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A nice red juice with lots of vitamines for the cold wet german weather in January.
You'll need beside a good juicer the following fresh ingredients for about 2 liters:
* 8 oranges
* an egg sized piece of ginger
* 6 big apples
* 1 kg carrots
* 3 bananas
* 2 lemons
* 1 fresh beet root of about 200 gramms
Peel everything beside the apples and cut everything into pieces appopriate for your juicer. Once you've got everything juiced you can add a bit cinnamon for the taste.
An advice for those who don't know - beet root can easily stain your clothes, and the stains are very hard to wash out, so be careful!
Enjoy.
This could be bad for any girls on Spironlactone
unless your blood is being monitored very closely.
Several of your ingredients, (oranges, lemon, & bananas, are high in potassium. I don't know about the ginger and beet root.
Spironlactone is a potassium fixer, and unless it is watched closely, can be deadly.
One of our BCTS authors nearly died last summer from this.
In fact, her potassium level was 20% over the potentially fatal level when I got her to the ER last July.
Happily, she survived.
Holly
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Holly
Ginger and Beet Root, high in K also
Ginger is about the same as bananas and beets are actually higher. Google them with potassium to see details. Most fresh fruit and vegetables are pretty high in this nutrient, though, and people taking other meds besides spirolactone need to be careful.
I once suffered near-fatal, multiple pulmonary embolisms from taking meds from three different doctors who neglected to ask me about what else I was taking. I ended up with four major influences for blood clotting, five days in intensive care and two years on warfarin.
Hugs,
Erin
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Thanks for the advices
Hi Holly and Erin,
many thanks for your advice on the high potassium of my drink. It is something I rarely think about, as I'm not on Spironolactone yet and probably never will be here in Europe. But I'll try to remember it anyway.
Yet I think it might be good for others to know, when they are trying that juice.
*hugs*
Saphira
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