What Goes In

A lot of people always think… “As long as I look and feel healthy, I am healthy”. Well, better think again. You may look and feel healthy but have you tried observing yourself – on what you eat – what’s in it? How about your daily dose of the right vitamins and minerals – are they really making you healthier or they go with your urine, flushed into the toilet? Would you be happy if one day you wake up and alarming you that your days are counted?

Living way back from the past, everything is so simple. There were not so many pollutions and chemicals in those days. What causes these never-ending increases of deadly diseases that is inflicting such havoc on the body today? Why not take good care of our body and make it valuable more than your top of the line gadgets.

Here are a few facts that I wish could help you in some ways and start turning on a few changes. 
FOOD. Our food gives us the energy we need for the day. It is also the source of numerous vitamins and minerals we need to stay healthy and might as well fill up in those deficiencies. But little do we know that some of them trigger many illnesses, diseases, deficiencies, behavioral and attitude disorders, and a lot more. But we have to really be careful on what are the contents and ingredients of our food, because not everything that gives us energy – makes us healthy. Based on my opinion, I like it better if I eat anything I like … just as long as I burn them up exercising.
 

When I was pregnant with my first son, an old cheerful man from the park asked me about my pregnancy. He asked if I eat a lot of fresh fruits and veggies, of course, I do, they’re my favorite. He advised me to eat fruits and veggies that have a few traces of fruit and veggie worms. (You know, the caterpillar like looking little guy that chomps on your fruits and leafy veggies.) Why? Simply because the fruit or veggie eaten by a worm doesn’t contain any harmful chemicals from the pesticides sprayed to them by the farmers. The worm won’t eat the fruit or veggie if it has pesticide chemicals in it. A clean looking, no trace of worm tomato bought from the market 2 months ago still looks fresh and so red. No fruit or veggie would last that long on the fridge even when placed on the freezer unless it has a chemical or pesticide to keep it fresh looking. I wonder, some of the fruits and veggies on the baskets of the markets and groceries, how long have they been there.

Has someone from the nutrition group enlightened you on how to eat fruits? Yes, how. Do you eat them, as the usual thing, after your meal just like a dessert? Or you eat them with your meal? I received an email containing this presentation on how to eat fruits. Many of us have heard people complaining that “every time I eat watermelons I burp” or “when I eat bananas, I feel like running to the toilet” etc., these would not occur if only you had eaten fruits on an empty stomach. Fruits are mixed with the other putrefying food that produces gas and hence bloat. Fruits should be taken on an empty stomach. If we eat fruits like that, it will serve a major role to detoxify our system supplying with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities. Let’s say first, you eat two slices of bread and after, a slice of fruit. As fruit digests faster than bread, the slice of fruit digests quickly & ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but the bread, which takes longer to digest, blocks its passages.

It is incorrectly presumed that some fruits like orange and lemon are acidic and will enhance acidity in the stomach. Researches however show that all fruits become alkaline in our body.

Don’t eat cooked fruits because you don’t get nutrients at all. You get to taste along with the sugars on it. Cooking fruits or heating fruit juices destroys and takes away the vitamins and nutrients.

Fiber is good for our digestive system. So gobble the pulp or the whole fruit better than just gulping the juice. When you need to drink fruit juice, drink only fresh juice; NOT those in cans, boxes or powdered. Don’t drink juice that has been heated up. Drink fruit juice, by mouthful but slowly, ‘cause we must let it be mixed with our saliva, for our saliva has enzymes that help break down some of the starch of the food and helps in fat digestion.

Cleanse and detoxify your body on a fruit fasting week. A mixed fruit salad without the condensed milk and creams would be great. Cheers!