Healthy B.P.M.

If you go into a health food store, or even a normal grocery store, you’re likely to find at least one aisle stocked with vitamins and supplements. While they may be helpful, they’re expensive, can be a hassle, and aren’t the best way to get all the nutrients you need.

So, besides the hassle of taking a lot of pills every day, what’s so bad about supplements? While there’s nothing wrong with supplements, except that they were designed to supplement a good diet, not replace it. The best delivery system for vitamins and nutrients is the natural one. Supplements may not be digested or absorbed all the way, which means you don’t get all the benefits you’re supposed to. The only reason you should be taking supplements is if you can’t get the nutrients through your food, but you can. You can get most of what you need from fruit and vegetable juices. And if you‘ve been complaining about not being able to get in those 4-5 mini meals a day, here‘s your plan.

The way to getting the appropriate amounts of nutrients from juice is to you choose the right variety of juices. Naturally, different juices contain different vitamins in varying concentrations. Here’s a list of the vitamins and minerals contained in popular fruit juices.

• Orange: Vitamin C, Most B vitamins, potassium, folate, and thiamin.
• Grape: Potassium, manganese, is rich in antioxidants.
• Pink Grapefruit: Vitamins C and A.

This is an easy way to improve your health without supplements. In the past you may have avoided vegetable juices because you didn’t like the taste, but they’re great for you and don’t have the high sugar content that fruit juices do. If you just can’t take the taste of vegetable juices, try masking the flavor by adding some fruit. Here are some of the power veggies that contain the most vitamins and minerals.

• Spinach: Thiamin (B1), riboflavin (B2), niacin (B3), pyridoxine (B6), folate, vitamin C, Vitamin K, potassium, calcium, magnesium, iron, and zinc.
• Beets: Calcium, sulfur, iron, potassium, choline, beta-carotene, and vitamin C. Be sure to mix this one with another juice.
• Broccoli: Thiamin, vitamin C, beta carotene, calcium, sulfur, and potassium. It’s also high in fiber and protein.

To get the most from your juices, make sure they’re 100% percent juice without preservatives and additives. Do this by checking labels, or make your own juice. If you make your own juice, throw whole fruits and veggies in the juicer. The juicer will take out the solids and you’ll get a juice with greater nutritional value. A good quality juicer can be a great investment and you may not need to bother with supplements or vitamins again.

In the land of juices one is gaining in popularity, wheatgrass. It turns out that wheatgrass juice is up to 70% chlorophyll, which in chemical composition closely resembles hemoglobin. It is said to heal tissues, help purify the liver, improve blood sugar levels and help flush out accumulated toxins. That makes it an ideal “companion’ for fasting and in weight control regimes - taking it in tablet form gives some sensation of fullness“. Wheatgrass is high in oxygen like all green plants that contain chlorophyll. The brain and all body tissues function at an optimal level in a highly-oxygenated environment.

Wheat grass is a variety of grass like barley, oats and rye, grown all over America. Wheatgrass refers to grass grown indoors in trays for approximately 10 days and is the kind that is squeezed into a fresh juice. The tray-grown grass is used primarily for therapeutic purposes. The 60+day old field grown grasses, available in dehydrated powder or tablets, are used primarily as nutritional supplements.

More Benefits of Wheatgrass Juice

• Chlorophyll is anti-bacterial and can be used inside and outside the body as a
  healer.
• It only takes minutes to digest wheatgrass juice and uses up very little body energy.
• Chlorophyll arrests growth and development of unfriendly bacteria.
• Chlorophyll (wheatgrass) rebuilds the bloodstream.
• Liquid chlorophyll washes drug deposits from the body.
• Chlorophyll improves blood sugar.