Juicing To Your Health
Juicing is an easy way to provide your body with a high level of quality nutrition. So what makes the nutrition provided by juicing fresh fruits and vegetables differ from the nutrition we normally assimilate on a daily basis? As we’ve said before, fresh juice requires less digestion, so all its nutrition gets absorbed rapidly into your system. Secondly, you use more fruits and vegetables than you could actually eat when you juice. As a result, you end up drinking a very concentrated amount of vitamins, minerals and other plant-based nutrients. Let’s discuss a few benefits this kind of nutrition can offer to our bodies.
Strengthen The Cardiovascular System By Juicing
Both antioxidant vitamins C and E help prevent the damage of free radicals on artery walls. They also help keep blood from clotting and becoming toxic as well as helping to lower triglycerides levels. High levels of vitamin C can be found in most vegetables and fruits, especially citrus. For a good source of vitamin E, try adding some kiwis and blackberries, or spinach and asparagus to your juice recipes. Magnesium and Potassium are essential for healthy heart function. Blackberries are also a good source for both of these minerals.
Now as we know, obesity plays a significant role in developing heart disease, and juicing is a great way to take a realistic approach on losing weight and maintaining a healthy lifestyle. A quality juicing machine can make this much easier to achieve.
Juicing To Detoxify The Liver
The liver has a long list of important functions. One of its main duties is to clean the blood and filter the toxins and metabolic waste out from our bloodstreams. With the amount of toxins we are exposed to everyday in modern life we need to make an effort to keep our liver clean, so it in turn can keep us clean.
Certain key nutrients are needed in order to detox the liver. Beta-carotene, N-acetylcysteine, vitamin E, and vitamin C are very potent liver cleansers. In addition, riboflavin and niacin also contribute to liver cleansing. Juicing fresh brussel sprouts, cauliflower, and cabbage have been found to be great for the liver. You can also add milk thistle supplements to your juice to help the liver detoxify.
Using Vegetable Juice To Alkalize Your System
Vegetables are great for alkalizing the body. Fruits, on the other hand are not as they are mostly acidic in nature. There is a very long list of benefits to neutralizing the body’s PH level. Here are just a few of those benefits:
A neutral body environment is less prone to disease. Acidic environments incubate disease.
Improved heart health
Helps in slowing down the aging process
Improved joint function and easing arthritis.
Clarity from improved brain function
Better digestion
Juicing For Healthy Skin, Hair, Eyes And Nails
Vitamins C and E also help to prevent skin damage from over exposure to the sun, due to their ability to neutralize free radicals. The benefits of juicing blackberries and blueberries will provide you with a good serving of vitamins C and E.
A lack of vitamin B2 (riboflavin) can cause a whole host of skin problems ranging from dry lips to dermatitis. It can also cause hair loss. Juicing kale, asparagus, and spinach will provide you with a good amount of vitamin B2.
The most potent nutrient for healthy eyes is vitamin A. Beta-carotene, which is found in abundance in orange colored fruits and vegetables, is turned into vitamin A by the body. This vitamin aids the retina in order to function properly and helps prevent night blindness. Both vitamins A and C reduce the risk of AMD (Age-related Macular Degeneration) and cataracts. We’ve always heard carrots are good for your eyes, and juicing them is a very good way to add beta-carotene and vitamin C to your diet.
Juice Up Your Energy Levels
It shouldn’t surprise us that fresh fruits and vegetables can increase energy levels. Juicing allows you to DRINK a whole lot more raw fruits and vegetables than you can actually eat. This means you can ingest many more vitamins and minerals which are responsible for the necessary chemical reactions that promote health and vitality. This means much more energy.
Juicing Can Help Rebuild Blood Cells
You could probably write a book on the amazing health benefits of chlorophyll, and I’m sure someone already has. From what I remember learning in high school biology class, which isn’t much, chlorophyll is a pigment that make plants green. As it turns out, on a molecular level, chlorophyll looks almost exactly like hemin. Hemin is a very important component of the red blood cell. Scientists have found that when you assimilate chlorophyll into the body, it makes the chemical shift and actually becomes hemin. This is why a juicing machine that is able to juice leafy greens is so important. If we want healthy blood, we’ve got to get our chlorophyll. The darker the green, the more chlorophyll it contains.
A Juicer Can Help You Improve Your Immune System
Juicing regularly is going to give you a large amount and variety of antioxidants which are key to a healthy immune system. The antioxidants from fruits and vegetables include vitamins A, C, and E, as well as a wide range of plant chemicals called phytochemicals. Phytochemicals have incredible and varied health benefits, most notably anti-cancer properties.
Along side the pros of juicing, any “cons” seem to just disappear. Juicing is by far one of the easiest ways to improve our health and vitality. Why not start today? Buy a juicer and start juicing to your health!
Written by Tom Webb+
