Most people think that eating fruit along with their main meals is a good way to stay healthy. Without properly understanding the body's digestive cycle over a 24-hour period, you may be consuming fruit in a manner that will not bring you any real nutritional benefit. Having lots of fruit with your main meals or eating it, as a desert after meals is not the way fruit should be eaten. In fact consuming fruit on a full stomach causes the entire meal to rot, ferment and turn to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, the entire mass begins to spoil.
In order for your body to get the maximum benefit of eating fruit you should follow the guidelines given below:
- Always eat fruit on an empty stomach. You can do this at any time during the day, as long as it is on an empty stomach. It is also a good practice to consume mainly fruit before noon, as this will help complete the body’s elimination process.
After eating fruit, you should leave around 30 minutes before consuming any foods besides fruit.
Wait at least three hours after a meal before you eat any fruit. This will ensure that the previous meal has left the stomach and putrefaction and fermentation of that meal in the stomach can be avoided.
Never eat fruit along with other foods. Fruit should only be eaten on its own.
Never eat fruit as a desert, after a meal.
Avoid fruits like bananas and avocados in the morning because they are heavy foods and tax the digestive system. These can be eaten after noon when the body is in the appropriate digestive cycle for such foods. Also avoid combining different kinds of fruit like watermelon, grapes, or strawberries with any other fruit.
If you feel hunger during the morning, eat fruit and you can keep eating portions of fruit until your blood sugar level goes back to normal, resulting in your hunger disappearing.
If possible, eat only organic fruit.
Avoid processed, cooked, or canned fruit. These contain large amounts of sugars, additives and other undesirables. Additionally cooking fruits destroys all the vitamins.
Fruit is digested in the intestine and not in the stomach. It is also rapidly digested and goes through the digestive system in around half an hour. The brain runs on glucose and fruit is the most efficient source of blood sugar. With sufficient fruit consumption your blood sugar levels normalize, allowing your body's hunger mechanism to be properly regulated and thus avoid over-eating and obesity.
…SO HERE ARE A FEW HEALTHY FRUIT FACTS:
KIWI: Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E, and fiber. Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.
APPLE: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants and flavonoid, which enhances the activity of vitamin C, thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack and stroke.
STRAWBERRY: Protective Fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits and protect the body from cancer causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals.
ORANGE: Sweetest medicine, eating 2 to 4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessens the risk of colon cancer.
WATERMELON: Coolest thirst quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are vitamin C and potassium.
GUAVA & PAPAYA: Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene; this is good for your eyes.
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