Here’s the fastest, easiest way to make sure you get your recommended five servings of fruit and vegetables a day. Fresh fruit and raw vegetable juices are nature’s best rejuvenators.
The simplest way to get a dose of skin-boosting nutrients is with juicing. Some experts in longevity believe that the path to agelessness, not to mention maximum life span, is through the consumption of “live” foods and the supplementation of raw vegetables and fruit juices. Juicing fans also swear that fasting this way swiftly purifies the body, ridding it of potentially harmful build-up of toxins (such as agrochemicals and other pollutants, which may linger in the digestive system).
Juices are an easy and delicious way to make sure we are getting our quota of fruit and vegetables each day, which can be hard to achieve otherwise. Few of us would eat five carrots, but we could easily drink a 16-ounce glass of carrot juice, which is the equivalent. Taken with meals, the enzymes in fresh juice help us digest our foods. Juices are also great meal substitutes when you are in a hurry and need a fast blast of nutrients.
Invest in a juicing machine if you’re going to drink juices on a regular basis. No two juices need be the same – the only limit is your imagination. Make sure you drink a combination of fruit and vegetable juices to get the maximum nutritional benefit. It goes without saying that if you’re juicing, you should stick exclusively to organic ingredients. Berries, for example, may have been sprayed many times over, so if you juice non-organic fruit and vegetables, you’re juicing pesticides, too.