Why Vegetable Juicing?
Dr. Norman W. Walker, a pioneer in the field of vegetable juicing and who made it popular, was seriously ill in his early 50s, but lived to the age of 119 after he re-discovered the benefits of juicing. Dr. Walker wrote his first book on nutrition and fresh vegetable juicing in 1936, and his last book at age 115. Dr. Walker invented his own juicer, made juices like carrot juices household names, and dedicated 70 years of his life to champion the concept of natural and self-healing without drugs. He attributed his healing and long life to the daily consumption of freshly-extracted vegetable and fruit juices. Another strong proponent of vegetable juicing was Dr. Yoshihide Hagiwara, M.D., owner of one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in Japan but who upon falling seriously ill in 1963 and being unable to cure himself with conventional medicine, abandoned all pharmaceutical approach and instead dedicated more than 30 years towards nutrition and natural medicine. Dr. Hagiwara discove
