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Today’s Usage Tip:
Eating Fruits and Veggies Correctly
We
all think eating fruits and veggies means just buying fruits, cutting it and just popping it
into our mouths. It’s is actually very unhealthy that manner. It’s
important to know how and when to eat these products.
What is the correct way of eating fruits and veggies?
Having
agreed on the health potentials of fruits and veggies and how they are
described as ‘life giving life’ however, life administered wrongly can be more
dangerous than the ‘dead ministering to the living’. It is pertinent to
ascertain the quality (freshness) of the products before consumption.
It
is a common practice that sellers of these products particularly in Africa don’t
understand the nature of fruits and veggies and abuse the products in the quest
to present the product attractively.
Fruits
and veggies are not expected to be washed with detergents as observed in our
immediate communities. Mesocarps of fruits are permeable to dissolved solute
when washed because the protective layer of the products. Little wonder, washed
fruits and veggies spoil faster after being washed because the protective layer
is gone. An article on a comprehensive checklist to follow before buying and
consuming fruit and veggies will be posted soon. Keep abreast!
Also
fruits and veggies displayed under hot sun are not the best buy, because the
life giving composition of the products (Vitamins-antioxidants) are not
heat-stable and are destroyed when subjected to hot temperatures.
The
average temperature of the human stomach is a bit higher than the normal body
temperature, when foods are consumed (especially hot foods) increases the
temperature of the intestines. When fruits and veggies are introduced at this
time into the intestines, they are simply destroyed and hence not beneficial, the
reason not far-fetched. The vitamins cannot access the absorbing walls of the
villi and therefore stayed longer under hot conditions.
It
simply implies that fruits and veggies correctly sourced and cleaned thoroughly
with potable water should be eaten on an empty stomach as the best practice.
However, in the case of difficulty in adhering to the best practice, an hour before
or three hours after every meal can be adopted. If
you eat fruit and veggies in this manner, it will play a major role in keeping
your system active, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss
and other activities.
So
please eat your fruits and veggies on an empty stomach or as advised. You’ve
heard people complaining about eating watermelon with after feeling associated with
burping, and a running bowels with banana consumption. Actually all this will
not arise if you eat on an empty stomach. The fruit mixes with the putrefying
compounds in other foods and produces gas and hence you will bloat.
But
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. Just eat fruits and veggies drink
a lot of juice throughout the 3-days and you will be surprised when your
friends tell you how radiant you look.
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