Jay Kordich
Jay Kordich (born August 26, 1923) is an American television personality, author, motivational speaker, lecturer, and is known as a father in the field of vegetable juicing, fruit juicing and nutritional health.[citation needed] He is an advocate of health through the consumption of raw foods, to maintain and regain one's health.[1] Kordich believes he overcame bladder cancer 50 years ago through a regime of 13 glasses of carrot and apple juice per day.[2] Kordich is the direct protege of Norman Walker and Max Gerson, the doctors who brought the concept of juicing to the world.[1] Based on his design, the Juiceman Juicer and Power Grind Pro was developed. This juicer continues to be produced and sold today. The Juiceman line of juicers are now being distributed by Salton, Inc. and are no longer endorsed by Kordich.[1] Kordich authored the New York Times best-selling book, "The Juiceman's Power of Juicing", a program for staying healthy and trim by consuming fresh fruit and vegetable juices.[3]
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[edit] Biography
The only son of a fisherman and a homemaker, Kordich was born and raised in San Pedro, California. After three years in the United States Navy, he won a football scholarship to the University of Southern California and in 1949 was drafted by the Green Bay Packers.[4] Before he got to play a single down in the pros, doctors determined he had bladder cancer. After reviewing all the treatments available, he left California and traveled to New York City to see Max Gerson who was treating terminally ill patients with fresh raw juices and healthy cleansing diets.[5] Kordich went on a regimen of 13 eight-ounce glasses of carrot-apple juice a day.[4] He has no real proof that it cured him, but neither has he ever had a recurrence of his cancer.[4] In 1989, Jay started his national television career, making appearances with his juicer, and by the end of 1990, Kordich and juicing were widely known. His award-winning infomercials aired for over thirteen years.[1]
The next 40 years Jay took his message to anyone who would listen, from county fairs to large department stores to seaside juicing shops. It was his passion to teach everyone he could reach how to be healthy through the power of fresh juices and raw food.[5] His second book, co-written with his wife, Linda Kordich is entitled: Live Foods Live Bodies (complete raw food preparation book).[1]
[edit] Quotes
"The plant is the factory of life. The roots of plants come from Mother earth. Through sunshine and solar energy, they take whatever is in the soil that is. You cannot take mud, like a mud pie and swallow it, and absorb the calcium, and the phosphorus, and the zinc, and the potassium and magnesium. We can't. We're not capable to transfer those things into organic life. Only the roots of plants through solar energy with the roots down to the ground can take those nutrients out of the soil and create them into the life force, and the life line. That's where juicing comes in."[1]
"Drinking freshly made juices and eating enough whole foods to provide adequate fiber is a sensible approach to a healthful diet"[6]
[edit] External links
- USA Today, "He turns on the juice // Jay Kordich plugs into power"
- Publisher's Weekly, Nonfiction review: Juiceman's Power of Juicing
- Seattle Times, "The Juiceman Cometh -- Seattle Company Drinking Up The Profits Selling Machines"
- Seattle Times, Business | Juicy role is making him famous
[edit] References
- ^ a b c d e f Prussack, Steve. "Steve Prussack Interview with the Juiceman (Episode 32)". Steve Prussack Interview with the Juiceman (Episode 32). Raw Vegan Radio. http://rawveganradio.com/wordpress/transcripts/KordichTranscriptEbook.pdf. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
- ^ Updike, Robin (11 November 1991). "Juicy role is making him famous". Juicy role is making him famous (Seattle Times). http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19911111&slug=1316616. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
- ^ "Best Sellers: July 19, 1992". Juiceman's Power of Juicing. 19 July 1992. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/07/19/books/best-sellers-july-19-1992.html?scp=5&sq=jay%20kordich&st=cse. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
- ^ a b c Neill, Michael. "The Juiceman Cometh". The Juiceman Cometh. People. http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20112855,00.html. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
- ^ a b Kordich, Jay. "Raw Food Author". Kordich's Raw Food Journey. Raw Food Live Food. http://rawfoodlivefood.com/jay-kordich/. Retrieved 26 July 2011.
- ^ Kordich, Jay. "Jay Kordich Quotes". Think Exist. Think Exist. http://thinkexist.com/quotes/jay_kordich/.
