Just recently finished the documentary called Fat, Sick, and Nearly Dead. Not only was this documentary eye opening but it was also very entertaining, the guy is humorous as well as inspirational. He travels from Australia to America to go on a 60day juicing fast. He has his juicer in the trunk of his car and just drinks his meals of juiced vegetables and fruits.
His accent makes the movie very entertaining to watch and seeing how quickly his body adapts to the new super diet he is put on.
Juicing isn't a new concept but obviously it isn't a very popular one because all I'd heard of it was on the show 1,000 ways to die where a body builder is killed by his juicing machine.
Today I went out and bought a Jack Lalanne juicer.
Here was a picture of it but apparently facepunch doesn't want me adding a picture but basically you insert the vegetables or fruit you want into the juicing chamber and push down. It juices and pours the juice out into a container you have and separates the pulp. I was skeptical at first because it seems with most juicing you would end up drinking mountains of pulp and mushy crap but so far its been pure juice and tastes really good too. It will juice pretty much any vegetable, my last glass had celery, a bag of salad, an apple, and some bell peppers and doesn't taste bad at all.
Juicing is very beneficial to your health as it provides your body with nutrients that you don't normally get and makes eating a whole plate of vegetables as easy as drinking a single glass of juice. The nutrients and vitamins that are in vegetables are usually if not always cooked out or destroyed at temperatures above 108F so most foods we buy and or cook just have the mass of their nutrients gone already. Juicing however makes it into a liquid which makes it easier for your cells to absorb.
Juicing can be treated either as a diet or just an easier way to add vegetables to your diet.
As a typical teenage kid I consumed about 2 energy drinks per day, be it red bulls, monsters, NOS all that stuff. I also never ate complete meals, most of the meals I ate consisted of fast food or just snacks throughout the day. The last time I ate a salad was about 4 years ago at a summer camp. Water was not a part of my diet.
A normal day for me would be skipping breakfast, eating fast food for lunch and fast food for dinner. I work outside for my dad so im not morbidly obese but to be honest I feel like I should be.
Today has sucked, I've had 2 glasses of "juice" and I'm hungry and want soda so bad.
However I think i'll stick with just juice for 60 days just like the guy in the documentary. As far as cost goes, its not really a big issue as farmers markets and such sell stuff for a lot cheaper than an organic store would. Though it can get expensive if you consume a ton of juice every day but its good to limit yourself and only drink it during meal times rather than when hungry.
Go to a juicer store, try a drink out, it's surprisingly not bad and tastes really good too if you make it right.
So, what do you think of juicing if you have a juicer? Or if you're interested in juicing try it out, I find it a much easier way to eat vegetables and fruit.
Saw the movie a while back and was thoroughly impressed. Juicing is not something I personally need to do but it could be useful for cutting or just to cleanse your body.
Are these inexpensive? And does it extract juices or does it just turn all of it into juice? Like would a banana work?
I wanna know how a broccoli, brussels sprout, asparagus, and lima bean juice cocktail would taste.
Probably horrible.
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And by 'I wanna know' I mean 'I want the OP to make and drink this' so I don't have to taste the horribleness
[QUOTE=Ven Kaeo;31354450]I wanna know how a broccoli, brussels sprout, asparagus, and lima bean juice cocktail would taste.
Probably horrible.
And by 'I wanna know' I mean 'I want the OP to make and drink this' so I don't have to taste the horribleness[/QUOTE]
I don't own any of those vegetables but I imagine it would taste somewhere in the vicinity of shit.
whats wrong with broccoli and asparagus?
I always think of steroids when I see the word juicing.
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