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Thursday, June 23, 2005
More about Eating and Dieting
Have been thinking more about a good diet, and wanted to espouse how important fruit is.
Check out The Fruit Pages to read about the nutritious benefits of fruits.
Fruits are the most awesome foods around, and every year I do a fruit detox month, as a supplement to my high fruit diet, and the benefits are immediate and awesome, like more energy, a better constitution, alertness and improved hydration.
Fruit sugars are natural and quickly absorbed into the body providing essential energy. Fruits are very quickly digested in the stomach, less than an hour for almost all fruits, and provide fibre, protein, water and lots of vitamins.
You can substitute fruits for your entire diet, as Fruitarians know, as they eat only fruit.
What? No protein?
Well fruits like bananas and tomatoes contain all of the 8 essential amino acids which our body cannot naturally create, and these amino acids are what form the building blocks of our bodies' cells. The process of eating meats requires a slow and long breakdown of meat proteins into the amino acids, before they are rebuilt into the amino acid chains used in building the body, so eating fruit removes that lengthy, energy consuming process as fruits are digested very quickly.
Mind you, you have to eat more fruit to create the same amount of protein, but because fruits are quickly digested, its natural to munch all day on fruits and never feel hungry or overfull.
Are fruits more expensive? Not if you stop buying meat!
But even I can't resist the odd Sunday roast!
Here is a useful book about eating raw fruits, nuts and vegetables and recipes to follow as well as diet ideas.
Check out The Fruit Pages to read about the nutritious benefits of fruits.
Fruits are the most awesome foods around, and every year I do a fruit detox month, as a supplement to my high fruit diet, and the benefits are immediate and awesome, like more energy, a better constitution, alertness and improved hydration.
Fruit sugars are natural and quickly absorbed into the body providing essential energy. Fruits are very quickly digested in the stomach, less than an hour for almost all fruits, and provide fibre, protein, water and lots of vitamins.
You can substitute fruits for your entire diet, as Fruitarians know, as they eat only fruit.
What? No protein?
Well fruits like bananas and tomatoes contain all of the 8 essential amino acids which our body cannot naturally create, and these amino acids are what form the building blocks of our bodies' cells. The process of eating meats requires a slow and long breakdown of meat proteins into the amino acids, before they are rebuilt into the amino acid chains used in building the body, so eating fruit removes that lengthy, energy consuming process as fruits are digested very quickly.
Mind you, you have to eat more fruit to create the same amount of protein, but because fruits are quickly digested, its natural to munch all day on fruits and never feel hungry or overfull.
Are fruits more expensive? Not if you stop buying meat!
But even I can't resist the odd Sunday roast!
Here is a useful book about eating raw fruits, nuts and vegetables and recipes to follow as well as diet ideas.
