Please consult with your Doctor before juicing. 1. What is the difference between blending and juicing? Blending simply combines all of the ingredients you place in your blender, leaving the pulp and fiber intact. Fiber is a great addition to your diet and can help prevent many diseases. Unlike juicing, however, consuming blended drinks makes your bodywork harder to digest the ingredients. Juicing separates the pulp from the vegetables and fruits, leaving only juice behind. With juicing you are still consuming beneficial soluble fiber, like pectin. Juicing also helps with the removal of toxins from your body and aids in weight loss. Both are beneficial and should be added to your diet. I personally love juicing and have seen and felt the difference since adding it to my lifestyle. 2. What kind of juicer should I get? There are many juicers on the market to choose from, but can be broken down into three main types: centrifugal, masticating, and a new type which I’ll explain below. Centrifugal juicers work best with soft and hard fruits and vegetables, but not quite as well with leafy greens like kale or spinach, or with wheatgrass. A centrifugal juicer spins at high speeds and during the spinning motion; the vegetables that you have shoved down the chute are ground to a pulp. It’s best to drink your juice immediately to get optimal results, since it starts losing its nutrients almost immediately. What people like the most about this type of juicer is that it’s quick and easy to clean. A masticating juicer grinds vegetables and literally squishes out the juice. Since a masticating juicer works at low speeds and with no spinning action, it tends to juice many vegetables more efficiently. Because of the slower crushing and squeezing action, masticating juicers can process leafy greens and wheatgrass, and the juice that they produce will last much longer than juice made in a centrifugal juicer. I have found masticating juicers to be harder to use, more time consuming and harder to clean. For more information check out this blog post: http://fitlife.tv/3-reasons-to-juice/
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