Juice Daddy

Jay, aren't you the J****man any longer?

Well, it's a very difficult subject to speak about. I can no longer, due to contractual restrictions, refer to myself by that name. Even though I once owned the name, for 50 years, it's not allowable any longer. I dedicate my life now to teaching, inspiring and leading others to achieve what I’ve been dedicated to my entire life: long, vital, energetic, vibrant health. Juicing is a big part of that message. There is so much more to teach. I look at the positives in life. That's part of my message. Don't look back, keep your chin up, despite whatever faces us. Believe in yourself, even when nobody, and I mean nobody, believes in you.

I allow the Almightily to open my heart to new ways of living and new ideas. My fear of change will disappear and love will be replaced with a new me which will fill my heart and soul with each breath I breathe in, now and forever.

About the Living Foods Lifestyle

What does Live Foods - Live Bodies mean?

Live Foods - Live Bodies means exactly what it says. When you consume live foods, meaning foods that have been left alone in their perfect state, then you body will feel alive. When you cook, or devitalize your foods by either overcooking, altering them with packaging, or eating animal products, this is called dead foods, or devitalized foods. These devitalized foods create a tired body. This is why we call our program Live Foods - Live Bodies. When you consume living foods such as juices, salads, fruits and raw vegetables, then your body is consuming and assimilating foods which are in their perfect state—alive and full of enzymes, the energy givers. So this is why I have said for over 55 years, “live foods - live bodies.” When you are alive and vibrant, most likely you are consuming at least 75% of our diet in vital, raw form. Perfectly sunbaked foods. That's what living foods are all about.

Should we consume vitamins, if we are eating mostly living foods?

Most of us are really behind in our vitamin-enzyme-mineral-antioxidant-colored foods bank account, so to speak. We offer and consume only food based vitamins, enzymes and nutritional supplements. There is a big difference when one consumes laboratory arranged and designed vitamins and minerals. These are generally incompatible with the human digestive system and are poorly assimilated. Also, in my opinion, they are possibly a burden to the health you already possess. Our book, “Live Foods - Live Bodies” offers more information about this subject.

Why are greens so vital to our good health?

Greens are the most important foods we can consume on this planet. There is not a food more perfect than greens. Greens, are all edible green foods such as spinach, parsley, kale, wheat grass, chard, alfalfa, fungus free algaes, barley greens, and such. Greens are almost identical to human blood, chemically speaking of course. The closest relatives to our human bodies are the apes and chimpanzees. They voraciously consume greens daily… something which we Americans hardly ever consume. This is why we have designed a product line based around greens. If you cannot eat them daily, then you can consume them in either blended form, juice form or tablet form, to make sure you are protected.

Most of us just don't have time. As Americans, we are overworked, too driven, and over stressed to a point where we no longer know what real, relaxing, unencumbered real living can be like. We need to slow down enough to get these vital greens into our diets on a daily basis. Yet as Americans, we just don't seem to put an emphasis on solid, nutritionally rich meals. This is why we have created these super greens and super food formulas for those who fit this criteria. We use these greens on a daily basis, even when we are consuming the proper amounts of fiber and good foods into our diets. Why? Because they give us an extra push of energy, and they especially help with relaxing. When I travel, I take these green supplements with me to every city visit.

You speak about the 75/25 principle. What does that mean?

It basically means that most of our foods should be living, raw, unadulterated, sunbaked foods. Then the other 25% can be in either soups, sprouted grains, legumes or steamed vegetables. In our book, "Live Foods - Live Bodies" we have an instructional diagram of these food groups that's easy to follow. Also, we eat more cooked foods in the fall and wintertime. Unless you live in a very warm area, where the temperature does not fall below 45 degrees throughout the year, you should be consuming warmer foods in the fall and winter, then more living foods in the spring and summer. Linda and I usually use the 75/25 principle year-round, as our temperature here in San Diego does not go below 45 degrees.

What do I do when my spouse will not join the program with me?

That's kind of challenging, but do not worry. Find a le friend to join with you, or even one of your children. If this is impossible, then keep your mind focused, as best you can, on the following:

• Information to help support your new lifestyle.
• Inspiring people on web sites
• Books to keep your mind and heart lifted
• Go to your house of worship to keep connected to God, and pray every single night   before you retire.
• Get up with a prayer to keep you on the right track.
• Spend 30 minutes in the sun everyday, if you can.
• Exercise at least 30 minutes everyday, even if it's just walking. That will really help.

When I am on this lifestyle program, what do I do when I'm at a restaurant?

Don't let restaurants dictate their poor menu choices to you. If you ask nicely, which is always a good thing, you can create your own Living Foods 75/25 Principle in most restaurants. Yes, even at Burger King or McDonald’s now. It seems unbelievable, but now you can order salads in these once disastrous fast food places. Just remember the following:

• Take a small container with you when you are going out to a restaurant. Add the following: extra virgin olive oil, mixed with either lemon and Braggs (see our book, "Live Foods - Live Bodies" for more ides) or extra virgin olive oil with organic apple cider vinegar. Substitute this dressing for any kind of dressing the restaurants give you. The oils are toxic! Plus, they are fat-ridden, and unhealthy for you.

• Order a large salad with no animal products on it, and ask them to substitute either grated veggies or steamed veggies on top.

• If you are really hungry, ask for some brown rice or basmati rice on the side, and make sure they do not use chicken fat in the rice, which is common. If they do, then ask for a baked potato with onions on top. You can use some of your salad dressing on top instead of butter. But if you have to use butter, it's acceptable, considering the fact, almost your entire meal is devoid of animal origin, and almost entirely living. You can find many more suggestions in our book, “Live Foods - Live Bodies.”

There are some ingredients in your recipe section that sound intimidating. What can I do about this?

First let me say, I truly understand. Even though my wife is an expert in natural foods, she became a bit intimidated when our son John fell in love with his girl friend Cheryl a few years ago. She is from Taiwan, and has only lived in the United States for a few years. Linda wanted to learn how to create miso soups and more Asian foods that could still support our 75/25 Principle. This was a bit intimidating! These things take time, effort and patience. This is our suggestion to you. Take these things slowly. However, there are five changes you can make right now which will really positively impact your future health:

1. Change your oils immediately (see our book for best oil choices)
2. Change salt to sea salt/Celtic salts
3. Change soy sauce to Braggs amino acids
4. Change regular produce to organic
5. Dump all sodas and milk for either soy or rice milk and sodas (all sodas) to fresh fruit or vegetable juices.

Jay, why is juicing so important?

Juicing is the most important thing you can do for yourself nutritionally, but this is my personal opinion only, and some of that has transformed a bit since so many more new discoveries such as super-foods and super-berries coming to the forefront. Notwithstanding we can juice these super-foods and super-berries as well, but they are hard to find, so supplementing your juicing regime with these new food supplements is something we do now. As long as it comes from Mother Nature, I’m game for anything that keeps me youthful and full of energy, as juicing has been doing for me for the past sixty plus years. Just remember this: When you eat, the body takes approximately one and a half days to totally process the food, depending on what you are eating. If it is animal based, it takes longer, and if it’s raw, then it shouldn’t take more than 17 or so hours to evacuate out of your system in a bowel movement. If the body is working to perfection, the best it will do is extract 10% of the juice from the plant fiber. The other 90% is still locked in the fiber of the foods we are eating, which is evacuated out of the body. Whe you juice, almost 200% of the nutrients enter your bloodstream very quickly, and yoru body does a minimal amount of digestive work.

Can bottled juices give us the same experience?

Everything in a can or bottle is sterile or dead, meaning the natural enzymes are gone, as they die through a process called oxidation. At the present time, there is a federal law that prohibits manufacturers from selling fresh juices without having to go through a processor such as flash pasteurization or full pasteurization which kills all the benefit.