There’s a new health trend every week.

If you type ‘health trend’ into Google you’ll get all sorts of weird and wonderful ways to occupy your time and spend your cash, from Gwyneth Paltrow’s vaginal jade eggs to intravenous vitamins.

One of the latest diet and health trends doing the rounds these days is celery juice.

Look, celery juice is exactly what it sounds like. People take that devil’s food and juice it, and then they actually drink it.

Here’s Body and Soul with why all isn’t as it seems:

Last September, Sara Joy Madsen started drinking 2 cups of fresh, pure celery juice every morning — and “it changed my life,” the 39-year-old life coach tells The Post.

In a matter of months, the Park Slope resident says she “effortlessly” lost 9kg with her 172cm frame shrinking from 86kg to 77. She also says her skin became clearer and her moods more stable:

“I’m calmer, more patient, more compassionate.” Best of all, she’s proud of herself for sticking to it. “Because I do it every day, I get like this charge, like, ‘Oh, my God, I accomplished something.’”

On Instagram, you’ll find more than 68 000 posts tagged with #celeryjuice. People post dramatic before and after pics, and Will and Grace’s Debra Messing added “upping [her] morning celery juice from 1 cup to 2.5 cups” to her list of New Year’s resolutions.

Plot twist – it’s pretty much all bogus. There’s nothing in celery that can be held accountable for any of the magical benefits people are ascribing to it.

Enter the experts:

“There’s nothing remarkable about celery juice,” Abby Langer, a registered dietitian based in Toronto, tells The Post. On her blog, she denounced the trend as “the epitome of bullshit pseudoscience.”

…Shonali Soans, a registered dietitian with Lorraine Kearney Nutrition in the Financial District, says the “celery juice craze” is nothing more than a testament to our desire for quick fixes.”

While celery is nutrient-based and has some health benefits, so do other fruits and vegetables. There’s nothing special about it.

Also, juicing it in the recommended way strips it of one of its primary benefits: fibre.

For juice to have real health benefits, it has to be prepared in the correct way, and should contain more than just one fruit or vegetable, which is why it’s best to leave the juicing to the experts.

The cold-pressed juices from Sir Fruit, for example, are created using a method that protects and preserves the nutrients of the fruits and vegetables.

This means that you get 100% of the vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and nutrients when you drink cold-pressed juice.

Cold-pressed juice can also help ease the strain of detoxification on your body by boosting immunity and health.

Sir Fruit’s cold-pressed juices come in a range of flavours that combine fruit and veggies, so that you can get your daily greens in one go.

Check out the Green Machine, a delicious combo of wheatgrass, spinach, apple, cucumber, spirulina, mint and kale:

In other words, when it comes to ‘health trends’, be smart about it. Drinking juice is a great companion to your health kick, but you want to make sure that you’re drinking the right kind.

Keep the celery for your Bloody Marys.

Cheers to your good health.

[source:bodyandsoul]