FAT, SICK, and Nearly Dead!

Be careful about where you get your information. Juicing is a terrible way to try to lose fat.


Once you get into juicing, you'll probably realize it was a bad idea. It takes a lot of time, you throw away much of what you're paying for as well as much of your nutrition, and you may suffer GI problems more often, especially if you juice veggies, not to mention that juicing is not a healthful as you think. In general, juicing on a daily basis is a bad idea. My juicer is sitting in a cupboard somewhere gathering dust. If you wan to drink healthy, drink water.

The problem with juicing is the process eliminates much of the fiber and some of the nutrition available in the fruits and vegetables. However, it passes on the sugars and calories in concentrated form. The result is you miss the normal digestive processes and the satisfaction that goes with it so you'll be hungry sooner. What you throw away when you clean your juicer is part of your food and that's not only part of what you're paying for, it's part of what your body needs.

Also, when you drink your juice it goes much faster because there is no mastication involved. That makes it easy to dump the sugars into your stomach before your blood glucose increases and suppresses your appetite. So, you can drink the juice and get all the fructose of ten oranges in half the time it takes you to eat one orange making eating rather than drinking the obvious best choice for dieters and the best way to get all nutrition the fruits and veggies have to offer.

Also, if the fruit or vegetable contains a systemic bacteria such as e.coli (which caused an epidemic among spinach eaters in the US a few years ago), you'll get much more of the bacteria by juicing. The same applies to contaminants such as pesticides which are sometimes spilled in the fields and end up in the food in trace amounts. Juicing not only concentrates the good substances, but the bad ones as well.

Time is another problem with juicing. If you can save one minute per day at the end of a year you'll have six hours to spend doing what you want. That's dinner and a movie. When you find out how much time is takes to prep the shop for fruits and veggies, prep them, juice them, and clean up after, if you juice daily you're going to spend about one whole week of 24 hours days (168 hours of your life) doing nothing but making juice each year.

Eating food is a natural process. Extracting juice and drinking it, it not a natural process. Generally, the natural way is better because we have evolved using it.



Good luck and good health!!

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It gave me diarrhea, and a bizzare urge to purchase a Marky Mark CD.

I was so excited when we bought our juicer--until I realized that so much fruit/veg produces so little juice. Not to mention, I am not overly fond of cleaning, and all that pulp is a nightmare for me to clean out. I also cannot keep myself on a diet that has me not eating....for ME, that is definitely the way to fail and go back to my junk food addiction. I definitely have to eat real food. Not to mention I simply enjoy a piece of fruit over a glass of juice anyday.

I think juices are only good for maybe detoxifying your body for a few days, but not good for a diet. your body needs to break down the food and absorb the nutrients to get the full effect, to put it loosely.

I've never used a juicer and never had juiced fruits or veggies. I've had smoothies and used to have one every morning before school.

I prefer to eat everything individually and taste everything.

I use natural juice supplement powders (cheaper and cleaner than juicing), but I do so for the nutritional benefits, not for weight loss. Most people don't get enough veggies, and so I like to drink my blend a few times a week to make sure I have enough nutrition. That is the main point of juicing...for nutrition.