The Juicing Myth: Is Juicing Good for us or Not?

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Juicing is all the rage right now.  Everywhere you go people are opening up juice bars, your girlfriends are instagramming their funky coloured beverages, and juicers are selling like hot cakes. People are telling you that juicing has helped them lose weight, prevents an a-to-z list of diseases and illnesses and gives you the best skin ever. Because of all of that, it looks like juicing isn’t leaving anytime soon.


So let’s take a look at the pros and cons of this here-to-stay trend:

Pro: Juicing Helps You Get Your Daily Allowance of Fruits and Vegetables

Let’s be serious. We’re not all consuming the amount of fruits and veggies that we should be. Meal planning can be difficult (though we highly recommend it) and not all of us have a personal chef (or our mothers) to help us make sure we’re eating what we need to. That’s where juicing can save the day. You can get the recommended servings of fruits and veggies in one tall glass of juice. That sounds pretty good to us!

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9 Most Popular Cleanse and Detox Diets

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Give your body a fresh start by clearing away all those pesky toxins. Here are nine of the most popular cleanses that can help you cleanse your body for the new year.

Most Popular Cleanses
Looking to spring clean your body? If so, a cleanse might be right for you. But with so many cleanse options available today, we walk you through nine of the most popular cleanse programs.

The Master Cleanse
Probably the most well-known cleanse, this 10-day program involves drinking six to 12 glasses daily of a maple syrup/lemon juice/water/cayenne pepper lemonade and taking daily laxatives. Promising to detoxify your body and ditch extra pounds, it also has an Ease-in/Ease-out option where start and finish the program eating fruits and veggies and drinking juices and broths.

Who’s done it? Demi Moore, Ashton Kutcher, BeyoncĂ©

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