Proponents of juicing will tell you: juicing can maximize nutrient intake, fight disease, strengthen cellular defense against free radicals, alleviate pain, encourage weight-loss, and decrease the need for medication. That's not all juicing can do. People also claim that juicing can reduce the risk of cardiovascular disease, strokes, diabetes, certain types of cancers, mental illness, metabolic syndrome, and may result in longer lifespans.
TIP! When you are juicing, you will create a good amount of pulp. The amount of pulp depends on what you are juicing, of course.
With so many benefits to juicing, it's hard to see why it would be dismissed as the perfect way to detoxify a person's body. When juicing is a person's sole caloric intake, the fruit's antioxidants pulse through the juicer's body, seeking out and ridding all of the toxins that build up in our bodies. These toxins are everywhere, in the air we breathe, the packages our food comes in, the chemicals on our clothing, furniture, and carpet.
Without juicing, these toxins can poison a person, slow their metabolism, clot blood, and throw off our hormone levels, among other things. Juicing helps stop this process; juicing is the perfect way to stay healthy.
TIP! Do some research about juicing before you get started. It is important to find out about necessary equipment.
Some people are critical of juicing and suggest that simply eating the fruit or vegetable would be much more beneficial to a person than boiling the crap out of it or squeezing it to a pulp. In fact, there are some people who suggest that, to be our healthiest, we should never cook or disembody our fruits and vegetables; they should be eaten raw. Most of us can agree that such a diet is impractical. It may be true that eating the fruit or vegetable is more beneficial to person's health than juicing the fruit or vegetable.
On the other hand, it is often true in nature and in food, that when one thing is lost, another is gained. This is likely true with juicing, especially when the right juices are combined. Sometimes the right combination of juices brings out new nutritional benefits that would have remained locked away in the fruit, were it eaten whole. This, combined with proven clinical research that juice fasts detoxify the body, makes juicing seem like a wise choice for a healthy body.
TIP! If you juice dark, leafy greens like spinach, add some cucumber. These types of greens generally have a potent and slightly disagreeable flavor.
It is also true that a lifetime of processed food has altered the digestive tract of the consumer, making it more difficult for the intestines to effectively retrieve the nutrients from a whole fruit or vegetable. Juicing does the masticating for us, and makes it easier for our bodies to absorb the nutrients that the fruit or vegetable has to offer.
Juicing doesn't have to be combined with fasting, either. A daily intake of fresh juice will leave a person feeling more balanced than a morning cup of coffee or a can of coke. With diabetes and obesity on the rise, it may be time to trade in one sweet drink for another, much more nutritious drink. Even without fasting, we would quickly see a change in health if people started juicing fresh fruit and vegetables instead of popping a can of soda.
As with anything, juicing in moderation has potential to be an important factor in a person's long term health.
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