Juice Sensibility
Gabriel Foster
Apart from eating many of the
wonderful vegetables and fruits that inhabit our planet, drinking them
is equally nourishing and satisfying. Juicing vegetables and fruits can
also create a dynamic taste treat, causing your taste buds to dance with
undiscovered delight. If you're new to juicing, I recommend only juicing
vegetables and fruits that you enjoy eating. As time goes on, you can
try out other foods as well as increased amounts of those foods.
Concentrated Nutrients
As a dedicated vegetarian, you are
well aware of the benefits of eating fruits and vegetables daily. What
you may not have known, is that by actually juicing these delicious
foods, you are consuming the maximum concentrated benefits of their
nutrients. How? Simple, when you cook food, you loose up to 97% of their
nutrients. That's quite a loss huh? There are certain precautions and
methods towards picking, storing and cooking food, that will minimize
the loss of nutrients, but that's another article. Suffice to say,
juicing your foods will retain almost a 100% if not all depending on
certain circumstances. When you juice, you take raw vegetables and
fruits to do the job. Because juicing produces no heat or any other
method that causes nutritional loss, you consume high levels of
nutrients.
Vital Nutrients
There are some nutrients like
certain antioxidants that do an outstanding job fighting lung cancer,
stroke and heart disease. By cooking away anywhere from 74% to 97% of
these nutrients, you are actually doing yourself a disservice and a
potentially lethal one at that. There are other numerous nutrients that
also fight disease on our behalf. To consume the entire village, start
juicing and drinking them on a regular basis. Nutrients like beta
carotene and other carotenoids do great things such as boosting your
immunity system.
No Pulp Fiction
It's a known fact that when you
juice, pulp remains in the juicer. Over the years there have been many
views on what do with that pulp and why. From just discarding it to
employing other culinary uses for it. In essence, that pulp contains
high levels of fiber and truly should not be thrown out. Fiber has too
many benefits to simply dismiss it so easily. Some experts recommend
using the pulp in food and others suggest putting some of the pulp back
into the juice for greater health rewards. What I can tell you is that
the pulp acts as a fertilizer for the good bacteria in the colon and
that's a definite plus.
Cheers To Juicing
Well! There are many different
views on juicing by many different experts, but no matter the
differences, they can all agree on one thing, juicing, whatever the
method use, contain far more positives than the many differences and
opinionated views varying experts concede to have. Not juicing is a none
option in today's world of undernourished bodies and minds. Start
juicing and gain the many nutrients that your body craves. A nutrient
fortified body is able to prevent and fight off various diseases and
ailments that come under attack on a daily basis.
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