Reasons to Juice For Health
The best way to improve your health is simply by doing things that are in line with what we are naturally designed to do. That is, feed our bodies natural nutritious foods and move around just a little more than we do now. Juicing is a way to give your body what it needs without changing your entire lifestyle around.
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.
While eating solid forms of fruits and vegetables are also important, what our bodies are lacking the most these days are the ever important micro-nutrients rarely found in processed foods we are used to. The best way to get this is by consuming foods high in these nutrients in the most digestible form. Juicing highly nutritious fruits and vegetables increases the benefits of consuming these healthful foods.
Your body can extract nutrients much more efficiently from easily digestible mediums such as liquids. This makes sure the maximum amount of nutrients is absorbed and minimal amounts are wasted, unlike when they are trapped in solid form which makes it difficult to extract. The body only has so much time to extract and absorb things before they complete the cycle 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.
Just as you want your produce to be fresh, always drink your juices fresh as well. Drink your juice within the hour of making it if possible. But never drink something more than a day old.