Fruit For Fitness Tips
Without question, fruit has wonderful natural benefits for the
human body. Fruit is packed with vitamins and fiber much like
vegetables, but comes in a wide variety of sweeter, more
palatable flavors.
Adding fruit to your diet is an excellent thing to do, but there
are a few things that you need to keep in mind:
1. Eat fresh fruit instead of drinking fruit juice. Juice is
often sweetened, but fresh fruits have natural sugars. Also, you
don't receive all of the needed fiber and vitamins from fruit
juice as you do from fresh fruit.
2. If you do have a craving for fruit juice, then go for fresh
fruit juice instead of those that contain artificial flavors and
colors. Or even better, try making your own fruit juice, taking
care not to sweeten it with too many calories.
3. Choose fresh fruit over processed fruits. Again, processed
and canned fruits do not have as much fiber or vitamins as fresh
fruit, and processed and canned fruits are nearly always
sweetened.
4. Wherever possible eating locally produced seasonal fruits and
vegetable fresh from the garden or grove is preferred.
5. Fresh fruit makes the absolute perfect dessert for any meal.
Throw out the cake and add a fresh fruit bowl to the dining
table.
6. Fresh fruit also makes the perfect snack. It's far better to
grab a banana or apple when hunger pangs strike, than a bag of
greasy potato chips. Plus, fresh fruit just tastes better.
7. It's interesting to note that nature produces several
varieties of fruits resembling the shapes of the organs of our
body, which are useful and beneficial to that specific organ.
Here are some examples:
Apricot - Brain Mango-Papaya - Stomach Almonds - Eyes Apple
- Heart Grapes - Lungs Cashew nuts - Kidney
8. Fruits and vegetables have in them a natural storage of the
sun's energy. If we make a daily practice of having fresh fruit
and vegetables, or one glass of real fruit juice and two or
three cups of green juice of vegetables, our requirement for
food will be reduced to a minimum. We will have enough energy to
maintain the body in a healthy condition.
Overall, just remember that fresh fruit is better for you than
canned fruit, fruit juice, processed fruit, or cooked fruit. Eat
as much fresh fruit as you like.
Another benefit of adding fruit to your diet is the added water
intake. Water is a simple, yet effective tool in the fight
against the scale and the emergency room, and is often
overlooked by most people.
But that is a whole other subject...