Hurom Slow Juicer, a few weeks in and loving it

We have several juicers - four, to be exact - in our house, now. The first three that we owned were all centrifugal juicers. I've got one at work so that I can juice there as I feel, we've got an old one as a gift, from a garage sale, that we never really used, and we had our prior best one in the kitchen for nigh-daily use. It was a rather nice centrifugal one that we also received as a gift, but it had a tendency to leak. We never really figured out what caused it to leak but enough was finally enough.
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What Can I Drink Instead of Soda?

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By now hopefully you already recognize that drinking pop or soda is wrong. That fountain may flow abundantly and cheap, but it comes at a severe cost down the road. So what options do you have?  There are other ways to get inexpensive, convenient, and delicious drinks in your diet.

Are you thinking diet pop? Not the best choice if you choose one of the major brand labels. Not only will diet brands possibly increase your weight, but these kinds of drinks can and probably will kill you, in the long run. In general, you should try to avoid as many man-made or processed foods as possible, and diet drinks are typically only sweetened by ingredients that corporations can make a killing on, pun intended. There are alternative diet sodas, however, and some of these might be to your liking.  First, let me introduce you to a rising brand:

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