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Should You Be Drinking Celery Juice?
Nutritionists sound off on the trend that’s taking over your Instagram feed
The list of healthy drink trends spurred by social media is innumerable: from golden milk to matcha lattes to activated charcoal drink mixes. Now, you can add celery juice to the list.
The bright green beverage is taking over social feeds for its allegedly stellar health benefits (check out #CeleryJuice). The craze was started by the Medical Medium, author Anthony William, who has three New York Times best-selling books on natural food cures. According to William, whose fans include Pharrell, Gwyneth Paltrow, and Robert De Niro, everyone should be drinking 16 ounces of celery juice first thing in the morning to unlock a slew of medical benefits.
Fans of the vegetable juice, and of William, who carries no nutrition or medical degree, are blowing up Instagram with posts that claim celery juice improves gut health, fights cancer, clears up skin, flushes out viruses, and more. It’s being touted as a miracle cure. But, are any of these health claims legit?
“One food by itself cannot ‘cure,’” says Sandra Arévalo, a registered dietitian nutritionist and spokesperson for the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics. “Foods that provide 20 percent or more daily value of nutrients are recognized…
