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It helps to know a few things before you get started on the juicing journey, as knowledge is power.

Experiment - First of all, you can juice pretty much any type of fruit or vegetables. Don’t be scared to experiment. Just think “the more the merrier.” As you walk through the supermarket, consider trying something you never have before.

Get a grocery list started - Get out your recipes and make a list of all the ingredients you will need. Planning makes it much easier to juice when you need to.

Prepare your vegetables and fruits the night before a morning juicing session. This means washing the produce, peeling them if needed, and storing them overnight in airtight containers.

Nuts and Seeds - You should never juice nuts, grains or seeds, but instead grind them and add stir them into your ready-made juice. Adding nuts and seeds is a great way to boost the nutritional value of the juice and get many health benefits, but remember a little goes a long way.

Protein Powders - Protein powder can be added to juices when you drink them as a meal replacement so you get the protein you need.

Choose organic – Organic produce is more expensive, unless you buy from local farms when available, but you will ingest less pesticide and more nutrients.

Timing is everything when it comes to juicing. You don’t want to be drinking your healthy fresh juice on a full stomach! If you do, your body just won’t absorb all those lovely nutrients as well and some of them may even go to waste. A juice is best drank on an empty stomach. It’s not going to fill you completely, but it will give your body a great chance to absorb all that goodness. Then, you can sit down to a meal an hour later.

Don’t drink too quickly - this puts a LOT of pressure on your digestive enzymes that have to work extra hard to digest juice that is frank too fast. The best way to drink juice is to sit back and relax. Take care of your stomach and digestive tract because they are really sensitive.

Thoroughly wash your produce - This removes bacteria and some of the pesticide residue if you did not buy organic. This is especially important with leafy greens where dirt can be stuck in between the leaves. Line the pulp basket in the juicer - If your juicer has a pulp basket, you will need to line it with a plastic bag. This makes cleaning up the juicer afterward much easier.

Cut the produce so it fits - You can tear up the greens or cut up the larger vegetables so that it fits through the feeding chute of the juicer.

Read your juicer’s user manual – This is very important because you will learn best practices for cutting produce, and also which speeds should be used for which fruits and vegetables. This will not only yield you the best juice, but will prevent breakage of the machine. For example, usually harder vegetables are best juiced on high, while softer vegetables, such as cabbage and spinach, are best juiced on a lower setting.

Rerun the pulp - In order to get the most nutrients out of the juice, take out the pulp, and run it through the juicer again to get more juice from the damp, left over pulp.

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Communication Tools

MailChimp

Focused mainly on email marketing strategies, MailChimp is among the most affordable business automation tools that are available. You can make use of its marketing automation features so as to target different customers based on particular data including behaviour, preference and past sales. The APIs can also be used to create custom workflows with segmentation and scheduling tools.

Slack

Most business owners usually spend valuable time daily sorting an overflowing emails inbox. Slack has a free platform that streamlines communication between the team members. Conversations are normally threaded like chat windows and made visible by other individuals in the organization. Slack is a very powerful automation tool which many businesses use as an alternative to the traditional email.

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The customer’s face reddened and he began spluttering, “What do you mean a ‘Monday morning’ phone? I was told these were high quality precision engineered in a factory!”

He wanted to speak to my boss. Who was not very happy when he heard what I had said.

The mistake I had made was to answer by rote with a solution that had pleased a completely different type of customer, when what I should have done was listen to what this customer was actually saying to me and by listening, recognizing what was important to that particular customer and using that knowledge to focus on the issue from his point of view.

Calming Down Your Customer

It can be difficult to remove your feelings from a situation when your customer is exploding in anger. After all, we can certainly ignore a jibe or two – and we can continue to try to bring the focus of the disagreement to bear on the product rather than the person – but what happens if the customer’s anger just doesn’t let up?

This very simple technique will help calm your customer: repeat their words back to them. Not the angry ones, but the ones you have gathered are at the root of the problem when you were actively listening.

By repeating those words back in sentences such as “I understand that you feel the product should do X, when in fact it is doing Y,” or “I agree that this should have been delivered to you on Monday and that by not receiving it until Thursday it has caused you considerable inconvenience,” you are showing the customer that you are listening to him and are focusing on the root of the problem. You are coming across as someone who is taking responsibility for the issue.

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Handful Of Kale

Handful Of Green Grapes

1 Cucumber / 1 Green Apple

1 Apple

1/2 Cup Purple Grapes

Handful Of Collard Greens

1/2 Cup Cherries

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Blueberries

Contain cancer fighting phytochemicals, ellagic acid, and anthocyanins. The Institute reports that cell studies of these compounds showed these nutrients to decrease the growth of cancer cells and also to stimulate self-destruction of breast, prostate, mouth, and, colon cancer cells. Centrifugal juicers cannot juice berries and grapes, but masticating and singer-auger juicers can.

How To Use In Juicing

To use blueberries it is best to blend them, then strain over a bowl with a spout (for easier pouring) to remove the pulp, or better yet leave the pulp and pour the juice and pulp into your main juice, like a blend of kale and other greens. This results in a type of smoothie juice blend.

Watermelon

Watermelon has loads of lycopene, one of the more potent antioxidant shown in research to protect against prostate cancer.

Watermelon is also one of the best fruits for weight control as it really satisfies the sweet tooth with just 49 calories per 2 cup serving.

Since it is one of the lower sugar fruits, it is ideal for juicing and juices quite well.

How To Use In Juicing

Juicing watermelon depends on your juicer model; check the manual to see how much prep is required, for example if the skin should be removed.

Peaches

The peach gets is bright orange color from beta-carotene that helps to reduce inflammation, protect DNA, boost immunity function and plays a key role in controlling cell growth in a way that reduces risks for cancer.

Strawberries

Strawberries contain ellagic acid, a key phytochemical in decreasing growth of cancer cells and stimulating soft-destruction of cancer cells, such as those in the breast, colon, prostate and mouth.

Furthermore, studies have shown that ellagic acid uses several different cancer-fighting methods simultaneously, as it acts as an antioxidant, slows reproduction of cancer cells, and supports the body in deactivating specific carcinogens.

How To Use In Juicing

Strawberries are more difficult to juice, depending on the model of your juicer. If you have a smoothie maker you can use that or mash them up and add them in after your main juice is ready; this also allows you to get more fiber intake from these healthy berries. A food processor or blender works great too. Strawberries go great with a kale, broccoli, and spinach or any greens.