Juicer for more nutrients

• By HappyS (Inactive)
• Reply 3310917
• August 22, 2012 at 4:45 am
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Hi Mbauman6,

Congratulations.

Apparently sugar and fat also slow the stomach emptying process so apart from the juicing idea it's good to watch those too.

• By RLH58
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• August 22, 2012 at 8:03 am
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I have an colostomy and I juice twice a day if possible. There is other products such as Aims Garden Trio that I use. Its like a kick in the butt for me when I use it. I got the Omega 5000 juicer. It has a 15 yr warranty. Always try to use organic if possible.

• By Hunt
• Reply 3311179
• August 22, 2012 at 8:17 am
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The Juicer that I use is Jack LaLaine. (spelling) It works great for me.

• By dollyme (Inactive)
• Reply 3311555
• August 22, 2012 at 10:23 am
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I am also a Juicer, Vitamix is the name of mine. I love it and a great way to get some of the fruits and veggies I need to eat daily. I have problems with divers.
God bless
Dolly

• By lilymyiley
• Reply 3313201
• August 22, 2012 at 8:36 pm
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I can recommend Vitamix. I have found the best deals on these units is from Costco (especially if you live in the USA) I am from Canada and they are twice the price up here.
You have to be very careful with an ileostomy that you are not getting too much fibre as that will cause an obstruction.
Make sure you are getting enough protein to heal and recover from your surgery. I found that the hardest part.
Keep posting and let us know how you are doing. Good luck with this journey.

• By cancancer
• Reply 3313467
• August 22, 2012 at 10:15 pm
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If you want to avoid fiber, don't get a Vitamix. It leaves all the fiber there, and mixes it with the juice. The idea of juicing is to remove the fiber to allow your intestine to absorb all the nutrients from the liquid. The fiber acts like a broom, sweeping your intestines clean, but it will take many of the nutrients from your juice with it. Juicers like the Omega 5000, the Champion, and my wonderful Omega VRT juicer with an auger, separate the juice from the pulp (pulp contains the fiber), so that you can really absorb what you're drinking. THAT is the point of juicing. So I highly recommend AGAINST a Vitamix as a juicer, though they are wonderful for many other purposes. They make wonderful soups and ice creams... but are more expensive than many of the other juicers. Don't just get a cheap one, though. The Jack Lalanne is wonderful because you don't have to chop your fruits and veggies as much, but it is a spinning basket juicer, and those do a number of unhelpful things. 1. They oxidize the juice which causes the nutrients to break down faster. 2, they waste your produce because they don't press and squeeze all the juice out of the pulp like auger style juicers do. My Omega VRT can even make wheatgrass juice, and it can juice fruits other juicers can't.

• By Lucie_Jaya (Inactive)
• Reply 3313997
• August 23, 2012 at 6:02 am
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Thanks cancancer,
your info is very helpful ! There are so many option on the market and it get confusing !

Take care!

Lucie

• By shelby01
• Reply 3314398
• August 23, 2012 at 9:29 am
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i use jack lalanne juicer and my blood work has been so good since that they may take me off tpn! i would definately recommend juicing-i will continue to use it even after surgery to re-sect. make sure to drink it right away don't let it sit for
too long. i wish someone at the hospital had told me about it a long time ago. it's the best way to get veg and fruits into
your system without fiber.

• By RLH58
• Reply 3314544
• August 23, 2012 at 10:15 am
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Yes Shelby I happen to go into a nutrition store and ran into a lady that works there and she had colon cancer and had her NH and all that good stuff on nutrition. She helped me more than anybody with probotics and metagentics and other supplements. It worth your time to check it out. It changed my way of eating.

• By shelby01
• Reply 3315039 · In reply to 3314544 by RLH58
• August 23, 2012 at 12:56 pm
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rlh like your dog! what are metagenics?

• By RLH58
• Reply 3315342
• August 23, 2012 at 2:51 pm
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I used the metagenics ultra inflammatory x 360 plus. Its a medical food all natural
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• By shelby01
• Reply 3315763
• August 23, 2012 at 5:44 pm
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rlh thanks!

• By RLH58
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• August 23, 2012 at 7:22 pm
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Your welcome Shelby. I also use the Aims garden trio and fiberblend capsules. Natren healthy Trinity probiotics

• By tdbm
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• September 3, 2012 at 11:22 pm
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I have a Vitamix and several kinds of juicers. For several weeks after my surgery, my husband was making juice for me, bless him! But after a few months with my colostomy I was missing my green smoothies so I tried making one again. I had been so scared off fiber that I left it quite awhile before making any again. Oh boy. I didn't wait long enough... IS there a "long enough" with this? Disaster. You will know what I mean. So I decided to get my nutrients through juice and skip the fiber for now at least. I get enough in my solid food anyway, I'm sure.

For those who have a blender but no juicer, you can put your greens in the blender with water and after it's all mushy, pour it through a nut milk bag or any kind of fine straining cloth. You will have diluted juice, and it might be oxidized, but it also might be better than no juice at all.

• By Wilma827
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• September 4, 2012 at 11:01 am
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I have a Breville juicer which I used quite a bit before I got really sick and had to have my Ilestomy. I am sure I didnt wait long enough as I made a nice juice about 3 weeks after my surgery... Oh the pain! I think it was just too soon! The gas it caused was almost unbearable! I am 6 mos. post surgery and now that I am reading all of your posts, maybe I will try again. I can't even remember the exact juice that I had but I'm pretty sure it had my normal carrots, celery & apple. I was very shocked since I juiced it but it was probably just too much too soon?

• By Jimok
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• September 5, 2012 at 4:04 pm
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Breville is the juicer I 've enjoyed for two years and will juice anything. I usually consume a little Dr Udos oil to slow down the transit time.

• By cancancer
• Reply 3350260 · In reply to 3345646 by tdbm
• September 5, 2012 at 5:22 pm
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That's a good idea, straining with a bag, but instead, I recommend people without juicers go to a juice shop like Jamba Juice or whatever is nearby, try some juices made fresh there, and see if you can tolerate them, so that you'll know if you want to go to the trouble of juicing or the expense of buying a juicer. Oh, and if you CAN tolerate fiber and want a Vitamix, I can tell you that there is a particular Kitchenaid blender that beat Vitamix in a test... the video is online. I'm not sure the model number, and Kitchenaid makes many... but search Google for the comparison video and... maybe you'll find it. Or... if I come across the video again, I'll post the info. Because the Kitchenaid costs about a hundred fifty, as opposed to several hundred. And it's better, more effective.

• By cancancer
• Reply 3350292
• September 5, 2012 at 5:37 pm
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Man.... I'm having a tough financial month or... year, and this week, I can't afford groceries. Nothing to juice. This conversation is making me thirsty. I'm going to go steep a lemongrass teabag and add stevia, and then I'll boil my brown rice and lentils. It's time to use up the earthquake food supply, anyway, but I think I'd rather fast than eat canned veggies. Ugh. It'd probably be healthier. We'll buy food when my daughters get jobs. They both worked at the same place and got laid off at the same time... I am fairly sickish-- I was hospitalized with severe sepsis last month, days after finishing my last round of chemo and I was treated for another severe infection last week, but... I guess it might be time to get a job. We haven't any money at all, and cannot pay September's rent. Yet. I do have permanent disability... I'm afraid I'll go back to work and have another major illness or a recurrence... That's a dumb way to live, isn't it? And I have a runny nose, headaches, and vertigo... and constant nausea... and pain in my butt where my 2 year old scar tissue is, from the ostomy. Working sounds like something I don't feel up to doing... but probably should try. Scary times. How many ostomates and stage four cancer survivors out there are working full time, I wonder? I guess I'll start a new post... Best wishes to you all for healing, or continued good health.