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Mineral Punch

3 large kale leaves

2 handfuls spinach

8 romaine lettuce leaves

4 red apples



Wash produce and slice apples into wedges. Process ingredients in juicer. Serve immediately.
Enjoy!

Mineral Punch Nutritional Benefits

This delicious green vegetable juice is packed with energy-giving greens that are rich in vitamins and minerals.

Spinach is a good source of iron, provitamin A and vitamin C. It also contains the antioxidant lutein.
Kale is high in lutein, and contains a fair amount of calcium. Kale is also abundant in beta carotene, and vitamins A, C and K.
For more information on vitamin K, why we need it and a list of foods that contain it, please see our Foods High in Vitamin K article:
Apples are rich in pectin, a soluble fiber said to reduce cholesterol absorption from food.

A List of Foods High in Vitamin K

Vitamin k is vital to proper clotting of the blood. Recent studies also suggest that this nutrient also helps to maintain bone health.
Experts now recommend that men get at least 80 mcg. (micrograms) and women 65 mcg. of
vitamin k a day.
So how do we get it? Follow the green, my friend.
Leafy greens are some of the most abundant sources of vitamin k.
For your convenience, we compiled a list of foods high in vitamin k.

Foods Very High in Vitamin K:

Kale	1/2 cup	660% daily req.
Spinach, frozen, steamed	1/2 cup	560% daily req.
Turnip Greens	1/2 cup	530% daily req.
Collard Greens	1/2 cup	520% daily req.
Swiss Chard	1/2 cup	360% daily req.
Parsley	1/4 cup	300% daily req.
Mustard Greens	1/2 cup	260% daily req.
Watercress	3 cups	250% daily req.
Scallion	1/2 cup	207% daily req.

Foods Relatively High in Vitamin K:

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Brussels Sprouts	1/2 cup	190% daily req.
Spinach, raw	1 cup	180% daily req.
Green Leaf Lettuce	1 cup	125% daily req.
Broccoli	1 cup	110% daily req.
Coleslaw	1 cup	100% daily req.
Cabbage, boiled	1 cup	98% daily req.
Asparagus	5 - 7 spears	80% daily req.
Endive Lettuce	1 cup	70% daily req.
Romaine Lettuce	1 cup	70% daily req.

Please Note:
If you are currently taking a blood-thinning drug such as warfarin, please understand that vitamin k-containing foods may lessen the effectiveness of the drug you are taking.
It is therefore imperative that you discuss with a trusted medical professional exactly how much vitamin k you should be consuming in your daily diet.

juice fasting-detox

I ask you one more time are you game, time to  feel People fast for different reasons. Sometimes I fast for spiritual reason¾fasting can be an oasis where I can go to, to draw spiritual refreshment, away from the demands of this materialistic world. And sometimes I juice fast simply to detox or to rid off some extra pounds.

I personally find that juice fasting is one of the best and faster way to detox and to lose weight, for two simple reasons:

• It effectively removes toxins; and
• It feeds the body with nutrients that repairs, rebuilds and regenerates.

By juice fasting, we allow our digestive system to take a much needed rest. At the same time, we take in fresh fruit/vegetable in the form of juices that contains the necessary nutrients to help repair the damaged cells, heal and nourish.
The anti-oxidants from the juices neutralize free radicals and oxidation that are harmful to our body. It is this oxidation that is the root cause of many degenerative diseases in our body. Juicing forces out the precious nutrients within the fruit or vegetable fibers that compensate for what our body may have been lacking through months or years of reckless eating habits.
Fruit and vegetables are loaded with vitamins, minerals, enzymes, bioflavonoids, phytonutrients and carotenoids, which our body can easily digest and assimilate when taken in as juices.
You ask why don't we just eat the fruits whole. Well, consider a carrot. If you were to eat a carrot, your body is able to assimilate only a very small percentage of the beta-carotene. But when you drink carrot juice, your body is able to assimilate nearly 100% of the beta-carotene! This amount of beta-carotene can do much wonders for the repair and healing of your damaged cells, thus speeding up healing.
During a juice fast, the body is stimulated to greater metabolic and eliminative activity. After a prolonged fast, you will notice that you will lose some weight, your skin tightens or clears up, hair shines, your eyes brighten, and you will feel more energetic and sleep less.
And finally, juice fasting can also be a very humbling experience as you determine to resist temptations, building up your self-confidence as you sharpen your discipline and self-control that is required to go through a fast. Through fasting, you learn to control your body and appetite instead of having your body control your life.
Experience ... the miracle of juice fasting ...First of all, it is important to understand the difference between juice fasting and starvation. In the absence of food, the body cells will start to go around the body and feed on other dead cells, damaged tissues, and fatty deposits. These will be burned as fuel for energy when it has no access to food intake.

On prolonged juice fasts, cleansing takes place even into those hard-to-reach places. After feeding on the dead tissues and fats, the cells would have run out on them, and start feeding instead on abscesses, and even tumors. The body undergoes a tearing down of damaged materials and when fed with nutrition (from fresh juices), rebuilding and healing takes place.

Most healing starts to take place only after about 21 days of fasting. This prolonged period allows the body uninterrupted time to do the meticulous work of healing. During this spring-cleaning, you can expect these wastes/toxins being removed and being eliminated from your body (you will notice them coming out in slimy mucus form):

• Trans-fatty acids and fatty tissues, and along with it, drugs, chemicals, pesticides, etc.
• Dead, dying or diseased cells
• Toxic wastes in the lymphatic system and bloodstream
• Toxic wastes in the spleen, liver and kidneys
• Excess mucus from the lungs and sinuses
• Excess cholesterol

Years of faulty diet, beers, junk food, sweets, etc. are being torn down and released as toxins into the blood to be transported out of your body. Be sure to drink plenty of water (distilled is best) during fasting to flush these wastes out efficiently. You may encounter some healing crisis but count it as proof that your body is responding nicely to your fast.

Starvation, on the other hand, happens (and this can be dangerous) when in the absence of food, there is not even nutrition. During a prolonged starvation, the cells even start to attack the body's vital tissues for survival. This is why a full fast from food and fluids are not encouraged for more than three days.

When a prolonged juice fasting is done properly, you will find that at the end of it even though you feel physically weak, a lot of healing had taken place inside your body that you don't see. And as you slowly regain your strength, you will realize that your previous ailments may have also disappeared.

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Spiritual Benefits from Prolonged Fasting

During prolonged fast and prayer, you save the time from preparing meals and spend it on prayer instead. The longer you fast, the more the flesh becomes weak and more sensitive and in tune with the spiritual realm. When you put in more time in prayer, you will experience spiritual or prayer breakthroughs that you may not experience otherwise.

When your physical flesh comes under pressure from weakness, it forces you to become detached so that you can quietly observe and realize who you really are. It can be a very humbling experience when even pride of life can be broken.

When you become spiritually bankrupt with nothing to turn to, you face a vacuum in your life that only God can fill. When you have nothing, then you realize that your dependence on God's mercy enables you to have the same mercy on others.

Ask God to bring to remembrance and bring release to those who have hurt you, and those whom you have hurt. Forgiveness releases you from the bondages of fear, doubt, guilt and hopelessness.

And the result?

At the end of a prolonged  30 or 40-day fast, you can expect any or all of the following:

• The digestive system is given a well-deserved rest, allowing it to clear up. A clean colon promotes an overall healthy body.
• Enhanced mental, physical and spiritual sensitivity
• Rapid and safe weight loss
• Increased energy level and vitality
• Increased and improved mental clarity
• Healing of chronic diseases caused by years of poor diet and lifestyle
• Balanced nervous system
• Revitalized organs
• Reduced nasal stuffiness and congestions
• Clearer/glowing complexion
• Reduced water retention
• A new you, rejuvenated physically, mentally and spiritually.When on juice fasting there is no fiber being consumed. However, fresh juices themselves contain gentle natural laxatives.
  During fasting, a huge amount of wastes, toxins, dead cells and diseased tissues are burned, and they are being loosed and expelled from the system. These wastes are eliminated from the system through our kidneys, bowels, skin and lungs, with the bowels being the main way out.
  If not eliminated properly, the toxic wastes remain in your colon and get re-absorbed into the system, poisoning the whole body. The toxins may try to get eliminated through other eliminative organs, particularly through the kidneys, which may result in overloading or damage.
  This is why in any detox program, it is so important that you drink plenty of water to flush out the toxins. Distilled water is particularly good at doing this as it is the best solvent to dissolve inorganic mineral substances or toxins.
  To aid with the elimination of wastes, there are a few options that you can consider doing. But remember, these are to be done early on during your fasts, best during the first few days. These are whole new topics which you can read up on the internet:
  
  • Enema
  • Colon cleanse program or hydrotherapy (colonic irrigation)
  • Psyllium husks fiber drinks
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