Juicing and Smoothies For Dummies

liquid lifestyle is a convenient way to incorporate organic, whole fruits and vegetables into your daily life in order to feel great and stay healthy.

add one new healthy habit.

Juices are the pure water

and nutrients, including the pigments of the fruits and vegetables they’re made from, so they’re thin and range in color from bright green to yellow to orange to red and pink and even blue.

When you present your digestive system with pure raw fruit or vegetable juice, there is no digestive process that has to take place because the nutrients in the water have already been extracted from the carbohydrate and fiber. So you give your digestive system a break and allow the energy that would have gone into breaking down the food go to repairing and protecting cells.

Bottom line: Drinking two or three vegetable juices and one smoothie and eating whole foods including mostly plants (whole grains, fresh fruits and vegetables, beans and legumes, herbs, and nuts and seeds) is the best possible day-to-day diet for optimum health.