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I have enough life-changing testimonials to fill an entire book, but for some people these stories won’t be enough. It doesn’t matter how many genuine letters and emails come in on a daily basis, nor how powerful their stories are – some people need what they consider proof, usually of the ‘scientific’ kind. Many people in the medical and dietetic professions will see every letter you have just read as purely ‘anecdotal’ evidence of the effectiveness juices and smoothies have on weight loss and disease, even if it involves freeing themselves of the big C.

Cancer versus Carrots

The cancer-fighting abilities of carrot juice have been well documented, but again no matter how powerful the story I fear it will still be many years before freshly extracted carrot juice is ever prescribed as a prevention or treatment. Dr Bernard Jensen, as far back as the 1930s, illustrated the amazing anti-cancer ability of carrot juice when one of his patients cured himself from what was described as a ‘terminal disease’ by living on just carrot juice and shots of liquid chlorophyll for one year. He had cancer of the bowel and could hardly eat anything. According to Dr Jensen’s reports, doctors had given up on this man. After the year he went back to hospital for a checkup. His hospital report showed that he was completely free of cancer!

Another Doctor (Dr H E Kirschner) investigated the story and was so impressed he wrote an article about the effectiveness of fruit and vegetable juices on disease, which he sent to a medical journal. The article was sent back to him explaining, ‘the story lacked credibility’ and that ‘it wasn’t up to the medical profession to promote any particular food for the healing of any disease’. I wish to repeat that as it’s quite important:

‘… it wasn’t up to the medical profession to promote any particular food for the healing of any disease’

If it’s not up to the medical profession to say what can heal us, whose job is it? The journal also mentioned the story lacked ‘credibility’. But the facts are clear: he was diagnosed with terminal bowel cancer. Doctors had sent him home as there was nothing further they could do. He treated his condition with carrots and green juices, and one year later he had no cancer at all. It wasn’t as if he made up the fact he had terminal cancer or that it wasn’t diagnosed. It was clear he had it and one year later it had vanished. Yes, I agree further studies would be needed before publication of such an article to prove its effectiveness, but that’s my point. Instead of looking into it with an open mind and seeing it as a possible breakthrough for the treatment and/or prevention of the big C, it was immediately dismissed as not credible.

This man’s case is not an isolated incident either. There have been thousands of cases where carrot juice and liquid chlorophyll have played a positive role in the treatment of cancer and other diseases. This doesn’t mean it is a cure for cancer, and it doesn’t mean that all medical intervention should stop and carrot juice should take over. That would be foolish. I am simply asking, why isn’t the effectiveness of this treatment at least looked at seriously?

Luckily, times are changing. Over the past 10 years in particular there have been many scientific studies carried out with regard to juices and smoothies. These studies appear to back up the health- and life-changing stories of the tens of thousands of emails I have received over the years. Even some members of the dietetic and medical professions are looking into these studies with a degree of seriousness. Genuine testimonials and stories, as we have just seen, are a great way to illustrate the effectiveness of what happens when you add a touch of juicy magic to your daily life. However, for many, what is often even more convincing is when you add …