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Should I drink Juice Vegetables Rather Than Eat Them?
There are three
main reasons why you will want to consider incorporating vegetable
juicing into your health program.
1. Most of us
have relatively compromised intestines as a result of less than
optimal food choices over many years. This limits your body's ability
to absorb all the nutrients from the vegetables. Juicing will help
to "pre-digest" them for you so you will receive most
of the nutrition rather than having it go down the toilet bowl.
2. Vegetable
juicing allows you to eat more of the vegetables than you would
normally otherwise. By incorporating the juice into your eating
plan you will easily be able to reach the one pound of raw vegetables
per fifty pounds of body weight that you should eat every day.
3. If you eat
the vegetables like a salad then you will be having far to many
salads during the week. This will violate the rotation principle
and increase your likelihood of developing an allergy to some of
the vegetables.
Unfortunately
these are not that beneficial as the more intense dark green vegetables.
Once you get used to these though you can start adding the better,
but less palatable ones in.
Green LEAFY
vegetables are probably the best to juice. All green leafy vegetables
work well. The easiest ones to include are the lettuces including,
but not restricted to:
Red leaf
Green Leaf
Romaine
Endive
Escarole
Spinach
You can then
put in some of the other similar green leafy vegetables such as:
Cabbage
Chinese Cabbage
Bok Choy
Cabbage juice is one of the most healing nutrients for ulcer repair
as it is a huge source of vitamin Unfortunately, the Eat Right for
Your Type approach does not support lectin compatibility for blood
type A individuals like myself. So I avoid it.
Herbs also make
wonderful combinations and there are two that work exceptionally
well:
Parsley
Cilantro
You need to be cautious with Cilantro though, as many cannot tolerate
it very well.
If you are new
to juicing you definitely want to hold off on these until you get
used to the above as they are more challenging vegetables to consume,
but they are highly beneficial.
( From www.mercola.com/forms/juicing.htm )
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