There are excellent reasons for choosing to juice vegetables and fruit.
The Health Gurus tell us that ideally we should eat half a kilo of raw vegetables for every 25kg of your body weight per day. If you eat the vegetables like you would a salad then you’ll have salads coming out of your ears, and it is doubtful that anybody really wants to eat that many salads.
But, by juicing your vegetables you can eat [or if you prefer: drink] more vegetables than you otherwise would normally, and that makes it easy to reach the ideal.
Regular rotation of food selection is important, partly to ensure that you get the widest possible provision of various nutrients, and partly – in the rarer cases – to avoid the chance of developing an allergy to a certain foods.
As most of us have compromised intestines as a result of less than ideal food choices over many years, our body’s ability to absorb all the nutrients from the vegetables may be less than optimal. Juicing will help to “pre-digest” the vegetables so that you receive most of the nutrition rather than having it go down the toilet.
Listen to your body when juicing. After your morning drink your stomach should remain very happy all morning long. If it makes unhappy noises, such as rumbling or groaning, or generally making its presence known, then you may have juiced something you should not be eating.
As you become familiar with the wonders of juicing you soon get to know which vegetables suit you best, and which ones are more occasional additions, or perhaps still frequent, but in smaller amounts.
For anyone new to juicing there are some things to watch for. Inexpensive centrifugal juicers produce low quality juice, and they can be very noisy, not only unpleasant but it may contribute to hearing loss. Make sure you select a Zest Global cold press type juicer with slow speed to avoid the heat normally generated in high speed juicers that kills the enzymes in the juice.
Living juice means that the enzymes are active, and with a cold press juicer they will stay active for more than 48 hours [up to 72hours] after juicing, kept in the fridge.
Juicing your own fruits is also a better way than buying commercial fruit juice. Commercial orange juices can be contaminated with mould from damaged fruit that are processed. So if you drink commercial orange juice regularly you may be exposed to these mould toxins. Apart from that juicing your own fruit is the more economical way to healthy living.
There is another point you should be aware of. Orange juice may have up to about eight full teaspoons of sugar per 200ml glass. This sugar is typically a fruit sugar called fructose, which is every bit as dangerous as regular table sugar since it will also cause a major increase in your insulin levels.
Why is this dangerous? Because the increased insulin level tells the body to store carbohydrates as fat, and tells it to not release any stored fat. This makes it impossible for you to use your own stored body fat for energy, i.e. no chance of loosing weight, and worse, the excess carbohydrates make sure you stay fat.
This doesn’t mean that fruit should be avoided, just commercial fruit juice. Ideally you should eat your fruit whole, because as is well known the fruit fibre will moderate the release of fructose into the bloodstream and so moderate insulin release.
However, advice from your health practitioner in case you are overweight, suffer from high blood pressure or have a high blood sugar level is recommended, when it may be wiser to avoid most fruits until you have these problems under control.
Vegetable juicing is therefore the ideal way to great health and great tasting meals, and don’t forget that even when the kids don’t like their veges, there is juicing! to ensure they too get their daily intake of essential nourishment as a delicious juice.
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