Weight Loss Booster - Chew Your Juice, Juice Your Food
If you've turned to juicing as a weight loss or even just as an overall health improvement measure, but you are not yet seeing or feeling the significant benefit you were hoping for, it could be how you're ingesting it.
It's not just what we put into our bodies that counts, but how.
Did you know the very first step in the digestion process begins in your brain? The idiom, "mouth-watering" is based on that very fact.
Have you ever just thought of your favorite food, to find your mouth suddenly awash with saliva? The aroma of a favorite food wafting in the air, commercials on television advocating a big juicy "mouth-watering" burger, magazine ads depicting some type of food all set the brain in motion, producing the all important mouth-watering, or the increase in saliva - also known as first of the digestive juices (saliva, gastric, pancreatic,bile, and intestinal).
Many descriptions of the digestive system start with saliva, but it's the brain that really gets it going.
While the brain creating saliva is arguably the first step in the digestive process, it can also be argued that chewing properly or thoroughly is the most important step.
Dr.
Norman Walker, longest lived, renowned raw food advocate, urged people to "chew your juice, juice your food.
" He and others after him, believe that thorough mastication of food and juice is the key to health and a clean, healthy colon - the star of the digestive system and overall health.
So what exactly does the saying "chew your juice,...
" mean? Simply, if you juice vegetables or fruit, or blend them into smoothies, don't just slug your drink or smoothie down like a regular drink, thinking, "There! I'm healthy.
" Take the time to as you ingest your concoction to literally chew each mouthful before swallowing.
The reason is, the blender or the juicer have essentially done an important part of the breakdown of the food, but without the aid of the important digestive juice saliva, the digestive system will have to work harder to separate the vitamins and nutrients during the whole digestive process.
By chewing your juice, you'll get so much more out of your juice or smoothie.
Juicing your food according to the saying doesn't mean you need to juice it or blend it with a juicer or blender.
What it means is, when you eat your food, you need to masticate (chew) each bite until it is literally juice in your mouth to get full benefit of its nutrients.
It's difficult to do when you first try it, but if you stick with it, you'll find your overall digestive system will work so much more efficiently which means more regularity which certainly helps with weight loss - not to mention the fact that by eating more slowly you won't bombard your system with a whole meal in five minutes or less.
You'll not feel the need to eat more than you need, and after a time, you'll feel more energy and...
that weight loss you were hoping for may become a reality sooner than later.
Jules Hamland © 2011, All Rights Reserved
It's not just what we put into our bodies that counts, but how.
Did you know the very first step in the digestion process begins in your brain? The idiom, "mouth-watering" is based on that very fact.
Have you ever just thought of your favorite food, to find your mouth suddenly awash with saliva? The aroma of a favorite food wafting in the air, commercials on television advocating a big juicy "mouth-watering" burger, magazine ads depicting some type of food all set the brain in motion, producing the all important mouth-watering, or the increase in saliva - also known as first of the digestive juices (saliva, gastric, pancreatic,bile, and intestinal).
Many descriptions of the digestive system start with saliva, but it's the brain that really gets it going.
While the brain creating saliva is arguably the first step in the digestive process, it can also be argued that chewing properly or thoroughly is the most important step.
Dr.
Norman Walker, longest lived, renowned raw food advocate, urged people to "chew your juice, juice your food.
" He and others after him, believe that thorough mastication of food and juice is the key to health and a clean, healthy colon - the star of the digestive system and overall health.
So what exactly does the saying "chew your juice,...
" mean? Simply, if you juice vegetables or fruit, or blend them into smoothies, don't just slug your drink or smoothie down like a regular drink, thinking, "There! I'm healthy.
" Take the time to as you ingest your concoction to literally chew each mouthful before swallowing.
The reason is, the blender or the juicer have essentially done an important part of the breakdown of the food, but without the aid of the important digestive juice saliva, the digestive system will have to work harder to separate the vitamins and nutrients during the whole digestive process.
By chewing your juice, you'll get so much more out of your juice or smoothie.
Juicing your food according to the saying doesn't mean you need to juice it or blend it with a juicer or blender.
What it means is, when you eat your food, you need to masticate (chew) each bite until it is literally juice in your mouth to get full benefit of its nutrients.
It's difficult to do when you first try it, but if you stick with it, you'll find your overall digestive system will work so much more efficiently which means more regularity which certainly helps with weight loss - not to mention the fact that by eating more slowly you won't bombard your system with a whole meal in five minutes or less.
You'll not feel the need to eat more than you need, and after a time, you'll feel more energy and...
that weight loss you were hoping for may become a reality sooner than later.
Jules Hamland © 2011, All Rights Reserved
