Is it possible to drink your vitamins? It is if you own a juicer or a super-sophisticated blender like a Magic Bullet. Better than a pill, juices allow your body to absorb nutrients as fast as possible. Juices work the best if consumed within seconds of being freshly extracted from the fruit or vegetable. Juicing gurus advise holding the juice in your mouth for a couple of seconds before swallowing to get as many nutrients as possible.
Fresh juices are also superior to bottled or canned juices in terms of both taste and nutrition. Vitamins can cost anywhere from $5 to $80 or more a bottle. Let’s just say you are in need of Vitamin A supplementation. You can buy Vitamin A plus cofactors for fifteen dollars or more you can buy a bunch of carrots and juice them for less than five bucks. Just one pint of fresh carrot juice contains more than 20,000 international units of pro-Vitamin A in its purest andt natural form?
Scientific research also recently reveals that fresh juices may even cure a variety of ailments. For instance, fresh cabbage juice heals ulcers, fresh cilantro juice helps kidney problems and fresh prune juice relieves constipation. Lettuce juice contains an unknown factor that helps relieve insomnia while watermelon juice has anti-inflammatory agents that relieve pain.
Green juices have enzymes that encourage weight loss and the regrowth of damaged gum tissue. Orange, yellow and green vegetables may help prevent some forms of cancer. Purple and blue juices contain important phytochemicals that prevent varicose veins and prevent blindness.
Naturally derived vitamins from fresh fruits, vegetables, sprout and grasses have more of a nutritional punch then vitamins. For instance one pint of fresh vegetable juice supplies the same live vitamins, minerals and enzymes found in two large vegetable salads. Imagine how beautiful your skin would be if you drank fresh juice every day.
Synthetic vitamins are also a “dead” food source of vitamins whereas resh vegetables and fruits are considered to be live. Incorporated into a healthy diet fresh juices also do not put you at risk for nutritional imbalances in your body. Juices help the body absorb those nutrients that are often deficient in our modern day diets. Drinking your vitamins in the form of fresh juices can actually boost your RDA (recommended Daily Allowance) of vitamins by as much as 500%! No pill can do the same thing!
Juicing is not meant to be a replacement for a daily diet. Although fresh juice provides your body with optimum levels of nutrition the maximum long-term health benefits are achieved by incorporating fresh juices into your lifestyle over time and in a sensible manner.
