The Major Rule for Eating Fruit

There's no doubt that eating fruit is important to our overall health
and wellbeing. Fruit is healthy for you, we all know that, but, it's
good to know that eating it should follow some general guidelines
tofully benefit our health. It'sjust not as simple as putting it into
our mouths whenever we feel like it. Learn about the proper ways to
eat fruit and your whole body will thank you with less digestive
problems and tons more energy.
Incorporating fruit into ourdiet, the proper way, gives our digestive
system more powerful benefits through vitamin intake and improved
digestion. Looking at the nutrition of fruit, most fruits are a great
source of fiber, potassium, vitamin C and folate and so much more.
Their nutrients help guard against disease , lower rates of heart
disease, stroke and high blood pressure. However, eating fruit
carelessly without anynutritional knowledge could bring on more
problems to our health than benefits. Here is the major rule about
eating fruit:
Fruit should be eaten alone or with other fruit on an empty stomach.
This is because when fruit is eaten, the digestive process works very
quickly and our body uses different enzymes to digestthe fruit. The
simple sugarscontained in fruit need time to be completely absorbed by
your body. When fruits are eaten alone, your stomach can more easily
process all of the nutrients, fibre and the simple sugars contained in
the fruit. This is the optimal 'proper way' to benefit from the fruit
you eat. If you eat fruit close to a meal, especially right after a
larger meal and combine with other foods, it's held in the stomach
toolong along with other foods and will rot and ferment in the gut. If
you experience indigestion, heartburn, burping and and other digestive
discomforts and you blameon the meal - it could be the combination of
the food, the fermentation with fruit that causes your upset stomach.
If left uncontrolled it could lead to other health problems that stem
from the digestive tract.
Applying this rule is very simple. We eat approximately 3 large meals
a day, so space out your fruit servings in between. If this means
youneed to glance at the clock occasionally and calculate when you
could eat the apple you brought along with you, then you do that.And
aim to have it about 1 hour before a meal, or 2 hours after your meal.
For heavier meals, like pasta orburgers, you need to let that food
digest for even longer before you add fruitwith all its acid into your
stomach, about 3-4 hours. If you've just had a mixed green salad for
lunch, samerules apply but for a much shorter time, about 1.5 hours.
The best time to eat a bounty of fruit is either first thing in the
morningon an empty stomach, or as a mid-morning snack (which I prefer)
- in between breakfast and lunch. It's a good idea, to just eat more
fruit at one time, whether it's fruit salad, an apple or a fruit
smoothie. (3-4 servings of fruit is a proper daily requirement, that's
2 1/2 - 2 cups of fruit). If you feel very hungry after your
fruitservings, pay attention to what you've had for breakfast and
maybe your meal planning needs to be adjusted. You should be able to
wait it out about 1-2 hours with success. That will ensure all the
fruit is processed and gone into your body to do what it's supposed to
do.
Definitely avoid eating fruitclose to bedtime as there's plenty of
sugar in fruit to spike up your energy and keep you up when you need
your sleep.
Smoothie lovers! It is fine to consume nut milk or coconut milk with
fruit, butin small amounts and not every time. Therefore, nut butters,
nut milk, or non-dairy yogourt (such as soy) will not strain the
digestive system too much.And adding a single serving of a
low-glycemic fruit, such as an apple to your green smoothie will be
fine and will not create a lot of problems for you as long as you keep
the fruit serving to a minimumand it too is consumed apart from a
larger meal. However, ideally it is best to stick with eating raw
fruit alone - or leave alone!
Dried fruit holds the same recommendations. Keep in mind it's also too
sweet and too addictive. Limiting portions of the dried fruit you eat
is essential - think of a date as a special occasion ;)
If you do eat fruit on an empty stomach, you will gain the proper
nutrients that fruit - nature's perfect gift - will offer to your
health and wellbeing. You will avoid most digestive problems, feel
energized , promote weight loss and you'll look and feel fantastic
because your body will be fully absorbing all the vitamins, fiber and
healthy carbohydrates that it needsto function in good health .