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Robert Poste's Child Wrote:

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> You could swap alcohol for juicing for a month.

> For breakfast this morning I had spinach,

> watercress, parsley, celery, cucumber and apple.

> It was bright green and rather delicious.



Wait till it comes out!

Loz Wrote:

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> Juicing - fruit especially - is a bit frowned upon

> by nutritionist. Really high in sugars and all of

> the good fibre taken out. Frankly, you are

> probably better off with a nice glass of red.

>

> Especially for breakfast.



Beetroot tomorrow then.


I'm familiar with the arguments for and against - I've done a few residential juice fasts where they teach a lot of that - but it does get way more nutrients into your system than you could manage by eating the foods whole, so a quick way to catch up if you've been eating unhealthily, and you can reduce the sugar spike by having all or mainly veg. If you have digestive problems it can also be a useful way to give all that a rest. There's been a big increase in IBS since fibre became fashionable in the late 70s, though it's just one factor among many, behaviour being the biggest (it turns out there's more than one point to table manners).


My father always said that a good marriage is based on a similar level of intelligence and a willingness to discuss someone else's bowel movements. Mind you, he has been married three times so there may be more to it than that.

Otta Wrote:

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> I absolutely love the Naked Juice range (well half

> of them anyway). The "Green Machine" and the mix

> berry red one are awesome.



I do wonder how healthy these kind of products actually are. When you make a fresh juice or smoothie it starts to separate and discolour very quickly (depends a bit on the machine you use), so to keep them looking fresh they have to be emulsified and heat-treated in some way, which kills off some of the nutrients and enzymes apparently. There may also be small additives that they don't have to declare, or so I'm told. God know what Innocent do to make a smoothie last for over a month.

PS, anyone who posts up some contrived anecdote about a friend of a friend at some non specific northern university who got scurvy because all they ate was pre cooked porridge for a term / variations thereof - you will go straight to the top of the Peckham rye head shot festival guest list.

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