I disagree.
Both have their place and curing many of the incurable disease as Dr
Richard Schulze did required juice fasting.
the reason according to Schulze, and also the father of modern day juicing, Dr Norman Walker who juiced abundantly and lived to be over 100 years old is that when we juice we are getting the vital elements into the body quickly.
In order for the vital elements (atoms, molecules, nutrients, enzymes etc to help us, by taking the juice without the pulp (or any food for about 20-30 minutes, the needed elements go directly into the blood stream and healing and repair. If taken with food or pulp, these elements go primarily to digestion.
Of course, according to Victoria Boutenko's book, the higher the percentage of raw foods we eat, the more we absorb..we get she says just about 1% when we eat 75% raw and 3% when we eat 99% raw and 30% when eating 100% raw. Someone eating about 10% raw, is only getting about .03% of the food value absorbed.
It is important when juicing, to drink the juice within 15 minutes less the enzymes (life energy) dissipates. Do not hold it over int he refrigerator but make fresh each time. Chew the juice. If you must store, put it in a glass jar and fill to the tip toe and then add a lid for the least deterioration of refrigerated juices.
I recommend reading the books of Dr Norman Walker especially the book fresh fruit and vegetable juices to better understand the wonder of juices and which ones to take for various diseases.
We do need fiber but we can mix our diet with juices and foods. Many people lack enough stomach acid or digestive enzymes and do not chew well enough and their food are not easily absorbed and may pass through them undigested thus
juicing (and also putting raw foods in a food processor help one get a head start and give them the nutrients they are starving for.
Concerning your comment on diabetes:
I cannot speak for others but I was diagnosed with diabetes a year ago. I was told not to fast but I ignored my doctor and also her diet as I felt what she said was not healthy. I become a vegan eating about 50% raw and mainly whole foods and tatting exercising and my last 3 a1c test and fasting blood
Sugar tests were normal. I had had home readings in the 300-600 plus range.
When I went on this 50 day juice fast my blood
Sugar readings had reduced to the 200s with 5 readings in the 300s over a 4 month period.
As soon as I began juice fasting and during every day of my 50 day juice fast, my blood
Sugar readings were 112 to 115 which I am told is essentially normal..even if I drank fruit juice and even if I drank sometimes commercial fruit juice my blood sugar readings never went up the whole 50 days yet everytime i slipped up when I went off my fast and ate meat or cheese my blood sugar soared to 375 showing me that the normal advise may not be true at least in my body.
I do, however,concur that diabetics should not eat very often at all high glycemic fruits like pineapple and
Watermelon just ion case it is harmful, but still I thought this was interesting seeing how these things affected me.
While it is true in nature except for some very juicy fruits or things like watermelon, juice may not be a natural food, it is also true that we may need this concentrated form of nutrition to heal the deadly and incurable diseases and reverse the effects of the average bad diet in the modern era which was not thew diet we were supposed to be on but are not and this got a disease and thus something stronger may be called for.
The juice is in there already naturally so it is not some man made thing, but the juicer unlocks it better than our teeth do and we don't have pulp making it go through us so slowly that it is making all the good stuff be essentially wasted on digesting it all. But we do take it in both forms if not in a health crisis.
Victoria Boutenko did an experiment..she took a whole small town and had the inhabitants add one
quart of green smoothies to their diet..they were to make no other changed to what they normally ate, She found that ALL of the people by the end of the month had reported improvements in their health and weight that were positive and all decided to continue this practice after the study so I do not see how you can say
juicing is not healthy.
It is healthy. Use common sense and combine it with a superior diet.