Do you like to take care of your health? Do you listen to nutrition advice and actually implement it? Are you looking for better ways to integrate fresh, organic and local raw fruits and vegetables into your diet? Me, too! And I wonder if you can relate to the following about my own experiences.

Although I haven’t ever had any major health problems, I believe that diet and exercise play a critical role in helping us maintain our well being and increase our longevity. In truth, I started working out in 6th grade, after my father thought it would be good for us all to get in better shape.

I always played sports and been active, kept my weight in line, and have always gotten a good health check from the doctor.

But now I’ve started reading a book called “The China Study” which is really making me rethink the “diet” portion of the “good health” equation and question whether I am on the right track to ideal health.

According to “The China Study,” which is a wonderful, comprehensible, research-based book citing over seven hundred systematic studies, there is ample evidence to support the hypothesis that animal protein, including eggs, milk and meat, isn’t the solution to good health and muscle-growth that we have all been led to believe. I was fully stunned to find out that skim milk is not a super-food when it comes to strong bones, teeth and muscles. In fact, the author points out that in the face of all his own research studies (and much to his dissatisfaction since he grew up on a dairy farm) he has switched to a vegan diet. He now believes a diet free from animal protein is actually perfect for boosting our health and reducing the symptoms of aging.

The China Study book suggests a vegan diet rich in unprocessed plant-based foods.

Many adherents to this philosophy take this approach a step further and concentrate on eating raw plant foods, forgoing stuff like rice, barley, pasta, etc.

One of the toughest issues to preparing and eating a large amount of plants is that it can just plain take a long time. Cutting, washing, etc. Is a lengthy process. Particularly once you start to look at incorporating vegetables like lettuce, spinach, kale, and celery – greens that are important to our growth.

That’s where a tough juicer can solve your problems. Making juice out of your fruits and fruit with the Breville Juice Fountain Elite is a superb way to combine your fruits and fruit into a fresh, delicious and juicy drink that will make certain you get all the nourishment you want, even if you’re on the go.

Consider recipes like carrot-apple-ginger juice or blueberry, strawberry, grape and kale juice. Green smoothies made with bananas and spinach are a fave raw-food vegan classic – the fruit is inexpensive, the taste is great and it’s vitamin-packed!

If you have a regular blender ( for making margaritas!), or perhaps a name-brand juicer like Jack LaLanne’s from TV, you will find that they don’t hold up to regular juicing, they’re tough juicing, they are hard to use because they are under powered, or they just don’t clean-up well.

The Breville Juice Fountain Elite solves all these issues. It is German-engineered to be a top-of the line juicer for people who make juice each day and need a quick-and-simple way to make their juice. In fact, you can produce an 8-oz cup of juice in under five seconds and as the juicer takes Huge pieces of apple, carrot and other hard fruits – you do not have to do much slicing. THe juicer even does a pleasant job with leafy or stringy products like lettuce and celery. Including veggies like this in your juice will actually increase their nutritional value.

If you’re ready to make some changes in your diet – start with including more vegetables and vegetables. Like the Omnivore’s Dilemma recommends – Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.

Start your program for better health and nutrition with tasty juice from local organic produce made with the Breville Juice Fountain Elite.