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Fruit Nutrition Is The Key To Vibrant Health

Whether you're a raw foodist or just looking to eat healthier, fruit nutrition can teach you a lot.

Fruit is the food most suited to meeting the nutritional needs of the human body.

An analysis of fruit nutrition proves that the desirable qualities we want from our food are all found in fruit.

Sugar, our fuel, water, the great cleanser and mover of the body, and vitamins and minerals, which the body needs to maintain itself, are all found in fruit in perfect quantities.

All our fuel, whatever state that we eat it in, must be converted to simple sugars to be used by the body. The body labors to convert fatty foods like meat and starchy foods like rice into sugars. It can be hours before this food is converted into a usable form.

Ripe fruit, however, is made up of glucose and fructose sugars, which the body immediatly assimilates with virtually no digestion. Every cell in our body needs lots of sugar to function, so it make sense to deliver it in a form you can use off the bat.

Fruit averages about 98 percent water, taking care of most of your water needs.

Fruit provides the highest percentage of vitamins per calorie, with vegetables coming in second. Fruit only comes in second in terms of minerals per calorie, with vegetables taking first place.

Fruit averages between 5 and 10 percent of calories from protein. Even mothers milk, which fuels the body at the time it's growing the fastest, is slightly under 10 percent of calories. If it's good enough for a growing babies, it's perfect for an adult.

Almost every cancer research organization in the world is supportive of the consumption of fruit. You can, like myself, get most of your calories from fruit and be extremely healthy. If not, just eat as much as you like and enjoy it.

Remedies from chemicals will never stand in favour compared with the products of nature, the living cell of the plant, the final result of the rays of the sun, the mother of all life. - Thomas Edison

Reverse Fruit Nutrition: What isn't in Fruit?

Fruit Nutrition Avocados

The other aspect of fruit nutrition is what isn't in fruit. Fruit is free of cholesterol. The body can produce its own cholesterol, and needs none from outside. The consumption of extra cholesterol leads to heart disease and clogged arteries.

Raw fruits do contain some fat, but not nearly the high amounts found in most dishes.

The more fat you have in your bloodstream, the harder it is for your body to absorb the simple sugars it needs. Sugar trapped in the bloodstream causes candida, chronic fatigue, and other disorders. Oxygen movement is also impeded by fat, which is never a good thing.

Fruit lacks certain minerals found in fruit, and so leafy green vegetables are needed for proper nutrition.

The Conclusions We Can Draw From Raw Food Nutrition

It is abundantly clear that fruit is fruit is suited to be the chief food of man, though we certainly need leafy green vegetables as well.

You can make such raw foods the entirely of your diet, or just decide to ratchet up your level of healthy be increasing consumption to some degree. You might want to start off with the ultimate vegan breakfast, if you're in that camp.

If you want to adopt a healthy raw food diet and know true health, read this article about how fruit nutrition contributes to the diet and how to adopt it properly.

Subpages:

1) Can you get enough protein from plants?
2) Fruit Nutrition Facts
3) Banana calorie and nutrient info.
4) Do you need supplements and superfoods to meet your needs?
5) Worried about vitamin B12 deficiency?

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