If you want to cleanse your body, detox from impurities, lose weight and get real nutritional boosts inside your body, you should consider juicing vegetables. Most nutritionists know this and advise their clients to juice vegetables. The problem for many, however, is that it means washing the vegetables, investing in a good quality juicer, cleaning the juicer and so on. All of this takes time and it is so much easier to simply nibble on a vegetable, or even simply by a bit of juice from the supermarket. However, the benefits of juicing vegetables, and doing this yourself, are so big that we should collectively learn to overcome the fact that it takes time. Let’s take a look at some of the benefits.
Juice Fasting
Juice fasting, or juice dieting, is where people consume nothing but juiced vegetables for a few days, or even a week. It is recommended that this is only done once you have become accustomed to consuming juices in the first place, because maintaining a liquid diet can be really difficult. However, once your stomach is accustomed to drinking juices regularly, you will find yourself ready to actually do a full juice fast.
Drinking only freshly pressed vegetable-based juices for a day or two or even a week at a time can give your body much needed rest and time to heal itself of chronic health problems. Because vegetable juices are extremely easy to digest, your body can spend much of its resources on healing damaged or exhausted tissues instead of spending its energy on digesting big, heavy meals.
Three Main Reasons to Juice
Juicing vegetables can really help you on the road to optimal health. There are hundreds of reasons as to why you should give this a try, but three reasons are the most prevalent ones. These three reasons are the ones that should convince you that juicing is right for you too.
Juicing helps you absorb all the nutrients from the vegetables. […] Juicing will help to “pre-digest” them for you, so you will receive most of the nutrition, rather than having it go down the toilet.
Reason number two is that you will be able to eat as many vegetables as you need in a way that is the most efficient for your body. Lastly, it allows you to eat a varied diet, going above and beyond the required five a day.
How to Pick the Right Vegetables
Many people get stuck with juicing because they simply don’t know which vegetables to pick. What you have to remember is that you are trying to get optimal nutrition in your body, and nature has a clever way of helping us with this. The thing to look out for is color.
They should come in different colors, as the colors have different vitamins and minerals.
So, try to mix a few red, green, yellow and orange vegetables together. Always think of the green leafy vegetables as well, which are often a particularly good source of iron. If you intend to do a juice fast, you have to make sure that you get all of these vitamins and minerals that are around you. Hence, go to your local green grocer (remember to shop local, rather than large supermarkets and take the time to ask about whether the vegetables have been exposed to pesticides) and pick the vegetables that you think look best in a variety of colors. Every day, pick a few different colors and add some green leafy vegetables as well. And, for sweetness, feel free to use a couple of fruits as well, particularly those that are high in certain vitamins.
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