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Fruit that we eat digests itself
with its own enzymes unlike the rest of the things we eat…. |
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There are many arguments about whether
man is herbivore (vegetarian), carnivore (meat-eater) or omnivore
(one who can eat and digest both). In actual fact, there is mounting
evidence to suggest that man was a fruitivore! It is possible to live
only on a combination of fruits and nuts and never suffer any malnutrition
- in fact we would probably live in the "pink" of health. |
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However, fruits as they are eaten at present
by most of the world can be positively harmful. |
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Most people eat fruits : |
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(a) After food, |
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(b) Combined with milk for dessert, |
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(c) Cooked or stewed or baked. |
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This is not right. |
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Fruit must be eaten on an empty stomach.
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Fruit must never be combined with milk
or grains. |
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Fruit must be had uncooked. |
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Why? This becomes clear when we understand
how fruit is digested in the body. |
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After being chewed well in the mouth, fruit
enters the stomach for a short period (15 to 20 minutes for most fruits,
1/2 hour for bananas ) and then proceeds to the intestines where it
digests itself with its own enzymes. If it is eaten after a meal it
sits on top of the food and ferments because it does not get a clear
passage to go down to the intestines. Not only is the fruit rendered
completely useless -it can become a cause of acidity, indigestion,
gas, colic, constipation and other diseases. |
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For this same reason it must not be combined
with any other foods. The other foods need to sit in the stomach for
several hours for digestion. |
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Cooking the fruit destroys its self-digesting
enzymes and it becomes a burden for the body. |
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In fact acidity, colic, indigestion, and
constipation can all be helped substantially by eating fruits at least
1/2 hour before food. Chronic sufferers of these problems should abstain
from having any cereal, bread, roti or paratha for breakfast - they
must have only fresh fruits. |
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When "dying" of hunger, fruits are your
best bet. They provide energy very quickly and efficiently without
using up valuable energy reserves of the body (other foods use massive
amounts of energy in the process of digestion). |
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