Hope everyone's all keeping well and warm as we head into the holiday season.
I came across a video of a guy in India with B12 Deficiency whose Doctor suggested ABC juice daily to support blood cell formation.
Apple🍏
Beetroot 🌰
Carrot 🥕
Squeeze of lemon or lime 🍋
Honey 🍯
Simple and powerful
If anyone has a juicer, its a cheap and powerful juice that could certainly boost immunity and improve blood during these colder days.
thestatesman.com/lifestyle/...
Happy holidays
that just sounds delicious right now,I’m on it pickle I’ll be doing that regime tomorrow, have all these fantastic gadgets that never see the light of day so I’ll drag them out from the back of the cupboard and improve my winter health ,thank you x
I'm a regular on the carrot juice, easy way to get my vitamin A via taking a very small amount with meals. Thing I don't like about juices is that you lose the fibre and concentrate the sugar, and the more fibre and less sugar the better, especially for the health of your microbiome. Smoothies retain the fibre so I prefer to make those now and then. I try to never have a day without at least three different fruits and vary the selection over the week.
Sugar and the Microbiome : nature.com/articles/d41586-...
Fibre : m.youtube.com/watch?v=zsnEh...
that’s interesting as when everyone went juicing mad my gp said to me it’s just another craze. If we drink foods and don’t chew them we don’t produce the enzymes in our saliva to digest them and it’s expensive urine!
Well that's why I don't trust my GP. They don't know about B12 so how can they offer valid instruction on any form of nutrition?
The issue with eating these foods or making a smoothie is that they will fill you up. And eating a carrot, apple, and beetroot a day isn't a viable or balanced diet.
So instead, we can still get the benefits but just from the liquid.
see that’s what I thought until a GP told me that when you drink food that is supposed to be chewed you don’t produce the enzymes from chewing to digest it. I did look into it but there’s a minefield of opinions on both sides. Mostly being that you need to chew food to produce all the enzymes to attain the vitamins and minerals to them be absorbed in the small intestines. So so many differing opinions.
I guess I consider this ABC juice the same as orange juice or any other commercially produced juice. Cranberry Juice etc.
I think you can still gain benefits. Granted, probably not as potent as the real thing, but half way there at least.
Your GP is correct that there are salivary enzymes that can help to digest food (amylases and lipases for carbohydrates and fats). However, the time in the mouth is so short that , according to the nutritional textbook : "Understanding Nutrition", very little carbohydrate or fat digestion occurs in the mouth. Protein digestion in the stomach is independent of salivary enzymes and occurs via stomach acid and protein-digesting enzymes. Similar situation for carbohydrate where pancreatic enzymes are the main factor, which happens in the small intestine. Fat absorption similarly, most of the digestion happens in small intestine where salivary enzymes are out of the equation. Still a good idea to chew your food of course, smaller chunks are more easily digested but the lack of chewing when drinking juices has no significant effect on their digestibility.
So your GP is technically correct that these salivary enzymes exist but he vastly overestimates their significance to digestion.
sorry fat fingers! So I stopped drinking my fruits and veg. But my thought was it’s a good way to get things in you don’t necessarily like in a convenient way.
I have a juicer and a blender. But when I do smoothies I get full up and don't want to eat a meal.
A juice means you can still get the benefits without overeating. So a mixture can work. And obviously the same thing everyday is never a great idea, only if you're very ill and need a boost.
I do a BBB its Beetroot ,Blackberry and Banana😀
A quick alternative is to just eat an apple, a carrot but care taken over the beetroot - leading up to lunch so at least you’ve had the right breakfast lining. As those with Atrophic Gastritis PA may find on an empty stomach irritating - note beets has hydrochloric acid and can be a lot to handle for obvious reasons every day. Slightly boiling the beets can work.
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I can't believe you all like beetroot juice/smoothies. They taste like mud to me.
A beetroot juice is lovely. Its the smoothies that are too thick and mudlike.
If you can find the right juicer to do it with, ABC juice should be tangy, smooth and tasty!
Here in UK you can buy organic Beetroot juice from supermarkets like Asda and Tesco. It’s called beet it.
90% Beet and 10% Apple, you can add a glass and add a cup chopped carrot and a cup of spinach to make a smoothie.
It’s not that tasty but a lot less work as Beet juice is ready.
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