Fruit Can Keep Your Arteries Squeaky Clean

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Elphaba — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 14:47:48 GMT

Wait, I thought you weren't supposed to use olive oil in cooking...?

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sweetlady — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 08:49:04 GMT

Most raw vegans eat around 80% fruit, 10% veggies, 10% nuts and seeds. You can't get enough carbs from veggies on a raw food diet. Most of your carbs come from fruits on a raw food lifestyle. I eat mostly whole fruits, salads, green smoothies, and some nuts. I am a protein type. The protein in raw fruits and veggies is more bio-available than meat. Meat is much higher in fat than proteins, and the proteins in cooked meat are denatured. And the other benefit to living foods is that they are higher in life force (hado) than dead cooked foods. There are many athletes who are raw foodists too.

Dr Douglas Graham has done a lot of research on this. His book is the 80/10/10 Diet. He hasn't been sick in 28 years. "Time and again, he astonishes young athletes (often less than half his fifty-four years of age) by outperforming them in speed, strength, endurance, agility, balance, and many other aspects of physical fitness." www.foodnsport.com

" Dr. Graham cites statistics and research from the fields of nutritional science, sports physiology, and medicine, and he makes copious use of real testimonials in order to prove his points: Sweet, juicy fruit is Natures most perfect food for humans. The low-fat, raw vegan diet is richly rewarding and completely satisfying."

Also Dr Gabriel Cousens at the Tree of Life Rejuvenation Center in Patagonia, Arizona has been reversing Type 2 diabetes (and some Type 1) in 3 weeks with a raw living food diet and green juice fasting.

"With his revolutionary new plan, Cousens presents a program for anyone dealing with type-II diabetes, regardless of past history with insulin and other anti-diabetic medication. His new approach shows incredible results: medication use ceases within four days and many people having fasting blood sugars of less than 100 after three weeks." www.treeoflife.nu

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george tolhurst — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:33:21 GMT

THE BESST FRUITS ARE AVACODO TOMATO LIME LEMON AND POLLIBLY A SOUR GRAPEFRUIT ONCE IN AWHILE. ALL THE REST SIMPLY HAVE TO MUCH SUGAR/

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Julieanne — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 15:26:55 GMT

I think a lot of people are confusing GM foods with HYBRID foods, which have been around for a very long time. Although work continues on developing these (GM fruit and veg) there is very little out there yet. The main culprits are soy, corn and canola, which are in nearly everything you buy, apart from plain, raw fruit and veg.

Hybrids are produced by one variety of plant pollinating another variety in the same family of plants, to produce a plant with the best characteristics of both. The disadvantage to this is the seeds can't be saved to breed from, as they are most likely sterile.This affects developing countries more than the more affluent countries. This is quite different to inserting a fish gene into a tomato in the laboratory!

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milesofprojects — Tue, 10 Jun 2008 13:02:58 GMT

I have to disagree with mercola. Fruits are the best thing anyone can eat especially if your orgins derive from climates that are warm or tropical. I was born in Jamaica, ergo that is what i ate when i lived there and that is what I still eat now and it works for me and my family. "live under your own fig tree." Live where you belong (if possible) and eat what works for your body. If you migrate eat what grows readily in the area. Overall fruits are delicious, as long as they are whole and non gmo or modified, and nutritious.

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Butterflowers — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:52:44 GMT

Whole fruit juices are in reality slightly lowering in the Glycemic Load they produce. It's the juice drinks that have the adverse effect on sugar levels. Diabetic studies in particular are of interest in this regards....

jama.ama-assn.org/.../927

www.sciencedaily.com/.../070627225459.htm

Best eaten 20 minutes before meals and and not with grains or meats so they don't get hung-up in these harder to digest foods.

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T_rex — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:00:05 GMT

My daily breakfast includes 1 apple, a banana, one kiwii, a branch of kale, 4 table spoons of pre-soaked flax seeds, and 2 raw egg yolks all blended together into a flavorful smoothie.This daily concoction keeps my heart healthy.

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Julieanne — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 08:21:09 GMT

TomT, what the hell does your post have to do with fruit? Please don't use this forum to spread your personal conspiracy theories, which have nothing to do with health.

deepee, don't wish to be rude, but messages written in upper case are awfully hard to read - I tend to skip over them. Also, it sort of looks like you are shouting, which may not have been your intent.

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saynotoquacks — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 19:20:53 GMT

Regarding virgin olive oil, I would NEVER use it for cooking--or any oil for that matter. I only use water for cooking--it keeps the temperature low and prevents carcinogen production. I only eat my olive oil raw, in salads or whatever.

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Sponge — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 03:40:38 GMT

I disagree with Dr. Mercola on fruit sugars. Yes they can be very sweet, but we're not talking about white processed table sugar. We are talking about the sugars God put in the fruit in the first place. I make fruit smoothies three times a week and I absolutely love them. I'm as fit as can be, and do not believe the hype that I will get diabetes or some other dis-ease by eating lots of healthy fruit.

Dr. Mercola is great on many topics. But some I think he is misinformed on.

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Maurine1 — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 01:09:03 GMT

I did research into the ubiquitous high fructose corn syrup, whose increasing use over the last 20 years coincides with type 2 diabetes and obesity increases. I thought the fructose was perhaps chemically different from the fructose in fruits (the process of making HFCS from corn is long and complicated). To my surprise I found indications that fructose (unlike glucose) has negative aspects: experimental animals fed only fructose failed to develop properly (and their livers were a mess, trying to convert it) whereas the glucose was fine; and other evidence says that fructose does not produce an insulin response or proper leptin response. I read a book years ago by a doctor who completely reversed his type 2 diabetes by cutting out absolutely all fruits. So (as a type 2 diabetic of 22 years standing) I am re-examining my fruit intake (I like to snack on a few grapes, orange sections, etc.). I've started making my own yogurt (very easy) to avoid HFCS, and eating it in combination with natural peanut butter, staying strictly away from hydrogenated products (my irregular heartbeats went away when I did that). I do use some coconut oil and butter (per Dr. Mary Enig), eat whole eggs, and need red meat regularly. I love starchy foods but cannot handle them diabetically. I'm at normal weight.

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Dulu — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:26:46 GMT

Both Tom T and Alternative medicine need to get a life outside the conspiracy theory b.s. I agree with all of the comments made in regards to Alternative Medicine's comments. Has any one ever heard of Juice Feasting?? The Health Ranger Mike Adams has articles about this as one alternative to getting your daily requirements of fruits and vegatables. But I do agree with the premises that whole fruits should be consumed for a good source of fiber which I am discovering to be a key element of my journey to becoming healthier.

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Joseph Myers — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:20:21 GMT

Why are more people not countering the use of animals in laboratory testing with some harsh legislature?

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deepee — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:37:15 GMT

I PRACTICE FOOD COMBINING WHICH IS EATING THE RIGHT MIXTURE OF FOOD TO AID IN DIGESTION SO THE FOOD YOU EAT CAN BE EASILY BE DIGESTED AND THE NUTRITIENTS CAN BE UTILIZED IN YOUR BODY AND NOT STORED AS FAT ETC... I EAT ALOT OF FRUITS....I BELIEVE IF YOUR DIGESTIVE TRACTS ARE WORKING AT OPTIMUM...DUE TO EXERCISE, EATING HEALTHY FOODS AND DOING AN OCCASIONAL CLEANSING ....I CANT SEE WHY EATING FRUITS IS BAD....FRUITS HAVE ALOT OF VITAMINS AND MINERALS ALSO I AM FROM SOUTH AMERICA WHERE THERE ARE NUMEROUS FRUITS SUCH AS MANGOES, GUAVAS, CHERRIES, AMONG DOZENS OF OTHER FRUITS AMERICA IS NOT FAMILIAR WITH......IF YOU ARE HEALTHY AND YOU ARE A BURNING MACHINE...FRUITS ARE LOW GLYCEMIC FOODS....THEY ARE SLOWLY DIGESTED....YOU SHOULD NOT HAVE A SUDDEN INSULIN SPIKE....I AM NOT TOO FAMILIAR WITH DR M NT TYPE AND IF YOU ARE A PROTEIN TYPE YOU SHOULD NOT CONSUME FRUITS ETC... I HAVE HIGH RESPECT FOR DR MERCOLA AND HIS IDEAS AND VIEWS ARE GREATAND SINCE I'M NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE PROTEIN TYPE THEORY I WILL NOT COMMENT ON THAT...BUT AS A VERY VERY HEALTH CONSCIOUS INDIVIDUAL ITS HARD FOR ME TO UNDERSTAND TOO MUCH FRUITS ARE BAD FOR YOU...ACTUALLY HOW MUCH FRUIT CAN AN HEALTHY PERSON CONSUME.....UNLESS YOU WEIGH 500LBS THEN IT DOESNT MATTER ANYWAY BECAUSE YOU ARE ALREADY UNHEALTHY..AGAIN THERE ARE HUNDRED OF DIFFERENT TROPICAL FRUITS WORLDWIDE THAT HAS GREAT NUTRITIOUS VALUE...LETS NOT RESTRICT OUR VIEWS ON JUST AMERICAN FRUITS SINCE WE ARE ALL HEALTH CONSCIOUS AND SUPPOSEDLY HEALTH CONSCIOUS PEOPLE ARE ENLIGHTENED AND OPEN MINDED TO OTHER COUNTRIES AND THEIR FRUITS

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k70ansas — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:20:34 GMT

The fruit in the grocery store is often not good. I find nice looking apples and when I cut into them they are often brown inside. I also worry about GMO fruits, especially grapes. Where did the seeds go? They do not taste good either. I also rely on Purple Defense. I do not buy any fruit juices as they most often have high fructose corn syrup added.