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Healthy Drinks for the Liver

Healthy Drinks for the Liver — Blueberry juice is delicious and promotes liver health.

Your liver is a hard-working, multitasking organ. It removes waste and toxins from your blood, produces a digestive liquid called bile and stores sugar in the form of glycogen, to name a few. If you're interested in adding drinks to your diet that promote liver health, you have a few to choose from. Consult your physician before taking any drinks classified as supplements. Talk to your doctor first if you have liver problems or take medication that affects liver function.

Five of the best summer cocktails

Mint julep

The grand-dame cocktail of the US’s deep south and the signature drink of the Kentucky derby, the mint julep is regarded as the forefather of the more fashionable mojito. The bonus here is this elegant summer sipper is easier to make than its Cuban cousin (no muddling required) and contains bourbon, mint and sugar. Mixologists recommend using high-proof bourbon and chill a tall glass beforehand. Historians say the mint julep was consumed by farmers in the south in the 1800s who drank the cocktail to kickstart their morning – we suggest you at least wait until midday, or 11am, before your first one.

How to make cocktails: follow these 10 golden rules

1. Start with the classics. In Haruki Murakami’s novel Norwegian Wood, the character of Nagasawa only reads books that are more than 40 years old; if it’s still in print after all that time, it’s probably worth reading. A similar principle applies to cocktails. There are modem classics, true, but they are mostly indebted to the classic classics, which are classics for good reason. They are built on simple principles that, once learned, will lend structure to your own experiments.

Fruit juice should not be part of your five a day, says government adviser

Fruit juice has as much sugar as many soft drinks and should be removed from five-a-day guidance, says obesity expert

An adviser to the government on obesity has called for fruit juice to be removed from the recommended list of five-a-day portions of fruit or vegetables, saying it contains as much sugar as many soft drinks.

Susan Jebb, head of diet and obesity research at the Medical Research Council's Human Nutrition Research unit in Cambridge, told the Sunday Times she had herself stopped drinking orange juice and advised others to do so, or at least drink it diluted. The paper quoted her as saying she would support a wider tax on sugar-heavy drinks.

Coconut water nutrition facts

Coconut water is actually the juice present inside the interior cavity or endosperm of young, tender coconut. Its water is one of the nature’s most refreshing drinks, consumed worldwide for its nutritious and health benefiting properties.

The water is actually obtained by opening a tender, green, healthy, and undamaged coconut. Inside, it's clear liquid is sweet, and sterile and composed of unique chemicals such as sugars, vitamins, minerals, electrolytes, enzymes, amino acids, cytokine, and phyto-hormones. In general, young and slightly immature coconuts gathered from the coconut tree after they reach about 5-7 months of age for the purpose of reaping its drink.


Sweet, tender coconut water Photo courtesy	Tender coconuts in a coconut palm.

Botanically, coconut plant belongs to the Arecaceae family of palm trees, and has the scientific name: Cocos nucifera.

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