Fung - Juice boost!: juices, smoothies & boosters for supercharged health

get ready for juicing Welcome to feeling good, having more energy, looking slimmer and feeling healthier! Juicing can do all this for youand more. So let us introduce you to the wonderful, healthy world of juicingand youll never look back. Freshly pressed juices, smoothies and boosted juices are just packed with life-enhancing nutrients, ready and waiting for your body to absorb in an instant. Theres no comparison even with the freshly squeezed juices in the supermarket, because your juices are only seconds old, so they havent lost any of those high-powered nutrients that are so vital to your health and well-being. Plus there are no extra sweeteners, additives or preservatives to taint the purity of your juices. All the essential information you need to find out about these fabulous, life-enhancing foods-in-a-glass is included in this bookfrom the low-down on just how good they are, to the high-impact recipes themselves. All the essential information you need to find out about these fabulous, life-enhancing foods-in-a-glass is included in this bookfrom the low-down on just how good they are, to the high-impact recipes themselves.

Full of flavor, packed with nutrients and bringing you all the colors of the rainbow, youll soon clue into the fruits and vegetables that give you the boost you are looking forfitness, energy or simply all-round good health. So the sooner you start juicing, the quicker youll be looking good and feeling great! chapter
h is for health If youre looking for an instant boost to your health and well-being, start juicing now and youll never look back. The simplest way to boost your diet with the essential nutrients you need, it will help you feel good, look great and surprise everyone with your new stores of energy. Its all about getting the best out of fresh fruits and vegetablesextracting their nutritional essenceso that we can absorb all that goodness and rush it to where our bodies need it most. So lets not hang aroundlets get juicing!what is so great about juicing? Looking for a burst of high-impact nutrients to get you performing to the max? Look no further. Rushing around, cramming work, socializing, workouts, kids and whatever else into our diaries, the time for thinking about how we fuel all this activity is pretty limited. We eat fruit and veg, strive for the right balance of proteins and unrefined carbs, minimize the sugar and watch the fats.

But if we add freshly made juices to that mix, we get so much more. Cooking any foods destroys some of their nutritional value, so juicing raw fruit and vegetables gives us a head start to healthy eating. Crucial enzymes that are responsible for the absorption of foods rarely survive the cooking process. But they thrive in the juicing process! Juice fresh fruits and vegetables and you instantly release the valuable nutrients crammed inside: not just enzymes but vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and trace elements. And because they have already been released from the fibrous membranes of the vegetable or fruit, they are ready for your body to absorb without using more time and energy to digest them. Take beta-carotene, for example.

You get about 1% of that immune-boosting nutrient if you eat a carrot. And if you juice it? An amazing 100%. As well as hanging onto all the nutrients, juice doesnt waste the valuable water content, an essential to life itself. Our brain is 80% water, and we all know how vital it is to keep our brainsas well as the rest of our bodiesproperly hydrated. And the busier we are, the less time we want to spend on food preparation. So how do you prepare fruit and veg for juicing? Wash them, get rid of any large pits or thick skins and thats it! Of course, we could avoid any prep at all by taking supplements.

But it is a proven fact that it is far better to obtain nutrients from food than from a jarbesides wheres the fun in that? The flavors, the textures and the wonderful variety of fruit and vegetable combos you can create in your own kitchen make juicing such an enjoyable part of your day. Its so easy to make juicing part of your healthy eating plan, and youll feel the benefits so quickly, the only thing you are likely to regret is not having started sooner. what can juicing do for you? To stay fit and healthy, your body doesnt just need a balanced diet of protein, complex carbohydrates and fats. Its essential to get the required amounts of vitamins, minerals and trace elements. Required only in tiny quantities, they have a disproportionate effect on how well your body functions, so ultimately your good health relies on them. Run short of folic acid and your hair and nails will suffer.

If you dont have the antioxidants your body needs, it will affect the tone and suppleness of your skin. Without the right balance of vitamins and minerals, your metabolism will not run efficiently, you could lack energy, impair your immune system, or open yourself up to all kinds of illnesses and health problems, from the insignificant to the more serious. And where do free radicals fit into all this? Those rampaging particles weve heard about damage our cell structure, causing those dreaded signs of aging: wrinkles, sagging skin, loss of muscle tone and lack of energy. Highly reactive molecules with one unpaired electron, free radicals range through the body, attacking and stealing the electrons from healthy cells to make themselves stable. This sets up a chain reaction, releasing new free radicals to wreak their havoc. The solution is to include enough antioxidants in our diet to combat that damage, and where better to find them than in fresh fruit and vegetable juices.

Then theres the fact that some of us would like to shed a few pounds. We know we shouldnt turn to the quick fix of fat- and sugar-laden junk food. But when we are hungry and in a rush, munching on a bag of carrots doesnt seem that appealing. Convert them to juice, however, and you have a super-nutritious boost in an easily assimilated form that is fresh, delicious and satisfying. So juicing can be a route back to healthy eating to maintain a healthy weight.