Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Product Spotlight: Oscar Neo DA 1000 Living Juicer

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Get your Oscar Neo DA 1000 Living Juicer at Crystal Wellsprings for $495 (Free Delivery Australia-wide) ! Available in red, black or white. 

The Oscar Neo is the best compact multi purpose juicer…

The Oscar Neo 1000 Juicer is the latest model in the best selling Oscar Juicer range and is the world’s first "Ultem tough" Oscar Juicer. This Ultem technology means that the Oscar Neo is now one of most durable and modern non-centrifugal juicers on the market. The improvements in design and material quality is evident in the extended warranty of 20 years on motor and 10 years on parts and service. The Ultem technology also ensures that the Oscar Neo is extremely easy to use and easy to clean! Spend less time juicing and more time enjoying your Living Juice!

The Oscar Neo Juicer

Juice your fruits and extract more vital juice than previous models. The Neo juicer produces a larger supply of nutrients and improved benefits to your health.

The Oscar Neo Juicer is a Vegetable Juicer

The Oscar Neo still generates the highest amount of vital enzymes due to its pulp adjustment nozzle when juicing vegetables like celery, carrots, peppers, radishes, cabbage, and kale. In fact, all vegetables including leafy greens such as parsley and spinach.

The Oscar Neo as a Medicinal Juicer

Use the Oscar Neo juicer for medicinal purposes. You can juice Wheatgrass and aloe leaves as well as juice pine needles and other medicinal herbs.

The Oscar Neo can make Pasta

The range of nozzles available are quick and easy to use. The Oscar Neo can make pasta, fresh noodles, soups, bread sticks with very little effort!

The Oscar Neo can mince and blend

Make organic baby foods, purees, or soft foods for palliative care. They are easy to prepare with the Blank Screen provided. The Neo Juicer chops and minces herbs and seasonings as well as garlic, scallions, red pepper, ginger, radish and many other foods.

The Oscar Neo makes healthy deserts and nut butters

You can make healthy desserts and sorbets without feeling guilty that they are crammed with extra nutrition that are 100% natural. You can also make a range of Nut Butters. Try cashew, hazelnut, hommus and tahinis!

Benefits To Your Health

The health benefits of juicing are well known. The Oscar Neo Juicer preserves the features of our previous models with a single gear, 3 step auger crushing system that maximises the life of vital nutrients and keeps them alive for up to 48 hours. Cold Press Juicers retain the maximum amount of nutrients by unlocking key elements from the fibre within fruit and vegetables.
You will enjoy making healthy juices with the best juicer on the market and preparing juices that are tasty and full of the right nutrients for your body. Natural juices do not contain the level of sugar and other additives that contribute to weight gain. If you feel you are overweight, have high blood pressure, diabetes, or high cholesterol and would like to implement a juicing plan you will enjoy preparing juice recipes that are incredibly tasty and healthy.
Cold Press Juice is a great concentrated source of energy that can help fight diseases. It can substitute solid foods whilst fasting, improve muscle recovery, decrease toxicity, reduce incidences of heart disease, diabetes, and cancers as well as improve overall health conditions to help live healthier and happier over an extended life span.

Technology

The Oscar Neo Juicer is the best domestic juicer for health and the most improved single gear juicer available. It is a great value juicer, provides a larger amount of pulp-free juice and keeps the vital nutrients alive for up to 48 hours.
  • The Neo juicer has been improved with more durable and stain free parts
  • It is fully insulated for safety and to prevent corrosion
  • It maintains the effective 3 step auger crushing and squeezing system that provides the maximum amount of pulp free juice
  • This Juicer does not destroy and waste enzymes through heating because it uses a system that crushes and squeezes juice and vegetables, similar to cold pressing
  • The Neo juicer offers continuous juicing and will not clog as it expels pulp from the front of the juice machine
  • You will also benefit from minimal wastage as the juicer squeezes every last drop of moisture from fresh produce
  • The Oscar Neo's gentle, slow-turning action produces greater quantities of juice and retains more vitamins, minerals,enzymes and fibre!
What is included with your NEW Oscar Neo Juicer:
  • Oscar Neo DA 1000 Motor Base
  • Ultem Juicing Strainer Screen
  • Ultem Mincing Screen
  • NEW Ultem Pulp Adjustment Nozzle
  • Stain resistant Ultem Auger or Screw
  • 6 x Mincing and Pasta Outlets
  • 2 x 1L juice and pulp containers/jugs
  • Tamper and Cleaning Brush
  • User Manual and Recipe Book
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Specifications

Model No:OSCAR Neo (Model No: DA-1000)
Shipping Weight8.5kg
Net Weight6.36kg
DimensionsL250mm x H 226mm x W180mm
Frequency50Hz
Voltage230V (150W power)
Screw RPM63-75
FuseT5AL 250VAC
CertifiedCE
ColoursChrome, Wine, Black and White
Additional FeaturesThe Pulp Adjustment Nozzle, The Ultem Tough Auger, Silicon Seal Juicing Screen, and Mincing Screen
Warranty20 years motor, 10 years parts.

Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Health benefits of a Himalayan crystal mineral salt lamp

If you haven't discovered the natural health benefits of salt lamps, you're missing one of nature's powerful health enhancers. Indeed, salt lamps are considered to be highly therapeutic by many heath practitioners. For instance, they provide a natural way to neutralise harmful positive ions called 'electric smog'. The harmful effects of electric smog include the deterioration of air quality - which can then negatively affect our physical health and impede our emotional/ mental health too. Moreover, the detrimental effects of electric smog is backed by scientific research which has proven that the amount of beneficial ions in the environment should range between 1000-1500/cm3 (that's a ratio of negative to positive ions of 1.02 to 0.98). Yet, in closed rooms (i.e. crowded with two or more people), the amount of negative ions may fall as low as 200/cm. This clearly predisposes people to health risks.

Consequently, ionisers are seen as a good solution to address the saturation of positive ions in our electrically charged urban environments, offices and homes - and salt lamps are the best natural ionisers available. It's also the cheapest and simplest method of fighting electric smog (as well as cigarette smoke). For example, when turned on, the salt lamp will bind negative ions with excess positive ions. This action will in turn cause the heated salt lamp to feel damp to the touch, providing concrete evidence that the salt lamp is effective. In this way,  the salt lamp increases its negative ion field to counteract the positively charged atmosphere of a room which causes the surface of the salt lamp to dampen. This dampness can be left to dry naturally or can be easily cleaned with a clean cloth.

This ionisation process or principle is what makes natural environments like beaches, the air after a rainstorm or near a waterfall so healing and beneficial. As these environments abound with healing negative ions helpful to our bodies. Essentially, the reason for the healing effects of negative ions is due their ability to kill bacteria, purify the air, reduce radiation, increase well-being and soothe the mind, body and soul. Little wonder then that these beautiful gifts of nature are known as “vitamins of the air”, for they improve our well-being and health in many ways. For example, the salt lamp provides reputed health benefits such as:

  • Enhancing overall immunity
  • Relieving a common cold 
  • Help in preventing or help heal acute diseases/ illnesses (including cancer)
  • Help in healing skin problems
  • Relieving mental distress or health disorders
  • Healing respiratory illness
  • Improving air quality
  • Improving sleep
  • Relieving migraines and headaches
  • Improving the general atmosphere/ air quality of a room
  • Nullifying the electric smog/ electromagnetic field's negative effects caused by electrical devices such as the television, vacuum cleaner or computer monitor etc (however, remember not to place the salt lamp on top of a TV or computer, just beside it)
  • Bioenergotherapists and homeopaths have recommended salt lamps to support the treatment of allergies, respiratory, blood systems and rheumatism
  • Colour therapy: salt lamps are used in chromotherapy as their soothing light helps ease nervousness, neurosis and insomnia.

Overall, the salt lamp negates the detrimental effects of common household electronics that emit electromagnetic fields at approximately 100-160Hz, (in contrast, our brain waves produce only 8Hz (according to the Schuman resonance frequency). Consequently, our bodies are exposed up to 20 times higher frequency patterns than naturally produced. The result of repeated or extensive exposure to electric smog has reportedly lead to a myriad of health complaints such as: insomnia, nervousness and lack of concentration. Furthermore, exposure to household and environmental electric smog can cause an accumulation of  free radicals in the body which can lead to cancer. Clearly, then, the salt lamp is a modern day necessity in both homes and offices.

How the salt lamp works

The effect of air ionisation by salt originates from its physical and chemical properties. That meaning, when lit-up by a low wattage light bulb, the ionisation effect is enhanced as the salt crystal heats and releases more health fortifying negative ions into the immediate surroundings. The heated salt lamp attracts water molecules from the air, thus forming a NaCl and H20 solution - whereby sodium is a positive ion and chloride a negative ion, (i.e. hydrogen has a two part negative charge and oxygen is a positively charged ion). The consequent reaction of the two positive ions and three negative ions is that they cancel each other leaving one lone negative ion. This negative ion then seeks out the first positive ion (like a dust particle or bacteria and "zaps" it). In this ionisation or positive ion reduction process, the salt lamp helps to naturally improve the quality of our urban environment and homes, our well-being and help prevent/ heal many diseases.

Himalayan crystal mineral salt lamp 

Created millions of years ago, Himalayan crystal mineral salt beds are the product of ancient ocean beds and its resulting salt deposits being raised high into the mountains of the Himalayas through geological tectonic forces. These ancient ocean beds still remain deep inside the Himalayan mountains. They're also one of the purist salts on earth. In contrast, the current oceans that cover over 70% of the earth’s surface have been contaminated and polluted by human industries with heavy metals like mercury, lead, cadmium and arsenic. In contrast, Himalayan Crystal Mineral Salt Lamps offer a pure ancient sea salt product, originated from pristine oceans millions of years old, free from any man made contaminants.

Places to use the Himalayan crystal mineral salt lamp:
  • Near your television, radio or computer monitor.
  • During massage and meditation.
  • Restaurants, cafes or other smokey places.
  • Near your pet's sleeping quarters (some cats even lick the salt lamp (!) as it's beneficial to their health too).
  • In the children’s bedroom.
  • Confined environments where you desire the air quality to be improved or preserved such as the office or study.
  • In the home, office or therapy practice to help create a calm and relaxing environment.
  • As a centerpiece to enjoy the natural beauty of Himalayan Crystal Mineral Salt Lamps.

A selection of Himalayan Crystal Mineral Salt Lamps will be launched soon at Crystal Wellsprings...