We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits...
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We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it and
just popping it into our mouths. It's not so easy as you think.
It's important to know how and when to eat fruits. Do you know of
anyone who hates fruits? Most likely no. Everyone will immediately
tell you about the fruits they like very much.
The reason why everyone likes fruits is because our bodies crave for
it instinctively. The colour, the texture, the aromas and the
sweetness all make it very attractive. But I find that most of us
tend to think of fruits as a treat e.g. on a hot day - watermelon!
But do you know that fruit is an important food to the human being?
Remember? Our ancestors were not meat eaters or seed eaters - they
were all fruit eaters. Fruits have the highest water content of any
food. In addition, the vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates, amino acids
and fatty acids that a human requires can be derived from fruits.
When fruit is consumed correctly, nothing can surpass it. Even for
those who want to lose a little weight, the proper consumption of
fruit will help.
A survey was made and it was found that those who eat fruits more at
every meal tend to want to eat less in the next meal. The reason,
being the sugar in the fruit. It was also found that a particular
substance in some fruits could cut the risk of heart disease or heart
attack. The substance protects the heart by preventing the blood from
becoming too thick and plugging up the arteries. So fruit is
cleansing.
Fruit requires less energy to be digested than any other food.
Everything consumed by the human body eventually breaks down in the
system and is transformed into glucose, fructose, amino acids etc.
The brain cannot function on anything except glucose. Fruit is
glucose in the body. Its digestion, absorption and assimilation
requires only a short time, rather than to break down food like
chicken, mutton etc. Other foods spend about 1-4 hours in the
stomach! Fruits do not digest in the stomach. Most fruits are
predigested except for bananas, dates and dried fruits. They pass
through the stomach in twenty to thirty minutes as if going through a
tunnel. They break down and release their life giving nutrients in
the intestines.
What is the correct way of eating fruits?
IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUITS AFTER YOUR MEALS!
FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN IN AN EMPTY STOMACH.
If you eat fruit like that, it will play a major role to detoxify your
system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and
other life activities. Fruit is the most important food. Let's say
you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit. The slice of
fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines,
but is prevented from doing so. In the meantime the whole meal rots
and ferments and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into
contact with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, the entire
mass of food begins to spoil.
So please eat your fruits in an empty stomach or before your meals!
You have heard people complaining - every time I eat water melon I
burp, when I eat durians my stomach bloats up, when I eat bananas I
feel like running to the toilet etc. - actually all this will not
arise if you eat the fruit in an empty stomach. The fruit mixes with
the purifying other food and produces gas and hence you will bloat!
Graying hair, balding, nervous, outburst, dark circles under the eyes
- all these will not happen if you take fruits in an empty stomach.
There is no such thing as some fruits like orange and lemon are acidic
because all fruits become alkaline in our body, according or Dr.
Herbert Sehlton who did a research on this matter. If you have
mastered the correct way of eating fruits, you have the secret of
beauty, longevity, health, energy, happiness and normal weight.
When you need to drink fruit juice - drink only fresh fruit juice.
Not from the cans. Don't even drink juice that has been heated up.
Don't eat cooked fruits because you don't get the nutrients at all.
You only get to taste. So stop making goreng pisang' or 'durian
porridge' if you want nutrients. Cooking destroys all the vitamins.
But eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice. But if
you should drink the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly.
Because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it.
You can go on a 3-day fruit fast to cleanse your body. Just eat
fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be
surprise when your friends tell you how radiant you look! During the
fruit fast you can eat fruits, prepared in salad forms and make it
more interesting.
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