I have the same questions Tyler as I've been juicing for several years now. I wonder if the sugars in juicing stress the pancreas. I keep juicing though.

One of the "superfood" recipes in the NT cookbook is for carrot juice with cream added to convert the betacarotene to Vitamin A, so they can't be that against juicing.

I've made the beet kvass and I like it but I add beet juice to my juices so maybe I'm used to the taste. I've started grinding a TBSPN of flax seeds and soaking them in 4oz beet kvass every morning then drinking it.

I agree with you about vegan diets for cleansing but not for long term and definitely not for healthy procreation. In his book Price says he really searched for a healthy vegetarian community but didn't find one. In her talk Sally said there is a vegan community near her and they are now in the 2nd or 3rd generation. She said there are a lot of Down's Syndrome children.

Recently a vegetarian friend came to visit. I couldn't help noticing the huge overbite of her son and wondering if it was lack of nutrition that caused it.

The local chapter leader for WPF here was a vegan raw foodist for about 7 years. He said that he felt great at first but after a while the problems started to set in. He said he saw that in a lot of people. They feel great because they detox but then their body has to start to dip into its own reserves. Apparently Sally Fallon said that we could live on a 100% raw diet if we all had perfect endocrine systems but in this modern world that is not possible.

Philosophically and spiritually I would love to be a vegetarian but I will not risk my children and grandchildren's health for my ideals. Maybe when I'm post child rearing and ready to navel gaze a bit more I might go back to it. In the meantime I hope to have a child who has a strong immune system, strong bones, and healthy teeth that aren't crowded!!

I just saw this message, and I have similar questions and "philosophical" leanings! I started out with an interest in Weston Price and Nourishing Traditions. Reading "Nutrition/Phys. Degen." was a real eye-opener, along with reading about the Francis Pottenger cat studies...
Anyway, then I started getting into the CureZone, and so many people here are all about raw, vegan diets! The raw thing and the juicing seem very powerful, given people's testimonials and the results they get. I watched the documentary on the Gerson therapy recently that has been posted on some forums here -- the Gerson Miracle, I think it's called -- and that was great and informative. It does sound better to do the raw diet short-term though.
I wonder how one could combine juicing and raw foods with the WAPF diet? WAPF seems to use quite a bit of raw food anyway, so maybe that's not a problem. But the juicing question is interesting.
Apparently you have to be careful with juicing some things... like too many dark leafy greens can = blood clots? I would like to combine WAPF with raw foods/juice diet, but am uncertain how to proceed w/ the juicing if I'm not strictly following any one diet (e.g. Gerson therapy) with a pre-developed protocol. Guess the thing to do is read up on juicing and raw diets more (I'm pretty new to it), but wondering if anyone has any ideas.
Juicing is interesting and beneficial b/c it supplies lots of nutrients to the bloodstream fast. But, like high doses of vitamins, I wonder if this means that you can go overboard!? Perhaps the reason that Gerson and other therapies work so well is that they juice and thus get the effects of many nutrients, thus making food practically "unnecessary."
I wonder: if you combine juicing with meats, can you get too much?? As in, too many nutrients? There must be a way to combine these diets...

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