Jack Lalane Juicers

Benefits of Juicing « LosingTogether

I didn’t really know much about juicing except for those infomercials at 3 am where an older couple puts whole apples and celery into the Jack Lalane juicer. “juicing gives you perfect skin,” “juicing removes all toxins from your body” “juicing restores perfect health” are just some of the things you’ll come across. As far as the “magical” properties of juicing go, I do think my skin has gotten clearer, and I like the energy I have when I drink a lot of fresh juice, but I’m not convinced that it’s a life altering experience just yet. Juicing is better for you than eating the vegetables whole because the juice is easier to digest. Regarding juicing’s magical properties, I do want to bust two myths I commonly hear about juicing. We don’t benefit from having our food “pre-chewed” by a juicer. The journey to the juicer really began by watching the documentary Hungry for Change. For someone like you (well, or me really), juicing is the best way to get all those nutrients, fiber be dammned. we’re juicers. Unfortunately, there really isn’t any scientific evidence I could find that suggests that juicing removes toxins from the body. A big part of that crazy special diet is juicing for me, because, while that first myth is indeed a myth for most people, for me it’s totally true. This may mean that the benefits seen from a high fiber diet are actually from the nutritional composition of the foods themselves, not from the fiber. Every nutritionist and physician interviewed on that film not only touted the benefits of a very vegetable heavy diet, but they sang the praises of juicing. Interestingly, the Amercian Cancer Society just released new Nutriion Guidelines for cancer prevention, and they mentioned that fiber is really only effective when consumed in whole foods, not taken as a supplement. For me, it’s a very effective way to eat way more phytonutrients that I would if I tried to rely on whole vegetables. In order to avoid crippling stomach pain and other nasty side effects, I have to really limit my fiber intake, and my stomach is not well equipped for digesting leafy greens at all. If I have a big glass of vegetable and fruit juice after dinner, I’m not hungry for dessert or snacks. some people argue that juicing isn’t super healthy because you lose all that fiber. But now, with juicing, I have been able to get the nutritional benefit of about a pound of greens a day. As I type, I am sipping my morning green juice (today it’s baby spinach, cucumber, and cherry), and loving that I get phytonutrients, calcium, iron, antioxidants, and hydration without tripping up my special needs stomach. The other great benefit of juicing is that it takes the place of other processed foods. If you google juicing you’ll find a ton of pretty “out there” claims about the benefits. Fiber is something that comes up a lot with juicing. No way am I going to be munching on kale, swiss chard, or celery all day, but shove them all in some juice and they go down without a problem. Juicing removes toxins.