An Introduction To Juicing For Weight Loss

An Introduction To Juicing For Weight Loss

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It often seems as if it is easier to win an Olympic gold medal than to achieve permanent weight loss. But you can enjoy the four benefits of juicing and also shed pounds with these juicing recipies for weight loss.

The approach is simple: Drink one to two glasses of juice daily. With one or two glasses, you will consume the nutrients of as much raw produce as everyone has always recommended. The advantages of juicing are both the convenience and the increased nutrient value. Even the same juice bottled commercially will have lost many of the most volatile nutrients to oxidation and heat. Those are three of four of the juicing benefits -- freshness, maximum nutrition, and convenience.

The following recipes introduce you to the fourth juicing benefit: the endless variety available in juices you make yourself. Start with this one from the Great Juicing book:

Pineapple-Orange Rapture

4 oranges

2 cups pineapple

1 sweet potato

Process in juicer. Stir. This is high in vitamins A and C -- a great way to start the morning. Kids love it -- just don't say what's in it. This juice by itself is very sweet, so use it mostly for flavoring other juices with a high vegetable content.

Do not get too enthusiastic about a juicing diet. Trying to lose more than 1/2 pound per week is probably unhealthy. That includes a diet of just juiced fruits and vegetables.

A juice fast of 1-2 days may be good for cleaning out your system and helping you jump-start a juicing diet for weight loss, but do not continue without adequate protein and fats, as well as the carbohydrates the juices do not provide. And do not juice all the veggies you eat. You need plenty of fiber to keep your intestines functioning.

Drinking the 1-2 glasses of juice daily will provide you not only with many basic nutrients, but it can give you a great deal of sugar. Juices, especially those with a lot of fruit or carrots, can be very sweet. Diabetics or pre-diabetics need to be careful with these ingredients. Sticking more to the vegetables is not bad advice for any weight loss plan. Vegetables, except carrots and sweet potatoes, are generally low in calories. Use the sweet ones more as condiments to add interest to the vegetables. Here's another recipe:

Red Wonder Juice

3 carrots

1 apple, cored

1 cucumber

1 beet

1 stalk of celery

Juice. If you think this juice needs a bit of a zing, add fresh ginger to taste!

Experiment with including more vegetables and less of the sweet stuff to further reduce the calories and the effects on your blood sugar.

You will win a gold medal when you apply your own program of juicing for weight loss. No matter how you do it, you will have weight loss along with all the juicing benefits of convenience, nutrition, freshness, and variety. Please mount the award stand now!

About the Author:
For more information on juicing recipes for weight loss and the Great Juicing book these recipes come from, visit http://www.greatjuicing.com/juicing/juicing-recipes-for-weight-loss/ . Learn more about juicing benefits at greatjuicing.com. Thomas Christopher is a Colorado-based public speaker.



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