Eat Your Fruits The Right Way

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.  

What's the correct way to eat fruit?  

IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUIT AFTER A MEAL! FRUIT SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY  STOMACH.  

Eating fruit like that plays a major role in detoxifying your system, supplying you with a great deal of energy for weight loss and other life activities..  

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!  

Depressed - Eat More Sweet Peppers

Depression is one of the first symptoms of a Vitamin C deficiency. You can keep up your C level by eating plenty of sweet peppers. Both red and green peppers are loaded with vitamin C. Red pepper have more vitamin C than about anything else you can eat. Your brain needs vitamin C to produce serotonin, a chemical that makes you feel good and help you sleep. Without enough serotonin, you may feel tired and sluggish. Lack of iron can also make you feel the same way, and vitamin C also helps you absorb iron better.

Choose The Right Oil

When you buy oil, you want to keep your essential fatty acids in balance. Canola oil has more omega-3 fatty acids than other oils. Corn, soybean, sunflower, and safflower oils have more omega-6 fatty acids.

Your Pizza also has a Protective Pigment

Study shows that men who ate more pizza had less prostate cancer. The protective factor in pizza may be a pigment in tomatoes called lycopene, which blocks the free radicals, strengthens the immune system, and may help regulate cancer genes.

Cofounder of Helios Health Center in Boulder, Colorado, prescribes a teaspoon a day of tomato paste for his patients with prostate cancer. Lycopene has more potent antioxidant properties than beta-carotene, and it has anti-cancer properties too.

Almonds - Soothe Your Heartburn

A natural chemical in raw almonds helps to tone the sphincter between the esophagus and the stomach so that the acid stays in the stomach and you won't experience the heartburn. Eat a handful of almonds, around 10-15 after every snack and meal.

Jewelweed - Relief of Poison Ivy

Although rashes from poison ivy and poison oak are extremely uncomfortable, but they are can be treated with home remedies.

1. Look for jewelweed growing in moist ground near poison ivy plants as in the picture. Gather the stems and leaves after the dew is off the plants (10 to 11 am). 
2. Cut the plants into 1 - 2 inch pieces, put them in a plastic bag, and then flatten them with a rolling pin, crushing them. 
3. Put the crushed pieces in a pot, add enough water to cover the plant and  bring to boil and simmer until the water is reduced to half and color is amber.
4. Let it cool, strain and pour the liquid in ice cube trays.

You can wash the affected are with a cube three or four times a day until the rash is gone. It not feels good, but it also works.

You can also buy jewelweed seeds and grow your own to be safe incase you don't find.

Constipation: Help Move Stagnant Chi

A minimum of one complete, soft bowel movement a day is healthy. If you have fewer bowel movements, then toxins from the stool can be reabsorbed into the bloodstream, causing many other health problems.

Squeeze the juice of a lemon into an 8 oz glass of warm or hot water and drink it first thing in the morning to help stimulate a bowel movement. Citrus peel stimulates chi, the life energy of the body. Practitioners of Traditional Chinese Medicine believe that building up chi gives the body the strength to have a bowel movement.