The Beauty of Simplicity of the Fresh Fruit Diet. The beauty of the Fresh Fruit Diet is that it is just food. Eating healthy should not be an esoteric practice or as hard as rocket science! Consider a Ciku. The tree grows in the soil, it flowers, then the sun and rain contribute to the growth of the fruit, it is picked from the branch, and then…it is eaten raw. Delicious perfection! There have been many allusions of paradise described by humankind over the centuries. Many of them stress the simplicities of life where love and peace flourish, fresh water flows in abundance, and where whole food falls from the trees. The irony is that we can enjoy a little of that paradise at our table for every meal. What could be simpler than picking fresh fruit, washing it off, and enjoying the color, taste, and texture? There is no prep time, and complex recipe, no wait for the stove to get hot, no missing ingredients to worry about. Buy, Pick, Eat. The Fresh Fruit Diet is the simplest way you can eat. Food comes in its own packages, there is no heat chemistry (cooking) involved in its preparation, and there is no laboratory (kitchen) mess to clean up afterwards. Just eat and go. Talk about Fast Food! There is something incredibly beautiful about that kind of convenience. Sometimes it just does not pay to make things more complicated than they need to be. And with cooked and highly processed foods, we’ve have over‐complicated ourselves into paying with our good health.

Monday, April 18, 2011

Drinking 100 p.c. fruit juice 'as healthy as eating whole fruits'

A research has suggested that drinking 100 per cent fruit juices could have protective health benefits similar to those of whole fruits.
Highlights from a new report summarizing recent research on the potential benefits of fruit juice showed a positive association between intake of 100 per cent juice and reduced risk for several chronic diseases, including cancer, markers for cardiovascular disease and cognitive decline. “While it is universally accepted that fruit and vegetable intake is protective, there is not a clear consensus about the benefits of consuming the juices that are extracted from them,” said the review’s author, Dianne Hyson.
“An analysis of the scientific evidence suggests that 100 per cent fruit juices retain important bioactive components that may promote good health and aid in disease prevention,” added Hyson.
Among the fruit juices included in the review, consumption of apple, citrus, cranberry, grape, and pomegranate juices all showed beneficial effects. Markers of improved health ranged from reductions in urinary tract infections (cranberry) to improvements in age-related cognitive decline (grape and apple) to reduced risk of prostate (pomegranate) and respiratory and digestive (orange, grapefruit) cancers. Additionally, intake of all juices was linked to heightened antioxidant activity.
The research was presented in a literature review at the 2011 Experimental Biology (EB) meeting.

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