Health is all about adding some and avoiding some. Some habits may bring about life changing experiences while others may take a turn for the worse. Juices might just be one of those things which, if implemented accurately can bring about radical changes in your general health.
Just juicing, along with sumptuous diets, and a lazy lifestyle can not bring about any changes. It may be included in your daily diet along with discipline of some sorts, at least in your eating and exercising habits.
Juicing increases our overall fruit and veggie intake, more than, when you are consuming them whole, as the juices assimilate into your system, like in the flick of a switch. Juices enhance your metabolic rate and hence promotes weight loss. Certain combinations and individual juices promote cardiovascular health by reducing the cholesterol levels.
Read ahead about these healthy juices for losing weight, and live an overall salubrious life provided obviously, your habits are healthy. The content of antioxidants and fiber, reduces the overall risk of contracting any form of cancer.
Juices for Weight Loss
1Carrot and Grapefruit
Carrots are low on calories, and high in fiber to their last nimble bit. Remember the energy levels of the real slim shady, bugs bunny. The high fiber content keeps your appetite under check for a longer duration, thus preventing vital calorie intake.
Grapefruit accelerates the burning of calories in your body. Hence the combination of the two, is nothing short of superman’s super food.
2Beetroot, Carrot and Strawberry
Beetroot should be a part of any balanced diet plan, that concerns weight loss. The sheer high content of fiber, both soluble and insoluble, increases the endurance threshold of your body, which is what you want on the exercise floor.
Strawberries are rich in ellagic acid and anthocyanins, which prevents the occurrence of inflammations. And stimulates the production of all the hormones responsible for weight loss.
3Cucumber and Kiwi
Cucumber is often included in all weight loss diets. It prevents bloating of the body, through water retention, as it has an abundance of water, and is low on sodium. They help in adding mass to your salads, with the minimum addition of calories.
Kiwis are loaded with nutrients, while they still keep the calorie meter under check. The combination is simply, exhilarating.
4Bell Pepper and Apple
Bell peppers are rich in capsaicin, which increases the metabolism rate, by bringing about an increase in the body temperatures, besides adding that obvious element of spice to your drink. Its fat burning properties, are in fact so intense, that regular consumption of capsaicin, brings about reduction in abdominal fat content.
Apples are low on calories and yet has high fiber content. The added vitamins and low sodium content makes it the ideal super food for weight loss. The water soluble fibers present in apples, helps in extracting cholesterol from the blood stream, thus keeping the heart healthy.
5Celery, Cucumber and Apple
Raw celery is a crunchy and appetising snack to much on, while still the calories are kept under check. Besides, they are high in vitamin C and K, folates, and potassium.
It should most certainly make it to the juicing list, at least in combination with cucumbers and apples, which posses their own individual benefits to weight loss, and are delicious to the taste.
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By Abhro
