A friend was over the other day for lunch and noticed the abundance of fresh fruit I had laying on the kitchen counter. A colander was full of oranges, lemons and limes. A grapefruit was lying on the counter along with and apple, a mango, a kiwi and a banana.
She asked why I didn't have them in the fridge and I explained I only keep berries, grapes and cherries in the fridge.
She asked what about apples -- don't they go bad? I explained . . . Download FRESH Fruit.pages
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Back to my conversation with my friend, I went on to explain how ALL fruits except berries should be eaten ALONE as a snack between meals, three hours after your last meal and preferably one hour before your next meal. That way the natural sugars can be burned immediately as fuel.
Berries can be eaten with any meal because they are LOW in sugar and HIGH in fiber. When you eat fruits high in sugar with a meal or as a dessert the sugars will attach to the fat, protein and starch in the meal and store itself in the body and not burn as immediate fuel. Try it you'll FEEL the difference.
Eat lots of fruit 4-5 servings everyday! Remember ½ apple is ONE serving so it is easy to get in your 4-5 EVERYDAY! Same with veggies ½ cup is equal to ONE serving so it too is easy to get in 4-5 a day of those too! Remember . . . fruits and veggies are SINGLE ingredient LIVING foods that do NOT require a label.
"Let food be thy medicine and medicine be thy food.” Hippocrates 460 BC
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