Drink Life: benefits of juicing

A couple of years ago we spent lots of money on fitness supplements such as BCAA, fat burners, protein and recovery powders, pre-workout stuff, vitamin and omega-3 pills etc. Hundreds of euros every few months! Enough to say, that was really stupid… Actually, I have nothing to defend myself, but the lack of knowledge and a shallow desire to achieve fast results. Useless, harmful and expensive… Be wiser, don’t do it, please!

Fortunately, with vegetarian diet there appeared a need to increase our veggie and fruit intake. Plants take a really big part of vegetarian and vegan food pyramid. For example, veggies are quite low in calories, so you have to eat really LOTS of them to cover the daily calorie intake not only with peanut butter, honey, cereals and chocolate. How much lettuce, carrots, cucumbers and spinach can you actually eat during a day? Well, that was a challenge back then, but not anymore.

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After some research, we decided to say goodbye to above mentioned supplements and invest our euros into a classy whole cold press juicer. I must say that it was one of the best nutritional decisions of the year. We just fell in love with delicious veggie and fruit juices and so did our bodies.

Why drinking fresh juices is so beneficial to our health?

• It’s a good way to get fruits and vegetables in, as it takes many servings of fruits and vegetables to produce a single serving of juice. Problem in eating half a red cabbage for dinner? Not anymore, it’s only a glass of juice. You can do it! However, unlike whole fruits and vegetables, juice has less fibre, so during a day it’s good to have part of fruits and vegetables also in a form that you have to chew.
• Nutrients are quickly and easily absorbed from juice. It's the easiest way for our bodies to get them and it happens really quickly. However, it’s good to remember that also sugars are easily absorbed and that juices are full of calories.
• It’s easy to add a wider variety of fruits and vegetables in our diet. How many boring salads can you actually eat during a day? Juices are a good alternative to lettuce, cucumber and tomato with some dressing on. It’s also a good way to clean up your fridge: don’t know what to do with those mandarins, parsley and lime? Juice, drink and forget. Your body says "thank you!". As simple as that.
• It’s so tasty! Nothing tastes better than a banana accompanied by fresh fruit juice after a long run. Also, I was so surprised how good can be fresh vegetables in a juice form, especially mixed with some lemon for even better taste.

Whole cold press juicer is a quite expensive machine. It was like a 500€ investment in our health (of course, you can find cheaper versions on the market), but absolutely worth it. Besides that, I’m sure that we used to spend even more money on those expensive fitness supplements, which gave nothing to our well-being.