Reading Anthony William, the Medical Medium, it turns out that there are well-intentioned healers worried about juicing because the process removes the pulp - the fiber. Here are some interesting quotes on why we should not be afraid of juicing.
Anthony Willam wrote:"The reason health professionals think we need more fiber is that, "healthy" diet or not, people are experiencing constipation. The sluggish peristaltic action that slows down bowel movements doesn't come from a lack of fiber, though. It comes from inflammation....
How do we address the underlying problem? Fiber isn't the answer, because a lack of fiber didn't start the issues. Instead, we fix gut issues and get your body working again with the very technique that's so often written off: juicing as medicine.
Whenever we eat vegetables (or anything else), our body is processing out that fiber, and we're flushing it down the toilet. That's how fibler is supposed to work; fiber doesn't stay in the body. We excrete it, and then we send it way to the septic tank or sewer system and don't think about it.
When we juice, thought, we see the fiber pile up and that makes us worry that it's wasteful. The waste that comes from juicing fruits and vegetables does not hurt our planet.
There is no crime in juicing, even through people get picked on when they do it. All that fiber and pulp they throw away that's supposedly the healthiest part and really isn't -- again that isn't waste that hurts the planet. It only helps; it's a harmless by product of a process that creates medicinal extracts that people are using to heal themselves...
Fiber itself: Does it contain nutrients we need? Are we missing out on those nutrients with juicing?
Fiber only contains nutrients that can be separated from it, which means that no, we're not missing out. Quite the opposite: if those nutrients were inseparable from the fiber, we'd never be able to absorb them; only when nutrients get released from fiber.... can we access and benefit from them.
Say a lab analyzes what nutrients a plant food contains. That doesn't mean our body benefits from all of them; those nutrients are useless if the body can't extract them easily and they stay locked inside the fiber and we eliminate them ...
Cleanse to Heal, pg. 54-57