The Dark Side of Juicing: How a Popular Cleanse Made a People Newspapers Reporter Go to the Emergency Room

Sarah Bennett, a reporter for People Newspapers, is a jolly person to be around. It made me sad to know she’d been violently ill after doing a Roots Juice cleanse for a story. Her article about the experience came out in the May 17, 2013 issue of Park Cities People. – Carol Shih

“Sleepiness, Sickness Ensue”

The juice cleanse; it’s a trend that’s been sneaking into shopping centers and workout studios for a while now, attracting females of the 20-to-40 age range. It finally caught up with me. The curiosity was seeded in the fridge at the back of my Pilates classroom, when I first picked up a grapefruit-and-mint concoction.

When I told my mother what I was doing, there seemed to be some generational gap. “No solid food for three days? So it’s like a voluntary stomach flu?” she asked. Correct.

Roots Juices recommends cutting meat a day or two in advance to prepare your system. Did I heed this warning? Nope. For my “last meal,” I chose Bubba’s. I figure after this, I’ll be on some sort of avocado-hugging health kick (for maybe a day), so why not go out with a bang?

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Green Grocer is Juicing Now

Green Grocer’s Mean Green juice

People are so juice crazy these days (have y’all read the NY Times article about it?), I thought you guys should know you’ve now got a new vegetable water source in town. From the bowels of Green Grocer’s Facebook page:

“Mean Green” cold pressed juice is stocked and we are going to do our best to have them on our shelves on a continuous basis (unless they sell out). Ingredients: cucumber, apple, kale, celery, lemon, ginger.

Right now all of our green juices do have some fruit in them, but we are just getting started. Eventually we will roll one in that doesn’t have fruit. We make made to order juices in a centifugal juicer on the the weekends from 9- 2 and we can always exclude fruit in those if you would like.

Number One/Le Jus Changes Name to “Number One,” Doesn’t Sell its Own Juice Anymore

photo by Desiree Espada

ShopTalk’s Raya Ramsey reports that Number One, the part cafe/part clothing shop in Highland Park Village, has a completely changed its menu. This one includes tzatziki, hummus, baba ganoush, Blue Bottle coffee, and Bellocq Tea. It’s also going to be selling Vim+Vigor juices from now on. There will be no more of Dana Card’s La Vie juices that she dearly loved and sold. Early January, I wrote about Number One/Le Jus back when Card was still the Queen Bee of Dallas juicing. Now she’s nowhere to be found. I called Number One and asked if Card was there, and the woman on the other end of the line told me that she wasn’t. No explanation. Odd. A little birdy tells us Card will be focusing on full-time counseling. It’s too bad for Highland Park Village. The best thing about walking into Number One/Le Jus was the engaging Dana Card.