We drink juices for pleasure or to quench our thirst. But if something hurts, drawn to the packaging of pills, although it is at this point sometimes ought to not swallow pills, and fresh “drugs” from the garden or twigs.
By the way, one of the founders of juice therapy — American nutritionist Norman Walker (1886-1985) — proved its effectiveness by example. This wonderful man lived without resorting to drugs, almost a century! However, just to lean on the juices to earn the right to active longevity will not work. As with any treatment method, juice therapy has many important nuances and rules that you should be aware of.
Put on freshness
The juice from the package — it’s mainly a drink. Its medicinal, or rather, naturopathic potential is small, although even in such a processed form of nectar from peaches, if you drink it regularly, will make the skin velvety, and orange juice will help to cheer up in the morning. The effect is achieved by vitamin E in the first case and C — in the second. It is clear that in the” live ” — fresh juice and vitamins more, and many other biologically active substances that are oxidized not only during processing, but also if the juice is not drunk immediately. The longer he waits in the wings, the less healing he becomes.
In the same citrus and apples, for example, there are askorbinata enzyme that destroys the vitamin C — ascorbic acid. Once you pressed the juice, the process went! In addition, in the beverage begin the process of fermentation, which turns the medicine into poison.
Drink the juice as soon as you squeeze it!
And for this, take the juicer at the right time. Juice as a medicine is better to take on an empty stomach: half an hour before Breakfast, lunch and dinner. It is permissible to drink it 2 hours after food, not before and certainly not during it. You do not want the active ingredients of the juice to react with the components of the food and be neutralized!
From this rule of “first freshness” there is one exception — beet juice: let it settle in an open container for 2-3 hours, so that the compounds that cause nausea, vomiting, dizziness and other unpleasant reactions can collapse. After all, this juice is very concentrated, tart, tearing: no wonder it is recommended to bury in the nose with a runny nose!
Even externally it should be used with caution: not the whole pipette, and 1-2 droplets. Well, inside with the same hypertension take beet juice can be 50-70 ml at a time, half diluted with water and adding honey to taste. Well, or try to mix with carrot in a ratio of 1: 3-so too good!
Important and diet. Beet juice is poorly combined with meat and fish. Abstain from them while you drink it as medicine. A carrot becomes less effective if you eat potatoes.
Choose fruits without damages
Fresh should be not only juices, but also vegetables, fruits and berries, from which you squeeze them. Valuable health components are destroyed during storage, and instead accumulate harmful compounds.
It happens that the same apples are already removed from the branch damaged, rotten, touched by mold or picked up under a tree broken, cracked or otherwise damaged. Such “sick” fruits do not take at all: they are not suitable for juice therapy even in a cut form, because the quality of all the pulp is already hopelessly affected. Green and overripe specimens also discard.
Do not exceed dose
It is believed that the day you need to drink 600 ml of juice in 3 steps: a glass in the morning, afternoon and evening. But there are some nuances. About beet juice, for which half a Cup at one time — it’s too much, has already been said. But the smaller problems are threatened by an overdose of carrot, leading to hypervitaminosis-an oversaturation of the body with vitamin a. it is deposited in the skin, it stains the color of the heel first, then the palm, and then the body. If you do not stop in time, possible loss of appetite, vomiting, drowsiness, fever, rash and peeling of the skin.
Adults enough to drink half a Cup (100 ml) of carrot juice per day, children 8-12 years — 1/3, and 4-7 years — 1/4 Cup, kids from year to 3 years — 2-3 tablespoons.
Be careful with grape juice and generally with all sweet: in their liter can contain up to 1100 kcal-a third of the daily value. But we all hard physical labor, not engaged, but the extra pounds often burdened, so the treatment is almost syrup from grape must abstain. The same applies to patients with diabetes. By the way, they can not drink potato juice because of the high content of starch.
Dilute with water
The ancient Romans diluted wine with water, and modern nutritionists advise to do the same with juices. Dilute them in half or to your liking to make them less concentrated. If you drink natural juices in undiluted form, you can cause irritation of the mucous membranes of the digestive system, heartburn, a feeling of heaviness in the stomach, increased gas formation in the intestine and even earn reactive pancreatitis. This is especially dangerous if you already have inflammatory diseases of the stomach (chronic gastritis with high acidity, peptic ulcer), chronic cholecystitis and hepatitis, problems with the pancreas and intestines.
By the way, carrot juice does not make sense to dilute with water: here you need something fatter-cream or milk, otherwise fat — soluble vitamins a and E will not be able to assimilate.
Choose correctly
Let’s say you decide to treat pear juice from the pressure, and you have, among other things, the intestine is lazy and sugar jumps. Although the pear and is considered in China as the fruit of longevity, but if there are such problems, it probably will shorten your days, increasing constipation, and raising the level of glucose in the blood.
Drink from the pressures of cranberry and lingonberry juice in a cocktail of them to add bearberry. By itself, this berry is dryish, but mixed with others, more juicy, has a great diuretic effect, bringing the pressure back to normal. Here are just diuretic fruits, berries, including currants and apples, can provoke colic in the side in the presence of kidney stones, but small “sand” will wash out of them easily.
When gastritis, duodenitis and gastric ulcer or duodenal ulcer juices with acidity (Apple, cherry, pomegranate, orange, gooseberry) are not recommended, but carrot, peach, apricot and sea buckthorn – useful. Vitamins a and E contained in them calm the inflamed mucosa and promote the speedy healing of erosions and ulcers.
Just keep it cool!
We are used to the fact that in summer all drinks should be cold — from the fridge or with ice. To juice to quit don’t! With a decrease in temperature, nutrients change their properties, and the juice is digested more slowly: the stomach will still have to warm it to body temperature. No one comes to mind to warm up the juice — it’s not tea! But, it turns out that cabbage juice needs it: recommended to drink it warm. Its existence is usually overlooked, and yet he and slag output, and lowers cholesterol, and bile drives, not allowing them to stagnate in the bladder and form stones.
To prevent the autumn exacerbation of gastritis and peptic ulcer in late summer, it is useful to take 1/4 Cup of this medicinal drink 3 times a day before meals for 2-3 weeks. Scientists have found in the cabbage biologically active substance that promotes healing of gastric ulcer and duodenal ulcer, and called it an anti-ulcer factor, or vitamin U. However, with an increased tendency to flatulence, you need to be careful with this juice!
Health concentrate
- Nutritionists recommend daily load in the body at least 5 servings of fresh fruits and vegetables. One can replace a glass of fresh juice. And chew it is necessary nothing! However, do not forget that the juice contains more calories and less fiber than in this fruit.
- To purify the blood and improve the filtering properties of the spleen need 2-3 times a year for 3 weeks to drink any fresh red juices: beet, cherry, BlackBerry, strawberry, grape, pomegranate. In the first week 1/3 Cup 3 times, in the second week-2 times, and 3 weeks-once a day in between meals.
- Cranberry and beet juice reduce pressure, currant and raspberry — temperature, orange and Apple heal from cold, cherry and cherry — from varicose veins, peach and carrot — from sunburn: this is generally a balm for problem skin, and at the same time for vision!