Wellness Pathway #219
Make Your Own Juice
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On more than one occasion, I've written about the value of drinking no calories.
Clean, filtered water is, by far, the beverage of choice when it comes to health
and wellness. I prefer filtered water over bottled water, especially as more and
more reports come out as to the source and quality of bottled water. Two
best-selling brands, for example, Aquafina and Dasani, are themselves nothing
more than filtered municipal tap water. By the time we drink them, however, that
water has had plenty of time to sit on the shelf.
Why not drink fresh-filtered water by installing and using your own filters? Our home
filter system delivers clean,
clear water on demand without any of the hazardous contaminants that can make
their way into ordinary tap water.
Not everyone can or will, of course, limit themselves to water and water alone.
The next best alternative is pure fruit juice sweetened to taste with stevia.
What a difference purity can make.
Take cranberry juice as an example. One cup of cranberry juice cocktail,
sweetened primarily with high-fructose corn syrup, packs 144 calories. Purchase
pure, unsweetened cranberry juice, however, dilute it in a 1:3 ratio (1 quart
pure cranberry juice + 3 quarts water), and suddenly that cup of cranberry juice
only has 15 calories. Do the same with carrot juice and you're up to 17 calories.
Go all the way to cherry juice, and you max out at a lowly 45 calories per cup.
Now that's a healthy way to drink juice. Of course, with so few natural
carbohydrates, these drinks can be quite tart. That's when it's time to bring
out the stevia. Stevia, a natural calorie-free sweetener sold in the USA as a
supplement, can be added in liquid or powder form until the juice tastes just
the way you want it.
You can find pure juices wherever natural foods are sold, including most grocery
stores. They are usually sold in quart bottles, which make one gallon of diluted
juice. Now there's a good use for a clear gallon jug that originally held
bottled water!
Coaching Inquiries: What do you drink throughout the day? Do your drinks include
high-fructose corn syrup? How could you drink fewer calories? Is pure fruit
juice in your future?
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Bob Tschannen-Moran
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