"My Mother's Story" - Fibromyalgia and a Negative Mindset (by guest author)

This account is from a eloquently-spoken guest author. It's the story of his mother who has fibromyalgia

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My mother is, was, and always will be, the jealous type, critical of others' successes due to her reluctance to take responsibility for her laziness and lack of action. First, I'll give a few examples of her personality before I discuss her self-induced fibromyalgia ("self-induced" meaning I think she's given herself the disease based on her paranoid mindset and negative attitude about life in general).

My mother cuts and uses coupons a lot. She works as a cashier at a grocery store so this helps her see what's on sale and helps her save more money. She needs to save money because, due to her negative attitute, she refuses to use her people skills--she's a very friendly, and for her age pretty, lady--to find herself a better job. She's been a cashier making $10 an hour for years.

Recently she's been complaining about people who buy several newspapers, use several coupons for products that are on sale, and get, for example, 20 boxes of Cheerios for under $1 each after using 20 coupons. The only reason she hates these people is because they've taken the time to learn how to use a computer and search and buy the coupons online. She doesn't own or know how to use a computer and is too lazy to learn. She's also too lazy to go to 7-11 and buy a few newspapers so that she can just clip the coupons herself. Therefore so she has no access to the coupons. So, she just complains about these people. The other day I found some coupons for some food that I like that, after coupons, is about 75% off (link here for $3.50 off Cascadian Organic: Cascadian Farms Cereal Coupon). I told her I was going to order some and she started complaining about "these people who buy coupons" and "you guys." Then I told her I only needed a few coupons but the pack that I ordered has 20 of the coupons and I could give her some of them. She wasn't complaining because, after that, she would be the one on the inside saving money, and she wouldn't actually have to do anything to get to that point, as I'd done all the work for her.

Here are a couple more examples related to her health problems. She has "fibromyalgia," a fancy name for health problems they can't diagnose; they just classify it as the disease fibromyalgia (FM). What it is is mostly women who think they have a lot of aches and pains, anxiety attacks, in my mom's case "hot flashes," reactions to certain foods and situations, and more. When she eats beans she'll say, "No, beans do something to my stomach and my FM starts acting up and...." I'm like, "Mom! Beans give everyone gas! Just gas! The reason your body hurts is because of the preservative that you ate with the beans and the lack of enzymes due to the beans being highly processed. If you want to eat organic beans with a enzyme-rich salad first--or else just fresh beans--you will not have the problem!" And she also gets constipated so I tell her to take 32 oz of sea salt water in the morning, a laxative tea at night (I bought this and it really works), or a special flower pollen from Turkey will clean everything out.

I know how to cure (yes, completely cure) the "diseases" she has. I mentioned the simple solutions to heartburn and constipation above. Fibromyalgia is reportly cured in a matter of months by full body detox as shown on this site, but not as intense but for a longer period of time. It's supposed to work with cancer too (intense and longer though, but easier as the alternative is death!) and probably even AIDS (if that virus actually even exists. In fact, we ALL have herpes, but it's dormant in people who are healthy).

Do you think she tried any of these things, even the very, very simple saltwater flush colon flush? Did she try the fruits and vegetables for a week just to see how she feels afterwards? Did she stop eating chili from a can and make organic chili? No, she'd rather complain, go to the doctor, and take those deadly drugs they give her.

I look to sites like yours to make myself feel good. There are several with more content, actually, but as you say you're adding more and more daily, so I did bookmark you and will check back often. I just thought I'd write you this since you said you accept articles by guests. If you post this maybe it will help people learn that they can cure themselves based just on how they think.

Thanks,

(Name omitted)

Quick Organic Recipes: Low Gluten Quinoa Recipe (for Start & End of Detox & Fast)

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Quick Organic Recipes: Low Gluten Quinoa Easy Quinoa Recipe

When you start a full-body detox or a juice fast it's often hard to eat regularly one day and go all fresh fruits and vegetables the next. Many people set aside a couple days' transition period. Simple organic recipes such as this low-gluten quinoa recipe is perfect for these occasions.

Similarly, when you're coming off a juice only detox or else a fresh fruits and vegetable diet it's not good for your body to jump right in and eat regularly again. Simple organic recipes with healthy grains like low gluten quinoa is the perfect choice.




Simple Organic Recipes: Easy Quinoa Recipe with Fresh Organic Vegetables

Ingredients (organic when available):

• 1 cup of organic quinoa (all quinoa is low-gluten quinoa)
• 1 small organic tomato (Roma preferred)
• 1 small jalepeno pepper (organic if available)
• 1 single slice of onion (red onion preferred)
• 1/2 garlic clove
• 1/2 avocado
  
• 1 slice of lime
• 2-3 leaves Romaine lettuce
  
• 2-4 cups of water (distilled preferred)
• Sea salt
• Pepper
• Extra virgin olive oil

Cooked Veggie Mix Procedure:

1. Chop jalepeno pepper and onion slice into small pieces
2. Crush or chop garlic clove into as small of pieces as possible.
   
3. Mix garlic, jalepeno, and onion together

Easy Quinoa Recipe Procedure:

1. Dry roast 1 cup of quinoa in sauce pan over medium heat. Stir continuously. Low gluten quinoa shells will "pop" open. This is normal. Roast for 2-3 minutes after the first pop.
2. After dry roast quinoa, add 2-3 cups of water.
3. Boil until water level is low, stirring occasionally
4. Add more water and jalepeno-garlic-onion mix. Cover
5. Simmer 10-15 minutes or until quinoa soft
6. When quinoa is soft, add a little more water and add salt, pepper, and 1-2 teaspoons olive oil. Add basil if desired.
7. Simmer until quinoa soft and mixed with vegetables. Quinoa will take on vegetable, salt, and olive oil taste.

Fresh Vegetable & Serving Procedure

1. Dice tomato and put on plate cold and fresh
2. Smash avacado adding sea salt and pepper. Place on plate as shown picture
3. Place fresh lime slice on plate
4. Cut or tear romaine lettuce and add to place, or put full leaves on separate plate
5. Add quinoa to plate
   
6. Compliment with any desired fresh fruit (grapes, raspberries, and cut up fresh jalepeno peppers shown in photo)

Eating

Squeeze lime over quinoa as desired. Quinoa, avocado, and tomato may be wrapped up in romaine lettuce and eaten like a burrito, or else cut up pieces of lettuce on top will be easier to eat with a spoon or fork.

This recipe serves two.

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Quick organic recipes like this easy quinoa recipes provide a good stepping stone into or out of a fast or detoxification. You're still getting fresh vegetables with the lettuce, tomato, and avacado. You're getting more veggies in the veggie mix. Quinoa provides several nutrients, and while not recommended during a juice fast, is digested fairly easily by the body

Full Body Detox Program: Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

This is a simple, easy fast to follow. It could be called a juice fast if you limit yourself to only juice, in which case the fast would actually be more beneficial to you. The purpose of the fast is to rest your digestive system while maintaining nutrition and energy to go about your daily life. You will be eating a substantially reduced calorie diet, however, so no aerobic or cardiovascular exercise can be recommended.

Program #1: Juice Only Detox

Since our goal is making the digestive system work as little as possible, for this diet, the absolute best bet would be to read our fruit juicer reviews (link for juice extractor review here) and select a juicer that best suits you. Then, you buy ONLY raw fruits and raw vegetables and juice them and drink the juice. You can drink as much juice as you like. It takes quite a bit of vegetables to get enough juice for a glass, and you won't be full after it, but if you can do it, this is the best way. Again, the best way for doing this fast is fresh fruits and vegetables only detox program or 3-4 weeks. That said, I myself am unable to do juice only for more than a day or two. I crave something with more substance. So, we'll go on to the next best thing.

Program #2: Fresh Vegetables and Fruits Only Detox

The next best thing to the only juice detoxification program is the fresh fruits and vegetables detox program. This is the same as above, however, instead of only juice, you substitute solid fruits and vegetables in order to feel full. So, instead of juicing the apple (hopefully organic, if you want the detox to work quickly), you eat it whole. You do the same with carrots, celery, lemons, oranges, etc. Some vegetables might be better juiced as opposed to being eaten raw, such as broccoli. In this diet you can make wonderful salads. Romaine lettuces, minced up garlic (you mince it, not the stuff in a jar), organic basil leaves cut into small pieces, organic tomatoes, organic vegetables of any type, organic fruits, etc. Try not to add any seeds or nuts as they don't digest as quickly as the fruits and vegetables.

Digestion and Enzyme Discussion

Before we move on let's discuss digestive enzymes. All fruits and vegetables contain digestive enzymes so that your body barely has to work to digest them. Some of the fibers of the fruits and vegetables take a little to digest, but not much. With juice-only you don't get these fibers but you still get the enzymes, so you can see how that will be better to rest your digestive system.

While your digestives systems rests, it breaks down fat and removes the toxins from it. So, the less work it does, the more it works on fat and removing the toxins within it. You can detox with non-organic fruits and veggies, but organic is best, as there are no further toxins added that your body must rid itself of. Nuts, olive oil, potatoes, avocados, etc., all have enzymes and are pretty easy to digest, not as easy is fruit only or juice only, but easy enough and may be used. Salt, pepper, and pretty much anything that comes in a container when you buy it likely has chemicals added to it. Adding these chemicals, or toxins to your body isn't the best way to detox, because the toxins are what you're trying to get rid of.

Program #3: Fresh Vegetables and Fruits Detox with a Few Extras

Now, if you still need more substance, you can still get a good detox program. Here we'll add a few things that you can by all means use while detoxing, but keep them to a minimum: extra virgin olive oil and organic salt and pepper makes that salad easier to eat. The smaller amount the better. Steamed vegetables are quite filling. Asparagus, Yukon Gold potatoes, sweet potatoes, onions, broccoli, etc. Since steaming too much will kill the enzymes, don't steam too much; or too often. Just a minute or two, or until it's soft enough for you to choke down is the best. You may add RAW (not roasted or salted) seeds, nuts, beans, etc., but keep them to a minimum. We're not talking anything in a can or a package. They should all be fresh. Dried beans in a package aren't recommended, but at a minimum, they should be okay. If you absolutely need organic spices, go ahead and use them sparingly. Actually organic spices won't hurt anything, especially if you're eating them with the enzymes in the salad that you're putting them on. Organic tea is okay, but chamomile, peppermint, or senna (a laxative tea) is the best. If you know for sure that you're only drinking what comes from a dried leaf, then you're okay, especially if you drink it while eating fresh fruit, fresh vegetables, or the fresh juice of either.

Full-Body Detox Programs: Fresh, Living Fruits and Vegetables

All of the above WILL detoxify your body! Juice will be fastest, and so on. Even if you eat nuts all day and use a lot of extra-virgin olive oil as dressing you'll be okay, but the detox will just take longer. Juice-only should only take 2-3 weeks whereas #3 above will take a month. And whichever you do, you must know that if you still have fat on you you will not be fully detoxed! However, since we can't keep on these programs forever without going nuts, we take a few week period when we think we can stick to the program--a 3-week period with no stress or hard work--and detox when we can, a few times per year, for instance.

Cheating on Detox Diet

This is biggie. When people cheat once, they feel they have to give up. CHEATING IS OKAY! If you give up you fail. If you're on your third day of a detox diet and you have a cup of coffee with cream and sugar, sure, you're cheating, but why give up? It won't completely stop your body from detoxing, it will just prolong it a few hours. So, continue!

There's actually another full body detoxification diet I plan to write about how you are able to eat whatever you like for dinner and still detox! I won't get into all the details here, but basically, you follow #1 or #2 above (let's not do #3 here) for breakfast and lunch, and eat a normal dinner of what you want to eat. Heck, cake is fine too! Now to make this work much, much better, you do the eat-anything part for lunch, and juice or fruit and vegetables for dinner. That would be a nice detox, slowly but surely.

In fact, this is how I live my life. I do the occasional water-fast (which is the fastest way to detox but that won't be discussed in this post) for a day or two (that's all I can handle without feeling too dizzy to stand), juice fasts for a few days, and #2 above a few times a year, however, almost all of my meals at home are organic fruits and vegetables. Why do I limit it to meals at home? Well, virtually all restaurants used processed foods with nearly no enzymes that are full of preservatives and other chemicals. I stay away from fast-food as much as possible. Eating a salad before each and every meal on the road does wonders as well--provides enzymes and fills you up a bit and might even keep you from eating dessert!

I know I probably missed a lot here, but I'll answer all questions in the comments below, so fire away!

Review: Juice Extractor Review High Range ($100-200)

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High Price Range ($100-200)

We'll be showing you a few juicer reviews for the high price range. Many of the juicers in the $50-100 price range, though, may be just a good. Have a look here for those juice extractor reviews: juicer review Mid Range $50-100.

Jack Lalanne Juicer review ($100 on Amazon.com). This is a very, if not the most popular juicer. Many feel it's the best juicer. Indeed it's juicer blade is very large for it's size and most notably, the large mouth of the food pusher doesn't go directly to the middle of the blades, but offset from the center. How does this help? The blades are spinning faster at that part of the cutter. Small juicers are like this, actually, with their cresent-shaped food pusher (see review juicer Low-Range here).

Juice Extractor review Jack Lalanne Pro Juicer ($150 at Target.com). This juicer is the same as the one mentioned in the Jack Lalanne review above, however, it has a stainless steel finish and looks nicer. If you shop around you can find this Jack Lalanne juicer cheap at around $120. That said, the original Jack Lalanne can be found for $80.


Black & Decker JM503 Juiceman Juice Extractor review ($180 on Amazon). Let's look at the stat's for this one

• 1,000 watts (wow!) 3-speed push-button controls
• LCD display screen (nice!)
• blue backlight (pretty!)
  
• stainless steel body and juice bowl (great!)
  
• Heavy-duty die cast handles (rare!)
  
• cord storage wrap (convenient!)
  
• Stainless steel mesh, titanium-coated blades, and see-thru lid (could it get any better?)

And plus it's by Black & Decker, a reputable company. This is one of the best of this type of juicer.

West Bend Performance Series Juice Extractor review ($120 at Target). I'm not going to go into this deeply, as you can see it's very similar to the Jack Lalanne juicer. Lalanne is a trusted brand. I'm a bit skeptical about West Bend. I'd stick to Jack Lalannne over this one.


Breville JE95XL Two-Speed Juice Fountain Plus ($140 on Amazon). This is very smartly designed juicer. This is the newer version and it has two speeds: one for soft fruits and fast for harder foods. It's easy to clean, powerful, and gets a lot of juice. The only negatives about this juicer is that I haven't used one long enough to know how it holds up under pressure. 1 year warranty, so that should be okay!


Lexen Electric Healthy Juice Extractor Review ($180 on Amazon). This juicer review, folks, shouldn't be here. It should be in the Professional Range of over $200. This is a masticating juicer which smashes the juice out of fruits and vegetables rather than grinding it like in our other juicers. This is the cheapest of this type juicer so I couldn't recommend it due to likely poor quality control, but I can say that a masticating juicer is the way to go if you're looking to juice daily for long periods of time. I'd spend over $200 for a more popular juicer though.


Breville BJE510XL Ikon 900-Watt Variable-Speed Juice Extractor review ($182 on Amazon). This is another good review juicer from Breville. Note the review above, and note that this one is a tad more powerful, has variable speeds, and looks better because it's stainless. If you can afford it I'd say this is good choice.


L’Equip Mini XL Pulp Ejection Juicer ($140 on Amazon). No one I ask knows anything about this product, so in my case I'd never get it. I'm just throwing it out there to show you what's available.


And that's about it. We won't be doing a review of the $300-500 range unless there is a demand for it. If we get enough comments we'll write one!


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Mid Price Range ($50-100)

Here were going to review juicer in the medium price range. If you're looking for a cheap juicer, please check out our review juicers low price range, or the main reviews juicer page.

There are a few characteristics you quickly notice when comparing a mid-range juicer to a low-range juicer. First, they are a bit larger. You'll get a bigger disposal bin and more importantly, the mouth for the food pusher is much larger (low-range juicers have a small crescent shaped fruit pusher). Next, as compared to 300-400 watts, these juicers have around 700 watts of power. Finally, the blades (they're more like grinders, actually, have twice the surface area as the smaller juicers.

This mid-range juicer is basically something we made up to review juicers. These mid-range juice extractors are actually just cheaper versions of the high-range extractors. If you're just starting off and don't know how much you'll use the machine, I'd recommend a low-range juicer. If you juice only once in a while, maybe a mid-range would be good for you. If you want something better I'd go for the high-range versions.

Juiceman 2-Speed Juice Extractor reviews juicer ($60 at Target) (AKA Juiceman Big-Mouth). This is your run-of-the-mill mid-range juicer. Coming from a smaller juicer you'll love it. If you're expecting more, you'll hate it. Clean up isn't a breeze, but it's better than the smaller versions. It is quite a bit more powerful (over 700 watts) and has a large food chute for accommodating whole apples and such. This is a bonus. It's kind of hard to take apart to clean, so note that before buying.

Note, we won't review juicer Juiceman Jr. Chrome ($60+) or regular Juiceman Junior ($60+) in full because of several reasons. These are still available, but older and if you check the links you'll find review juicer that customers with not pleased with these machines as they were messy, didn't extract much juice, and broke easily. The prices are upwards of $60, which is actually more than the Juiceman 2-Speed mentioned above. Plus the small crescent shaped food plunger would classify these juicers with the low-range review juicers.


Sharper Image 700w Juicer Review ($70 at Macys.com). We don't know too much about this juicer. It's a regularly priced $100 juicer, so on sale it fits in this mid-range category perfectly. Sharper Image products are usually expensive, but since this is only $100, I'm assuming it's a mid, and not high-range product. I haven't seen it, haven't seen too many reviews on it, but just though I'd mention it here anyway. Here's the Amazon link as well.





Hamilton Beach Big Mouth Review Juicer 67650H ($75 at Target [Amazon link]). This is very similar to the Juiceman 2-speed. Cleaning isn't great, but it's not too bad. This is 800w, so you get a bit more power here. The juicer is a bit loud, so prepare for that when you buy it. If you see the links make sure to not that there are a couple different styles. The one at Amazon looks much nicer if you ask me. For mid-range, this is decent juicer, espeically if you can find it for under $60, which would be possible (hint: try Target or Walmart in-store, you never know what they might have! I found something similar for $48!).

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Okay, as said before these reviews juicers in the mid-range are basically the cheaper high-range juicers, as far as characteristics. They do have the big mouths and the power of the high-range juicers, but have the quality of the low-range juicers. Please read all reviews before making your selection.

If you find any more not listed here, or just have a comment or a review, don't hesitate to add a comment below!



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Low Price Range: $0-50

The low range juicers reviewed here all have slower motors, meaning around 300-400 watts. They usually have small mouths for inserting fruit and veggies. These lower priced reviews juice extractor aren't as sturdy, are kind of messy to clean up, and all have the same basic set up, therefore look similar to each other. Of each I'll give my review juice extractor and my recommendation.

Mercury Juice Extractor Reviews Juicer ($17 on Amazon). This is my top recommendation for someone just starting out juicing. If you're only planning to a 2 week juice fast or even a month juice fast only, this juicer should be your choice because it's a decent juicer cheap. However, this is probably a Chinese company that you can only buy through Amazon.com. It will probably break easily. If you're only going to use it for the fast, OR to see if you like the juicing lifestyle get it. If you want to buy in person, check the next reviews juicer.


Hamilton Beach Health Smart Review Juicer Reviews ($39 at Walmart). At Walmart actually saw this juice extractor. Review seems decent. I didn't know it was at Walmart. Cheap juicer cheap store! Quite surprising. This isn't as cheap as the one on Amazon, but it's a Hamilton Beach juicer review and it's a well known name. Plus you get two speeds. The next review juicer is very similar.



Hamilton Beach Health Smart Juicer Review ($39 at Target). If you click the link you'll see that this juicer isn't very good and doesn't get as much juice as others. Plus it's pretty messy. Customers seem unsatisfied. I'd stay away from this one.





Elite Cuisine 2 Speed Power Dynamic Juice Extractor Review Juicer ($39 on Amazon). I don't have any information on this one, but there are reviews on Amazon if you click the link I provided. Elite Cuisine seems decent though.


Black & Decker Juice Extractor Reviews Juicer ($38 on Amazon). Of these smaller ones under $50, this is my top choice for someone who juices a few times a month. It's not a great review juicer, but it's decent and does the job. I like the Black & Decker brand over the others I mentioned and it should last. I'm sure I saw this at Walmart, Target, or some other store. You'll have to call around, or else buy this cheap juicer online.

These were juice extractor reviews juicer for some of the most popular smaller juicers. There are many more, but you get the gist of how they are. They are all quite similar. If you have any of these, or have read about some other juicer review in this price range, I invite you to leave your comment below and help other readers out. Thanks!

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Welcome to our juice extractor review. What we'll be reviewing goes by various names. We'll be covering all of the following, although they are nearly the same thing!: juicer review, juice extractor review, juice extractor reviews, juice extracter review, review juicer, review juicers, vegetable juicer review. We will not deal with blender reviews juicer, citrus juicer reviews, or food processor review in this article.

Which Juicer is Best for Me?

Prices of juicers range from around $30 all the way up to over $300. There are 3 main types of fruit juicers to choose from. The bigger, more expensive they are, the more likely they are to be called a juice extractor.

First, you have to look at your budget. How much can you afford? Next, do you need a good juice extractor for daily use? Or do you just need a small fruit and vegetable juicer to use a couple times a week? They both do the same job, but the better they are, the easier they are to use, the easier to clean up, the more fruit they can handle at once, and even a higher percentage of juice (reviews juicer page links below).

For a little note on color, I'd like to tell you that some of the natural dyes in fruits and vegetables are very strong and capable of staining. So, if you buy a white juices, it's almost guaranteed to stain if you don't wipe it off immediately after each use.

My recommendation would be that if you are just starting out, get the cheapest juicer you can find. If you find yourself using it often, upgrade. There's no sense buying a medium priced juicer to start if you end up upgrading in the near future. There's no use jumping into a big one either, because you're not sure if you're going to use it often. Here are the reviews juicers or reviews juicer extractor, I'll tell you my opinion of each.

The following are links to our reviews, juicers are categorized by price. These machines are called juicer review, juice extractor reviews, juice extracter review, review juicer, review juicers, vegetable juicer review, reviewed juicer, juicer reviewed, review juice extractor, reviews juice extractor, review juice extractors, reviews juice extractors.

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UPDATE: We don't yet have our review of the $200+ juicers up. This type grinds as well as squeezes the resulting pulp to give you more juice. There is one listed in the High Range review. If you're interested in this type, please check that out and go from there.