Juicing vs Blending - Consider these impacts on your health and wallet!

Something to consider on a Saturday when evaluating the impacts of juicing on your health and your wallet vs blending or eating a salad

1. Juice skips the good parts aka the fiber! Each 16 oz kale whatever bottle can have as much as 5 lbs of produce squeezed into it. But no fiber and that is the best part for your health! It keeps you regular, clears cholesterol out of your system, maintains blood-sugar levels & helps prevent food cravings and sugar crashes.

2. Expensive Sugar....a 17 oz apple-lemon-giner juice from "Juice Served Here" has 48 grams of sugar, vs the 39 grams in a can of Coke! And with no fiber, all that sugar is dumped straight into your bloodstream....that so great energized feeling you get? Its a sugar high.

3. Impact on Vitamin effectiveness...."The Romanian" is a green juice from Juice Press in NY and it claims to hae 50% of your Vitamin A daily requirement. The issue is that Vit A is a fat soluble vitamin, so without the fat, your body won't adsorb it efficiently. There is no fat in "The Romanian".

4. Is "Green" juice really Green? Bottled juice can have plastic packaging, energy burning cooling costs, and lots of wasted veggie by product. Its so much more fun, nutritious, and cheaper/less wasteful to go to your local farmers market, get some great produce and blend a fabulous smoothie or make a salad!! :)

So, while I do enjoy a fresh pressed juice once in a while, it's so much better for your health, your wallet, and the environment to blend up a delicious smoothie with veggies, fruit, and some great protein, or make a beautiful salad!