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Health and Wellness Juice Diet – A Natural Treatment for the Flu

It’s cold outside and there’s not as much sun light. Do you know what time of the year it is other than the obvious? It is the dreaded flu season. For those that don’t like the pharmacological approach, they are always looking for a natural treatment for the flu. Personally, I do not blame them. Both protecting from and treating the flu via pharmaceuticals is like playing Russian roulette.

WHY YOU SHOULD NOT BOTHER GETTING THE FLU VACCINE

The flu vaccine does not give you 100% protection from the flu. At most it could provide you some protection for 3 to 4 out of the 150+ strains and subsets of the influenza virus. Have you ever gone to Las Vegas or Atlantic City or any other casino and placed a bet with odds like those? – I’m going to bet all my money on a 4 to a 150 chance that I will win. – Guess what? You have a great chance of losing. So if you wouldn’t gamble your money with those awful odds, why would you gamble your health with them?

The Flu Shot

But my doctor said… Yeah, Yeah! I’ve heard that before. Just because your doctor said to get the flu shot or nasal mist doesn’t mean you cannot choose a safer and more effective approach. The flu virus has been around for at least a 1000 years longer than the flu vaccine and people survived just fine using the abundance of natural medicines that are all around us.

You need to take a more active role in protecting your health and stop relying solely on what your doctor is telling you. Your doctor is going to tell you what the drug companies want them to tell you. Modern day western medical schools are funded mostly on pharmaceutical money and so are the policy makers. So if you are harmed by their recommendation guess what, the doctor is not liable. You get sick or worse and the doctor keeps on keeping on.

YOU MEAN I HAVE TO BE MY OWN DOCTOR?

When it comes to something as simple, easy to avoid and treat, yes you do! Now I know what you are thinking and no, you do not need to go to medical school to learn how to protect yourself from and treat yourself of the flu. Unless you you have been living in a bubble, you should already know that eating healthy with lots of fruits and vegetables can enhance one’s health and overall wellbeing.

PHYSICIAN

Well that is the simple solution to not just avoiding the flu but also to help your body get rid of it once you get it, if you should get it. Do you like having all of those aches and pains, the weakness, the chills one minute and then the sweats the next? Do you like having a fever, the stuffy or runny nose, the sneezing, the coughing, and the mucus? Did you know that by trying to stop and/or reduce some of these, it will prolong your recovery?

The only way your body can naturally kill the virus within you is to raise the body temperature. When the immune system doesn’t have any natural outside help to fight the virus infection, it will raise your body temperature because high heat will kill the virus. The sneezing, coughing and runny nose is the body’s way of getting the mucus out of you since that mucus contains some of the germs that are making you sick in the first place.

3 TIPS TO STAY HEALTHY DURING THE FLU SEASON

Tip #1: First off you should be taking at the very least 2,000 IU and at the most 5,000 IU of vitamin D3 every day during the Fall and Winter months. Doing this alone increases your chance of not getting the flu in the first place. Why do you need to take vitamin D3 only during the Fall and Winter months? Because your body cannot produce adequate amounts like it does in the Spring and Summer months. A month’s supply of vitamin D3 will run you about $3-$5.00 depending on where you buy it and at what dosage. Make sure that it is NOT in a tablet form. Only use capsules or gel caps.

Vitamin D3 Gel Caps

Tip #2: Secondly you also want to take at least 200mg of Alpha Lipoic Acid (ALA) every day. If you are diabetic then you will want to take at least 800mg a day, see my blog post on ALA. Alpha Lipoic Acid is a Super Antioxidant because unlike most nutrients that are either water soluble or fat soluble, ALA is both. Alpha Lipoic Acid can also recharge other key antioxidants that are also good for fighting the flu as well as fighting cancer, heart disease, and the aging process. Like vitamin D3, ALA is produced in the body from food without supplementation but at too low a quantity to have any therapeutic power. A month’s supply of Alpha Lipoic Acid will run you about $4-$8.00 depending on where you buy it and at what dosage. Make sure that it is NOT in a tablet form. Only use capsules or gel caps.

Tip #3: And finally the last tip is the most, tastiest tip of them all. That’s why I left it for the last tip, to get your mouth watering for it so to speak. For this tip you will have to spend the most money for it but it is oh, so worth it! You will need to go out and purchase an electric juicer and one that is powerful enough to juice the rind or skin of a pineapple or cantaloupe melon. Yes, you heard that right.

THE JUICEMAN JUICER

The best brand for this task, and there may be a couple others but this is the brand I have always used with great success, is the Juiceman brand. I have been juicing for 20 years and after the first 15 or 16 years it was time for a new one. I think that amount of time for one juicer being used every day and most times twice a day, is pretty darn good! So I again went out and bought another Juiceman because I loved the power and quality of the first one.

Because the style had changed a bit in 15-16 years I settled on the Juiceman JM400 electric juicer, which is also known as the Juiceman Jr. Don’t let the name junior fool you. It is quite powerful at handling every type of fruit and vegetable including the skin and rind.

THE SKIN & RIND HAVE NUTRIENTS TOO

There I go again! Talking about juicing the skin and rind of fruits and vegetables. Well I have a good reason for juicing that which we mostly avoid when eating them. You see there are many different micro nutrients within the skin and rind that are sometimes not present in the meat of the fruit or vegetable. So in order to get them into you in a way that your body can digest them you must pulverize it by juicing it.

PINEAPPLE

Here’s an easy way to remember why getting all of the nutrients from fruits and vegetables are best when you can juice them instead of eating them. When you eat them you can’t always eat all of it. Can you see yourself enjoying a slice of juicy and sweet pineapple and then munching down on the prickly rind? I know I can’t. But by juicing it you can get the benefits of the whole fruit. Let’s look at carrots. Carrots are extremely beneficial for your skin, eyes and heart, among other things. But in order to be beneficial you would need to eat a pound of carrots. Can you see yourself sitting down to eat an entire pound of carrots, which is about 6 big ones? I don’t know of anyone who could or would. Even Bugs Bunny never ate that many carrots.

By juicing your fruits and especially the more dense vegetables you give your body and yourself a break. Your body’s digestive system doesn’t have to work overtime to digest the nutrients out of the solid food in your stomach. Plus you do not have to spend so much time to eat it all. You can drink it all in a matter of one minute or less. Plus when you can drink your nutrients they can get into your system way quicker than they can by you eating them. This is why many people experience a quick burst of energy shortly after consuming freshly juiced fruits and vegetables.

WHAT FRUITS & VEGETABLES ARE GOOD FOR THE FLU?

This is the easiest answer and the shortest paragraph on this blog post. What’s the answer? They ALL are good for the flu! For some great recipes check out bottom of my Food Choices page and you can always come up with your own juice recipes.

If you have any comments or questions please leave them below. I would also like for you to share any juice recipes that you may personally like that you may feel would be beneficial to other readers. You can leave them below as well. Thank you!

16 thoughts on “Health and Wellness Juice Diet – A Natural Treatment for the Flu

  1. Rob

    I love juicing too but haven’t done it in a while since my juicer stopped working 🙁 But this article has made me want to go out and buy a new one, maybe get the one you said that you got, the Juiceman. I’m going to check out those recipes on your other page. My favorite is Carrot, Apple and Ginger.

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    1. Robert Prescott Post author

      Carrot, Apple and Ginger is also one of my favorites too! As for the Juiceman it’s been the only brand I have ever used. I’m sure there may be other brands out there that are just as good but I love my Juiceman. – Thanks for leaving a comment Rob!

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  2. Carrie Galloway

    Excellent info here and very timely.
    More and more is coming out now about vaccines and in particular the flu shot.
    They contain toxic chemicals and in the case of the multi dose one’s, more mercury than we are supposed to be exposed to in a day!

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    1. Robert Prescott Post author

      I haven’t had the flu shot in 27 years and have had the flu no more than 4 or 5 times. The Flu shot is all a bunch of hype and bad medicine. People are so wise to the fact that they do not work and are very dangerous. If there were as many people getting the shot now as there used to be 10 years ago, they wouldn’t be trying to give them away for free like they are now. Since I started taking vitamin D3 10 years ago I can be around someone with the flu and not get sick. Because vitamin D3 from the sun protects us from the flu in the summer why not take it in pill form in the winter to do the same? As my doctor always says, “That’s just simple logic.” – Thank you for your comment Carrie.

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  3. James W D

    Every time I stop by here is a little more motivation to want to make a change in my daily consumptions. I really appreciate how you spell it out here and I found it interesting about eating the whole fruit. Keep up the good work and I will keep working towards making a change.

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    1. Robert Prescott Post author

      Thanks James, I will keep it up and as for you…all it takes is to make one little step and eventually that could turn into a big leap. But you got to take that first step or you will never get to the prize of near perfect health. – Thanks for reading my post!

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  4. Chris

    Hey Robert, Great article, I have heard that the best nutrients from fruit and veg are found in the rind, skins and core.
    As for a flu shot, well I have never liked that idea and I’ve never had one I truly believe keeping active and eating well is the ticket to avoiding colds and flu.

    I really enjoyed reading this today thanks for sharing your knowledge

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    1. Robert Prescott Post author

      You are so correct Chris. Keeping active and eating right can go a long way to keeping oneself healthy. The problem most people have is that they are lazy. That may not be what some of them like hearing but that is why they have many of the sicknesses they have and get because they are lazy. Lazy in eating right, lazy in being active like walking 10 minutes up to the corner store instead of driving there in the car, lazy in taking a more active role in staying healthy instead of having their doctor tell them what to do,… If people would just stop being lazy and take better care of themselves there wouldn’t be so many people getting sick. – Thanks for your comment!

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  5. Margaret Wangari

    Again Robert, you have over delivered great valuable content. I got to say you had me from the first word. This time, I am not getting sick since I implemented your suggestions from the last blog post. Today, I am going to be juicing really hard. Here in Arizona it’s the season for Oranges and Lemons. I have a whole carton of them from neighbors trees. I have a vitamix which was a present from my mom. I will utilize it today. My family loves all the raw fruits and vegetables I juice and it makes the sometimes ‘nasty’ tasting vegetables get a 5 star from making smoothies with them.
    Thanks and I am planning to join you with daily juicing.
    Happy Juicing Robert

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    1. Robert Prescott Post author

      Oranges and Lemons are in season? Wow, maybe I should come visit Arizona. Love, Love, LOVE, Oranges and love making Lemonade. – Yes another great thing about juicing other than the nutritional aspect of it is that it is an easy and very tasty way to get people to consume the vegetables they normally do not like the taste of. All I do is add an apple to a vegetable juice recipe and the apple sweetens it to the point that you cannot really taste the harshness of the vegetable and apple is one of only a handful of fruits that work synergistic with all vegetables. – Drink to your health Margaret! Cheers!

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  6. Milena

    Great site Robert! I like your content and how you present it in a way for everybody to understand and use in life. As to me I love making juices, smoothies. It is great way of taking many different vitamins in a way that most people love.
    If you would like to add minerals in your juice just add few leaves of green vegetables (spinach, mangel, kale, lettuce etc) since it’s not good for digestion to mix fruit and root vegetables.
    I have bookmarked your site for future reading.
    Keep up the good work!

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    1. Robert Prescott Post author

      Thank you Milena. I have always felt that if you enjoy something very much and you practice it all the time, then you should be able to explain it in a simple way for everyone to understand and enjoy. As for juicing, it’s a great way to lose weight and nourish the body at a quicker and more efficient way than eating.

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