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Nothing
is more misunderstood than the correct way to consume fruit.
Most people do not know how to eat fruit properly and they do not
know how to eat fruit in order to get maximum benefit from it.
Almost everyone likes fruit. The reason is that the human body craves
it instinctively. With its sweet blends of flavors, colors and aromas,
the human body is biologically adapted to like it.
The most negative comment one might hear about it is "I love
fruit but it doesn’t agree with me".
Without doubt, fruit is a beneficial, energy-giving food, but only
if correctly consumed.
It is imperative that the body is constantly cleaned of the toxic
waste that builds up within the system. The most effective way to
do is through the consumption of food that is high in water content.
Fruit has the highest water content of any food. All fruit is 80
to 90 per cent water. In addition all the vitamins, minerals, carbohydrates,
amino acids and fatty acids that the human body requires are to
be found in fruit.
When correctly consumed, nothing can surpass the life force generated
by fruit.
A vigorous life essentially needs energy. Digestion uses more energy
than any other physical activity. Fruit requires less energy to
be digested than any other food.
The
reason being that other foods spend anywhere from 1.5 to 4 hours
in the stomach, where the initial expenditure of energy takes place.
Fruit, however, doesn’t digest in the stomach. All fruits
are in the stomach for a very short time. They pass through the
stomach in 20 to 30 minutes and break down to release their life
giving nutrients in the intestines.
The way to correctly consume fruit is to not eat it with or immediately
after any other food.
It is essential that fruit should be taken on an empty stomach.
If eaten like this it plays a major role in enabling the body to
detoxifying the system, supplying the body with plenty of energy
for weight loss and other life activities.
"Fruit is the most important food you can eat. But if fruit
is eaten on top of other foods, many problems result," say
Harvey and Marilyn Diamond, authors of the international bestseller,
Fit For Life.
Many times people complain of stomachaches after consuming fruits
like melon. Often this is because of incorrect consumption. If it
has been eaten, say, after a sandwich, the melon is ready to go
straight through the stomach and into the intestines but cannot
do so because the sandwich is blocking its path.
In the meanwhile, the whole meal ferments and turns acidic.
The instant fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach
and the digestive juices; the entire mass of food begins to spoil,
putrefying the protein, fermenting the carbohydrates.
This is easily verifiable by the experience one might have had,
of a sharp twinge of pain, or heartburn or indigestion after consuming
fruit after a meal.
It is stressed that the potential value of fruit can be realized
only if it is consumed on an empty stomach.
An important consideration pertains to the amount of time that should
elapse between eating foods other than fruit and then eating fruit.
On an empty stomach, one may eat all the fruit one likes over as
long a period as one wishes. But once one has eaten anything other
than fruit, one must wait for at least 3 hours, and if one has had
a non-vegetarian meal, then at least 4 hours before eating fruit.
Another factor to be kept in mind while eating fruit is that only
fresh fruit is beneficial.
Eating fruit that has been processed or altered by heat in anyway
does not benefit the body because it has neither cleansing properties
nor nutrients. The same holds true for fruit juice. It must be fresh.
Pasteurized or concentrated fruit juice is good only to taste. An
integral part of the fitness program offered by Fit for Life and
one that has been reiterated by traditional Indian diet principles
says that the best time to consume fruit is in the morning.
The best way to go about this is to consume nothing but fruit from
the time of waking up in the morning till at least noon.
This helps in generating energy as opposed to utilizing energy as
happens when the body digests a breakfast of cereal, toasts, eggs
and coffee.
Energy cannot begin to build up until the intestines absorb the
food. A breakfast comprising toast etc. forces the body to work
for hours spending energy on digestion.
Having a fruit breakfast thus makes sense because it makes the body
more energetic and alert.
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