Juicing for Skin
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free skin care · Mon Oct 31, 2011 8:37 am

I tend to juice more than I do smoothies, and I consider juicing to be actually a lot better than smoothies for several reasons.

Firstly juices can penetrate the intestines faster. Whilst its true that juicing doesn't contain fibre, thats only really an issue if your diet is low in fibre and for most people this isn't such an issue.

Re blood sugars its a very interesting comment but also one that there will be many variations for. Being a diabetic, its one of those things that I'm so aware of but actually having done blood tests before, and after juicing and smoothies its generally been my experience that smoothies raise my blood sugars more than juices does. However with juicing you can usually get much more nutrient dense mixtures than you can get from smoothies and the liquid is a lot more thinner in comparison to that of a smoothie. So I think it very much depends on the ingredients your using for the juice/smoothies.

Another very common misconception is that all juicers are equal. They're not. I've got a champion juicer which is costly but wow do you get your moneys worth and boy does it last. However when it juices it doesn't heat up the vegetables that would otherwise destroy many of the nutrients in preparation.

Secondly with juicing it can penetrate the build up that often forms in the intestines from dairy and wheat, whereas with smoothies due to the fibre etc these often cannot pass through. There were some fantastic slides I saw recently at a presentation in London that had photographs of some dissected intestines and you could see a mucus kind of build up that was like a thick rubber wall and it was explained that this was likely (the presenters opinion here - not factually proved) to be a build up of chemicals from the dairy. Juices would be able to penetrate this whereas a smoothie would not and could not. Plus juicing can usually be absorbed straight into the blood stream (depending on whats been juiced) whereas with smoothies because of the thickness and full ingrediets it has to be broken down by the body.

Having said that I think for nutrients, its great to use both in conjunction but I feel both have different advantages and benefits to them.

free skin care · Wed Jan 16, 2013 4:03 pm

Juicing is a great way of detoxing the skin, the theory is the juice gives the body energy that doesn't put a load of the body's digestive system, enabling the energy from the juice to be used directly to enable the body to detox. It has the same affect as eating raw foods.

A good base for any juice is what I call crapapple: - carrot and apple - and then throw in anything you feel like - beetroot, celery, lettuce, ginger root, lemon juice. Just juice, we do it all the way through the winter, it gives you so much energy.

Great site for resources:

http://www.juicemaster.com

PQ

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