Juicing is one of the best ways to compensate for the toxins, and ever diminishing nutrient value of our food. For some people, whipping fresh fruits and vegetables through a juicer and extracting a glassful of vitamin-packed nectar ensures that they get the recommended five to seven servings of these foods every day. Others like juicing to get more carotenoids and flavonoids, which are healing compounds that can fight major diseases like cancer, and heart disease. Still others see juicing as a way to get rid of the toxins in the body, boost immunity and help to treat a variety of diseases, like anemia, constipation and arthritis.
Juices are a multivitamin/mineral supplement for people who don’t want to take pills and capsules. Your body absorbs the nutrients much better than it does from pills. Although plants are full of vitamins, minerals, and other healing compounds, these substances are bound to vibrous tissue and contained within cellulose walls. When you grind up vegetables or fruits to make juice, you break down the cellulose, releasing these compounds and making them available for absorption.
Unless you chew very, very well, you won’t get all the nutrients from food that you get from juice. In fact, juice is one of the most powerful whole foods that you can put in your body. It takes very little energy to digest it, so you maintain almost all of the energy and nutrients that it gives. Plus, it takes a whole lot of vegetables to get the same amount of nutrients found in one glass of juice.
A 6-ounce glass of carrot juice contains large amounts of beta-carotene, which, when it’s converted to vitamin A in the body, 948% of the Daily Value. The same glass of juice also contains 16 milligrams of vitamin C, 27% of the Daily Value. 0.4 milligram of vitamin B6, or 20% of the Daily Value; 537 milligram of potassium, or 15% of the DV, and 0.2 milligram of thiamin, or 11%of the Daily Value.
Juicing can even help to control your weight. Drinking juices helps the body iron out its nutritional deficiencies, which leaves you more satisfied from a healthy diet and less likely to overeat.
Despite their nutritional goodness, juices should be used to supplement fresh fruits, vegetables, and grains in your diet, not to replace them. Juices don’t contribute much toward the 20 to 35 grams of fiber that adults need each day. For example, eight carrots provide 17 grams of fiber, while a 6-ounce glass of juice contains a measly 2 grams.
Fresh juices supply more than the necessary vitamins and minerals. They also contain a variety of phytonutrients. If you have read my article: “Phytochemicals, compounds to cut cancer and heart disease, you would know it already. Perhaps the best-known of the phytonutrients is beta-carotene, a plant pigment that gives the orange color on sweet potatoes and carrots and the red on tomatoes.
Fruit and vegetables also contain flavonoids, compounds that have strong antioxidant power and prevent low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol. You can read all about flavonoids in my article:” Flavonoids, Powerful Antioxidants to prevent Cancer and Heart Disease. Also:” Healthy for Life with Digestive Enzymes.”
In a large study of more than 100,000 people, researchers found that adding one serving of fruits and vegetables to the diet each day lowered the risk of ischemic stroke, a stroke in which the artery to the brain is blocked. By 6 percent. The best protection came from citrus fruits, dark green leafy vegetables and cruciferous vegetables, which include broccoli, cauliflower, and cabbage.
The Global Celery Juice Movement
For decades a grassroots global healing movement has been building: drinking 16 ounces of straight celery juice on an empty stomach every morning. Today, millions of people around the world are participating and experiencing the benefits for themselves.
Why? Because celery juice, when consumed in the right way, is a powerful and miraculous healing remedy and people are noticing the benefits it provides, such as clearer skin, improved digestion, less bloating, sustained energy, better mental clarity, weight loss, and stable moods, just to name a few.
People are healing from all kinds of acute and chronic illnesses, including Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, eczema, psoriasis, acne, SIBO, constipation, chronic fatigue syndrome, blood sugar issues, migraines, acid reflux, high blood pressure, addictions, adrenal issues, gout, allergies, autoimmune conditions, and countless others, from drinking plain celery juice daily.
“Celery juice is one of the most profound ways, if not the most profound way, to restore digestive health. It is that powerful.”– Anthony William, Medical Medium: Secrets Behind Chronic & Mystery Illness and How to Finally Heal
Hi, my name is Adrian Joele and I became interested in nutrition and weight management while I was an associate with a nutritional supplement company. Since 2008 I wrote several articles about nutrition and weight loss and achieved expert status with Ezine Articles.com. I have been involved in nutrition and weight management for more than 12 years and I like to share my knowledge with anyone who could benefit from it. I enjoy helping people solve their problems.
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