Smoothies and Vegetable Juice
A fun and easy way to get vitamins & minerals into your diet is by drinking freshly made fruit juices, vegetable juices, and by blending thick and frothy smoothies and shakes from frozen fruit. Drinking smoothies and shakes are a great way to activate enzymes into your diet. Finally, your body can absorb these vitamins and minerals much easier when they are in liquid form and have been chopped up into a fine slurry.
Vitamins
Freshly made juices are a tremendous source of bio-available vitamins and minerals that are essential for our diet and in being healthy and fit. Your body can do a lot of things but it cannot make vitamins and minerals. You can only get these through the food that you eat. Blending different vegetables and fruits can be a great way not only to get the vitamins that you need to but to do so in an interesting and tasty way. Vitamins:
- Reduce your risk of getting a stroke or heart attack!
- Strengthen your nails!
- Improve your hair condition, strength and growth by providing certain essential nutrients to the hair follicle!
- Beautify your skin by keeping it smooth, soft and disease-free!
- Provide essential compounds that are necessary for growth, health, normal metabolism and physical well-being!
- Promote normal growth and development!
- Maintain bone density and strength!
- Regulate blood clotting!
- Help in the function of nerves and muscles, including regulating a normal heart beat!
Enzymes
Vitamins act as an activator of your enzymes. Although people tend to think of enzymes only as digestion aids, that is only the beginning of what enzymes do. The function of these microscopic organisms is amazing. Everyone needs them and if you are healthy and fit you will feel even better with the right supply of enzymes. The are catalysts in hundreds of thousands of chemical reactions including:
- Deliver nutrients
- Carry away toxic wastes
- Digest food
- Purify the blood
- Deliver hormones by feeding and fortifying the endocrine system
- Balance cholesterol and triglyceride levels
- Feed the brain
- Absorb and convert food into body tissue
- Produce energy at the cellular level critical for most of the metabolic activities taking place in your body every second of every day.
Vitamin and Mineral Absorption
The biggest benefit of drinking fresh smoothies and juices is that your body can more easily absorb vitamins and minerals. Much of the nutrients are trapped in the fiber of fruits and vegetables. We all know that fiber is essential in keeping your body regular. Although fiber is very good for you we do not digest fiber fully so much of the vitamins and minerals that are trapped in the fiber are sent through the body without total absorption. Blending the fruits and vegetables releases the vital nutrients by breaking down the fibers.
