[peterbrown77]

Not to rain on the parade, but juicing has definite disadvantages versus eating the whole fruit/vegetable. Let's use an orange as an example: take two peeled oranges, drop one through the juicer and drink it (100% of it) and eat the other normally. Your body has two completely different reactions. Now, an orange is mostly sugar water. When you eat the whole (un-juiced) orange, the sugar water enters your system over time (unless of course you chew each bite 32 times to keep you from danger so you can stay up and watch The Lone Ranger). This suppresses the insulin response as you have a more stable blood sugar level. If you drink the orange however, all the sugar hits your bloodstream at once, resulting in a spike of blood sugar, increased insulin production, and increased fat production. Your body also expends energy breaking down the un-juiced orange, resulting in fewer "net" calories than you receive from the juiced orange. So, basically, even though you haven't "cooked" the food in a juicer you have actually added a level of processing to it, in that you've had a machine do something for you that your body would normally do for itself. And every time you process a food, calories go up and nutrition goes down.