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Juicing – A Healthier Start to the Day

Turn your body into the temple that it so deserve to be.

Make your body the home of your soul.

Juicing invigorates the body and mind as well as being a hugely cleansing food source for the body giving fresh and available essential vitamins along with vital anti-oxidants. Juice is an elixir of life according to many experts. Main ingredients for juicing include. Carrots and apples, and any combination of other vegetables and fruit that you personally choose. You can create your own recipes according to your likes and dislikes.
Juices need to be consumed in a fresh a state as possible. Exposure to air and continuous storage encourage nutrients loss, fresh juices are more palatable.

If you are thinking of buying a new juicer, consider the following: Strength of the motor - large will last longer; size of the bowl - larger means less emptying/less cleaning; Ease of cleaning - many can be difficult to clean.

Raw Energy
3 carrots, 1 apple, 2 stalks of celery, 1 floret of broccoli, a small bunch of spinach or watercress

Potassium Punch

3 carrots, 2 stalks celery, 4-6 leaves lettuce or a handful of spinach,1 parsnip, 1 small pear

Beet Treat

Beetroot juice can cause a dramatic cleansing action if taken in quantities of more than half a glass at a time.
Half a whole beetroot, including the leafy top if possible, 2 carrots, 1 apple, 1 stalk of celery, 3 cm section of cucumber

Some other tips:

Lemon is an excellent cleanse.

Ginger works as an antibiotic and helping to relieve the sinus cavities and lung of mucus, helps digestion and calms the stomach

Figs are excellent mucus dissolvers

Fennel thins the blood – ancient Greeks used this to treat migraine

Pears-papaya, melon, mango - rich for potassium

Beetroot – Helps to build up red blood cells, good for women suffering from menstrual disturbances

Carrot – helps digestion, skin cleanser, endocrine tonic, helps liver problems

Spinach – helps digestive problems

Celery – corrects consistency of body fluids, restore balance of nervous system

Cucumber – natural diuretic, promotes hair growth due to high silicon and sulphur content, good blood pressure regulator

Lettuce – good blood builder (high iron), natural tranquilliser

Parsley - only in small amounts, good for adrenal and thyroid gland, maintaining a healthy urinary system

Cucumber, Parsley and Carrot Juice

Ingredients:
4 large carrots
Large handful of parsley
½ cucumbers

Wash all the ingredients thoroughly. Leave the cucumber and carrots unpeeled and the green tops on the carrots. Cut them to fit the juicer. Put the parsley into the juicer first; if the herb is very fibrous add it in batches, interspersing it with cucumber. Stir well and drink immediately.
This juice is both a health booster (because of all the anti-oxidant effects of the parsley and carrots) and a diuretic (because of the parsley and cucumber) all in one!!!

I hope you will enjoy some of these refreshing ideas to help to re-energise your body and mind ...

Happy Juicing!!!!

Marie