The Juice Lady's Guide to Juicing for Health: Unleashing the Healing Power of Whole Fruits and Vegetables

by Cherie Calbom

The author of Juicing for Life offers her remedies for more than fifty ailments, including asthma, chronic fatigue syndrome, depression, high blood pressure, and ulcers. Original. 75,000 first printing.

Genres: Health, Food, Cookbooks, Nonfiction, Reference

400 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Cherie Calbom, MS, is the author of The Juice Lady’s Turbo Diet, The Juice Lady’s Living Foods Revolution, and Juicing for Life, which has nearly two million books in print in the United States. Known as “The Juice Lady” for her work with juicing and health, Cherie has taped HealthWatch for CNN and scores of TV and radio shows and has appeared in Shape, First for Women, Women’s World, Men’s Journal, Vogue, Quick & Simple, Marie Claire, and Elle Canada. Cherie earned a master’s degree in nutrition from Bastyr University, where she now serves on the Board of Regents, and has practiced as a clinical nutritionist at St. Luke Medical Center in Bellevue, Washington.

Reviews

[Heather P · Rating 5 out of 5]

The Juice Lady is your friend. Trust me, let her be your friend. In the spring and summer I use my juicer twice a day and drink these yummy juices she has for me to discover. The recipes are never boring. She has lists of indications and juices to go with them. If you crave peanut butter or want beautiful hair and healthy bones she has a juice for you. If you have low blood sugar she has a juice for you. Great juices with spinach, beets, ginger, sweet potato, amazing stuff. I love it and use this book all the time.

[Mary · Rating 5 out of 5]

Nice addition to my interest in Keto diet, and goes along w/ my new "let's get healthy plan" so I can be here for my grandchildren, at least for awhile.

[Cestmoisamii · Rating 5 out of 5]

I love this book, and the author. I have learned soooo much through her books. Juicing is LIFE... I recommend this book to anyone interested in bettering their health.

[Marty · Rating 4 out of 5]

Loaded with great info and recipes. Fun to live with/survive with juice and natural foods.

[Janie · Rating 2 out of 5]

My 5th juicing book of the year!

This one is organized by ailments (p27- 283). For each health problem she gives "recommendations" in 4 categories: "lifestyle", "diet", "nutrient", "herb" and after all that then she suggests specific juice therapies. The recipes take up ~20 pages at the end of the book. Page numbers are given for each recipe listed in-text. It is easy to navigate, well-organized. It's heavily referenced (~40 pages of articles and citations in wee font at the end!).

Actual juicing almost seems incidental to the whole production.

The recipes
- No recipes require special supplements or processed food items. It's pretty much just good plain ol' fruits and veggies!
- None call for sweetening of any kind (apart from whole fruits to juice). Nearly half call for 1/2+ lemon. Many other books use apples as the ubiquitous sweetener, to make any juice palatable; for the Juice Lady, lemon serves that purpose.
- A few recipes clearly titled as "smoothies" add things like avocado or coconut milk.
- There are no pictures.
- Each recipe says "drink ASAP".

I wouldn't recommend it to someone who has multiple ailments because some of the advice is so contradictory, nor would I recommend it to someone interested in juice fasting or general juicing.

Learned about:
- sterols (in sprouts)
- protocols for a gallblader and/or liver cleanse, both a gentle, beginning version and an advanced version

Line for 2013-Books found poem:
- "See above."

[Pamela · Rating 2 out of 5]

She repeats the same thing over and over. The content is good, but you need to seriously skim this book in order not to yell out "you already said that!" -- I would not recommend. Very outdated, published in 1999.

[Cat · Rating 2 out of 5]

I liked this book until I found her giving contradicting advice in the same paragraph.