Celery juice

Celery is known for its beneficial, dietary and nutritional properties. Celery is a spicy plant with a peculiar aroma and a pleasant sour taste. Nutritionists have long used it in the process of compiling healthy and dietary nutrition for those who want to lose weight. Freshly squeezed celery juice retains the full range of useful elements and vitamins that are in a fresh product.

Celery juice has an incredible amount of health benefits. Despite the usefulness of the product, it also has contraindications, therefore, it is recommended to consult a doctor before using it. Let’s take a closer look at the beneficial properties and contraindications of this product.

All the benefits of the drink are hidden in its composition. The product enriches the body with vitamins vital for humans: E, A, PP and B vitamins; minerals: copper, manganese, magnesium, zinc, potassium, selenium, calcium, phosphorus, iron, sodium; amino acids; flavonoids; fiber; essential oils; structured water. With regular use, slags, toxins, decay products of fat cells are gently removed from the body. It also strengthens the walls of blood vessels and lowers cholesterol levels in the blood.

The product perfectly tones and helps the body to deal with a variety of stressful situations. The addition of celery juice to the diet helps to improve the body as a whole, in particular, it has a positive effect on the functioning of the kidneys and the immune system. The product has antimicrobial properties and is a strong natural aphrodisiac (it will relieve intimate problems for both women and men (prevention of prostatitis)). It is an excellent preventive measure for such diseases as: heart attack, thrombophlebitis and stroke, helps to normalize the water-salt balance of the body, accelerates metabolic processes. The use of celery drink has a positive effect on the condition of the joints and on the functioning of the gastrointestinal tract. The juice has a mild laxative, carminative, diuretic, anti-nicotine effect.

Contraindications to use

Despite all the nutritional and beneficial properties of celery juice, it has many contraindications.

The drink is categorically harmful:

• people suffering from peptic ulcer of the duodenum and stomach;
• persons with exacerbated conditions of diseases of the gastrointestinal tract;
• women in the third trimester of pregnancy and lactation;
• people in deep old age (65+).

Rules for preparing a drink from fresh celery

Indulging yourself daily with a fresh drink from this nutritious plant with incredible healing properties is quite simple. You can simplify the task and load the celery stalks into the juicer – in a matter of minutes you get the desired drink.

If it is not possible to use a juicer, then a meat grinder or a grater will do – then squeeze the chopped stems using gauze. If you don’t feel like squeezing the puree through cheesecloth, then you can use this method: chop the stems with a meat grinder or grater, pour one tablespoon of celery puree with half a liter of boiled cold water, leave to infuse for four hours, then strain the infusion through a fine sieve. Ready infusion to drink one hundred milliliters three times a day half an hour before meals.

Scheme of drinking celery juice

Before you start taking it, you need to study the correct scheme for using this useful product.

Celery stalks juice for weight loss

Celery is an indispensable tool for losing extra pounds. It helps to cleanse the body of toxins and toxins, removes free radicals, suppresses appetite, speeds up metabolic processes in the body. Also, this product has a mild laxative and diuretic effect.

In order for celery juice for weight loss to show a more pronounced effect, it is necessary to use only freshly squeezed juice from the stems and roots of the plant. It is not recommended to abuse the product – the maximum daily allowance should not exceed one hundred milligrams.

Ways of using

Celery juice can be consumed not only in its pure form, but also added to a variety of drinks. Let’s look at some healthy and low-calorie recipes with this healthy juice.

Celery + honey cocktail: one hundred grams of freshly squeezed juice from celery roots or stalks, add one teaspoon of liquid (preferably fresh) natural honey. The cocktail restores the body after stress, a hard day’s work, calms the nervous system and helps to overcome insomnia.

Carrot and celery cocktail: Combine XNUMX grams of freshly squeezed celery juice with XNUMX grams of fresh carrot juice. The drink has a strengthening effect on the immune and nervous systems, has a positive effect on vision, improves memory, relaxes the nervous system and the body as a whole after heavy physical and mental stress.

Drink from fresh cucumber and celery stalks: take in equal parts freshly squeezed celery juice and fresh cucumber puree, mix. Puree juice suppresses appetite, has a tonic effect, saturates the body with the necessary vitamins and microelements.

Drink celery + orange: two fresh stalks of celery, pass through a juicer, mix the resulting juice with the juice of four medium ripe oranges. Add one liter of boiled cold water to the resulting concentrated juice. Stevia and ice can be added to taste. The resulting drink is simply necessary for hypertensive patients, it restores blood pressure. Also, a celery-orange drink cleans the ducts of the bladder and kidneys.

Celery + watermelon cocktail: mix the juice from two stems of the plant with a glass of freshly squeezed watermelon juice. If the juice is very concentrated, you can add water and ice to taste.

Juice apple + celery: in equal parts, you need to take freshly squeezed juice of celery stalks and green apple juice, if desired, add ice.

Option diet

Option 1. The day should be started with the use of three tablespoons of freshly squeezed juice or one hundred grams of celery infusion. After half an hour, you can start breakfast. This approach will help to get rid of toxins faster and speed up the digestive process. This method does not require a special diet and meal schedule. With regular intake of juice on an empty stomach, lipid metabolism returns to normal, which in turn removes cravings for sweets and forbidden things. Fat cells will gradually be destroyed (the body needs energy). It is important to add more soups, vegetable side dishes, boiled, baked and boiled foods to your diet;

Option 2. More complex – express diet, which is designed for only seven days. Otherwise, you can spoil the stomach, causing gastritis or ulcers. The diet consists in the use of only celery juice, and all of its derivatives: soups, salads, drinks. All other products are simply excluded from the diet for the duration of the diet. Plant juice tones and saturates the body with the necessary trace elements, minerals and vitamins, fat cells are burned quickly and do not return after the diet is canceled;

Option 3. Low-carb diet for seven days. Monday: unlimited celery soup + fruits (except bananas). Tuesday: celery soup with fresh vegetables (except green peas). You can have dinner with one small boiled potato with a drop of olive or other unrefined vegetable oil. Wednesday – celery soup with fresh fruits and vegetables (except bananas and green peas). Thursday – soup + fresh fruit, one small banana is allowed, for dinner you can drink a glass of skim milk. Friday and Saturday – an unlimited amount of celery soup, salad with tomato and vegetable oil, four hundred grams of boiled or baked beef. Sunday – the same soup, two hundred grams of rice boiled in water and without salt, one hundred grams of natural cocktails from freshly squeezed fruits.

It is worth remembering that celery juice stimulates the production of gastric juice, and it is not recommended to abuse it. Before trying this method of losing weight, it is recommended to visit a doctor’s consultation so as not to harm the body. Youth to you, beauty and health!