The Many Benefits of Juicing

The newest craze in healthy eating is drinking fresh juice made with your own juicer. We hear from its proponents that home juicing reduces cancer risk, boosts the immune system, reduces toxins and “cleanses the body,” aids digestion, and helps to lose weight. These are bold claims, but are they actually supported by sound scientific evidence? According to the Mayo Clinic, there is no sound scientific evidence that extracted juices are healthier than juices consumed by eating whole fruits and vegetables themselves. However, many people do not enjoy eating fresh fruits and vegetables, and as a result almost never get their daily requirements. For these people, juicing can provide a fun, tasty, and convenient alternative way to add these important nutrients to their diets and to try foods they normally don’t eat. Juicing helps to reach daily minimum requirements quickly and conveniently.
If you are thinking about taking the plunge, you should also consider the following benefits of juicing:
â-- It is generally easier, faster, and more convenient to juice than it is to prepare and eat whole and veggies, and, as a result, most people find that it is easier to consume their daily requirements in liquid form,
â-- Cooking and heating foods often damages or destroys sensitive enzymes and micronutrients that give food their nutritional value in the first place. Juicing preserves these important food values,
â-- When fruits and vegetables are eaten whole on plates, their skins, tops, seeds, leaves, and flowers are usually removed and discarded. Juicing enables these nutritious plant parts to be included in the juices instead of being wasted,
â-- It is pretty much universally conceded by medical professionals that juicing makes it easier for virtually everyone to absorb and digest the valuable nutrients contained in fruits and vegetables, and,
â-- Juicing helps broaden the variety of fruits and vegetables consumed. By combining foods that are not your favorites with other foods that are, and/or by adding lemon, lime or cranberry juices to your recipes, many tastes that you might otherwise find unpleasant can effectively be disguised, enabling you to consume foods you otherwise wouldn’t.
To enjoy the full benefits of juicing, be sure to include plenty of vegetables, particularly the green leafy ones, in your juicing regimen. In addition to helping you lose weight, juicing the right vegetables regularly has been shown to lower blood pressure, improve blood glucose levels, and provide added boosts of energy as you move through your daily routine. So, if your primary juicing objectives are to improve your overall health and lengthen your lifespan, then your juicing must be focused on vegetables, and you should consider a masticating juicer. Masticating juicers excel with leafy green vegetables, herbs, and wheat grass. Masticating juicers utilize screws or augurs instead of blades, and compared with centrifugal juicers, they operate at much lower speeds, generate much less noise, achieve higher juice yields, preserve enzymes and nutrients pretty much intact, and have longer useful lives. The only downsides of masticating juicers are that you might have to wait a little longer for your juice, and you will pay a little more for your juicer at checkout.