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You already know the formula for being healthy: eat nutritious food and exercise more.
So why are you still out of shape?

A lot of people think if they work out they can eat whatever they want. Keep telling yourself that.

The easier side of the equation is eating better. You might skip a day (or a week, or a month) at the gym, but chances are you still eat every day. So why not make it count? Oh, that’s right: because eating healthy sucks, at least that’s what your taste buds tell you when you munch on a raw beet and kale, or try to chew on some wheatgrass.

To help yourself eat more fresh fruit, vegetables, and leafy greens, you need to get a masticating juicer. Unlike your normal centrifugal juicer which basically beats the produce into submission to get its nutritious juice out, a masticating juicer simulates “chewing” the food. This lets you get out both more juice and nutrients, and makes it possible to juice leafy greens and wheatgrass.

We recently picked up Omega’s J8005 Commercial Masticating Juicer. Along with Champion, Omega is the most respected name in masticating juicers. We tried the Champion 2000+ Commercial Juicer, but despite its rugged looks prefer the Omega: it simply gets more juice out the things we throw at it.

My mornings now start off with a shot of wheat grass (add some mint and lime to make it more palatable), late-morning snack consists of an all-fruit shake (using a conventional blender), while my afternoon snack is usually a blend of spinach or kale, carrots (including the green leaves and stem, they’re the most nutritious!), a beet, some celery, and whatever else I might feel like. I add a dash of fresh ginger root (yes, you can also juice that) for flavor.

And I feel so much better for doing so.

While you’re eating nutritiously, pick up Green for Life, a ten-dollar tome anyone serious about changing their eating habits should read.

Buy Omega J8005 Commercial Masticating Juicer for $259 via Amazon