Useful Health Tips

Many individuals have jumped on the healthy eating bandwagon only to find it difficult to sustain over a long period of time. One of the best pathways to becoming healthy is drinking more juice. And not the kind that comes in a can or bottle, but the kind you make in juicers with real food.

Top Advantages of using a Juicer

Below are 5 health benefits of using a juicer:

1. Wider range of veggies and fruits

By placing your daily recommended amount of fruits and vegetables in a juicer, you are able to consume a wide variety. No one can actually eat a daily recommended amount of the nutrients they need. Depending on your current weight and age, it is typically over two pounds of the fiber-rich foods. Eating would be all you would do all day if that were the case.

Mixing different types of fruits and veggies in a juicer allows you to experiment and try different types of foods. When a veggie you may not care for is mixed with a favorite delicious fruit, you will barely taste the vegetable. And the drink will be better for your overall health.

2. Most nutrients absorbed

When you eat a vegetable or a fruit, your gut has to work hard to process the fiber contained in the food. When you pulverize the fruits and veggies into a smooth drink, your gut will not have to work that hard for absorption.

Juicers extract the juice and leave the pulp behind. The pulp is what is difficult to digest. Therefore, juicing your fiber is good for your gut and the vitamin absorption your body needs to function properly.

3. Juicing helps lower cholesterol

Naturally, to lower cholesterol, one would have to completely change their eating habits. All of them. However, adding fresh green or red juice to your daily menu would be helpful in feeding good gut bacteria and starving most of the bad gut bacteria.

Replacing high sugar, processed breakfast foods with a red or green smoothie, one you prepare yourself, will help to cut down on the saturated fats and bring the numbers of your cholesterol down to the normal range.

4. Detoxification of the body

Replacing two of the three meals per day for just three days will help to detoxify your body. Eating poorly adds toxins to the body and slows down your metabolism. Drinking high fiber juices, made with real, fresh fruits and veggies, help to clean out your body of dangerous toxins.

You may not realize that there is a buildup of chemicals in your body until it is too late. When you drink high fiber juices, you flush out the unwanted chemicals from your body and begin to feel much better.

5. Improves skin

When you eat greasy foods, processed sugar, and white flour, your skin will suffer. Blemishes, blackheads, red blotches and bumps are just a few of the signs on your skin that you are eating wrong.

Juicing to get more fruits and vegetables into your body will improve your skin. Not only will your skin look better, it will feel younger. Your skin will be able to “breathe” without the clogging of pores by fats.

You owe it to your body and your ongoing health to start each day with a delicious, vegetable and fruit juice blend. You will not only have the above benefits, but you will also have more energy, and everyone could use more energy.