When dining out, or even relaxing at home, lemon water is a great alternative to soft drinks or sparkling beverages.
Here’s a healthy alternative to your softdrinks — Lemonesse Lemon Water
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Lemons are rich in vitamins and minerals, and including the juice from lemons in your diet is an easy and convenient way to pump your body full of the antioxidants inherent in vitamin C that boosts the immune system.
So we were excited when Adam Leja, founder of Lémonesse, a lemon water beverage made from top notch organic lemons and pure spring water, offered us the opportunity to try his product.
For those accustomed to sugar and/or carbonated beverages, Lémonesse is a clean and refreshing change, because Lémonesse contains no sweeteners, no calories, and no chemicals.
Lémonesse is organic bottled lemon water comprised exclusively from fresh hand-picked organic lemons and natural spring water, and unlike corporate bottled juices, the lemon juice in Lémonesse is NOT from concentrate.
Meet the founder of Lemonesse, Adam Leja
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There are small fine pulp particles that are visible if you hold the bottle it up to light.
Lémonesse uses hand-picked USDA certified organic California lemons of the highest quality with no pesticides or GMO’s.
“Our water is a natural spring water that flows to the earth’s surface collecting minerals along the way. This is NOT a filtered tap water or reverse osmosis water. We stand by quality and that’s why you will find nothing but the best inside our bottle.”
On the first sip, Lémonesse greets your taste buds with an ever-so-slight but healthy aftertaste from the earthy tones of the organic lemons and the minerals in the natural spring water.
While still a new product, Lémonesse already has a following within Chicago’s hospitality industry, where such places as Chicago Cut Steakhouse and Trump Tower Sixteen offer it to their customers.
“There’s nothing wrong with ordering a glass of wine when you go out to eat,” says Leja. “But your options if you choose not to drink should be better than Coke or Pepsi. And if you choose lemon water, it should have the same look and feel of luxury as if you had ordered a Napa Valley Cabernet.”
Currently, Leja bottles Lémonesse himself in a small building in West Chicago and only serves the Chicagoland area.
He has distributors ready to take his product nationwide, and is turning to Kickstarter for the $7,500 necessary to ramp up his bottling production to meet national demand. You can visit the Kickstarter page here.
For more information about Lémonesse, visit the company website at www.lemonesse.com.
12 Reasons To Drink Lemon Water, courtesy of Michelle Toole who runs Healthy Holistic Living.com.
Here are 12 reasons why you should start drinking Lemonesse
1. Boosts your immune system
Lemons are high in vitamin C, which is great for fighting colds. They’re high in potassium, which stimulates brain and nerve function. Potassium also helps control blood pressure.
2. Hydrates the lymph system
This cup of goodness helps start the day on a hydrated note, which helps prevent dehydration (obviously) and adrenal fatigue. When your body is dehydrated, or deeply dehydrated (adrenal fatigue) it can’t perform all of its proper functions, which leads to toxic buildup, stress, constipation, and the list goes on.
Your adrenals happen to be two small glands that sit on top of your kidneys, and along with your thyroid, create energy. They also secrete important hormones, including aldosterone.
Aldosterone is a hormone secreted by your adrenals that regulates water levels and the concentration of minerals, like sodium, in your body, helping you stay hydrated. Your adrenals are also responsible for regulating your stress response. So, the bottom line is that you really don’t want to mess with a deep state of dehydration!
3. Enhances Mood
Lemon energizes you and it enhances your mood. The energy a human receives from food comes from the atoms and molecules in your food. A reaction occurs when the positive charged ions from food enter the digestive tract and interact with the negative charged enzymes.
Lemon is one of the few foods that contain more negative charged ions, providing your body with more energy when it enters the digestive tract. The scent of lemon also has mood enhancing and energizing properties. The smell of lemon juice can brighten your mood and help clear your mind. Lemon can also help reduce anxiety and depression.
4. Detoxes the Liver
According to NaturalNews.com, the citric acid in lemons helps maximize enzyme function, which stimulates the liver and aids in detoxification.
5. Aids in Digestion
Not only will this killer combination relieve indigestion, it will also help flush you out. It encourages the liver to produce bile, which is an acid that is required for digestion. Efficient digestion reduces heartburn and constipation.
6. Balances pH
Drink lemon water every day and you’ll reduce your body’s overall acidity. Lemon is one of the most alkaline foods around. Yes, lemon has citric acid but it does not create acidity in the body once metabolized.
7. Helps with weight loss
Lemons are high in pectin fiber, which helps fight hunger cravings. It also has been shown that people who maintain a more alkaline diet (see #6) lose weight faster.
8. Acts as a gentle, natural diuretic
Lemon juice helps flush out unwanted materials because lemons increase the rate of urination in the body. Toxins are, therefore, released at a faster rate which helps keep your urinary tract healthy.
9. Clears skin
The vitamin C component helps decrease wrinkles and blemishes. Lemon water purges toxins from the blood which helps keep skin clear as well. It can actually be applied directly to scars to help reduce their appearance.
10. Freshens breath
Not only this, but it can help relieve tooth pain and gingivitis. The citric acid can erode tooth enamel, so you should monitor this. I admit, I am slightly worried about it.
11. Stress Relief
Vitamin C is one of the first things depleted when you subject your mind and body to stress. As mentioned previously, lemons are chock full of vitamin C.
12. Whole Body Health
Lemons and limes are high in potassium. Potassium is an important mineral that works with sodium for smooth electrical transmission in the brain and nervous system. Depression, anxiety, fogginess, and forgetfulness can often be traced to low potassium blood levels. That same nervous system needs potassium to assure steady signals to the heart. So your heart health is improved from the lemon water’s potassium.
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