8 health & beauty benefits of drinking lemon juice

If you want to get healthier and look even more beautiful than you already do, you need more lemons in your life.

As the saying goes, if life gives you lemons – make lemon juice.

Lemons are recommended by all the top health experts and dieticians because they deliver a million health and beauty benefits.

Listed below are eight health and beauty benefits of constantly drinking lemon juice.

1. Lemon Juice Can Prevent Cancer: Let’s face it, cancer is a terrible thing. Known as The Big C, it’s downright nasty and can tear families apart.

The thing is that cancer can sometimes be avoided if you make better lifestyle choices. While it can still be a bit of a lottery whether you develop it or not, making better lifestyle choices means that the odds will be more in your favour.

(2) Lemon Juice Looks After Your Stomach: Urgh, if there are three guarantees in life, they are death, taxes and upset stomachs.

For some of us, upset stomachs occur more than seems normal or fair. The thing is, while the body definitely is afflicted unfairly at times, an upset stomach is often the result of poor decision making when it comes to your diet.

The good news is that, just as a poor diet can cause bloating, excess gas and diarrhoea, a better diet can improve your symptoms and reduce the frequency of an upset tummy.

(3) Lemon Juice is Good For Your Liver: Admit it, you take your liver for granted. Many of us do! Indeed, the only time we really think about our liver is before a night out in advance when we write on Facebook that our liver is going to hate us tonight!
While we might jest about that, the health of your liver is a serious subject. Far too many of us don’t realise the amount of vital roles that are liver performs, and that if we don’t give it some help it will break down on us.

And when your liver – over taxes and over stressed – breaks down, you’ll really feel it. You’ll feel fatigued all the time, headaches will become worse and your skin will look awful. Not cool at all.

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(4) Lemon Juice Cleans Your Skin: This benefit stopped you in your track, didn’t it?!
Any woman alive on the planet cares about their skin. Our skin is our largest organ that’s visible to everyone. When we don’t live a balanced lifestyle, it reflects in our skin, which starts to age prematurely and loses its glow.

Because skin is so important to our confidence, it’s always a good idea to add different beauty treatments to your daily or weekly regiment.

Applying lemon juice topically to your skin works as a natural skin cleanser. Just apply it directly a few times a week to eliminate stretch marks, skin discolouration, dark spots and other kinds of blemishes.

(5) Lemon Juice Helps With Infections: Infections are a nightmare because, no matter how vigilant you’ve been at taking the necessary precautions, they just seem to happen regardless.

And as anyone who’s had a nasty infection can tell you, infections can get terribly nasty indeed.
The thing is that, if someone has more frequent infections than others, it’s usually because their immune system is weaker. While this isn’t cool, the good news is that you can strengthen your immune system via your diet.

(6) Lemon Juice Freshens Your Breath: If you care about beauty, you’ll care about your breath.
While few of us suffer from actual bad breath, the problem is that many people across the world do suffer from some sort of gum disease, whether mild or severe. And it’s gum disease that can wreak havoc with your breath, creating bacteria that causes that horrible smell.

Fortunately, lemon juice can help you out here. Lemon juice is able to relieve bad breath, and it can even relieve other oral issues, such as tooth ache.

(7) Lemon Juice Can Help You Lose Weight: If you’re on a mission to lose weight at the moment, you’re probably wondering what to have for breakfast. Whatever you decide to have, the best way to kick start your morning routine is by drinking a fresh glass of lemon juice.

Why? As well as clearing nasty toxins out of your system that have built up overnight, lemon juice contains a good amount of pectin fibre. This benefits you because fibre creates a feeling of fullness that will prevent you from overeating in the morning.

Don’t stop there but aim to drink a few glasses of lemon juice throughout the day.

(8) Lemon Juice Strengthens Your Nails: Who doesn’t like strong, beautiful nails to go along with their glowing, healthy skin?

For women everywhere, looking after their nails is an important part of their beauty regime. As you know, nails can too easily become weak and brittle – and they can break.

In case you didn’t realise it, what you eat plays a large part in how your nails look and feel.

 

 

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