Fresh Drinks for a Healthy Diet

When you follow a diet plan, you lose not only fat tissues but also reduce your intake of required minerals and vitamins. Any loss of nutrients can be balanced with fresh juices.

If you choose to substitute one meal with a fresh juice, you shouldn’t drink anything else before or after. This way, your body will benefit from all the vitamins, enzymes and minerals provided by the fruits and vegetables.

How do you prepare fresh juices?

When preparing fresh juices, don’t peel the vegetables or the fruits because you will lose many nutrients. However, there are exceptions to this rule. Cucumber’s peel is bitter, and you should take it away. Remove all the seeds and cores. Cut the fruits into small pieces, put them into the blender and mix them. Add one teaspoon of olive oil. You can also add one teaspoon of apple vinegar. This ingredient reduces your appetite and helps eliminating toxins. One teaspoon of lemon juice is also helpful. Lemon is an excellent source of vitamin C and increases fat burnings.

Recipes for diet drinks

Tomato juice

Ingredients

• 2 tomatoes
• 2 green peppers
• 1 leek
• 1 parsley root

Mix them with a blender and add one teaspoon of olive oil.

Tomato juice strengthens your blood vessels, your immune system and helps you fight cellulite.

Fresh apple-grapefruit juice

• 2 apples
• 1/2 of a lemon,
• 1 grapefruit,
• 1 cucumber,
• 1 teaspoon of olive oil.
• Mix them with a blender.

This fresh fruit juice is an excellent energizer, lowers bad cholesterol and helps burning fats.

Fresh vegetables juice

• 3 broccoli spears
• 2 carrots
• 1 apple
• 1 teaspoon of olive oil.

Blanch the broccoli before you start preparing your juice. This means you will have to boil it, and then chill it under cold water. This way broccoli doesn’t lose the nutrients. Mix all the ingredients with your blender.

This fresh juice is rich in carbohydrates, fibers, vitamins and calcium. It helps digestion, strengthens the immune system and reduces the risk of breast cancer.

Fresh beetroot juice

• 1/2 of a beetroot
• 6 cucumbers
• 2 teaspoons of olive oil

Blanch the beetroot before you prepare the juice. Put all the ingredients into a blender and mix them. This diet juice is useful for digestion and blood pressure problems.

More tips for losing weight
Everybody should follow a personalized diet plan. Consult a doctor or nutritionist to set up your own set of rules. However, there are simple rules that everyone should follow for a balanced lifestyle and a healthy diet. They can help you lose weight.

- Eat fish or poultry instead of pork.
- Remove from your diet all concentrated sweets, such as candies or chocolate, and bakery products.
- Drink at least eight glasses of water each day.
- Practice sports. If you are not a sports fan, you should at least walk for 30 minutes every day.