Top health experts are always telling us we need to eat 5 servings of fruits and vegetables every day to live a healthier life.
Eating your fruits and vegetables every day can help you keep your weight down and reduces the chances of getting many diseases.
I don’t know about you, but I find it nearly impossible to eat all of my servings of fruits and vegetables in one day. That’s one of the main reasons I decided to start juicing.
What exactly is juicing? Juicing is a method of separating the juices of fruits and vegetables from the pulp and fiber. This is accomplished by using a juicer.
There are several types of juicers available, but the two main types are: masticating and centrifugal. To maximize your health benefits of juicing, I recommend using a masticating juicer. You can find out all about juicing, as well as all the different types of juicers in my blog post: The Health Benefits of Juicing are Well Documented, but What Exactly is Juicing?
So now you know a little bit about juicing, but you probably don’t know all the wonderful health benefits you receive from juicing. Here are the top 12 health benefits of juicing.
- Enzymes – By juicing fresh fruits and vegetables every day, you get all the live enzymes that you would not normally get in an otherwise cooked and processed diet.
- Digestion – Fresh juices are highly digestible. The juice has been separated from the pulp and fiber, and so all that is left is the liquid. Because there is no fiber to digest, all the wonderful nutrients and enzymes are very quickly assimilated by the body.
- Detoxify your body – Juicing with vegetables helps to detoxify the body and enables the cells to absorb and utilize nutrients better.
- Nutrients, Vitamins, and Minerals – You get high doses of vitamins and minerals that are easy to absorb in one glass of juice.
- Healthy pH balance – An alkaline body is also a healthier one. Acid is toxic to the body’s cells. The more acidic the cells are, the less able they are to transport oxygen throughout the body. Green juices balance out the body’s pH and also help to remove acid wastes and toxins from your body.
- Healing properties – Vegetable juicing is extremely beneficial to the body because it balances the acidity that most of us deal with every day. Most diets are very acidic and that’s why we end up with acid reflux, gastritis, and ulcers. Virtually all degenerative diseases are associated with excess acidity in the body.
- Chlorophyll – Some of the benefits include: reducing inflammation, aiding in liver detoxification, purifying and rebuilding blood cells, and helping digestion & bowel functions.
- Weight loss – Fresh juice acts like a natural appetite suppressor. If you drink a glass of juice before each meal, it will greatly reduce your appetite, and you will eat less.
- Boost your immune system – Many fruits and berries are loaded with Vitamin C and other antioxidants that help build up your immune system.
- Beautiful skin – Because vegetables are packed with vitamins and minerals that not only help you get healthier looking skin, but also help you to get rid of toxins and impurities that interfere with skin regeneration.
- Improve your energy
- Fast and Easy. You can get all your daily fruits or vegetable servings in 1-2 glasses of fresh juice a day. All you have to do is wash everything, put it in the juicer, and the juicer does all the work for you. Your end result – a nice glass of tasty juice for you to drink! That’s it, you’re done.
If this isn’t enough proof that you should be juicing, I don’t know what is. In my opinion, you cannot afford not to juice. Finally, there is a way for you to get all the recommended fruit and vegetable servings you need in one day, now every single day, just by juicing.
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Great post! I love me a great raw veggie juice