by Joan Badalian

Carrots have secrets! And the secret is: I cut a little larger portion off the top of the carrots. That's because the top of the carrot is very bitter and it's important to cut deep enough to get that part cut off. When I first started juicing, if I didn't do that, my juice was really bitter and I didn't understand why. Trial and errror, and a few TV vegetable shows taught me this! If your juicier has speeds, put it on high speed for the carrots or any other hard root veggie. Also, pay close attention to the pulp container, as it fills up fast and clogs up the juicer.

I juice 2, 5lb. bags organic but any 5 or 10 pound bag is fine. But as you juice, you do not have to strain the carrot juice.
Carrots are a great source of dietary fiber, vitamin C, K, folate and manganese, vitamin B6, pantothenic acid, iron, potassium and copper. The orange colored root of the carrot contains a high dose of beta-carotene. Beta-carotene is to be converted to vitamin A in the body.

Carrot Health Benefits
Beta-carotene is also an important antioxidant which is effective in fighting against cancer, especially lung cancer amd research shows that it may also protect against heart disease and stroke. Research also shows that the Beta-carotene in vegetables enables these beneficial qualities, as opposed to vitamin supplements. click here for study.

Diabetes and Carrots
I'd eat, not juice, for diabetes. However, a friend who juices for his wife who has diabetes disagrees with me. He told met that the sugar in carrots is a perfect surger and does not affect her as would a candy bar would. We would advice you to consult a nutritionist.

Their brilliant orange color means they're overflowing with carotenoids, antioxidants that may help prevent diabetes. New research from the University of Minnesota School of Public Health shows that among 4,500 people tested over 15 years, those with the highest levels of carotenoids in their blood had about half the diabetes risk of those with the least (prevention.com/health/nutrition/food-remedies/carrots-and-diabetes/article/ af7d50d1fa803110VgnVCM10000013281eac____/).

Carotenoids and Blood Sugar Intake of foods such as carrots that are rich in carotenoids may be beneficial to blood sugar regulation. Research has suggested that physiological levels, as well as dietary intake, of carotenoids may be inversely associated with insulin resistance and high blood sugar levels.

Cardiovascular Health
Carrots' antioxidant compounds help protect against cardiovascular disease and cancer and also promote good vision, especially night vision.

Carotenoids and Heart Disease
When six epidemiological studies that looked at the association of diets high in carotenoids and heart disease were reviewed, the research showed that high-carotenoid diets are associated with a reduced risk of heart disease. In one study that examined the diets of 1,300 elderly persons in Massachusetts, those who had at least one serving of carrots and/or squash each day had a 60% reduction in their risk of heart attacks compared to those who ate less than one serving of these carotenoid-rich foods per day.

Carrots and Cancer
High carotenoid intake has been linked with a 20% decrease in postmenopausal breast cancer.

Extensive human studies suggest that a diet including as little as one carrot per day could conceivably cut the rate of lung cancer in half. And also, an article in Science Daily explains how pectin, a type of fiber found in fruits and vegetables and used in making jams and other foods, kills prostate cancer cells (sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070820120710.htm).

Now, there was a study in which heavy long-term cigarette smokers were given synthetic beta-carotene, and it did not appear to prevent them from developing lung cancer. Well, not only is synthetic beta-carotene not biochemically identical to the real stuff found in carrots, but scientists now think that carrots' protective effects are the result of a team effort among several substances abundant in carrots, including alpha-carotene-another, less publicized carotenoid. A recent National Cancer Institute study found lung cancer occurence was higher in men whose diets did not supply a healthy intake of alpha-carotene.

Only a Perfect God could and did create the wonderful Carrot, and we should expect synethics to be no match to what God has made.

Juice for yourself or if someone you love is a smoker, or if you are frequently exposed to secondhand smoke, then making vitamin A-rich foods, such as carrots, part of your healthy way of eating may save your life, suggests research conducted at Kansas State University. While studying the relationship between vitamin A, lung inflammation, and emphysema, and common carcinogen in cigarette smoke, Baybutt's earlier research had shown that laboratory animals... fed a vitamin A-deficient diet developed emphysema.One of his animal studies indicates... That not only does the benzo(a)pyrene in cigarette smoke cause vitamin A deficiency, but that a diet rich in vitamin A can help counter this effect, thus greatly reducing emphysema. Richard Baybutt, a professor at Kansas State University believes vitamin A's protective effects may help explain why some smokers do not develop emphysema.

I juiced myself and regained my health from cancer. And even today at the grocery store, I talked to the vegetable man and he told me that there is a man that comes in for 25lb. bags of carrots and he said that man told him he healed himself from cancer with carrots. So, I hear a lot of success stories too.

I want everyone who visits this site to be able to adsorb as much of the studies as possible and I want you to understand somewhat foreign information so read and re-read if you have to. The Bible is the same thing, in order to understand and get to know many of the Old Testment Hero's and what God is really saying and what Jesus taught, which is also connectd to the Old Testiment prophecies, you will also have to read your Bible and meditate on it often. Thank you!