Day 43:

Juice: Orange Morning

Orange Morning:
2 Grapefruits
3 Carrots
1/2 Inch of Ginger Root

This is a great juice for cold and flu season. I actually has a friend who swears by this juice as a preventative to getting a cold and she has not had one this flu season, so maybe there is something to this, I donno. But, she also adds turmeric to this mixture - maybe you want to consider that too.

Curcuma longa

Turmeric (Curcuma longa) is a perennial plant and member of the Zingiberaceae family, the ginger family. Native to Southern Asia, turmeric is, in fact, the root of the Curcuma longa plant. Turmeric actually looks a lot like ginger, but more orange in color.

For thousands of years, turmeric has been used to treat a variety of ills, but more recently studies has shown that consuming turmeric can help fight infections, reduce inflammations, helps digestive problems, and fight some cancers. It is a good source of iron and manganese and a phytonutrient pigment called called curcumin. According to World Healthiest foods:

"Curcumin is thought to be the primary pharmacological agent in turmeric. In numerous studies, curcumin's anti-inflammatory effects have been shown to be comparable to the potent drugs hydrocortisone and phenylbutazone as well as over-the-counter anti-inflammatory agents such as Motrin."(Source)

And the benefit to using turmeric instead of all those drugs is - it doesn't have all the toxic chemicals drugs have, which means you'll have less junk in your body.