Glutton Forum

Making your own juicer recipes involves a lot more than just throwing a few fruits together.   These are some guidelines you can follow to help you invent some delicious, super healthy juices.

Perhaps the most important thing to consider when creating a juice is that citrus juices and "sweet" juices do no often mix.  Citrus juices include obvious fruits such as oranges, grapefruits, limes and lemons, but also passionfruit, kiwi, pinneaple.   Basically, any juice that has a large amount of acidity.

For a few years now, goji juice has been the talk of the town - Tinseltown to be specific.  Himalayan goji berry juice is said to be the magical drink of the stars that will keep you looking and feeling young forever.  Nope, I'm not making it up.  In fact, the promotion around Freelife Goji Juice, a prominent manufacturer of the drink says that "many of the world's longest living people consume regular daily helpings of a tiny red fruit that may just be the world's most powerful anti-aging food".  Well, if these walking Methuselahs are spending $50 on a 32oz bottle of this stuff, I sure as heck hope it's doing something for them.  Research has allegedly shown that goji juice benefits provide anti aging qualities, reduce causes of heart disease, decrease joint swelling, increase sexual performance...a few years ago, until they were ordered to stop, proponents of the wonder drink even claimed that it's tough enough to kill breast cancer.

Let's say you're an athlete, or a super mom, who's always on the go.  You may not be terribly concerned with fighting cancer, but you want a drink that's going to make you feel good, and give you that high level of energy to keep you revving during the day.  Goji berries, or wolfberries as they're also called, may just be your answer.  They're packed with carbohydrates (not the evil ones you see on fad menus...good ones), fiber, protein, six essential vitamins, 18 amino acids for muscle growth...these little Himalayan suckers are quite the super food.

You'd think that a topic as counter-consuming as the proverbial, cleansing juice diet, would have no place on a website called Glutton Forum.  I'm so fascinated by the belief in the effectiveness of a juicing diet that I can't help but address it.  After all, no one would even consider this radically ridiculous diet if they hadn't likely spent their life as a wobbly, blubber-laden glutton.

"Hey, that's not fair!  I've tried everything, and nothing has worked.  This is all I have left".  That's a lovely song, fat boy, but it's way off-key.  You may have tried everything, but you haven't tried it long, smart, or hard enough.  Just for fun though, let's say you have tried everything, and the enigmatic juice cleansing diet is all you have left.  Will consuming nothing but water and blended fruits and vegetables for a month really do the trick?