Juicing tips

• Fresh juice should always be consumed on an empty stomach. Drinking juice on an empty stomach allows the vitamins and minerals in the juice to go directly into your bloodstream. Having food already in your stomach prevents your body from rapidly absorbing the nutrients from the juice.
•  As soon as your green juice is freshly juiced and gets exposed to air, the live enzymes begin to degrade, therefore decreasing the nutritional content.  It is always best to drink your juice freshly juiced if possible.
• Sweet fruits and vegetables like watermelon, apples, pears, and carrots are very nutritious when consumed whole, but you can quickly consume to many when juiced. Limit the high sugar items.
•  Juice (and smoothies) are food and should be chewed. It’s important to swish around the juice in your mouth or move your jaw up and down for a couple of seconds before swallowing it to release saliva that contains important digestive enzymes.
•  Remember to rotate the greens (kale, chard, spinach, mustard greens, collards, dandelion, arugula, etc.) in your juice each week to prevent build up of oxalic acid.
•  Mix up your juice ingredients..  Do not stick with the same juice day in and day out.  You will quickly get bored with juicing and lean more towards giving up.
• Try to stay away from social gatherings that rotate around food.  This will only increase your desire to eat the things you do not want to eat.  If you do eat, stick with fruits and veggies..  Keeping watermelon on hand for the chewing action is a big help.  The small amount of fiber in it will usually not be a problem.