Teas, Juices, and Nutritional Drinks:
Liquids such as juices, teas, nutritional drinks are healthy and helpful for you and your family.
Too often though, these are forgotten about as it is quicker and easier to grab an energy drink, soda, or other sweetened drink. Sweetened drinks contain too much sugar, and not enough healthy nutrients needed for a healthy lifestyle.
Better beverage choices not only offer you nutritious and healthier drinks, but contain fewer calories and non-nutritive sugars. They contain biologically active substances to help promote good health. Some of the other benefits you will enjoy from drinking health drinks are: drinks full of antioxidants, bioflavonoids and polyphenols. Some may help in the prevention of cancer, promote longevity and provide concentrated levels of herbs that can help with conditions like depression.
Juices:
100 percent fruit juices contain natural sugars from the fruit and have the added benefit of vitamins and antioxidants that are also naturally found within the fruit. Vegetable juices are low calorie beverages and contain Vitamins A, C, and other nutrients.
Using juices as home remedies to prevent illnesses and common diseases is a great choice to make for improving your overall health. Juices can be purchased at your local grocery or health food store in many varieties such as; tomato juice, carrot juice, cranberry juice, apple juice, pomegranate juice, orange juice, and much more.
For some of us, drinking fresh juices can be easier for our bodies to absorb than by eating whole fruits and vegetables.
Teas:
Who doesn’t like a nice warm cup of tea and the aroma the many different flavors offer our senses? If you’re not a tea drinker you should know that herbal teas are a great beverage choice for low calorie drink options.
Drinking tea has many health benefits such as decreasing the risk of cancer and lowering cholesterol levels. Tea really does a body good!
Tea also contains antioxidants that protect the body from early signs of aging due to the ravaging effects of pollution and everyday stress. Some other good reasons to drink tea is it contains less caffeine than coffee, boosts your bodies immune system, and helps keep you hydrated.
Health Drinks:
Health Drinks are a concentrated liquid solution of herbs. The herbs; which can be dried or fresh, are combined with alcohol and/or distilled water to extract the plant properties. After allowing this to steep for two to three weeks, the remaining solid herbs are removed leaving the essence of the plant to be used as herbal extracts in home remedies.
There are many health benefits that can be enjoyed by taking extracts such as green tea extract. For overall health improvement, green tea extract used regularly will increase your energy level, aid in weight loss, and it has cancer fighting antioxidants.
Some other uses and benefits of extracts are:
Khella Extract:
Using this extract can help with Vitiligo, which causes the loss of pigmentation to the skin.
Echinacea and Goldenseal Extract:
These can help boost the immune system and aid in the prevention of colds.
Grapefruit Seed Extract:
This has many beneficial uses. Grapefruit seed extract works to kill bacteria, viruses, fungus, and parasites. This can be used to treat thrush, which is a yeast infection in the mouth; common in infants.
Grapefruit Seed Extract is also excellent for healing scars, scrapes, has antifungal and antibacterial properties.
