Travelling with Arthritis

When I realised my diet affected my arthritis I decided that if I went anywhere I would need to pack specific food and cooking items to suit my diet and thus help avoid flares and pain and pain and flares.  This was based on experience of several months of going away some weekends and finding each weekend had extra flares that took several days to recover from.  One choice would be never to go away again: that wasn't my choice.

So I decided I needed to prepare.  Top on my list is my juicer with both a cucumber and (organic) celery, with these I know I can calm my system down should any flares happen.  This won't get rid of any inflammation but by some miracle my bodies pain will begin to ease.

My Juicer

About last September we bought a juicer. Initially we justified getting an expensive one because we had a LOT of apples from my allotment (which I have done nothing on since then).  We bought a Tribest Slowstar and have been very pleased with the choice.

This juicer uses an auger to squeeze the juices out of fruit and veg at very slow speed rather than using centripetal high speed common in many makes. Features that stand out are:

• Easy cleaning: it just needs taking apart and rinsing.
• Extracts all the juice: so no need to reinsert fruit and veg a second time.
• Quiet operation: so it can be used late at night out early morning without waking everyone.
• Easy feed hop: so bits of veg do not drop everywhere as you add trying to feed them in.
• Ten year warranty. Now that's a product you can have confidence in using daily.

After juicing apples I moved onto green veg. But I lost my way with no structure as to the best thing to juice for my health needs and how to make that with meals - that is until I came across the Paddison Program.

Now I cannot imagine life without it and use it twice a day.