Add Healthy Energy To Your Life By Juicing

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Juicing, on a daily basis, is one of the healthiest habits you can instill within your family. Unfortunately, some people shy away from juicing because of the fear of carbohydrates. However, its important to realize that even though fruit juices often do contain a high amount of carbohydrates, the type of low glycemic carbohydrates and natural sugars present in fruit juices are easily and efficiently turned into energy by our bodies. Furthermore, fruit juices tend to hydrate our bodies naturally and also provide us with a wide array of vitamins and minerals that are vital to good health.

Another reason why some people shy away from juicing, on a daily basis, is because of the perceived time restraints. For those families, whose schedules are already jam-packed, daily juicing, if not planned out properly, is not a practical ritual. However, if planned out properly, daily juicing will pose virtually no time restraint on your busy schedule.

The following tips will help you incorporate juicing into your busy schedules:

• Turn a section of your kitchen into your designated juicing area. Keep all of your juicing tools, such as your cutting boards, favorite cups, bowls, peelers, knives and juicer, in this part of your kitchen. Keeping all of your juicing equipment centrally located will make your daily juicing much more efficient.

• Keep a toothbrush or coarse brush handy to clean the strainer after juicing. Scrubbing the strainer after every juicing session will displace any lodged fruit particles which can grow rapidly into mold. Thorough, regular cleaning of your juicer will increase the life of your juicer as well as help keep you healthy.

• Find a juicing buddy. This juicing buddy can be a family member, friend or co-worker that you can talk to about your juicing and healthy living plans. Talk with this person on a daily or weekly basis in order to help keep each other accountable and give each other juicing ideas.
  

• Do your homework when it comes to buying a juicer. Make sure that you purchase a quality juicer that will last you for a long time and suit all of your juicing needs.

• Watch how many calories the fruits and vegetables you juice contain in order to make sure that you do not exceed your overall daily calorie needs and begin to gain weight which will in turn defeat the purpose of your new healthy habit.
  

7 Healthy Fruit Juice Recipes

The following are examples of simple juicing recipes designed to inspire you to begin combining various fruits and vegetables in order to create delicious fruit juice recipes that are guaranteed to keep your entire family healthy and energized.

Moroccan Pomegranate Juice

• 8 oz pomegranate juice
• 1 red apple
• 1 large cucumber
• 1 inch ginger
• 1 pear
• 1/8 cup organic rose water (optional)
  

Strawberry, Pineapple & Cucumber Juice

• 1 cup strawberries
• 2 cups pineapple
• 1 large cucumber

Sparkling Strawberry & Watermelon Juice

• 1 large slice of watermelon
• 2 pears
• 1 cup fresh or frozen strawberries
• 1/2 cup sparkling water

Note: This recipe must be blended in the blender

Green Juice Combo

• 2 Swiss chard leaves
• 4 oz organic wheat grass
  
• 1/2 beet root: Feel free to include the beet greens too, if you have them
  
• 2 Kiwi
• 2 or 3 sprigs of watercress
• 3 carrots
• 1 celery stalk

Child-Friendly Carrot & Apple Juice

• 2-3 organic green apples
• 1 Kiwi
• 1 carrot
• 6 inch slice of cantaloupe
• A small bunch of fresh basil leaves (optional)
• 1/4 cup coconut water
  

Carrot Green Drink

• A handful of dandelion leaves
• 4 oz organic wheat grass
• 1 kale leaf
• 4 carrots
• A small bunch of fresh mint, basil or coriander leaves
  

Peach & Honey Dew Melon Juice

• 2-3 peaches
• 1/4 cup coconut water
• A large slice of honey dew melon

Photo courtesy of: Happy Batatinha