by Phillip Day
Would you like to live to a healthy one hundred with all your teeth and no arthritis in your joints? Start by following these Ten Fruit Commandments. Tattoo them on your cookie jar:
- Eat fruit on an empty stomach any time during the day
- Always leave 30 minutes after fruit consumption before eating foods other than fruit
- Leave at least 3 hours after a properly combined meal before consuming fruit. This allows the previous meal to leave the stomach and avoids putrefaction and fermentation of the previous meal
- Before noon, consume only fruit
- Never combine fruit with any other foods
- Never eat fruit AFTER a meal as a dessert
- If you get hungry during the morning, eat another piece of fruit and keep munching until the blood sugar levels normalise and your hunger abates
- Eat organic fruit only where possible
- Do not eat processed, canned or cooked fruit, which normally contain sugars, e-additives and other aliens
- Avoid high-fructose corn syrup (HFCS) products touted as fruit!
Is this the opposite to what you've always been told? Did your grandparents always insist you start the day with a hearty breakfast and eat fruit for dessert? If you'd like to know more about why these 10 fruit commandments work, then read on...
Fuel your mind and clean your body with fruit At the heart of natural hygiene is the science of energy. The great news is that you can manipulate your body's energy usage very simply by the sort of food you consume, and you can start right now. To assist the body in eliminating toxins and waste during its morning cycle EVERY DAY, the idea is not to introduce anything during the elimination cycle that will divert the body from doing its life-saving housework. No traditional breakfasts. No Aunt Lily's Arkansas Pancakes. No grits nor muesli. No Heart-Attack-on-a-Plate with the fried eggs, fried bread, sausages, tomatoes, and bacon.
The problem is, many people are culturally indoctrinated to eat a 'hearty breakfast' in the morning since it has been hammered into us over the centuries by our oftentimes over-sized grandparents. Unfortunately this point of view which our elders fervently believed and took to their eventually failing hearts, is why many of them remained the size they did, up until they died of a toxin-related food-abuse disease, such as coronary heart disease, stroke or cancer.
If you want to live to 100 with all your own teeth, bouncing your great-granddaughter upon your firm and functioning, non-arthritic knee, then admit you aren't going to make it with the West's current food modus operandi. This frightening legacy of dietary treachery will give you a heart attack, cancer, and the other nightmares we examine in
Cancer: Why We're Still Dying to Know the Truth,
Health Wars and
The ABCs of Disease. If you want to live to be a healthy hundred, find those who routinely live to these ages, and do what they do.
Fruit is the way to go Clean, light and more mobile than a special forces infiltration unit. Fruit digests in the intestinal tract, not the stomach, and charges through your system in 30 minutes like an express train. Fruit contains the monosaccharide sugar fructose, which is completely metabolised into ATP, the energy form the body uses to sustain its life-systems. Your brain runs on nothing but glucose, and fruit is your most efficient source of this essential blood sugar without provoking excess insulin. Besides, blood sugar levels rise and normalise after adequate fruit consumption, meaning that your hunger switch is turned off and you eat less food.
Fruit (uncontaminated with pesticides, of course), is rich in hard-working enzymes, vitamins, amino acids, minerals and fibre, and is an extremely low-taxing amino acid source in the morning, which makes it ideal for breakfast. And what do amino acids build? Proper human proteins. This is by far the body's preferred way of constructing protein - from the human body's amino acid pool.
Fruit is alluring with its shapes and colours, has the most exotic tastes, and is loved by almost everybody. Those few who hate fruit are usually addicted to heavy, processed foods, which they indiscriminately combine with fruit into an apocalyptic jam-preserve, which will produce fermentation, putrefaction, acid residues and the resultant graveyard gas and corpse-like breath. If your breath smells like something has died... it has! And guess what sometimes takes the flak? Fruit! Naturally this is a no-no, and we'll have a look at why there are set rules for fruit consumption which, if followed, clear up all the bad press in which fruit has been embroiled over the years.
The perfect food Raw fruit has been described as ‘a perfect food' because humans have been found in the past to survive for long periods on it. Within the past seventy years, however, commercially grown fruit, cereals and vegetables have lost a significant part of their vitamin and mineral content due to deficient soils, harvesting before the fruit is ripe, and those chemically laden, over-farming techniques. Fruit-only diets should be avoided because they lack a spectrum of nutrients contained in other foods, which must be consumed in the correct quantities.1 The mineral deficiency in fruits and other organic matter can be easily and simply remedied using mineral supplementation, which shall be discussed later.
Fruit is the perfect food when eaten on its own. Although sometimes described as an acid, malic acid from apples, for example, actually yields an alkali ash in the body, unless it is combined with other foods, whereupon the usual acid gunk is produced. During the morning elimination cycle (4am to noon), fruit is invaluable in assisting in the elimination of toxins. The fruit consumer, properly following the above rules, will experience a rapid return of energy, a steady, satisfying weight-loss as toxins and detritus leave (sometimes resembling diarrhoea), less bloat, less inflammation, and an overall feeling of health and well-being as these nutrients use the vital juices of fruit to gain instant access to the energy processes of the body. All these benefits just from consuming fruit the right way? YES!!
If fruit is eaten with, or even after other foods, problems will more often than not result. This is because the Fruit Express Train in your gut is trying to get through to its destination quickly, and its clear path is blocked by a Chicken Fried Rice Goods Train lumbering through at walking speed. The resultant wincing collision causes the liquefied fruit juices to combine with China's finest and this fruity morass will begin to spoil. Proteins in the chicken putrefy and the rice carbohydrates ferment, resulting in the usual problems. Culturally we have come to view fruit as a dessert, which is nutritional heresy, in that fruit will always charge down the tunnel before hitting the back end of the Beef Risotto you chose to wolf down half an hour earlier. Fruit should always be consumed on an empty stomach for happy smiles and care-free miles.
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