Benefits Of Lemon Juice
Lemon juice is very useful for detoxification, weight control, and beautification! You should consume it everyday even if you are not doing any official dieting. You are winning half of the battle simply by consuming lemon juice in your daily routine and doing nothing else.
Lemon juice can also be applied externally, such as washing vegetable or meat (it makes tomatoes sweet and neutralize harmful substance like pesticide), removing body odor (armpit), and disinfecting and controlling acne.
Lemon juice is an astringent and is anti-inflammatory. It can be applied as garble for sore throat and as lotion to sunburn. It is recommended for acute rheumatism due to its anti-inflammatory property. Lemon juice can bring relief from athlete’s foot, stings and bites of insects, sore throats, and bleeding gums. It also lighten old acne scars and marks on skin.
Lemon has an alkalizing effect to the body once it is digested, because of the high alkaline minerals it contains. Alkaline food is healthy to the body. In general, healthy food like fruits and vegetables are usually alkaline, while animal proteins and processed food or drink are acidic to the body.
Human is born with alkaline bloodstream, which is pH 7.4, but as we get older, we accumulate more acids in the body due to unhealthy diets and polluted environment. It becomes harder for the body to maintain its ideal pH rate. Acids in the cells, blood, and joints cause all kind of diseases and maladies such as cancer, arthritis, ulcers, weight gains, insomnia, allergies, bone loss, fatigues, and many others. You may want to do a lemon cleanse to help bring your body back to normal and restore youth if you have been too acidic with your diet.
Lemon contains a high amount of vitamin C and citric acid. Vitamin C is a powerful antioxidant, which reduces aging and diseases that are caused by harmful free radicals that attack our cells and bodies everyday. In order words, vitamin C delays wrinkles as we age.
Citric acid has been proven to break kidney stones and prevent them from forming or growing in size. It is also claimed citrus acid can cure heartburn, bloating, and belching. It aids digestion and bowel movement, preventing constipation.
For people who are very irritable to acidic food, such as people who have ulcerative colitis, they should avoid citric acid. The conditions are caused by acidic stomach and digestive tract, which indicates excessive toxins in the system. Citrus acid would be too much for them as it would stir up the inactive acid and toxins in the body. They should consume vegetable juice to detox and heal, before attempting to enjoy the benefit of lemon and citric acid.
Lemon is good against all kind of fever and influenza. Citrus acid strengthen the body better than most nutrients during fever, and vitamin C is potent cure to all cold and flu. If more doctors simply recommend lemon as cure to all cold and flu, then SARS, H5N1, or Swine flu won’t be so problematic and causing governments billions of dollars to develop vaccines and cures for them.
The juice is an effective antidote for heavy-metal poisoning and narcotic poisoning. It has been known to cure hangover.
It also strengthen blood vessels and improve circulatory problems in general.
For weight loss purpose, lemon helps weight loss in many ways, one of the most beneficial ways is curing and boosting the liver, which is the main organ for breaking down fats and maintaining high metabolism (High metabolism = slim). A toxic or fatty liver cannot do its job properly, but lemon juice provides necessary aids for the liver to function well.
Is Lemon Alkaline?
Lemon is one of the alkaline food that help makes your body become more alkaline instead of acidic. Many diseases, such as cancer, can only survive in an acidic body. By eating alkaline food, you eliminate possibilities of having most diseases and disorders.
Most people are acidic because of the food they eat. This causes low energy and storage of toxins in the cells. Only alkaline blood can help get rid of toxins, and alkaline blood has much more oxygen than acidic blood, so it provides much more energy than acidic blood and prevent cells and tissues from degenerating, and thus resist aging.
Speaking of aging, alkaline blood prevents and slow aging by neutralizing uric acid in the joints. Uric acid is the root cause of arthritis. As we age, our blood become more acidic, and thus allowing uric acid to accumulate in the body. This shouldn’t happens if our diet is natural and healthy. But most people eat standard diets, which are not healthy and are acidic.
Lemon contains a lot of alkalizing minerals, such as sodium, potassium and calcium. After digestion, it leaves alkaline residue in the system so lemon belongs to alkaline food, even though it contains citrus acid, which is also good for the body.
Why Is Lemon Water A Crucial Part Of Your Diet?
Because it’s so easy to make, and a normal person can drink it all day long without major negative side effects. Some people might have headaches and join pains in the beginning, but they are good signs, which indicate that a detox is happening — the body is able to remove toxins and acids that have been hiding (It takes the body a lot of effort and resources to contain those toxins and acids).
If only mild detox symptoms show up, the person should keep it up. You should feel good about the symptoms because you body is finally able to heal itself.
For people who have ulcerative colitis, or acidic stomach or organs, citrus acid from lemon would be too much for them. These problems are the results of too much toxins and inactive acids accumulated in the body, so they should try vegetable juices instead to detox.
Lemon Water Is More Hydrating Than Water
The body is 70% water, and it tries to maintain the pH level at around 7.4 at all cost, so lemon water, by reducing the stress of the system in terms of pH maintenance, is more hydrating to the body. Also, it makes the blood oxygen rich, so the body needs less rest and have better quality sleep.
More On Good Quality Sleep
For people who have insomnia, some people reports that lemon water and alkalizing diet helps. Some people have to drink a lot of water before sleep or they can’t fall into sleep (like me), alkaline water or lemon water often reduce or eliminate this need!
See this testimony:
I had this ‘paunch’ that try as I would, I couldn’t get rid of – my heart used to pound in my ears, especially when I went to bed – on my right side – blood pressure was high – colostral was high – eyesight was getting worse as I grew older – indigestion was high – I was told it was mainly ‘old age’ – that was wrong!!! Since altering my eating habits – less acid foods and more alkaline foods – the Alkaline Diet – lost the ‘paunch’ in about three weeks – colostral/blood pressure went down – circulation in the feet and toes improved as it did right thru the whole body – the heart ‘thumping’ stopped – last eye test for my Driving Licence, informed my eye sight was close on 20/20 – have much better breathing habits…
Geroge N. Marston – Mandurah – Western (Testimony taken from www.acidalkalinediet.com)
Raw Food Diet And Weight Loss
Starving isn’t the best way to lose weight. In fact, the odds that you will gain the weight back in a short time after every major diet, cleanse, or fast are huge. It’s not a fair fight to begin with.
When you starve, the body isn’t getting useful fats, enzymes, fibers, vitamins, and minerals that helps maintain a high metabolism and remove bad fats.
Not that you are gaining these essentials in standard foods anyway, but at least you stop taking any more harmful chemicals and toxins from junk foods and processed foods if you do a major fast or cleanse, and thus allowing your body to rest and detox.
However, if you simply starve and stop consuming bad foods for a period, and then only to go back to the old lifestyle afterward, then you are missing out on the benefits of the good food, which actually help you lose weight and reverse many diseases and disorder.
That’s right, you can eat without guilt! If you eat right.
For example, lemon juice can help you detox the liver, thus strengthen or recover the ability of the liver to maintain a high metabolism. People who have good metabolism seems to eat without gaining any weight at all. Those who eat a little and gain much often comment how they, too, want to have such level of metabolism.
Lemon juice can help regulate blood sugar and aids digestion. On one hand, this regulation effect on the blood sugar level reduces the harmful effect of sugar crash from eating sugary or high glycemic index foods, and on the other hand, it helps eliminate fats and wastes during digestion.
In layman’s words, lemon juice reduces fat storage, maintain steady energy level, and curb appetite (by preventing sugar crash, which leads to hungers and so more eating).
Lemon is just one of many foods from the nature, which brings multiple benefits to our body. Also, we have only discovered some of its benefits. There are many secrets that are yet to be revealed from from just one lemon, let alone the nature.
Why Raw Food Diet?
This diet is most natural and organic. No supplement or drug is able to replace living foods in their natural, plant based form.
Genesis 2:9
And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden
Plant based diet was the original diet for men. Later, the earth experienced drastic change, and it became very hard to gather full set of vegetables and fruits to nourish the body, so God let men to eat meat, maybe to supplement the lack due to difficulty in gathering plant based foods in the ancient time.
Today, we don’t have that problem. There are huge distribution networks for foods. We can eat what we want all seasons.
To this day, scientists and medical industry still have very little knowledge about healing and nutrients, but they have been discovering more about natural foods and their benefits.
Processed foods have so much toxins, hormones, and chemicals. Many diet experts try to calculate the contents of foods and control diets by carbohydrates, fats, and calories intakes. This is like an uphill battle. The whole strategy based on calculating how much sugar and calories to avoid is worn-out.
The real strategy is so simple. Eat fruits, because fruits release sugars in the blood stream slowly and mildly. Problem solved, and the solution is delicious too.
Raw Food Power: How My Kidney Recovered
My kidneys had been under performing for a few years, according to the family doctor. He made me go through several blood and urine tests, and arranged an ultrasound scan, but found nothing. The doctor said that a kidney stone would be the best scenario, given my blood tests result. He said if the condition turned out to be serious, my kidneys might fail.
I was 26.
He advised me to eat less salty foods and animal proteins. The advise made me think of raw food diet and the bible verse I just quoted above.
I went on to search online to really dig out more information about reversing the kidney condition. I found little information that promise to reverse kidney diseases, but I found quite many information about reversing cancers, diabetes, arthritis, and many other major diseases.
Nevertheless, it inspired me to eat much more fruits, drink more water, and limited the amount of salty foods and animal protein. A year later, my condition reversed.
After many desperate searches, I ran into this program. It really gives me hopes, especially one of the experts in this program, Victoria Boutenko. She gave me the most hope. Check out this raw food experts interview, which inspired me to take action and it was full of quality information. It’s free. I watched it free when it came out and the information was life saving to me.
Does Lemon Juice Help Clear Acne?
If you do it right and if you don’t have an allergy with citrus fruits in general, then lemon or lime can definitely help clear acne for you.
Applying lemons externally and consuming them internally is one of the most effective approaches to cure acne, according to many anecdote reports.
Lemon juice (and lemon oil) has anti-septic, anti-bacterial, and astringent properties that make it a good cleansing agent for the skin and acne.
Internally, lemon juice helps detox the liver, cleanses the blood streams, and eliminate waste and mucus in the body. When the body gets rid of toxins, the skin gets healthier, because toxins in the blood and tissues always surface in the skins if the system stores them.
You may consider doing some major colon cleanses if you used to have bad eating habits such as junk food, caffeine, soda, and greasy foods. The lemon juice will help the body to detox and break down the bad fats, and when the body gets rid of the toxins the power of these addictions will greatly decrease also.
How To Apply Lemon Juice Externally
Many people who heard about lemon juice homemade therapy for acne simply apply the water-diluted lemon juice on the skin, usually leave it for several minutes, and rinse it. This approach can take up to 2 months on to see substantial results. Some people see the difference much sooner. All in all, the average result is much better than artificial acne products.
People who really committed to it for 2 months often commented that they will not spend another dollar on acne products anymore, because they have finally found the natural, dirt cheap way to effectively cure the problem.
For me, when I have a pimple, I wait until it is ready to be popped, and then use a stainless acne needle to pop it and squeeze out the content. I disinfect the wound and the needle with first-aid alcohol afterward. It leaves no scars whatsoever. When I started doing it I was still in my teenage years, I went from having several pimples on my face at any time to only having one or two pimples every two months (I pop them in 2 days once I spot them, before they spread).
see this page for clinical instruction to pop pimples.
You see, one major benefit for poping your pimple correctly is that the pimple in question will no longer infect the skin nearby to cause more pimples. Pimples come in group. They are contagious to the skin nearby. If you let them stay, they will eventually go, but it takes a long time and new pimples would form near the older ones, so it’s pointless to wait.
People who poke a hole in the pimple and apply lemon juice to it see the results much faster. The juice dries the pimple out quickly. The juice also takes away the redness of the old scars! For most people, the minimal results are smaller red spots and brighter looking skins, as the lemon juice helps remove the dead skin cells.
Don’t be surprised if the lemon juice stings. It is supposed to sting. It shows that it is working on the pimples.
In general, people experience shrinking pimples simply by applying the juice on them for 6-20 minutes on average each day. Never leave the juice on your skin for more than 20 minutes at a time because it will dry your skin too much, you need to moisturize the skin afterward.
Use Moisturizer Afterward
Some people experience major breakout several days into the practice, because they didn’t use moisturizer after the cleanse. The breakout is gone after they start to use moisturizer every time for the cleanse.
For real anecdote reports please go to Lemon Juice Review.
Apply Natural Face Mask
Some of the very committed and adventurous people go further than just lemon juice. They find homemade face mask recipes and experiment with them, and the results are fabulous, better than just lemon juice cleanse.
Cayenne Pepper Lemon Maple Syrup
Why does this concoction work?
Because every ingredient in this drink is specifically chosen to provide a synergistic, detoxing, and fat-removing effect for the body. The taste is great and it is so easy to make. Ease is the key to long term diet success.
In fact, if you develop a habit of consuming this drink day in and night out, whether you are doing official dieting or not, it will still help you stay fit in many wonderful ways. It’s almost effortless, forever, once the momentum is built.
Let me show you the wonderful facts of each ingredient:
Lemon:
The lemon juice provide tremendous aids to the liver, which is the main organ for fat metabolism. Lemon juice provides the nutrients and antioxidants the liver needs to do its job. It also promotes bowel movements, which gives a boost to the waste elimination process.
If you want to learn more about how lemon juice can detox the liver, please read Does Lemon Juice Detox The Liver? If your liver is able to perform optimally, then achieving weight-loss is no longer a full time job. There will be no need to envy those who have high metabolism (Those people who don’t seem to gain weight no matter how much they eat)
The next issue that lemon juice targets is blood sugar. Lemon juice slows the absorption of glucose in the digestion process, which is a good thing, because absorbing glucose too fast will cause the level of blood sugar to rise too quickly, and the body will have to release extra insulin to stabilize it.
The insulin turns glucose into fat to store in the body, and once the bloodstream is deprived of blood sugar due to insulin, the body releases hunger signals to urge you to consume more glucose again, and thus a vicious cycle that catches many people.
By helping the body to stabilize blood sugar and slow absorption of glucose, lemon juice curbs hungers.
Cayenne Pepper:
It brings multiple benefits to the body other than just weight loss, but for that purpose, it helps reducing weight by speeding up your metabolism and regulating glucose levels.
Cayenne Pepper has a high concentration of vitamin A, which is known to aid insulin action and regulate glucose.
According to cayennepper.info, Cayenne pepper aids bowel movement and eliminates plaque from the arteries, among many other wonderful benefits.
The taste of the pepper gives the lemon mix a nice kick. I like it. If you don’t like the taste, you can start from adding just a little, and then more if you get used to it.
If you are looking for the highest quality, certified organic cayenne pepper powder, I recommend the one with 160,000 heat units (the higher the H.U. the more nutritious but it’s hotter) on Ebay, or buy it from a local healthy store if there is one nearby: (For Ebay, please search for the items I just described. I found the specific item from seller “medicalherbalist”)
Organic Cayenne Pepper Powder 160,000 H. U. Certified Organic
Maple Syrup: This is not any ordinary, heavily processed and refined maple syrup for pancakes in the typical super markets. This is grade B maple syrup that I am talking about. The typical ones that you see in the stores are grade A (refined sugar or syrup is bad for your body because they impact your glucose level too violently). Grade B maple syrups contain a large variety of vitamins and minerals, some of which are powerful antioxidants that remove free radicals in the cells (which cause aging and degradation), and some other help synthesis of good fat and cholesterol while control the bad cholesterol (and good cholesterol removes the bad cholesterol as well). On the whole, grade B maple syrup can provide stable blood sugar for the body, especially during diet, and the necessary nutrients and minerals to metabolize sugars (raw sugar helps metabolize sugar. Sounds paradoxical I know, but not all sugars are equal).
Overview
The Cayenne Pepper Lemon (Water) Maple Syrup drink can
- cleanse the kidney
- increase metabolism and control glucose level in the blood (lose weight effortlessly if you have high metabolism)
- heal the heart (Cayenne pepper can stop heart attacks)
- purify cell and blood (Reduce chance and severity of autoimmune related disease)
- detox the liver (metabolism and reduce fat)
- remove and eliminate toxins and wastes from the body
- curb appetite
If you want to do a more formal diet with this drink and learn how you can do it safely for a longer period of time with persistence, you can check out this master cleanse program.
Does Lemon Juice Detox The Liver?
Absolutely.
The main job of the liver is to break down fat and detox the body. For example, it secretes bile, an organic detergent-like juice that breaks up fats (A person with a perfect or non-overloaded liver shouldn’t be fat!).
If we consume caffeine, medications (Tylenol, aspirin, and other chemical pills), and alcohol, the liver is the first and primary organ that will deal with these toxins, by releasing hormones and enzymes to neutralize them.
If the liver is overloaded, it can lead to the bile being thickened with chemicals, toxins, and other harmful materials such as heavy metals.
A toxic liver will allow (or fail to prevent) weight gain, and a bunch of other disorders and diseases, such as autoimmune diseases like arthritis! (Because if the liver doesn’t function perfectly, the immune system will have to deal with the toxins and eventually gets overloaded as well)
Lemon Juice Help The Liver Detox In Many Ways
Lemon juice is a bile thinner. It helps the liver to produce quality bile and “uncongest” it. It also contains rich vitamin C, a powerful antioxidant, and other enzymes and minerals that boost the liver’s ability to purify the bloodstream and neutralize chemical reactive radicals (bad stuff).
The kidney needs to work fast to dispose toxins through urine, but the toxins can be reabsorbed into bloodstream very fast if it works slow, and thus unable to reduce workload of the liver.
This is why drinking water is so important, and adding lemon juice to the water helps the kidney to work faster because of its diuretic property.
Hot lemon water also strengthen bowel movements, and therefore the digestive system can eliminates wastes more efficiently.
If toxins and wastes are leaving the body quickly, it reduces the workload of the liver, and allows it to rest and regenerate. In other words, the liver will detox itself if you give it extra helps and rest. Lemon is a great help.
If you want to learn more about liver and how a healthy, well-rested liver can keep you in great shape (No need to work so hard to achieve weight-loss if the liver maintains a high metabolism for your system), please get a copy of The Fat Flush Plan, by Ann Louise Gittleman.
Useful Resource:
If you really want to let your system (and liver) to function best, you may want to give it an extended vacation. Yes, I am talking about dieting! I have done many long diets (pure water fast) and the detox feels great, but this is even easier because of the juice. Check out this Master Cleanse
How To Make Lemonade With Lemon Juice?
Lemon juice can taste sour and bitter, but do you know that it is actually very sweet itself? Often time the bitter and sour tastes mask the natural sweetness of the juice.
There is a natural way to uncover the original sweetness of lemons. You don’t need to add any sweetener, sugars, honey, or other syrup to it.
The secret is Miracle Fruit Berry.
The berry is an exotic fruits from the West Africa. The natives have consumed the miracle fruits for centuries. They eat one piece of the berry before lunch and dinner because their dishes are mostly sour.
This berry is very safe. For hundreds of years there were no anecdote reports of any problem about the fruit. The fruit has come to the spot light in the Western world only in recent decades. Thanks to New York Time, this fruit has created a new stir again, especially in the diet and health community.
See what they say about it.
Lemons Become Lemonade
After hearing many wonderful things about the Miracle Fruits, I decided to give it a try. I thought it was inconvenient to order the frozen fruits (and it’s 3USD a piece!), so I got a tablet version, which I believe is even better because the shelf life is much longer and each tablet is equal to 3 to 5 pieces of berries.
The Miracle Frooties product is the only one among the competitors that meet the ISO 9001 – HACCP certified standard, so I got my tablets from them.
I let a tablet dissolved completely on my tongue, and grasped a 2 months old lemon from the corner of the fridge that everyone forgot to eat, and it tasted like lemonade candy! It was absolutely delicious and I consumed the whole thing.
If you are considering an extended lemon detox diet, you may want to purchase a lot of tablets (Maybe 30? A package of Miracle Frooties has 10 pills). You can buy it on Ebay, or if you want a large quantity let me know, I know a supplier who can give you a discount.
