I bought a magic bullet juicer a couple weeks ago because people kept asking me about it and I was curious.  I’m in the process of doing a full review but I slapped this quick video together  Magic Bullet Juicer

This device is actually a little blender and not a true juicer.  I truly thought it was going to suck but I’m actually really liking it.  So far I’ve only made smoothies and ground some coffee with it.  I plan to cut up some carrots and try to juice those but I’m not expecting that to be too successful.

Some people prefer blending fruits and vegetables instead of juicing them.  They feel the fiber you get blending the produce is too valuable to waste.  I get that and sometimes I do blend instead of juice.  But the nutrition you get from juicing gets absorbed much faster into your body because there is not fiber to slow down the digestion.  Most of the time that is what I want.  I’ll eat a couple bites of fruit or vegetables to start the enzymes flowing into my stomach and to get some of the fiber.  Then I’ll drink the juice and that seems to work great for me.

This little blender juicer might be fine for getting a quick little glass of blended juice.  But I’ll have to review it further to find out if it works well for that.  It definitely does a fine job of making smoothies and grinding coffee.  Check out my quick video review to see Magic Bullet in action.

I started quest for the best juice extractor and website initially because I knew I needed to take better care of my health.  I needed a way to get more fruit and vegetables into my diet since I knew I wasn’t eating enough of them.  Unfortunately, as it turns out, I waited a bit too long to do this.

In a 5 month period I had several healthy scares or instances of unpleasantness.

I started losing weight quickly and my abdomen hurt when I ate.  In November of 2008 I first had my appendix removed.  It was done laparoscopically for which they filled my abdomen up with gas which is why it is so bloated. I don’t normally look like this.  In addition, they saved off all my stomach hair which was weird.

About December 2008 I started to feel crappy again and I was having the same kind of pain I had before the appendix was removed.  And the pain was in the same area. Plus the weight loss was still happening.   After about a month and a half of testing I finally had a colonoscopy done.  A tumor about the size of a ping-pong ball was found in my colon at the hepatic flexure.  Three days later on February 15, 2009 I found myself in the emergency room where I had a third of my colon removed.  The surgery is called a right hemicolectomy.  It seems that not only did I have the tumor but I also had intussusception happening.  This is where the colon actually was growing over itself or sleeving itself.  At this point I had dropped from 172 lbs to about 145 lbs.

Within another month I started to feel that something was wrong again.  After a couple of days where I felt like I had a fever and my lower back hurt, one evening I ended up dropping to the floor in pain.  I passed out for a couple hours but when I awoke I felt odd.  Every time I went to the bathroom things just didn’t feel right.  I started a whole new array of testing.  It took about a month and I finally passed a kidney stone that was about ¼ inch long.

During the testing for the what turned out to be the kidney stone it was discovered I had a hernia.  So the first week of June 2009 I went in for a hernia surgery.  This actually turned out to be the most painful for some reason.  The surgery didn’t hurt so much.  The recovery was rough though.  It was harder to move around due to the location of the wound from the hernia than the previous operations were.  And I made a bad mistake by not prepping properly before surgery.  I should have eaten nothing but vegetables and fibrous foods at least 3 days before surgery.  Reason being that everything needs to be able to pass through you easily after surgery.  I believe the anesthesia tends to clog you up and because you can’t push due to the location of the hernia wound, going to the bathroom is brutal.  Enough said.

So it has been an interesting year.  I guess I should have started using my Omega 8003 juicer sooner.