Wonder if this is TRUE?? (kinda long)

Dani123

EATING FRUIT We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it up, and popping it into our mouths. It's not as easy as you think. It's important to know how and when to eat fruit. What is the correct way to eat fruits?

** FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH, NOT AFTER YOUR MEALS! ** This allows the fruit to detoxify 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 and then a slice of fruit. The slice of fruit is ready to go straight through the stomach into the intestines, but it is prevented from doing so because the bread gets in the way. In the meantime, the whole meal rots and ferments and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food and the digestive juices in the stomach, the entire mass of food begins to spoil.... So please eat your fruits on an empty stomach or before your meals!

You have heard people complaining - every time I eat watermelon I burp; when I eat a banana I feel like running to the toilet, etc - actually all this will not occur if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach. This prevents the fruit from mixing with the other foods and producing gas, and finally, bloating! Graying hair, balding, nervous outbursts, and dark circles under the eyes, all these will NOT happen if you take fruits on an empty stomach. All fruits become alkaline in our body, according to Dr. Herbert Shelton who did research on this matter. If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruits, 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 CANNED juice. Don't drink juice that has been heated up. Don't eat cooked fruits because you don't get any of the nutrients. You only get the taste. Cooking fruit destroys all the vitamins. 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 drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be surprised when your friends tell you how radiant you look!

KIWI: Tiny but mighty. This is a good source of potassium, magnesium, vitamin E & fiber. Its vitamin C content is twice that of an orange.

APPLE: An apple a day keeps the doctor away? Although an apple has a low vitamin C content, it has antioxidants & flavonoids which enhance the activity of vitamin C, thereby helping to lower the risks of colon cancer, heart attack & stroke.

STRAWBERRY: Protective Fruit. Strawberries have the highest total antioxidant power among major fruits & protect the body from cancer-causing, blood vessel-clogging free radicals.

ORANGE: Sweetest medicine. Taking 2-4 oranges a day may help keep colds away, lower cholesterol, prevent & dissolve kidney stones as well as lessens the risk of colon cancer.

WATERMELON: Coolest thirst quencher. Composed of 92% water, it is also packed with a giant dose of glutathione, which helps boost our immune system. They are also a key source of lycopene - the cancer fighting oxidant. Other nutrients found in watermelon are vitamin C & Potassium.

GUAVA & PAPAYA: Top awards for vitamin C. They are the clear winners for their high vitamin C content. Guava is also rich in fiber, which helps prevent constipation. Papaya is rich in carotene; this is good for your eyes.

Taboo: Drinking Cold water after a meal = Cancer! Can u believe this?? For those who like to drink cold water, this article is applicable to you. It is nice to drink cold water after a meal. However, the cold water solidifies the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It slows down the digestion. Once this 'sludge' reacts with the acid, it will break down and be absorbed by the intestine faster than the solid food. It will line the intestine. Very soon, this will turn into fats and lead to cancer.

It is best to drink hot soup, hot green tea, or warm water after a meal.

lite-bright

Snopes says it's false. 

https://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/fruit.asp 

Sounds like a few facts about fruit's nutritional content mixed with a bunch of hooey BS to me! 

MamaNikki

2-4 oranges A DAY?!?  Holy cow! 

I have no idea.  I've never heard this before.  If it is true, then I guess I'm glad that I was the only one who responded to brightning's post about fruit w/ the meal the other day, by saying that I give it to DS as an appetizer so that he'd eat it. 

 

momofolivia

sorry - I'm not buying it. 

neverblushed

This sounds exactly like the zillions of cuckoo forwarded emails my dad sends to me every day.

I'm not surprised that snopes reports it as false.