Juicing For Life

It is becoming increasingly popular for people to take charge of their nutrition and their health. They have turned to juicing to enhance health, increase energy, and reduce the likelihood of developing common health issues facing society today. Juicing means extracting the juice from or pureeing fresh fruits and vegetables (puree retains the pulp, while juicing separates the juice from the pulp). There are several benefits to juicing fruits and vegetables as opposed to eating them as whole foods. By partaking of fresh juice, your system is able to rapidly utilize the many vitamins, minerals, and general nutritional value which fruits and vegetables contain. This is accomplished by bypassing the digestion process that is required for whole foods which include the pulp/fiber. These nutrients rapidly pass across the intestines and into your blood, thereby permitting the body to utilize them immediately. Many people choose to cook vegetables before eating them when in fact, fruits and vegetables are much more nutritious if they are consumed raw. Enzymes are a key role in metabolism and are mainly found in raw foods. Enzymes change the food eaten into body tissue and energy, thus increasing the metabolic rate. This means that one will burn more calories with accompanying weight loss.