Juicing vs. Blending Fruits and Veggies

I've been juicing and blending vegetables and fruits for almost a year.  Let me distinguish between juicing and blending.  Juicing is a removing the skin and pulp from a fruit or veggie, in order to get the most instantly absorbable blast of vitamins, enzymes and nutrients from the juice of raw, whole food.  Blending is putting similar contents into a blender and making a drink or smoothie to get the entire fruit or veggie into the body.

What's the nutritional difference? Blending is a way to take in the nutrition and bulk of fruits and vegetables by drinking it.  The whole item of food has value in addition to providing fuel and medicine, like keeping the entire digestive system in action, scraping and cleaning, and other essential activities. Juicing makes the vitamins, minerals and enzymes absorbable at the speed of alcohol, without the need for several hours and effort of digestion.  This allows us to take in the nutrients of more food than we are actually eating and digesting.  In this time of reduced nutritional value of much of our food, this jolt of quality is important to our entire system.

This is of vital importance when healing.  When following the Gerson Therapy, for example, the patient drinks thirteen 8 oz glasses of different juices, spread over the entire day, in addition to eating three organic raw food meals.  This "injection" of quality nutrition has speedy and powerful effects on the patient. Comfort, healing, visible reversal of symptoms often become apparent within one to 14 days.  Typically, the regimen is maintained for about two years, then a maintenance program devised by each patient allows comfortable, continued, healthy living (Charlotte Gerson states that there is no official maintenance or preventive diet, there is only The Gerson Therapy.  After two years of the process, each patient and their support systems are experts, so they can create valuable programs for continued health of the patient.)