| Vegetable juice is a great energizing breakfast. Most people juice in the morning, but choose whatever meal works out best for your lifestyle. |
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Vegetable juice and fruit juices are two completely different substances in terms of nutrition. Fruits are cleanser. Avoid large amounts of fruit juices. The high content of natural sugar in fruit juices raise insulin levels. Vegetables are builders, they rejuvenate and strengthen. Although vegetable juice doesn't raise insulin levels. Carrot and beet juice (and most vegetables that grow underground) are the exceptions, |
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Carrots, Beets: |
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Juice carrots and beets in moderation . If you are healthy, add about one pound of carrots or beets to your juice, per week. The deep, intense colors of these foods provide benefits that are just not available in the green vegetables. Vegetables that grow underground are sugar ladened and increase in your insulin levels and function similarly to fruit juice. |
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| Prepare your juice with vegetables at room temperature. Leave the vegetables out overnight, or for at least one hour in the morning, Cold liquids shock the system. |
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| You may choose to begin your juicing experience slowly: |
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Fresh juice is very perishable so it's best to drink all of your juice immediately, at room temperature, to receive the optimum benefit and nutrition . The exception would be, if your juicer is a the twin gear masticating machine with magnets in the gears. Carefully stored juice can be stored for up to 24 hours with only moderate nutritional decline. SEE: Juice Storing Tips below. |
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