RE: drinking green juices

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Abbey wrote:

 

 

" One thing you forgot to mention though was

when doing green juices you should mix with other juice until your

body gets used to it because it is quite potent. "

 

Abbey, this is my point exactly about juicing the different greens. If you

drink the juice from bitter greens, like kale, collards, spinach etc., you

are going to have one potent concentrated bitter juice. You must mix it

w/other fruits or veggies to make it half way decent tasting to even get it

down. Even then it can still cause a bit of an upset stomach or nausea. Your

body doesn't " get use to it " it learns to tolerate it. An example is

smoking, drinking alcohol or drinking coffee, etc. for the first time. When

we first ingest these things our bodies reject them by making us feel sick.

But we keep doing it until finally our bodies become desensitized and we

finally quit feeling sick. This doesn't mean that all of a sudden it has

become good for us or what our bodies need. Now don't get me wrong here.

I'm not saying that kale, collards etc. are not good for us. This was just

an example of why you feel sick when you drink some concentrated juices in

larger quantities than you would consume just eating the leafy green whole.

You can drink the juice of the green lettuces w/out mixing them with

anything and they will taste good, sweet and not cause nausea.

 

" the first time I added green juice to one of my smoothies I did it

at about 3:1 and I had such a stomach ache after. It just completely

cleared out my system... "

 

This is your bodies way of getting rid of something very quickly that does

not agree with it. This is not a good way to " clear out your system " . When

I drank the bitter green juices, including wheat grass, I would gage, have a

terrible stomach ache and feel very nauseated. This is not how one should

feel when eating/drinking proper food for the human body. Maybe some people

don't feel this way. All I am trying to point out is if it taste bitter why

consume it if you don't have to to get good nutrition?

Breezi