Have you heard about the benefits of drinking cactus juice ? or how many pieces of cactus to produce 1 cup of juice ?

There are many type of the cactus plants in the market, but most probably cactus plants are displaying in the garden landscaping accessories shop or depot as a decoration plants. You will not thinking making cactus fruit juice for drinking.

A type of edible cactus is called prickly pear (Opuntia), mainly comes from Mexico.

Ingredient of cactus juice:

• Cactus stem 100 gm
• Pineapple 100 gm
• fructose (up to taste)

Cactus	Pineapple

Method :

• Peels the cactus and pineapple.
• Rinse all the ingredients.
• Put cactus, pineapples into the blender.
• Put in some ice cubes.
• Put in 150 ml drinking water.
• Blends until all materials mix up.

Benefits :

• Decreases the level of high blood sugar.
• Decreases the cholesterol.
• Good for weight loss.

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Start from today, we are going to introduce a new section of [DIY Fruit Juice Recipe for health].  You can follow our recipe to prepare your healthy fruit juice at home with simple and easy step.

Today Fruit Juice

Ingredient :

• 2 Kiwi
• 1 Banana
• 2 Oranges
• 1 tea spoon sesame

Kiwifruit	Banana	Oranges	Sesame

Method :

• Rinse all the ingredients peels the fruit.
• Put all ingredients into the juicer or blender.
• Add in some ice cube to make it cooler
• Add in 150 ml water.
• Blends until the juice become smoothie.

Benefits :

• helps to raise antibody.
• supplements of vitamin C.

Ingredients for Health :

**Tips you may know : Every 100 gram of kiwifruit contains of 92.7 mg of vitamin C. **
[Source : USDA Nutrient database]

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If you are overweight, try those weight loss programs and diets. If you are underweight, there are also weight gain programs and diets. There is always a balance diet that suits your need.

Choosing the Right Diet

A balance diet should contain higher percentage of grains, and less percentage of fats and sugars. Eat 70% full for your every meal will help you maintain your body weight as well as cut down the unnecessary energy needs for your inner organ to digest food. By practicing this eating method, you will find your body lighter and healthier. For those who have the problem of constipation, consume food with higher percentage of fibre with less fat and more water may helps you to get rid of waste from your body.

Weight Loss Guidelines

Many weight loss programs may help you to loss weight in a short term but it is hard for you to maintain in the fitness condition. It is hard to follow the guidelines if this is what you do not like to eat or like to do. Just for an example, some weight loss programs allow you to eat fruits, vegetables and a small portion of lean meat as your main course. You can try that for one week, and you will for sure lost 5 pounds easily. The question is can you maintain it in a long run? This is a no carbohydrate diet. This is not a healthy diet advice to loss weight because you do not consume a balance diet.

Choosing a right weight loss programs is not as difficult as you think. You may follow the guidelines to choose the best diet food below to start your own weight loss programs

• High Fiber Juice
  Drink a cup of high fiber juice in the morning. It can be a cup of oat with milk. Oat can flush your toxin from your body system easily.
• Less Oil, Less Sugar
  If you are eating in the restaurant, remember to put a remark on your order that you need less oil and less sugar for your food. Some restaurant may try to fulfill your requirement.
• Lean Meat
  Order meat that is lean. It can be delicious too if you find a good cook. Avoid those fatty meat or food.
• Snack and Food to Avoid
  Avoid taking snack and fast food that is oily, salty and with more calories. Fast foods are often in big sizes that you normally can not finish. Most of us are happy to finish it that end up eating more than you actually needed. The excessive intake of calories will not burn off and store in your body. Avoid buying those Buy 1 Free 1 deals that will end up giving you health problem.