Friday, September 28, 2012

Reduce Your Weight By Eating Vegetables And Fruits - Enjoy Better Health And High Energy Levels

In order to reduce your weight and enjoy better health and high energy levels, you need to consider switching to a vegetable and fruit diet. Even animals that live longer are vegetarian. Consider the elephant, zebra, giraffe, and the buffalo for example. I live in Africa not far from a game reserve. I can guarantee you this.They all live up to more than thirty years. The elephant lives to about sixty years. The tortoise can live to about two hundred years. Now consider the lion, the cheetah, the wild dog and all the other carnivorous animals.They live on average for about only twelve years. They can't cover the long distances managed by their carnivorous brethren in search of food. They have outbursts of intense energy that don't last for long. They sleep a lot too.
The advantages of eating a fruits and vegetables diet is because these foods are eighty percent water. So they in essence wash out the toxins from your body, and at the same time nourish you. It does not matter what kind of fruits or vegetables you eat. Many fruits and vegetables contain protein, carbohydrates and, fats. Our bodies need protein to rebuild our body cells, carbohydrates for energy and fats for padding. It is difficult for many people to switch to a vegetable and fruit diet at once. Start out by eating smaller portions of meat or fish. Then perhaps after about two weeks, have even smaller portions. Are you serious about reducing your weight and enjoying better health? Then I advice you to buy a blender if you can afford it. If you cannot, then sell your car if reducing your weight is so important to you. With a blender you can extract juice from oranges, apples, carrots, mangoes and even beetroot.

Wednesday, September 19, 2012

Juicing Benefits From Fresh Fruits and Vegetables

Sure there are several bottled juices you can readily buy from groceries and other retail stores. They can be more convenient. However, when it comes to juicing benefits, they can never come close to what you can gain from juicing fresh fruits and vegetables.
Cure for Cancer
The National Cancer Institute have recently started their campaign on encouraging people to eat more of fruits and vegetables as an important component in the cure and prevention of cancer. It is also revealed from several studies that fruits are better when taken fresh and vegetables when eaten raw.
You can easily achieve this with juicing benefits. Extracting the juice from fruits and vegetables empowers the body to quickly absorb the vitamins and minerals found from fresh fruits and raw vegetables. It also speeds up digestion, as there are some fibers in both fruits and vegetables that can be a little difficult to digest when eaten whole.
Boost Immunity to Diseases
Including fresh fruit and vegetable juices to your everyday diet can strengthen your immunity against diseases. This is one of the main benefits too hard to ignore. You see, when the body's natural defense is strong, you can easily fight off and prevent diseases to attack your system. You will be able to minimize or eliminate the risks of contracting diseases when your immune system is strong.
Juicing Encourages You to Eat Fruits and Vegetables
While there is a high level of awareness among the public on the importance of eating more of fruits and vegetables, unfortunately most are not actually doing it. Juicing is one way to attract and encourage people to benefit from fruits and vegetables. One of the juicing benefits is that there are several delectable recipes for juices that will make drinking juice more exciting.

Friday, September 14, 2012

Juicing Fruits And Vegetables - Is It Even Good For You?

If you're like me, you love juicing fruits and vegetables (or the taste of juice, I should say.)
The problem with juice you get at the store, though, is that there are a ton of harmful additives and chemicals put in them to increase their shelf life...
... which makes drinking it not as healthy as people would have you think.
If you're like most people, the first thing that comes to your mind, when you try to solve this problem is...
... making your own juice...
... which is great, but it's far from being as good as eating whole, unprocessed, organic fruits and veggies.
See, there's a reason why the nature makes food the way it does. The whole fruit or vegetable is good for you, not just its juice.
I'll tell you even more: the pulp, which is often discarded in the process of juicing, is probably even more important than the juice itself as it contains most of the nutrients and vitamins.
Take apples for example:
When you make homemade apple juice, you have to frequently clean your juicer out because if you don't, the pulp is going to clog it up.
Now, obviously, you're not going to eat the pulp, so it lands in the trash.
What a waste!
So, is it worth it to make juice at home?
The answer to this question is two-fold.
If juicing fruits and vegetables is your only option and you can't stand eating them whole, then, by all means, do it.
If, on the other hand, you like eating them whole, don't juice.