The Juicing Diet
Consuming more fruits and vegetables is definitely beneficial to your overall health. Most of us don’t eat enough of this food group proportionately to the rest of our diet. These two facts are well established and well publicized in many health articles.
Fruit and vegetable smoothies increase our intake of this food group in a quick and palatable manner and that is a wonderful thing. Juicing your fruits and vegetables, according to television and internet advertisements, makes the body better absorb larger amounts of the nutrients.
They state that you will get more beneficial enzymes, better immune boosting, more antioxidants and even boost your metabolism by juicing your fruits and vegetables.
Smoothies and juices made from fresh fruits and vegetables are certainly a healthy drink. The juicer enthusiasts state that juices are healthier than the solid form of these foods. According to a newspaper article written by Michael Rozein, M.D. and Mehmet Oz, M.D., juicing your fruits and vegetables actually reduces the fiber of these foods and boosts the sugar content.
The doctors’ article states that juicing traps the pulpy fiber that is so beneficial to us when the juice is extracted. They recommend just eating your fruits and vegetables whole, as a solid food.
The sugar content of these healthy fruits and vegetables is increased by the juicing process, according to their article. This would be a concern for anyone on a carbohydrate restricted diet for weight loss. More importantly, for a diabetic, who has to really modify their sugar intake or they will have serious health consequences, juicing their fruits and vegetables is not the way to eat them.
This doctors’ article refutes the claim that juicing fruits and vegetables gives them any special powers to absorb more readily in your digestive system or boosts their nutritional value in any way.
They recommend enjoying a good smoothie in moderation. For the majority of the time, they recommend eating these same foods whole to get the optimal benefit for your health. This way, you get all the fiber and the filling nature of the entire fruit itself, without the heavy calories that can sometimes come with smoothies.
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Dreamfields Pasta – Really Lower Carb?
I always tend to snicker a little to myself when I see these phoney baloney claims about “net carbs”. To me, it all seems like a big ploy to get people to buy a product that is still just as high in overall calories, and still fairly high in carbs, just because they think they are eating less overall carbs than if they bought a food that was the real deal.
Also, a lot of foods that advertise themselves as not having high carbs because they reduce the net carbs by adding a lot of fiber, typically add a type of fiber that does not agree with a lot of people.
It can be sugar alcohols, which can make you gassy and crampy, or it can be inulin fiber, which for me actually has a constipating effect rather than a laxative effect, which is what you expect from a “fiber”.
At any rate, Dream Fields does not contain any of the above. Rather, they have a patented formula where they do bulk it up with a type of fiber, and they do reduce the net carbs and the overall glycemic impact.
I’ve seen several people say they are diabetic and this pasta has the same effect on them as 5 carbs do, instead of the typical 30-50 that most pastas have per serving, so that is a very good sign that they are a healthy version of regular pasta.
I have actually purchased some Dream Fields pasta to try, and I will report back to you what I think of it as far as taste, filling potential, and overall impression once I’ve tried it. I’m going to add some hoisin sauce to it and make a big veggie stir fry.
Apparently, you do need to cook this pasta exactly according to directions, or else the glycemic impact can be altered. I also read that you should not try to reheat it or this also alters its glycemic impact negatively (as in, it pushes the blood sugar higher).
I’ll be sure to let you know how I like it when I try it. I purchased the Dream Fields spaghetti style noodles. My grocery store also carried the angel hair version and the linguine version.
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