Juicing offers Powerful Benefits for Health
Health experts agree that to protect ourselves from illness and disease and to enjoy optimum health, we should eat more fruits and vegetables. The chemicals in plants, phytochemicals, protect the body from many forms of cancer, as well as heart disease and many age-related diseases like arthritis. Juicing with fresh fruits and veggies offers phytochemicals, nutrients and enzymes in an easily digestible fashion for your body to absorb quickly and with maximum benefits.
Enjoy these Health benefits with Juicing
Juicing provides a meal in a glass
How does juicing help you get the best nutrition? It takes a pound of carrots to make a glass of juice. It would be hard to consume that many carrots in a day. It takes little or no digestion to assimilate juiced foods directly into the body so all the healing nutrients in fruits and veggies find their way right into your bloodstream.
Enzymes
There are 55,000 enzymes in the human body, which are one of three different kinds.
- Digestive enzymes are made by the body, such as the enzymes in saliva, to help us digest food.
- Food enzymes come from the raw food we eat. Heating food to a high temperature (114 degrees F) destroys these enzymes and when you eat only cooked food, you aren’t getting the enzymes necessary to the proper functioning of the body.
- Metabolic enzymes, run the proper functioning of the body and provide regeneration and energy at the cellular level.
The use of fresh, raw fruits and veggies in juicing makes this a powerhouse of enzymes which play an essential role in protecting cells from damage.
Benefit of Nutrients in Juicing
Fruits and vegetables are also excellent sources of other essential vitamins and minerals. Juicing breaks these down into a liquid form easily absorbed by the body. The fiber in whole fruit and vegetables, removed through juicing, traps the nutrients so the body can’t absorb them. Through juicing nearly 100% of nutrients are absorbed by the body.
Water in Fresh Juices
Fruits and vegetables, like our human bodies, are made up largely of water. Juicing also makes this water available to the body in a pure natural form.
Purchasing pure, fresh juice in a grocery store or in a juice bar can be expensive. If you're buying bottled juice, check the label. Most contain sugar, high fructose corn syrup, chemicals and other items you might not want in your juice. Also, if the label says "fruit blend", you may think you are buying cranberry juice or cherry juice, but what you'll see on the label is mostly a less expensive apple juice with a little cherry or cranberry thrown in. What's worse, it may even be "cranberry flavoring" and not even the real thing.
Unless the label says "pure cranberry" or "pure cherry" juice, then you aren't getting the real thing.
Why not enjoy the benefits of pure, whole fruits and veggies by juicing your own?
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