Incredibly thirsty since started juicing - what gives?

How is juicing unhealthy?

High in carbs/sugar (low fiber as well) but low in fat and protein which are the nutrients your body actually needs. You don't need carbs, but you need fats and proteins. You'll preserve your fat mass while losing your lean body mass. Juicing is terrible for your health.

Hmm, strange! I was pretty sure carbs provide energy and I've been juicing for months with tons of stamina, muscle building, weight loss. In fact in the past 6 weeks I've gone from 21% body fat to 16%. I start every morning with a fresh green juice. It gives me tons of energy for cardio I'd like to see your statements backed up with evidence. Can you provide trustworthy links? Seriously, I am intrigued.

How are you building muscle on a no protein diet? If you're eating other foods in addition to juicing that's one thing, but an all juice diet is super unhealthy.

Here are some peer reviewed articles on the importance of protein and the dangers of a low protein diet.

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/62/1/30.short

http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/content/42/1/81.abstract

http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/67/11/1161.abstract

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/87/1/150.abstract

These are just a few but if you'd like more let me know.

How do cows get protein eating grass all day long? If told you that high protein diets are linked to kidney failure and provided links to them, would that be a fair analysis if said diet? Obviously not. Juicing can be healthy and anyone can easily meat their nutritional needs on a Juicing diet as it follows the same guidelines as a Vegan. The only difference is that it's everything is blended up. So lets not go off the deep end by demonizing a diet that you haven't spent much time looking into.


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Vegan=/= poor nutrition. I was vegan and I ate low carb with adequate fat and protein. If by high protein you mean over 3g protein per pound of body weight this could be harmful but .8-1.4g protein is perfectly healthy.

I think there is some confusion here. Jucing = Vegan. They are the same diet. The only difference is that one comes in a blender.

How is juicing unhealthy?

High in carbs/sugar (low fiber as well) but low in fat and protein which are the nutrients your body actually needs. You don't need carbs, but you need fats and proteins. You'll preserve your fat mass while losing your lean body mass. Juicing is terrible for your health.

Hmm, strange! I was pretty sure carbs provide energy and I've been juicing for months with tons of stamina, muscle building, weight loss. In fact in the past 6 weeks I've gone from 21% body fat to 16%. I start every morning with a fresh green juice. It gives me tons of energy for cardio I'd like to see your statements backed up with evidence. Can you provide trustworthy links? Seriously, I am intrigued.

How are you building muscle on a no protein diet? If you're eating other foods in addition to juicing that's one thing, but an all juice diet is super unhealthy.

Here are some peer reviewed articles on the importance of protein and the dangers of a low protein diet.

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/62/1/30.short

http://ageing.oxfordjournals.org/content/42/1/81.abstract

http://biomedgerontology.oxfordjournals.org/content/67/11/1161.abstract

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/87/1/150.abstract

These are just a few but if you'd like more let me know.

How do cows get protein eating grass all day long? If told you that high protein diets are linked to kidney failure and provided links to them, would that be a fair analysis if said diet? Obviously not. Juicing can be healthy and anyone can easily meat their nutritional needs on a Juicing diet as it follows the same guidelines as a Vegan. The only difference is that it's everything is blended up. So lets not go off the deep end by demonizing a diet that you haven't spent much time looking into.


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Vegan=/= poor nutrition. I was vegan and I ate low carb with adequate fat and protein. If by high protein you mean over 3g protein per pound of body weight this could be harmful but .8-1.4g protein is perfectly healthy.

I think there is some confusion here. Jucing = Vegan. They are the same diet. The only difference is that one comes in a blender.

Nuts, some protein powders, flax seeds, etc. are vegan. I've never seen someone juice a nut. I WAS vegan. I was alsoneating less than 50g net carbs a day. A vegan diet doesn't have to be high carb. A juice diet is.

So, I started juicing this week with green juices (mostly kale, spinach, celery, carrot, apple, cucumber) in the morning for breakfast and in the evening as a pre-dinner meal boost. So far, so good and I'm really enjoying the new additions to my daily routine.

However, I've noticed that I'm consuming over twice as much water as I typically do. I usually drink at least 2.5 liters of water a day but now I'm up over 5 liters. Between the juices and all the water, I feel like I'm constantly making trips to the bathroom throughout the day.

Is this normal? Why would my thirst increase so much while juicing? I've read that you're supposed to increase your water intake while juicing anyways but my thirst is kinda out of control right now.