When I was trying out all the diets to see which was the most effective for an anorexic, I recall that one of the most effective was to have strict rules about fruit. So, now that I am committed to maintaining my healthy weight, it was interesting to receive an email from Credence, an organisation dedicated to good health, extolling the virtues of fruit but also cautioning on the proper way to eat it.
Because it digests in the intestinal tract, not the stomach, fruit runs rapidly through your system. It contains a type of fructose which is completely metabolised into the correct energy for the body to sustain itself, which makes it the most efficient nutrient to maintain the correct blood sugar levels. This means that your body does not have to produce excess insulin and the natural normalisation of the sugar levels in the blood switch off your appetite so you do not eat as much.
Organic fruit is an ideal breakfast because it is an easily digestible source of amino acids in the morning and these are vital because they build proper human proteins, although 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.
The diet that I followed advised you to eat only fruit during the period between waking up and noon and ensuring that you always ate fruit in between meals, never as a starter or dessert. It certainly kick-started my metabolism and got rid of a lot of the detritus that had built up in my intestines over long periods of abuse.
Here are the 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!
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 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.
Philip Green of Credence
Thank you for the timing info. Will give that a go.
Yes, Thank you, for the clarification….
OK, I can understand this some. But, questions, please.
If desert is some kind of fruit, can it be a small bit of ice cream before and then the fruit?
This is, however, a moot point for me. Desert is usually a bowl of cereal.
But then, I do PBnJ sandwiches, too.
(peanut butter and jelly)
My favorites are cherry preserves, strawberry, grape or marmalde (and the last usually with banana coins between layers)
(wait…did you hear that? I thought I heard someone holler “that ain’t no DIET, bonehead!”
well, yeah. I guess that’s right.
Just that I attach something that moves fast to a piece of pliable plastic, toss in a lil butter on the bread slice, too…I was wondering where I stood on the gut/distillery department?
LOL @ Boneman. Philip Green regards jams and marmelades as an abomination – all that fermenting fruit and sugar :) I think he’s pretty clear. Never combine fruit with anything… which means my pear flapjacks are going to have to go :(