Is juicing healthy for you.?

Friends keep arguing that there is too much sugar in green juices. And that its not healthyfor you to do. I'm trying to clean out my system and reboot it and get on a healthy diet to loose weight. Any links to research or info on juicing would be great. Thank you.

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This question cannot be answered with a "Yes" or "No". Here, however, are some considerations.

Once you get into juicing, you'll probably realize it was a bad idea. It takes a lot of time, you throw away much of what you're paying for as well as much of your nutrition, and you may suffer GI problems more often, especially if you juice veggies, not to mention that juicing is not as healthful as you think. In general, juicing on a daily basis is a bad idea. My juicer is sitting in a cupboard somewhere gathering dust. If you wan to drink healthy, drink water.

The problem with juicing is the process eliminates much of the fiber and some of the nutrition available in the fruits and vegetables. However, it passes on the sugars and calories in concentrated form. The result is you miss the normal digestive processes and the satisfaction that goes with it so you'll be hungry sooner. What you throw away when you clean your juicer is part of your food and that's not only part of what you're paying for, it's part of what your body needs. For example, the fiber you lose when extracting juice will help keep that 15-20 foot long GI tract (smooth muscle) healthy and you regular.

Also, when you drink your juice it goes much faster because there is no mastication involved. That makes it easy to dump the sugars into your stomach before your blood glucose increases and suppresses your appetite. So, you can drink the juice and get all the fructose of ten oranges in half the time it takes you to eat one orange making eating rather than drinking the obvious best choice for dieters and the best way to get all nutrition the fruits and veggies have to offer.

Also, if the fruit or vegetable contains a systemic bacteria such as e.coli (which caused an epidemic among spinach eaters in the US a few years ago), you'll get much more of the bacteria by juicing. The same applies to contaminants such as pesticides which are sometimes spilled in the fields and end up in the food in trace amounts. Juicing not only concentrates the good substances, but the bad ones as well.

Time is another problem with juicing. If you can save one minute per day at the end of a year you'll have six hours to spend doing what you want. That's dinner and a movie. When you find out how much time is takes to shop for fruits and veggies, prep them, juice them, and clean up after, if you juice daily you're going to spend about one whole week of 24 hours days (168 hours of your life) doing nothing but making juice each year.

Eating food is a natural process. Extracting juice and drinking it, it not a natural process. Generally, the natural way is better because we have evolved using it.


Good luck and good health!!

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• Your friends are crazy, watch fat sick and nearly dead, It changed my life.
• I wonder what your friends are putting in their green drink? Juicing is good for you if you are juicing healthy foods which normally consist of vegetables and some fruit. As long as you don't add sugar or use store bought fruit juice then it's perfectly healthy.
  I make a green drink of kale, broccoli, cucumber, fresh squeezed lemon juice, mix of fresh berries and filtered water. It's not that great tasting but I feel hella good!
  ps. Stay away from ready made juices and smoothies.
• Depends how your body handles it. If you eat as well as juicing then you will get fat.
  
  If you juice all day, make sure it's not high in sugar because sugar IS FAT!!
  
  Juicing alone will make you lose weight, but he also added exercising (walking).