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.

This is part 2 of my Omega 8003 juicer review on video.  In this video you witness the Omega 8003 juicing more vegetables of different densities.  You can see how well it juices leafy greens like spinach and parsley which most juicers don’t do well at all.  The slow moving auger of this juicer is perfect for this kind of stuff.  It crushes the produce gently and slowly into the juicing cone.  The video shows this process up close.  I just love this machine.  It is not a fast juicing machine and you do spend a little more time with prep but it is worth it because the juice yield is higher.  And the juice quality is better because the vegetables and fruit aren’t shredded to bits but instead are slowly crushed.  Many feel this process is better for extracting the juice from the vegetable walls and I tend to agree with that.

If you compare this juice extractor with the others I’ve done videos on, I think you’ll see why it is the best choice.

I’ve got a Jack Lalanne juicer, a Breville Juice Fountain Plus JE95xl juicer and a Green Star gs1000 juicer videos

I finally finished my video review of the Omega 8003 juicer.  This is Part 1.  This is by far the best juicer I’ve come across so far.  It is able to juice everything well and especially leafy green vegetables like kale, spinach, parsley and beet greens.  I’m impressed with the workmanship, the 10 year warranty and how easy this juicer is to use.  As you can see in Part 2 (coming soon) of my juicer video reviews it is the fastest to clean as well.  Also I doubt there is a quieter juicer on the market. 

This is a juicer that will last forever and is priced just right for a serious machine.  It is a $100 more than a Jack Lalanne juicer and a lot better quality than those which don’t last and aren’t very well made.  The same price as a Champion juicer which would be a bad purchase to make in my opinion because the machine doesn’t work that well. (See my video reviews of that.  You’ll be shocked.  I was.)   And it is $200 less than a Green Star gs 1000 twin gear juicer and easier to clean.  (See my video on the Green Star juicer in a couple weeks.)

I just made a carrot, green apple and ginger root juice with my Omega 8003 juicer.  I’ve been having sinus trouble because of allergies and I find ginger root works well in clearing the phlegm from my throat.  However, I can’t drink straight ginger because it is very strong.  Mixing it with the carrots and apples seems to work pretty well.

As time goes on, I just can’t say enough about how much I like the Omega 8003 juicer I bought.  It does a great job of pressing the vegetables up and it is so nice and quiet.  I find it easy to move around and by far the easiest to clean of the juicers I have.  It is such a better machine than the Champion 2000+ juicer I bought and still have to re-review.  There just isn’t really any comparison in my mind between the two. 

I also was just at a friend’s house who had a Jack Lalanne juicer that we fired up because I wanted to check that one out more.  Wow.  I’m not impressed.  Kind of a piece of noisy junk I felt.  Why anyone that knew anything about juicers would buy one of those, I’ll never know.  That machine did not seem very efficient to me in any way.