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❤ Clare with the Hair ❤
If you are looking for a super easy trick to improve your overall health, than look no further. Drinking lemon water first thing in the morning, every morning, this is a pretty simple habit to get into and will have tremendous effects on your overall health.
Not only does the refreshing taste wake me up in the morning, it helps to kick start digestion and finalizes my body’s natural detoxification processes and lemons are packed full with vitamin C, B, calcium, iron, magnesium, potassium, enzymes and antioxidants.
1/ Boosts your immune system
Lemon juice is rich in vitamin C, which helps strengthen your immune system and will help fights cold and flu. But not only vitamin C is important for a good working immune system, iron is another important nutrient, and lemons improve the ability to absorb more iron from the food you eat.
2/ Improves Digestion
Lemon juice has a similar structure to your stomach’s acids and helps to loosen and flush out toxins from the digestive tract. Lemon juice can help ease indigestion, heartburn, and bloating. It also helps to move your bowels in the morning, hydrates your colon, stimulate bile production, and infuses water in your stool. (Not the most attractive thought 🙂 )
3/ Keeps you hydrated
It is so very important to stay hydrated. Plain water is best, but many people find this boring and are not drinking enough of it. That’s where lemon comes into play to make things more interesting. So feel free to not only start your day with lemon water, but drink as many glasses as you wish during the day to stay hydrated. Maybe then aim for every 2nd glass plain water, you will be surprised how quickly you get into the water habit and you will be reaching for the plain options.
4/ Boost your energy
Lemon water gives you an instant boost of energy and improves your mood right at the start of your day.
5/ Promote Healthy And Rejuvenates your Skin
Lemons are a rich sources of antioxidants that prevent free radical damage. These free radicals are responsible for pre-mature aging of your skin. Vitamin C helps to maintain your skin’s elasticity to prevent the formation of wrinkles and decrease blemishes.
6/ Fantastic Weight Loss Aid
Although lemon water on its own is no weight loss miracle, it can definitely help you to achieve faster and long term results. Lemons help to assist in fighting hunger cravings, boost metabolism, and gives you a full feeling, making you less likely to snack in between meals.
7/ Freshen Breath
Lemons freshen your breath and fight mouth bacteria. Although lemons are great for your overall oral health, avoid drinking or using it undiluted. The citric acid can erode tooth enamel, so don’t brush your teeth with it, but have a glass of lemon water instead.
8/ Anti-cancer
Lemon’s antioxidants not only protect your skin from ageing, but also reduce the risk of several types of cancer. They are great in neutralizing acids as well. Cancer loves to grow in an acidic environment. Alkalizing your body may stop cancer cells to grow and may reduce the risk of getting cancer in the first place.
This is just some of the super reason’s why you should start everyday with a large glass of this super juice x Now here is how to make it x
Making lemon water is super simple. It takes less than 5 minutes. Just squeeze half a lemon in lukewarm water.
Why use lukewarm (or room temperature) instead of cold or hot water to make this healing morning drink? Well, hot or cold water takes more energy to process, so your first glass in the morning should be lukewarm or at room temperature to slowly wake your body and kick start digestion.
If you love the taste feel free to add more lemon water to your diet during the rest of the day, cold or hot. It adds up to your daily water need, is less boring than plain water, and adds tons of benefits for body and mind.
Thank you for reading you FABULOUS people
❤ Clare with the Hair ❤
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