Juicing For Better Health
Do you like to take care of your health? Do you listen to nutrition advice and actually implement it? Are you looking for better ways to integrate fresh, organic and local raw fruits and vegetables into your diet? Me, too! And I wonder if you can relate to the following about my own experiences.
Though I’ve never had any major health issues, I suspect that diet and exercise play a critical role in helping us all stay healthy. It seems like every study published agrees that a healthy diet and challenging physical fitness program can help us maintain our well being and increase our longevity. Unusually (and in my normal over-achieving geek-like way) I started working out in 6th grade with a running program. My father thought it’d be good for us all to get in better shape so my sister and I started jogging 3 miles a day with him after school.
I have always stayed fit and been active, kept my weight in line, and have always gotten a good health check from the doctor each year. I thought I was doing great.
But I have just been reading a book called “The China Study” which is truly making me reconsider the “diet” portion of the “good health” equation and question whether I am on the right track to ideal health.
According to “The China Study,” which is a superb, understandable research-based book quoting over 700 scientific studies, animal protein, including eggs, milk and beef, isn’t the cure for good health and muscle-growth that we’ve all been led to believe. I was totally surprised to learn that skim milk isn’t a super-food when it comes to robust bones, teeth and muscles. In fact, the writer is forced to decide that – much to his disappointment since he grew up on a dairy farm – a diet free from animal protein is truly optimal for boosting our health and reducing the signs of aging.
The China Study book suggests a vegan diet rich in unprocessed plant-based foods.
Many advocates to this philosophy take this approach a step further and focus on eating raw plant foods, forgoing foods like rice, barley, pasta, etc. These raw food advocates believe that we preserve and ingest the most nutrition in our foods when we don’t prepare them by cooking them.
One of the toughest issues to preparing and eating a lot of plants is that it can just plain take a very long time. Cutting, washing, etc. Is a laborious process. Particularly once you begin to look at incorporating vegetables like lettuce, spinach, kale, and celery – greens that are vital to our growth.
That’s where a strong juicer can solve your issues. Making juice out of your vegetables and fruit with the Breville Juice Fountain Elite is a superb way to mix your fruits and fruit into a fresh, delicious and mouth watering drink which will make certain you get all the nutrition you need, even if you are on the go.
Consider mouth-watering juice recipes like apple-cinnamon cider, carrot juice with ginger, or perhaps your own version of V-8. Green smoothies made with bananas and spinach are a favourite raw-food vegan classic – the fruit is cheap, the taste is great and it’s vitamin-packed!
If you have a regular blender (for making margaritas ), or even a name-brand juicer like Jack LaLanne’s from TV, you can find that they do not hold up to regular juicing, they’re tough juicing, they’re tough to use because they are under powered, or they just don’t clean-up well.
The Breville Juice Fountain Elite solves all these problems. It is German-engineered to be a top-of the line juicer for people who make juice each day and need a quick-and-simple way to make their juice. In fact, you can produce an 8-oz cup of juice in under five seconds and as the juicer takes Huge pieces of apple, carrot and other hard fruits – you don’t have to do much chopping. THe juicer even does a pleasant job with leafy or stringy products like lettuce and celery. Including vegetables like this in your juice will truly increase their nutritional value.
If you are prepared to make some changes in your diet to become healthier, more energetic, and maybe lengthen your lifespan – begin with including more fruits and vegetables. Like “The Omnivore’s Dilemma” recommends – Eat Food. Not Too Much. Mostly Plants.
Start your program for better health and nutrition with juicy juice from local organic produce made with the Breville Juice Fountain Elite.
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