Drinking Your Veggies = Recipe for Weight Loss
VEGGIE ALERT!!!
Here is a really healthy tip for losing weight. Recently published research suggests that drinking vegetable juice daily helps increase weight loss. A small but pretty decisive study found that the addition of one 8 oz glass of vegetable juice to a weight loss program helped the participants lose an average of 3 more pounds.
The researchers enlisted 81 men and women with metabolic syndrome into a 12 week weight loss program. Metabolic syndrome is a cluster of conditions that increase risk for heart attack, stroke and diabetes. People with this syndrome usually have a difficult time losing weight. All participants were put on a DASH diet which is a diet known to help metabolic syndrome. Some of the participants were also told to drink one 8 to 16 ounce glass low sodium vegetable juice. The ones drinking the vegetable juice lost 4 lbs on average. The participants that were just on the DASH diet lost an average of one pound.
The benefits of juicing are well known to most Essenes. The majority of us have participated in a juice fast at one time. We all know the benefits of juicing. It is a great way to cleanse the body, increase health and vitality and, of course, the pounds just fall off. However, it was surprising to me that the addition of as little as one 8 ounce glass of veggie juice could have such an impact. Just another example of the power of veggies!
The juice used in the study was V-8 juice, a processed vegetable juice. Many of the phytochemicals and vitamins are lost in the canning process and all of the live enzymes found in fresh vegetables are destroyed when the juice is heated and pastuerized. Imagine what an impact the researchers could have had if the participants in this study had been given their own juicers to make veggie juices at home.
Raw vegetable juice, the kind you make at home, is teeming with valuable and sensitive micronutrients. It is a nutrient-dense super-fluid that is absorbed almost instantly, requiring little effort by your body. It is almost like receiving an intravenous infusion of vitamins, minerals, and enzymes that goes right into your system without having to be broken down. If you have never experience the benefits of juicing you owe it to yourself to do your OWN research. Invest in a juicer. An inexpensive centrifugal juicer cost less than $100 and will get you started. Here are some juice recipes to get you started: Fresh Juice Recipes. Warning! Juicing is addictive....feels so good you won't want to stop!
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Research suggests vegetable juice may help people with metabolic syndrome lose weight
