I’ve been getting a few health e mails from friends lately. I’m really lovin’ it! When I was living in Brownsville, I often shared interesting health facts to my friends. I’m sure they got annoyed by it a few times, but I only did it because living a healthy life means a lot to me and I cared about their health. I made a choice of choosing a healthier lifestyle two years ago and it made nothing but positive changes in my life! I wanted my friends and family to experience what I experienced and so I opened by mouth. I encouraged and educated them on healthy eating and the importance of exercising. I also shared with them not to see food as a reward but to see it as fuel and a need for our body to function well. I never forced my way of living on them, oh no I would never ever do that! I let them choose the kind of life they want. Eventually, they started making small changes in their lives and I saw it! I would acknowledge them and continue to encourage them because it is hard changing a lifestyle you’re used to. It helps a lot when you have someone to encourage you to keep going, to keep pushing and not give up. I strongly believe we all play a big part in each others’ lives and I will continue to be an encourager and a motivator, changing one life at a time ’til the day I die.

So now, let me share this e mail I got from my dear friend, Erik. I loooove Dr. Oz, I think he’s intelligent and has a lot of passion in changing people’s lives. This e mail is about eating fruit that right way.  It’s very interesting but there are some stuff I don’t completely I agree with. I’d like to know your opinion on this.

EATING FRUIT

We all think eating fruit means just buying fruit, cutting it up and popping it into our mouths. It’s not that easy. It’s important to know how and when to eat fruit.

FRUIT IS THE MOST IMPORTANT FOOD.

Let’s say you eat two slices of bread, then a slice of fruit. The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it’s prevented from doing so.

In the meantime, the whole meal rots and ferments, and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach, and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil.

Eat your fruit on an empty stomach, or before your meal! You’ve heard people complain: Every time I eat watermelon I burp, when I eat durian my stomach bloats, when I eat a banana I feel like running to the toilet, etc. This will not happen if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach. Fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas. Hence, you bloat!

There’s no such thing as some fruits, like orange and lemon are acidic, because all fruit becomes alkaline in our body, according to Dr. Herbert Shelton who did research on this matter. If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruit, you have the Secret of Beauty, Longevity, Health, Energy, Happiness and normal weight.
When you need to drink fruit juice drink only fresh fruit juice, NOT the concentrated juice from the cans. Don’t drink juice that has been heated. Don’t eat cooked fruit; you don’t get the nutrients at all. You get only the taste. Cooking destroys all of the vitamins.

Eating a whole fruit is better than drinking the juice. If you should drink the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly, because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it. You can go on a 3-day fruit-fast to cleanse your body. Eat fruit and drink fruit juice for just 3 days, and you will be surprised when your friends say how radiant you look!

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I never thought eating fruit can be so complicated until this interesting information. I’m trying to look for the source for this article, when I find it I’ll make sure to post it.