Why Fresh Orange Juice Only

Orange juice made from concentrate is pasteurized. It’s dead, acidic and harmful. The billion-dollar orange-juice industry is based on convincing you, the consumer, with every possible enticement to buy and drink orange juice. You’re told how it’s all-natural, how delicious it is, how packed with vitamin C and other nutrients it is, how good it is for you and your family, how it’s Nature’s gift to your well-being. And every word spoken about it would be true, if it were not first destroyed by heat! It’s not only concentrated orange juice that’s pasteurized; most of those multicolored cartons and bottles of orange juice you see in grocery stores, with the many proclamations of all the goodness contained within, are one and all pasteurized, meaning they’re denatured, devitalized and destructive. 

And it’s not only orange juice, by the way. Apple, grape, cranberry, grapefruit, you name it, they’re pasteurized. And more often than not they’re laced with some refined sugar, additives, preservatives and other various and sundry chemicals. It’s everything but natural. Somehow the professional cashectomists have managed to obtain legislation that allows them to advertise and sell something as “all natural” when, after pasteurization, juice is no more natural than a hand grenade. Concerned and diligent parents all over this country, desirous of furnishing something for themselves and their children that is wholesome, nutritious and beneficial―exactly what the false advertisements declare it to be―are instead unwittingly serving up something unwholesome, unnutritious and hurtful. How would you like to go to a jewelry store, buy and pay for a beautiful diamond ring, then be given a rhinestone instead? You wouldn’t care for that too much now, would you? At least a rhinestone can’t acidify your blood and burn a hole in your stomach the way pasteurized fruit juice can. Here’s another little nugget of information you may find interesting. 

There is a frenetic preoccupation with taking calcium in this country. People have been whipped into a frenzy of fear over it. I’m going to discuss calcium a little later on, but for now it would be instructive for you to know that one of the primary functions of calcium in the body is to neutralize acid. If the diet is calcium-poor, the body leaches the calcium it needs from the bones and teeth and uses it instead. Even though our calcium needs can easily be supplied through diet, many people opt to take calcium supplements “just to be sure.” Orange juice―fresh, unpasteurized orange juice, that is―is alkaline, so it helps neutralize acid in the body. But when it’s pasteurized, not only do you lose its neutralizing effect and calcium-saving properties, but to make matters worse, it adds more acid to the body. 

Perhaps you can see why I describe the lack of understanding on this subject as a tragedy. Experience tells me that there are those of you who are convinced you can’t drink orange juice because you experience pain and discomfort whenever you do. I wish you could know the number of people I’ve encountered who thought that very thing until they started to drink it unpasteurized and on an empty stomach. I’ve known people who stopped drinking orange juice for more than fifteen years―it simply was not a part of their diet. Then upon learning this information, they reintroduced it in the proper way and now enjoy orange juice daily. 

All of the possible negatives associated with fruit and fruit juices can be avoided, and all the potential benefits they have to offer can be fully realized, simply by consuming them the way God intended: unprocessed, unrefined, unheated, unchanged from their natural state. This first of the two guidelines on how to eat fruit correctly, which in turn plays a huge role in your quest to lose weight, cannot and should not be minimized. Now this is not to imply that you should never again have a piece of apple pie or drink a glass of cranberry-apple juice. I would never put a restriction on anyone to which I myself would not want to adhere. I’ll tell you straight up, I love having a piece of apple pie (peach and blueberry, too) on occasion. And when I do, I enjoy it to the fullest degree. 

I simply acknowledge the fact that I’m eating it to satisfy myself on some emotional or psychological level. It’s for my taste buds. I have it, I enjoy it, and I move on with no guilt or recriminations. The most important thing is that it comprises but a tiny percentage of the amount of fruit I eat overall, the preponderance of which is in its natural condition. I don’t ever have pasteurized orange juice under any circumstance because I don’t like the biting, acidic flavor of it, but I will on occasion have apple or grape juice that has been heated if it is all that is available at the time. 

This is my suggestion to you: Maintain the consciousness of striving as best you can to eat fruit and drink fruit juice in their natural state, and when you occasionally stray from that goal, forgive yourself and acknowledge the effort and commitment you are making to your well-being the majority of the time. 

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. ―JAMES ROBINSON