Juice Diet: Is Juicing Only Good For Losing Weight?

It’s pretty well known that raw juices are a low-calorie means of providing your body with loads of more readily-absorbable, nutrients and antioxidants. Furthermore, the high fiber content of raw juices curbs food cravings, especially when you include the pulp. So a well-planned juice diet will leave you feeling satisfied and energized, reduce snacking, and will help you to lose weight fast.

But would you go on a juice diet for other reasons than to lose body fat?

In addition to losing weight, a raw juice diet is often done for the purpose of cleansing the liver, because it will flush accumulated toxins right out of your body.

However, I don’t recommend that you should be surviving on juices for more than three days, and as always, I urge you to ask your physician first before introducing your body to a new dietary regimen.

As often believed, juicing is not just for fruit. Raw vegetable juices also have powerful nutritive healing properties, and this is a great way to add more variety to the types vegetables in your diet. To avoid ingesting pesticides choose only organic fruits and vegetables.

Here’s some Juicing Tips:

If you don’t drink your juice right away, pour fruit/vegetable juice into an air tight glass container to prevent oxidation.

Avoid storing juices longer than a day. Juices will lose nutritional value when stored for more than 24 hours. It’s best to prepare and then drink your juice right away to keep all the nutrients intact, thus you can enjoy the benefits wholly.

Acidic juices, such as citrus and tomato can be hard on your stomach, mix those with less acidic ones, like carrot juice. Experiment and taste-test when combining vegetable and fruit juices together–have fun! Fruit and vegetable juices can work great together when used in certain proportions. Here is an excellent program where you can create over a hundred Juicing Recipes and then download them to your computer.

Add ice cubes to fruit juices or dilute them with fresh water. Vegetable juices in general don’t need to be diluted.

For more healing properties and additional flavor add herbs to juices, such as parsley, basil, thyme… which ever catches your fancy. Be creative…

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