Posted 2/25/2014 2:49 AM (GMT 0)
Before Jack died, didn't he swim some channel while pulling a number of boats with his teeth or something? I know that sounds strange as I type it, but I thought I remember him doing some extraordinary feat of strength,...and wasn't he, at this event, in his 70's?
Gotta hand it to him, he was truly a very fit man who lived a very fit lifestyle. Not a poser.
WB, the thing about the juices is this: Sure, it all ends up in the intestines, BUT, what it takes to actually get there is important. Take orange juice. To make a glass of fresh squeezed orange juice, it's going to take a half dozen oranges. Eating that many oranges, you're also starting the digestive process in your mouth, with saliva, you're eating the skin and fiber contained within the fruit, which helps with intestinal health and clearing cholesterol from the blood stream. You'll also be eating those six oranges at such a slower rate that it gives your body time to process the sugar.
Now put six oranges in a juicer. It takes out the pulp and white part of the rind and skin (where a lot of the vitamins are), and squeezing the fiber out of the fruit. All the good stuff is being taken away, and the end result is that in one glass, you are injecting six oranges worth of sugar without any fiber to slow down the digestion, in one go. Your insulin spikes up.
Juice is not a real drink, -- it's artificially called healthful because most juices have fruit (some as little as 5%), but in fact, juices are concentrated sources of sugar. If you enjoy fruit juice, consider filling your glass with 1/4 juice and 3/4 water (plain or even sparkling is very good).
If you sincerely believe you would eat six whole oranges, complete, would you be also be consuming the same,-- let's say, breakfast meal that many people have with their orange juice? Probably not because you would be full. In a healthy way.
Juice is disguised as a healthful beverage and consumed by people thinking it's healthy because it's all natural, and fed to children instead of water,...all the while jacking the kids up on sugar. Sugar from fruit, but lots of sugar.
I'll finish this comment by saying that these are my opinions based on my studies in nutrition, and in no way am I trying to offend or diss anyone who finds juicing beneficial. I'm sure there are some forms of juicing that are helpful and healthful,....my biggest head-shaking moment comes when, for example, people drink carrot juice thinking that's healthy (again, loaded with sugar), -- compare the taste of that with let's say kale juice, cabbage juice, aloe vera juice, wheatgrass....
Sugar sources, like beets, too, will be quick delivery systems of jacking your insulin rapidly. If it makes your juice "taste sweeter," that's a pretty good indicator that you're ingesting concentrated sugar sources minus the healthy fiber and many nutrients that get left behind.
Just eat the fruits and veggies....
Again, to those who find benefit by juicing, -- I believe we must all do whatever we have to do to feel better and make our way through our life, with the best quality of living we can manage. I mean no offense to those whose opinions differ.
Sincerely,
M.