Juice therapy: heal your life
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up until earlier this year, i considered myself a healthy person. I didn t get sick very often, i ate my fair share of fruit and veg, i exercised regularly and i didn t smoke or drink coffee.
but i seemed to always be tired and my tummy always felt bloated and blah and i was about 10kg overweight. So what was i doing wrong?
i had this 80/20 rule where 80% of the time i would be healthy and the other 20%, i could eat/drink what i liked (chocolate, cola, alcohol, pizza, cheese lots of cheese, more chocolate etc). However when i look back, i think my 80/20 rule was more like a 50/50 rule. Hence why i felt the way i did.
so i started to look for ways to kick my healthy lifestyle up a notch or two and i found that cutting out the chocolate, cola, alcohol, pizza and cheese helped a lot. But the key thing for me has been the increase in fresh, raw, whole foods into my diet. By that i mean fruit, salads, vegetables. Un-cooked and un-processed.
but i found it tedious to prepare and to eat so i hunted even further and discovered juicing of course i always knew about fruit juices. Mostly the packaged variety but occasionally i would buy a freshly juiced pineapple or orange juice when i was out.
i never knew how many exciting juice concoctions were out there. Where have i been??? so to take it one step further, i looked into the health benefits of each individual fruit and vegetable. Imagine my excitement when i figured out i could do all of the followi...read more detail
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