the recipes for juices in this book are solid, but the general information given on diet is of such a low quality and could potentially cause so much harm that this book cannot be recommended even for the juice recipes.
This book recommends that you eat only tiny amounts of protein, almost no fat at all and a whopping 65-75% of your daily calories as carbohydrates.
Despite them being traditional foods for thousands of years, healthy fats and proteins are apparently causing the modern epidemic of diabetes and other diseases and so we need to eat massive amounts of carbohydrate to get better. Hmmm... It couldn't possibly be the massive increase in the amount of sugar and refined carbs we are eating, could it? That the NEW foods are what is causing these NEW diseases and health problems? And not the old fashioned foods that have kept many generations before us so healthy?
I feel extremely ill and gain weight very quickly eating even 50% of my calories as carbohydrates and that is without me eating the 4 bread rolls a day or two large pasta servings this author recommends, and eating almost all of that intake as vegetables, a little bit of fruit and honey and a single daily serve of steel cut oats. I'd also be hungry and weak all the time, and never not feel hungry as that is what eating too many carbs does if you have blood sugar issues. For me even 40% is too much. Eating what this author recommends would make me incredibly ill.
I also 'only' have hypoglycemia and insulin resistance, and not diabetes. I hate to think what this diet would do to a diabetic.
Following the advice in this book will make most of us feel worse, and will probably make you gain weight as well, as if feeling terrible and ill and moody wasn't enough.
It seems to be based on a vegetarian agenda. Nothing wrong with eating and drinking huge amounts of veggies but the healthiest diets combine this with eating adequate healthy fats and proteins as well, is all. This is the diet we evolved to eat. Fats and protein are so important to health.
There are lots of better books out there on the topic of diet and weight loss that are science based and just full of useful advice. The first two that come to mind are Eat Fat, Lose Fat: The Healthy Alternative to Trans Fats and The Schwarzbein Principle: The Truth About Losing Weight, Being Healthy, and Feeling Younger.
The first book focuses on maintaining good health, and also features a special health building diet for very ill people, as well as a plan to help you lose weight healthily. It also explains that saturated fat and cholesterol are not bad for you and that the lipid hypothesis is not based on science. What we need to do to be healthy is eat real old fashioned food as this is what we are genetically adapted to!
The second book focuses on weight loss and the author explains in detail why high carb diets don't work for those with diabetes etc. and why she can no longer give her patients this bad advice.
Both books basically recommend eating healthy fats and high quality proteins until satiety then adding lots and lots of non-starchy vegetables, plus a small amount of starchy vegetables and fruit - but no more than your body can cope with without you feeling ill or being overweight.
Another excellent book on this topic is Good Calories, Bad Calories: Fats, Carbs, and the Controversial Science of Diet and Health (Vintage) by Gary Taubes. This book explains why calories in, calories out doesn't work and is bunkum, and why high carb diets make so many of us fatter.
For information on why we need unrefined salt in our diets to be healthy, see Salt - Your Way To Health.
The author of this book also heavily pushes a brand of juicer made by a company that he has affiliations with. It amounts to an ad for this product within the book. This is the only type of juicer recommended by the book and it's a centrifugal juicer as well! The worst sort! (They are okay if they are all your budget allows for, but single or twin auger juicers are far superior.)
A far better book on juicing is Juicing, Fasting, and Detoxing for Life: Unleash the Healing Power of Fresh Juices and Cleansing Diets.
I'm tempted to not take this book back to my library, as it really should no longer be in circulation.
As another reviewer said, spend the money you might have spent buying this book on a juicer or buying some more lovely veggies to juice!
Jodi Bassett, The Hummingbirds' Foundation for M.E.
June 8, 2013
I received this book as a gift from my yoga instructor for Christmas and I already read more than half of it! Lots of interesting information about the benefits and nutritional content of each fruit, vegetable, and herb. Plenty of recipe ideas as well!
April 7, 2008
This is a good book if you are just starting out juicing. Lots and lots of recipes.
February 12, 2018
Really breaks down everything you need to know about nutrients, minerals and so much more! Really made me understand the benefits of juicing and enticed me to give it a try! Great book!
May 11, 2018
I lost a lot of respect for this book when towards the end he said, “Cooking can cause the loss of up to 97% of water soluble vitamins (A, D, E, and K)”... First of all, those are FAT soluble vitamins, and second, vitamin D isn’t contained in fruits and vegetables. I was also not a fan of his very low fat recommendations at the end. One serving of mono or polyunsaturated fat per day? Yeah right. One is going to be constantly hungry on that plan because FAT induces satiety, not fiber. Despite these annoyances, I enjoyed reading all the juice recipes, and I thought the bio on each fruit and vegetable was very interesting. Even though I don’t support juice cleanses, I think juicing is a nutritive practice and something I will continue to implement in my life.
January 1, 2018
This is a great book to find out what vegetables and fruits to use in your daily juicing schedule. I really dislike people declaring that juicing doesn't work. You really have to do it for at least three months. I have a torn meniscus in my knee and since I have been drinking juice in the morning and lunch. Then eating a healthy dinner, my knee pain has lessened. Also my allergies are gone. You can add or subtract anything you want from your juice. Disregard negative comments and keep doing it. Now I am hoping to add exercise to my schedule, which will only be another positive key to my daily life.
April 18, 2018
Used it to learn about benefits of juicing as a whole. Learned a lot about fresh vs processed, enzymes, and potency of juicing vs eating.
The diet and nutrient recommendations are outdated and the recipes have too much fruit in them. I don’t need to cover my veggie juices with a bunch of sugar. I prefer to eat my fruit and slow down the sugar.
This book is outdated and should just be used to learn about basic juicing properties and benefits
The diet and nutrient recommendations are outdated and the recipes have too much fruit in them. I don’t need to cover my veggie juices with a bunch of sugar. I prefer to eat my fruit and slow down the sugar.
This book is outdated and should just be used to learn about basic juicing properties and benefits
January 5, 2020
The first half of this book is about health and juicing. Dr. Murray profiles a large number of fruits and vegetables with their medicinal benefits. He also has a section where you can look up a specific ailment and how to address it. There’s also a section on juicing for weight loss. The second half of the book is recipes. Each one I tried was palatable, and most were very tasty. Juices which are conducive to weight loss are clearly marked. A good book about juicing.
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March 6, 2021Bought a blender a month ago. Found a lot of useful recipes in this book!
March 17, 2022
Great reference
August 14, 2023
This book offers a ton of information about fruits and vegetables individually so that their components can be immediately looked up. Also, it gets into the how and why of juicing.
January 16, 2014
A highly motivating juicing companion.
You will find The Complete Book of Juicing, Revised and Updated is about more than juicing. It takes a look into the science behind juicing and it's recommendations are clinically and scientifically proven. This book refers to the nutrition from juicing as the base for optimal health and I totally agree with that. It includes information on many diet related diseases and provides information on why diets deficient in certain vitamins, minerals and other vital nutrients, may lead to these diseases.
The three common juicers on the market are listed and information on how they work. I learned how to regulate the ratio of the vegetables to fruits used in my juicing for an optimal level. You are given clear information on which fruits and vegetables are best to use as a base for your juice and what percentage works best.
Personally, I was very happy with information in this book and found it highly informative. As someone who juices occasionally, this book helped clarify many questions I had in regards to juicing. I was also provided with additional information on nutrition that I was not even aware of. If you juice or are are thinking about giving juicing a try, I highly recommend you give this book a read. This is one of those books one should keep on hand as a reference, not only for the great juicing recipes, but also for a quick reminder on all the health benefits behind juicing. This highly motivating book is full of information, yet compact, making it great for travel.
You will find The Complete Book of Juicing, Revised and Updated is about more than juicing. It takes a look into the science behind juicing and it's recommendations are clinically and scientifically proven. This book refers to the nutrition from juicing as the base for optimal health and I totally agree with that. It includes information on many diet related diseases and provides information on why diets deficient in certain vitamins, minerals and other vital nutrients, may lead to these diseases.
The three common juicers on the market are listed and information on how they work. I learned how to regulate the ratio of the vegetables to fruits used in my juicing for an optimal level. You are given clear information on which fruits and vegetables are best to use as a base for your juice and what percentage works best.
Personally, I was very happy with information in this book and found it highly informative. As someone who juices occasionally, this book helped clarify many questions I had in regards to juicing. I was also provided with additional information on nutrition that I was not even aware of. If you juice or are are thinking about giving juicing a try, I highly recommend you give this book a read. This is one of those books one should keep on hand as a reference, not only for the great juicing recipes, but also for a quick reminder on all the health benefits behind juicing. This highly motivating book is full of information, yet compact, making it great for travel.
December 27, 2011
I got a juicer for Christmas, and this gives useful info, along with some solid and some suspect health advice. Take away message from reading it: Vegetable juice is really good for you and doesn't taste very good. Mix everything with carrot and apple juice, and you'll live forever, beat cancer, etc.
December 11, 2012
I finally finished this book. It was interesting to see how juicing can help the body heal in many ways. It did take a while because it is nothing but facts. The recipes in the book for juice are good, and can even help with whatever symptoms that you have. I would recommend this book if you are interested in becoming more healthy and looking to increase nutritional intake.
January 25, 2014
Good for reference
March 2, 2013
This is out of date but many of the recipes are powerful. I combine two or three. Its still a great go- to resource on the basics of juicing for health and vitality.
November 28, 2013
Lots of good recipes.
March 22, 2014
the recipes are excellent and the book is extensively footnoted with peer-reviewed research that supports his arguments about the health benefits of juicing.
May 30, 2016
Lots of data here, listing benefits of fruits and vegetables. But it was dry and repetitive. A good basic resource, but not very enticing and not a single photo except for the cover.
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