Wellness and green juice

Episode 35: In this episode, host Angie Gust talks about juicing.  Juicing is a process that extracts the juices from fresh fruits and vegetables. Here we are talking about green juice, so we exclude fruit juices.  This is because fruits contain much more sugar than vegetables. Consuming too much fructose, one of the naturally occurring sugars in fruit, has been linked to high blood sugar, weight gain, and an increased risk of type 2 diabetes. Drinking green juice allows concentrated nutrients to be rapidly absorbed straight into your cells. Turning to the environment, EPA administrator, Michael Regan, toured some of the 1000 hot spots of industrial toxic air pollution that ProPublica identified last November.  He said, “We’re announcing actions that EPA is taking in direct response to what I saw and what I heard on the ground”.  Good news, but let's keep watching for results.

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