The short answer is “Yes!”

Juicing can be a delicious part of a healthy diet and lifestyle.

Enjoying just one freshly pressed juice each day provides more nutrition than most people get all week!

According to the latest US dietary guidelines, adults need anywhere from 7-13 CUPS of produce each day to get all the health benefits of fruits and vegetables — including possible protection against obesity, heart disease, type 2 diabetes, and cancer.

Juicing makes it easy!

Plant foods contain a host of nutrients that help fight disease, reduce inflammation, promote healthy cell renewal, protect your brain and detoxify the body.

By using a juicing machine to release those nutrients from the plant’s insoluble fiber, your body is able to quickly absorb the goodness in each glass. Instead of spending hours of energy on digestion, your body can get to work using those phyotonutrients within as little as 15-20 minutes to boost your health and energy.

But you may have some questions about juicing  .  . .

Isn’t it better to eat whole fruits and vegetables?

A diet centered on whole and minimally processed plant-foods is the foundation of health and longevity.

By adding a glass of juice to your day, you dramatically increase the nutrition you are consuming, with fewer calories. This helps your body detoxify and balance your hormones, and boosts your immunity and energy.

Don’t I need fiber?

Yes, both soluble and insoluble fiber are important part of a healthy diet.

Insoluble Fiber

Juicing does remove most of the insoluble fiber. Interestingly, the most commonly juiced vegetables and fruits are not the best sources of insoluble fiber. Take kale, for instance. What percentage of kale would you guess is fiber?

50%? 25% 15%?

It’s less than 2%!  But by juicing kale are able to get an extraordinary number of vitamins and minerals in just a few sips.

Soluble Fiber

The soluble fiber remains in the juice. So you still get all of the cholesterol lowering, blood sugar regulating, diabetes protection and weight loss benefits associated with soluble fiber.

Isn’t there too much sugar in juice?

This may be true of heat pasteurized juice found at the grocery store. This kind of clear, filtered, heat processed juice has very little nutrition left and your body processes it differently than it does freshly pressed juice.

That said, if you were to consume a lot of straight fresh fruit juice, especially melon juice, you might end up getting more sugar than you want. But if you strive for an 80% vegetable to 20% fruit ratio, the sugar content is very low.

Something else to consider is that fruit sugar from fresh pressed fruit is NOT the same as table sugar. A study published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition in 2012 found that adding fruit sugar to someone consuming table sugar actually blunted the effect of the table sugar.

Additionally, apples and strawberries contain polyphenols that protect you from blood sugar spikes. Cloudy apple juice, the kind you get from your juicer, has about the same glycemic load as eating a whole apple!

Won’t I gain weight?

Adding a daily fresh juice, or enjoying one in place of a meal, can help you lose weight.

While it does matter what you are eating the rest of the day, fresh juice satisfies real hunger and helps your body crave more healthy plant foods.

Juicing is the only whole food way to get more nutrition with fewer calories. It’s one of the reasons daily juice is part of the 12-Week Juicy Plant-Based Cleanse. 

Is fresh pressed juice healthy for everyone?

Just about everyone can benefit from adding a fresh juice to their day.

While juice fasting (consuming only fresh juice for a period of time) is not recommended for children, teens, pregnant or nursing women and the elderly, these groups can benefit from a daily fresh juice. Children and teens are able to focus better in school and benefit from the immunity boosting nutrition in fresh juice. Pregnant and nursing women benefit from the hydration, nutrition and mood lifting effects of juice. And the elderly benefit from the anti-inflammatory and brain healthy phytonutrients.

The bottom line? Daily fresh vegetable and fruit juices provide maximum nutrition in an easy to consume form. Most people find it a challenge to eat all of the produce recommended each day. Juicing makes it fun and easy!

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