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Eating Veggies Protects Your Gut

According to an article posted by WebMD, there are more reasons than ever to stock up on your fair share of broccoli.

 According to a recent study, eating between two and three ounces of three-day-old broccoli each day helps to protect your belly from the bacterium H. pylon, which can lead to ulcers, gastritis, and even stomach cancer.

 The main catch?  You have to eat the sprouts in order for this to be helpful.  The sprouts (versus the heads) deliver sulforaphane to your body.  This biochemical has shown to have a potentially anti-cancer impact, which equals good news for everyone!  This biochemical “appears to work by triggering the body, especially the gastrointestinal tract, to produce enzymes that protect against damage-causing chemicals and inflammation.”

 Sounds like a good deal to me.  I’m off now—to cook up some broccoli sprouts!

Three Delicious and Nutritious Juicing Recipes

Below are three of my all-time favorite juicing recipes. I’m fairly sure that you’ll enjoy them!

Potassium Rich Juice

2 Asparagus Stalks

5 Carrots

1 Celery Stalk

This juice is great for relieving muscle cramps—drink this one after your work out.

V-5 Juice

2 Cucumbers

4 Carrots

4 Potatoes

5 Brussel Sprouts

2 Stalks of Broccoli

Make sure to juice the potatoes with the skin on—there are lots of nutrients in there!

 
Electrolyte Booster Juice

1 Apple

3 Handfuls of Parsley

4 Celery Stalks

Lemon Juice

This juice is probably the tastiest that I’ve posted, due to the apple and lemon juice—you’ll love it!

More Yummy Veggie Juice Recipes

Here are three more delicious juicing recipes to add to your ever-growing collection!

 

Green Giant

 2 stalks of broccoli

A handful or two of spinach

½ beet root

8 carrots

1 celery stalk

 After drinking this one, you won’t feel so bad about that chocolate you indulged in over the weekend.

 
Ten-Ingredient Deliciousness

 
½ clove garlic

1 celery stalk

2 red peppers

5 carrots

1/8 to ¼ cabbage

¼ onion

1 beet

A handful of Kale leaves

A handful or two of spinach

3-4 tomatoes

 Watch out with this one, kids—your breath will be stinky!

 
Energizing Juice

 
4 carrots

2-3 cloves of garlic

2-3 celery stalks

A handful or two of parsley

Use this one before heading to the gym.

Three Highly Cleansing Vegetable Juice Recipes

Vegetable juicing, while very good for you, might be hard to continue once you begin. Drinking the same few veggie juice recipes every single day can get tiring on your taste buds.

 Don’t worry—the Colonista is here! Following, find three of my favorite juicing recipes that are great for cleaning out your system. Try them out, and let me know what you think!

 

(Mostly) Green Juice

10 leaves of romaine lettuce

3 ribs of celery

3 carrots

The carrots give this (mostly) green juice a nice, pleasant taste so that you can enjoy what you’re drinking.

 

Killer Cabbage

 3 ribs of celery

¼ cabbage

This one, while not one of my personal favorites, is great for you juicers who have a fondness for cabbage. While I can’t seem to fall in love with the taste of the typically Irish veggie, this juice is very healthy as well as extremely cleansing.

 

Well-Rounded Veggie Juice

 4 carrots

1 rib of celery

¼ cup parsley

½ cup spinach

You’ll love the tastiness of this veggie juice recipe!

Which Vegetables Should I Use for Juicing?

 

If you’re new to vegetable juicing, you’re undoubtedly trying to figure out which vegetables to start with and how to proceed with this healthy decision you’ve made.

 

A good combination of juices to begin with is:

• Celery
• Fennel
• Cucumbers

Many who are brand new to vegetable juicing may not be able to tolerate many of the intense dark green vegetables at first. These three vegetables are easily tolerated and a great lead-in for new juicers.

 

After you become comfortable and proficient with the celery, fennel and cucumber juice, try out some of the green leafy vegetables that are best for your health including:

• Red leaf lettuce
• Green leaf lettuce
• Romaine lettuce
• Escarole lettuce
• Endive
• Spinach

Another great vegetable to use is cabbage. Cabbage juice is very beneficial in the healing of ulcers due to the large presence of Vitamin U in the veggie.

 

Later in your juicing regimen, you may want to try including some herbs such as parsley and cilantro to your vegetables. However, be cautious with the use of cilantro, as many can’t tolerate the strong herb very well. If you find that including cilantro bothers you or makes you feel unwell, don’t use it.

 

Once you become a juicing “pro,” try adding one or two of the following greens:

• Kale
• Mustard Greens
• Collard Greens
• Dandelion Greens

These greens are extremely bitter, so including more than two of them will make you juice very unpleasant to drink. If you choose to include collard greens, make sure that you purchase the greens with the leaves still attached to the main stalk. You’ll get the most nutrients this way.

 

Juicing shouldn’t be a chore—it should be fun and delicious! Try incorporating some of these veggies and herbs into your juicing regimen.