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Blog16: Juicing: Good or Bad?

Fruit and vegetables should be an important part of your daily diet. They are naturally good and contain vitamins and minerals that can help to keep you healthy. They can also help protect against many diseases.  Interestingly, a method called "juicing" has become increasingly popular in recent years.  This involves extracting the nutritious juices from fresh fruits and vegetables. Many people do this in order to " detox " or add more nutrients to their diets.  Some claims that juicing can improve nutrient absorption, while others say it strips away important nutrients like   fiber .  This is a detailed review of juicing and its health effects, both good and bad. Juicing can actually lose a lot of the good things we find in our fruits and veggies such as antioxidants and phytochemicals which are found in the skin of these foods that aren’t included in the juicing process. The effects of fiber found in these fruits and vegetables are lost as well. Fiber is cr