Monday, June 21, 2010

Benefits of Proper Juicing

The best way to improve your health is by giving your body the right material it needs to function in peak physical condition. In today's busy world, juicing can be a very healthy option to incorporate into your regular eating regime. Before some genius invented cubicles and greasy hamburgers, people ate foods in its most natural form: fresh, nutritious, unprocessed, mostly raw, and with great variety. In fact, there are some societies in parts of the world that no one else cares about who still eat that way and by comparing the types of diseases in modernized societies, it's understood that what you eat makes a huge difference in your health.

Some of the biggest benefit to juicing is its power to magnify the benefits of its ingredients. Sure, it is important to eat solid fruits and vegetables too, but to juice often increases the amount of nutrients, vitamins, and mineral essential to proper body functions. This happens in a number of ways. For starters, the juice is liquefied to your body can absorb the nutrients in a much more efficient manner. In solid foods, there is always a fraction of nutrients that go to waste because they were trapped inside the solid particles that prevented your body from extracting the nutrients before it completed its lap through your digestive system.

Your body consists of mostly water and needs water as the main medium of transporting toxins out of your body. Juicing increases the amount of water per unit of fruit or vegetable by reducing the amount of solid. Just by juicing you are increasing the amount of water you put into your body. Probably not meet your daily requirement since an overwhelming majority of people do not hydrate enough during the day, but it helps to bring you closer.

One important thing to keep in mind about properly juicing is that the benefits of juicing are only as good as the ingredients you use. Always use organic grown foods that are free of pesticides and chemical fertilizers since these toxins are what we want out of our bodies so it only makes sense to avoid putting them in to begin with.

Also, the ingredients should be as fresh as possible, there is a statistic stating that by the time the consumer takes the food home, on average, the food is already a few weeks old. So while it's probably impossible to get fruit right off the vine, tree, or whatever the fruiting parent is, in almost all areas there are local farmers and markets that sell local produce which have shorter trips to travel to get to you. Speaking of fresh, never ever drink juice more than a day old. It's best to consume your heavenly delight within the hour of juicing.

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