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CARROT JUICE IN YOUR DIET.
BY
IVAN HINCE
The benefits of carrot juice in
your diet are very important as not only will it make
you healthy it will also provide great nutritional value
that is vital for your bodies daily needs.
Some will argue that the humble
carrot is bland and boring yet my argument there is that
it doesn't have to be as there are many ways to alter
the taste by adding different fruits that can be mixed
with the carrot juice.
Before I go into telling you of the
different fruits you can mix with carrot juice to spice
it up I would like to list the benefits of carrot juice.
The first is the vast amount of
vitamin C which I'm sure we all know is good for us.
Then there is vitamin A. Now with vitamin A the
situation is slightly different, and as you drink the
carrot juice your body converts some the liquid to
vitamin A. At this point I won't get into how the
body does this but it does.
Then you can look at all the B vitamins and you fill
find that carrots are full of them.
Vitamin A is an important factor
for your sight, but it also helps with bone growth and
will help people with things like Osteoporosis and other
bone disorders.
The next benefit of carrot juice is
the fact that it contains Potassium which is good for
looking after your muscles and will also help against
cholesterol.
When you consider that a high
cholesterol level will give you all forms of problems
especially as we see time and time again that obesity is
on the up with children and with adults alike. By
taking carrot juice it will act as an antioxidant and
your life will be healthier for it.
At the start of the page I mention
the benefits of carrot juice in your diet and by
altering your food intake carrot juice can be a major
part of your weight loss program.
Some times in life the benefits of
some foods are not apparent as we do our weekly shop,
and it’s so easy to spend money on vitamin supplements,
and foods especially prepared for diets when a far
superior alternative is staring us in the face.
The subject of diets can be
confusing to say the least, and it doesn’t matter
whether you’re counting points, calories, or just
generally just cutting back on your food intake. Each
person has their own view which is best, and what I’m
talking about here with the benefits of carrot juice in
your diet will probably not suit everyone’s taste.
My theory behind the use of carrot
juice comes from medical research. They have proved
that it’s the food we eat that causes many of today’s
many diseases. As the body is mainly water in its
content, and as water can either be either acidic,
alkaline, or neutral we have to notice that many foods
tend to be acidic in their content. This is where the
medical research teams have proved time and time again
that by altering our food intake to one of an alkaline
nature we can not only loose weight but we can also
recover from many horrible diseases that are present in
today’s world.
Fruit and vegetable are a superb
example of alkaline foods, and carrots, and carrot juice
are amongst the best there is.
To give you an idea of calorie
content if you were to take a mixture of fruit and
carrot juice in a drink the calories per cup would be
between 70 and 100 calories.
With a good quality juicer 1 lb of raw carrots will make
about a cup full of juice and when mixed with other soft
fruits can be something to look forward to.
Simply by replacing one
meal a day with a delicious glass of juice and the
mixture can be your own choice. You may love
strawberries or bananas, and by mixing in some carrot
juice you will find that you will begin to look forward
each day to your daily juice. (I suggest you choose
breakfast)
Taking things further you may want
to then cut down own the acidic content of your diet.
I’m not saying that you cut it out altogether as to eat
just fruit and vegetables could be boring.
Here’s a short list of some of the
acidic things we have in our normal diet, and that by
cutting back on them will help us all loose weight.
Sugar, sugar based products like biscuits, chocolate,
cakes and pastries, meat, custard, jellies and jams.
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