If you find it difficult to get your recommended servings of fruits and vegetables on a daily basis, you might benefit from juicing. Not only does juicing provide you with your daily dose of fruits and veggies, it’s a fresh, healthy alternative to store-bought juices which are often laden with tons of sugar and preservatives.

The DeLonghi Juice Extractor is the perfect tool for making fresh juices quick and easy, therefore making it easier to make juicing a part of your daily diet. Try the following easy and delicious juice recipes and drink your way to better health:

Go Green Elixir: (this is also said to be a great cure for a hangover!)

-1 cup of fresh spinach

-2 cups of kale

-2 cups of parsley

-1 whole cucumber

-3 celery stalks

-ginger to taste

Fresher-than-fresh Apple Juice:

-3 large apples

Tip: Try mixing the sweet and tart varieties to get the best-tasting apple juice.

Citrus Morning Pick-Me-Up

-3 oranges

-1 grapefruit

Tip: add in some of the orange pulp to increase the fiber content of the juice.

Breville is a Sydney, Australia based brand that is obsessed with designing and manufacturing kitchen tools that cooking enthusiasts will use every day. In 1932, O'Brien and good friend and fellow engineer, Harry Norville, decided to pool their resources and start their own business manufacturing radios.

In the 1970s Breville, imbued with a "we-can-do-it" attitude and a healthy dose of Australian ingenuity, unleashed a series of appliances on the world that would become kitchen icons. By the 1990s, consumer attitudes and lifestyles had changed with an increasing awareness of healthful cooking. Families also began experimenting in the kitchen with Asian and Mediterranean cuisines and Breville responded by developing high performance electric woks and health grills. As health-conscience consumers grew in number, Breville recognized the need for a machine that would produce fresh and delicious juices. This led to the invention of the world acclaimed Juice Fountain™. Before the Juice Fountain™, making juice was a messy task. This remarkable piece of engineering removed the need to cut fruit.

The Breville ikon Five Speed Juice Fountain is a kitchen gadget that dwarfs the competition by offering a 5-speed setting knob with an easy-to-read LED display that lets you choose the optimal speed for the type of fruit or vegetable you are juicing. The micro-mesh filter uses 40,000 strainer pores for superior filtration with maximum yield. Breville's principal designers, Keith Hensel and Richard Hoare, talk about their motivations behind designing the Breville ikon Five Speed Juice Fountain in this video:

It’s the festive time of year where everyone is planning their Holiday parties, and getting together all the recipes for their favorite holiday drinks. If you are looking for a great non-alcoholic fruit drink full of all those great holiday ingredients, we have a drink that is sure to get those Holiday juices going.

No matter what time of year, the Breville Die-Cast Juicer can help you make an unlimited amount of drinks. The powerful Breville juice fountain with 1000 watts of power makes delicious, fresh juice in a matter of seconds. With a 3” diameter feed tube, whole fruits and vegetables can be used without slicing them first.

Holiday Sparkle Juice:
4 Season Apples
1 teaspoon Cinnamon
Small piece of fresh ginger
1 1/2 cups seltzer
1/2 cup cranberry juice

Juice apples and ginger in your Breville Juice into a glass of seltzer. Add cinnamon and cranberry. Enjoy!

So on day two of the “12 Days of Housewares,” Whitney shows us all the great things the Viking Food Processor can do. The professional 12 food processor makes chopping, slicing, shredding and mixing a breeze. This 625 watt machine has the power to take on all of your Holiday cooking chores.

And it’s that easy!

Recently I gave up drinking regular soda such as Sunkist and Coca Cola due to stomach problems and concern about continued weight gain. I thought drinking juice would be a natural and healthy alternative to sugared drinks, boy was I wrong.

Imagine my surprise when I learned that while juice does have more vitamins and nutrients, the store bought brands are not much healthier than soda. Most juice products are not 100-percent fresh-squeezed juice. So the new juicing craze is designed mainly for those who can make or buy fresh juices out of oranges, apples, peaches, strawberries and other fruits.

Just one 150-calorie drink a day that is not whole fruit or vegetable juice can lead to a weight gain of 15.2 pounds a year! And how many of us stop at one? Not me. Two glasses equals 30.4 pounds, and three means 45.6 pounds per year.

So, I’m determined to stop reaching for juice. It would take 15 minutes of extra aerobics every day for me to offset the deficit, and it is just not worth it. Plus, the sugars and corn syrup in many juice drink blends cause a craving for more sugar, affect tooth health, and it is harder to make up for weight gain caused by sugar.

So, what is the best way to get vitamins and nutrients? Eat whole fruit or get a juicing system. This will definitely cut down on sugar intake for adults. I also plan to start taking more tablet vitamins. I love drinking something sweet, but that’s a big part of the problem. I’d rather have juice than a piece of chocolate cake, which is a start, but when it comes to losing my excess weight for good, it is just not enough.

I suggest drinking one or two glasses of juice per week and focusing on water with lemon juice and whole fruits for health and sweet tooth purposes. Exercise is always a good idea anyway, and if that gets combined with the proper equipment and clothes, reduced sugar intake, fresh fruit, vitamins and juice, then we’re all likely to come out winners at the end of each year. And that is why we’re all fighting to stay thin or get thin.