Celery Juice Benefits
Everyone can benefit from celery's ability to balance and neutralize the body. As Hippocrates, the father of medicine, noticed, celery has a calming effect on the body and mind. It cleans the body and reduces stress, lowers blood pressure and helps prevent cancer. And because it keeps everything in balance--from your appetite to your libido--celery juice not only makes you healthier, it also helps you change your lifestyle so you feel that way.
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Vitamins and Nutrients
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Celery juice hosts a number of essential vitamins and nutrients, including B1 (also known as thiamin) which converts your body's sugars into energy, and vitamin K, which promotes healthy blood clotting. It also contains vitamins B2, B6, and C, and nutrients such as calcium, potassium, magnesium, iron, folic acid, and amino acids. The leaves of celery also provide vitamin A, which keeps your skin, nails, hair and eyes healthy.
General Health Benefits
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Celery calms the nervous system. The magnesium in celery relaxes the body, while the chemical 3-n-butyl phthalide in celery reduces the number of catecholomines, or stress hormones, in the blood. Celery also reduces cholesterol. As a source of polyacetylene, celery reduces inflammation, relieving problems such as asthma and arthritis. Vitamin C also acts as an anti-flammatory. Celery is also a natural source of the sodium your body needs, and provides an organic alternative to unhealthful table salt.
What It Prevents
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Celery flushes toxins from the body, which can prevent the formation of kidney stones, break urinary stones and help eliminate gall bladder stones. Celery also helps prevent cancer. Acetylenics found in celery can prevent tumor cells from growing, and phonolic acids block prostaglandins that can cause tumor cells to grow.
Natural Medicinal Value
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Celery keeps body temperature regulated, helping you cool down in hot weather. It can also be used as a fever reducer. Fiber in celery works as a natural mild laxative that keeps your system running well without the stress of over-the-counter laxatives. The potassium found in celery helps cure dry skin. It also rehydrates the body in dry weather and after a workout. Celery promotes a healthy libido. Because it normalizes and maintains sexual health, it works as a natural alternative to over-the-counter medications that increase libido uncontrollably and only temporarily. Celery can also curb the appetite and reduce cravings for sugar, making it a healthful alternative to diet pills when added to your diet.
Recipes
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For a vitamin C boost, mix celery juice, made from three stalks of celery, with apple juice, made from three medium apples. For an antioxidant boost, mix celery juice with red grape juice. If you're dieting, a cup of celery juice mixed with a tablespoon of honey before a meal can keep you from over-eating. If you suffer from insomnia, drinking celery juice regularly encourages rest as it relaxes muscles and reduces stress.
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