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healthier eating (juice)
beavotron
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so for the past few months, i've been trying (key word...trying) to eat healthier
It's a slow transition. I stopped drinking pop and switched to vitamin water (before you all freak out, canadian vitamin water does not have high fuctose corn syrup in it the way that the american juice does. i'm staring at the bottle now, it's got cane sugar in it. still high in sugar and fatty as anything... but everyone always jumps down my throat with "OH GOD THAT'S THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD")
anyways, i want to transition off of this. it's expensive and it doesn't do much for you at all
I have been thinking of getting a juicer
like this one: http://www.powerjuicer.com/
I have some friends who have one and they love it
however, it's pretty expensive.
do any of you have this juicer or another juicer and what do you think of it?
couldn't i really just use a blender? cause i'm pretty sure i can get one of those for like 10 bucks
and when you make blended juices at home, how long do they keep in the fridge for?
also, any links to recipes would be great.
thanks!
It's a slow transition. I stopped drinking pop and switched to vitamin water (before you all freak out, canadian vitamin water does not have high fuctose corn syrup in it the way that the american juice does. i'm staring at the bottle now, it's got cane sugar in it. still high in sugar and fatty as anything... but everyone always jumps down my throat with "OH GOD THAT'S THE WORST THING IN THE WORLD")
anyways, i want to transition off of this. it's expensive and it doesn't do much for you at all
I have been thinking of getting a juicer
like this one: http://www.powerjuicer.com/
I have some friends who have one and they love it
however, it's pretty expensive.
do any of you have this juicer or another juicer and what do you think of it?
couldn't i really just use a blender? cause i'm pretty sure i can get one of those for like 10 bucks
and when you make blended juices at home, how long do they keep in the fridge for?
also, any links to recipes would be great.
thanks!
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Why the hell do they need to put sugar in water??!?
but i want to be getting more of my daily fruit/veggie intake
and potentially chuck some yogurt in there since i don't ever eat yogurt and i've been told i really should because of the probiotic benefits.
the only way i seem to like getting as much as i should is in smoothie form, so i figured i'd give it a shot.
Healthy eating must include natural yogurt from time to time , red meat or liver in moderation, and fresh vegetables such as lettuce. Quit Coke and any energy drink you could be used to. Olive oil is recommended in cooking, and the consumption of red wine made of grapes in small quantities has been proved to reduce colesterol.
this was really helpful.
My experience with juicers is that they are big, loud, and difficult to clean. You can buy juice that has nothing added and save the hassle or just go with smoothies. Who doesn't love a smoothie anyway?
My girlfriend loves a Kosher Red Wine that is actually not made of grapes, it is very sweet and high in alcohol.
I don't remember the name though, and as far as I can remember, Night Train is made of apples
I usually drink water or wine but will have a couple cans of diet a&w root beer a week, for some variety. It's essentially like drinking water, without being so boring.
As for your actual juice question, I would suggest that yes, you get a blender and make smoothies if you're lookign to actually be healthy in your liquid fruit intake. Generally fruit juices are not exactly healthy, as they have a great deal of calories with all of the fiber filtered out, but you get everything with a smoothie.
My boss makes smoothies every day with homemade yogurt (which she claims is quite easy to do, and you can get the consistency you prefer, and it's a lot cheaper), and that's her breakfast. The yogurt helps up the protein so it's not just drinking sugar.
You usually don't need to eat a lot of fruits, though -- vegetables are where it's at. Not that there's anything wrong with nomin' an apple or a banana.
incidentally neither my wife nor myself like smoothies, so if you haven't had many smoothies you may want to find a local place that sells smoothies and get one each day, to see if you like it, before you buy a blender and start adding it to your routine. I will also say that while you can find a cheap blender, the cheap ones usually break quickly or do a poor job blending or are difficult to clean. My current blender cost $80 from woot and I love the thing, and it comes apart so it's incredibly easy to clean (and it kicks food's ass).
Diet Dr. Pepper is good too. Again, the combination of flavors helps cut out the sweetener's aftertaste.
"good for you" is kind of contextual in relation to the rest of your diet. looking at the basic flavor 8 ounce serving size, 50 calories with 2 grams of fiber is pretty good for a flavored beverage. The high fiber flavor has 5 grams of fiber in 60 calories, which is actually quite excellent dietarily.
the fusion drinks and fruit splash drinks are predictably much higher in sugar and contain no fiber, so its pretty much empty calories, not recommendable for "healthy eating" by any definition I'm familiar with. Yes it has some vitamins, but it is like eating cap'n crunch to increase your folic acid intake. If you cared that much about the vitamins, there are 7 million better ways.
if drinking V8 stick to the High Fibre & Low Sodium version, it is your best bet for a healthy solution. Stay away from the flavored or fruit blends.
A decent blender should do you fine for getting most fruits and vegetables into a drinkable format, and it'll be a lot cheaper than a juicer. Unless you're putting out gallons of fresh squeezed OJ or pomegranite juice, I don't think a juicer would be worth the investment.
Yogurt is a good thing to stick into pretty much anything fruit-related you're blending; if you're into smoothies for the summer then stick a couple bananas, apple chunks, berries, whathaveyou, into the freezer - you'll get a nicer smoothie consistency with frozen fruit. Carrots added in usually work great flavor-wise and they keep you feeling full for a good long time.
In general my vegetable intake is pretty low, but my girlfriend is working on it. I'd say I probably have vegetables maybe once or twice a week, so if I could drink a can of V-8 every day(if vegetables are that important) then I should probably do that.
I don't give as much attention to my diet as I should in general. I just try to avoid eating crap, and don't drink regular soda or juices/energy drinks when I can avoid it.
Seriously. It tastes exactly like regular Dr. Pepper. It's amazing.
Beav, if I may ask, are you looking for weight loss, or just for more healthy substances in your diet? Juice is "healthier" than pop, but if you're knocking back a half gallon of juice every day, you're still throwing a lot of calories down your neck.
Being able to throw all your favorites into a blender and experimenting does sound fun though.
As has been mentioned it's kind of high in sodium but if you don't eat a lot of processed foods that's alright (assuming you are talking about regular old vegetable cocktail V8).
I will point out that The Mott's garden cocktail is unfortunately not an alternative as the second ingredient is high fructose corn syrup (or glucose-fructose as it's known as in Canada) and I don't recall there being any sugar (except the natural occurring sugars in the fruits/veggies) found in regular V8.
EDIT: Oh, I didn't even see the posts where they point out low sodium versions.
I find that Coke Zero Cherry is very tasty as well.
Wrong. There are literally hundreds of things wrong with diet soda.
Yes, eating the actual fruit and/or vegetable is better for you than juicing it up and drinking it as concentrated juice slurry.
You get the proper amount of fiber to go along with the juice, you have to actually chew, and you don't end up consuming 12 oranges worth of calories, plus whatever goddamned sweeteners get thrown in.
Like?
I can think of caffeine off the top of my head...but moderation and all that.
I know that some think that those artificial sweeteners can potentially cause cancer...in huge amounts. Once again..moderation.
I see nothing wrong with a diet soda once a day or something along those lines.
They are still carbonated, which leaches calcium from your bones.
They are usually higher in sodium than water or juice.
The artificial sweeteners they use can still provoke the same kind of insulin resistance response in people who haven't used sugar in a while.
They're more full of chemicals than the average cleaning product.
For starters....
D:D:D:
I can't imagine it being anything but sickening.
Hey now, conspiracy theories belong in D&D. My wife has a PhD in neuroscience, is published in high-impact journals, and drinks two diet sodas a day. Aspartame is harmless, unless you have a particular allergy to amino acids.
edit:
You're really arguing that bubbly soda, aka carbon dioxide, leeches calcium from your bones?
And my wife just was at a conference where two independent researchers discovered that the ACTUAL response from artificial sweeters was not that a body did anything regarding insulin, but that the lack of calories actually made the body LESS desiring of sweet -- because the body associated "sweet" with "no calories."
Besides, I'm sure that, uh, the entire diabetic population of the US would have a word with said conspiracy, as they consume a fair amount of diet soda.
Anyway, Beav, if you're looking to just up your fruit/veggie intake, get the blender and make smoothies, easy soups, and so on. Juicers are generally low-use, and they simply press the sugar out of the fruit, leaving the fiber and other goodies with the rind and pulp (in the juicer). As you've found, they're also much pricier compared to a cheap blender, and blenders can be used for many more purposes. Look up some good veggie-based soups, bisques, and so on, and you'll likely be quite happy with a blender.
maybe not the deathly killer than everyone thinks it is, but it's not benefiting you in any way to drink it, no one will argue that point.
and as for the weight loss vs. health question, i am a pretty tiny girl, but i've gained just a slight belly lately that i wouldn't be adverse to getting rid of
however, i think that just eating healthy at all and daily exercise will help
so healthy choices is what i'm looking for.
The yogurt everyone is recommending carries 3 times as much sodium.
Green tea specifically. Iced.
You can make up so much of that stuff on the cheap it's great.
Just get some green tea bags and brew it up. You can then add honey, faux-sugar, lemons, orange slices..whatever to it.
It chills in your fridge and you're good to go.
Green tea is also awesome for just about everything to do with your health, including weight loss and antioxidents and all that.
Yeah, the can of coke zero I just drank had a whopping 30mg of sodium. I think I'll live.
I can't imagine how sticking food in a blender before you consume it would alter the nutritional content at all.
A) You might end up portioning differently inadvertently.
Really, what Jeffe said: nothing about running it through a blender should change the nutritional content.
Only thing that could happen is that you don't consume as much as you leave small amounts in the blender, but the quantity difference really shouldn't cause concern.
In regards to yogurt, I've heard good things about greek yogurt, but that may be related to the taste and not the healthiness, I'm not entirely sure. Can anyone chime in?