ABOUT FRUIT JUICES AND SMOOTHIES!A FUN and EASY way to get more vitamins & minerals into your diet is bydrinking freshly made fruit juices, vegetable juices, and by blending thickand frothy smoothies and shakes from frozen fruit.A friend of mine describes drinking freshly made fruit juices like this:If you have never taken a mouthful of cantaloupe juice or strawberryjuice mixed with apple, you simply have not lived. Blueberry juice is ataste of liquid heaven.Freshly made juices are a tremendous source of bio-available vitamins andminerals which are the partners of enzymes and co-enzymes. Vitaminsactivate enzymes and without vitamins, enzymes could not carry out theirwork, and we could not live.Enzymes act as catalysts in hundreds of thousands of chemical reactionsthat take place throughout your body, and are essential for digesting,absorbing and converting food into body tissue. Enzymes produce energyat the cellular level and are critical for most of the metabolic activities takingplace in your body every second of every day.Another benefit of drinking fresh juices and smoothies is that your body canabsorb MORE of the vitamins and minerals than if you were to eat the fruitsand vegetables whole! Many of the nutrients are TRAPPED in the fiber andby blending fruits and vegetables, you break down the fiber and release thevital nutrients.
