Sarah Cadji - Pure juice: fresh & easy recipes

THE RAW VEGETABLE FOOD DIET IS THE MOST POTENT,
CONCENTRATED, AND NUTRIENTRICH WAY
OF LIFE FOR HUMAN BEINGS. A WAY OF LIVING
THAT IS SIMPLE, CONTROLLABLE, AND CLEAN.

I grew up in Athens, Greece, where the weather is warm throughout the year, with no harsh winters and an incredible climate that enables fresh produce to grow naturally. As a child, my grandmother and I would always buy our fresh food from stalls in the market, where we held conversations with the farmers who grew the produce themselves. We always had a very personal relationship with the food that we put inside our bodies.

In my twenties, I moved to London and started working in finance. Life was great: I was productive, surviving in a big city all by myself and creating a life that was all mine. I was constantly rushing around trying to get everything done, without leaving any time to think about the choices I was making about my diet and my long-term health. Inevitably my body, gave way and I crashed. I started waking up exhausted, feeling nauseous throughout the day, and more importantly I started feeling depressed. I had no energy to get out of bed in the mornings and I felt my body had turned into a lifeless piece of matter.

I went to tens of doctors who prescribed medicine, which I refused to take. Eventually, I decided to take matters into my own hands. I tried to be rational and reasonable and use my common sense and give my way of life a lot of thought. It became very clear to me that if I wanted to get better and feel different, I would need a long-term solution. I looked at my lifestyle, my eating habits, my exercise routine, and I realized I had never properly considered the impact what I put inside my body on a daily basis was having on my well-being. I had to do something about it. This was my life and if I didnt look out for myself, I would never be able to carve my own path. My health journey had started.

I studied hundreds of diets, I read various books about food and ingredients, and I met a lot of experts in the field of medicine and nutrition. One common thread that weaved throughout all of my findings and has now become my golden rule is that a raw vegetable-based diet prevents and resolves body deficiencies and lack-of-nutrient-based illnesses in our world today.

I realized I needed to focus on the benefits of raw, green, and leafy vegetables; as organic and locally sourced produce contains at least twice the nutritional mineral content of regular produce.

The raw vegetable food diet is the most potent, concentrated, and nutrient rich way of life for human beings. A way of living that is simple, controllable, and clean.

I started thinking about balance and how essential it is to live a long, healthy life. The key was to find a way of eating more greens and the rest in moderation. I recognized the power of adding in the good stuff, instead of taking out the bad. There simply isnt any sustainability in crash juice diets, instead it is all about finding a way of juicing every day and finding your own balance.

I was making and drinking fresh, raw, and organic vegetable juice every day, while carefully analyzing my other food choices. I used nutritional common sense and exercised balance. After a year, I was alert, focused, and happy. Vegetable juices were feeding my body with intense concentrated nutrition and it was all down to the choices I had made. I felt so empowered, ready to take on the world with an inner strength that could not be measured.

This is what a consistent, balanced approach to your health will do for you too. The healing powers of raw juicing are too many to mention, but if I can do it, you can do it. Juicing makes your daily diet more understandable and much more manageable. Raw vegetable juicing is so self-explanatory, all you need is a willingness to try and the courage to take the leap that will guarantee you a better life.

I left my finance job and opened the first vegetable and organic juice and food bar in London. I have never in my life felt better, healthier, more cleansed, and more importantly happier.

I know you can get there too, all I want to do is show you how easy it is. I cant wait to start this journey with you.

Sarah Cadji

owner and proprietor
of Roots & Bulbs

So, you have heard about juicing and how it can change your life, make you skinnier, give you a healthy, natural boost, and dramatically change your life for the better. You have decided to give it a go, but you dont really know where to start or more importantlyhow and what to juice

This introduction is filled with the most important principles of juicing. Hopefully, it will kick-start your eagerness and your willingness to begin juicing for life. Lets start!

Fresh vegetables and fruits are the basis of any healthy diet as they are the source of nearly every nutrient the human body requires for optimum function. But fruit juice wont help you feel better or heal your body. This doesnt mean that fruit isnt good for you, it is, but it has too much sugar. Drinking fruit juice will result in having an internal insulin spike, which will leave your body craving more sweet food or liquid.

Instead, we should be drinking vegetable juices which have a small amount of fruit in them. Green vegetable juices are essential to establishing a healthy body and immune system. They build your internal system and strengthen your blood. They are very high in calcium, magnesium, iron, potassium, phosphorus, zinc, and vitamins A, C, E, and K. They are also loaded with folic acid and chlorophyll and purify the blood, prevent diseases, improve circulation, strengthen your immune system, and boost your energy levels. Clearly, the facts speak for themselves, vegetable juices are superior to fruit juices. Allowing a bit of fruit in your juices and smoothies is fine and will help your palate turn greener and healthier. But be careful, never add more than one or two fruits inside your juice, as its simply too much sugar.

It is always better to eat your fruit and drink your vegetables. Fruits eaten whole, contain the fiber which will slow down the release of sugar into your body, whereas juiced vegetables release all the goodness and essential missing vitamins quickly back into your body, without insulin spikes.

Why juice your vegetables? The answer is very simple: its all to do with how quickly the nutrients reach your body. Solid foods such as a carrot or a big chunk of broccoli require hours of digestive activity before their vitamins reach your cells. With solid food, we get fiber and although fiber is good, it does slow down the process of digestion. On top of this it tires the whole system and it results in our bodies working hard to assimilate those much-needed miraculous vitamins. I did an experiment some months ago while juicing, where I amassed all the solid food I would have eaten and put it in a clear garbage bag. The result was over 8 pounds of solid food that my body would have had to digest in one day. The body works so hard every day to process all kinds of junk that we put inside of it that it makes sense to give it a break. If you think about it in terms of time, your body takes five to seven hours to digest a bowl of vegetables and fruits whereas it takes just 15 minutes to digest the same ingredients when theyve been juiced.