I found this very informative and thought my contacts might want to live a longer life so please read this:

EATING FRUIT…

It’s long but very informative

We all think eating fruits means just buying fruits, cutting it and just popping it into our mouths. It’s not as easy as you think. It’s important to know how and when to eat.

What is the correct way of eating fruits?

IT MEANS NOT EATING FRUITS AFTER YOUR MEALS! * FRUITS SHOULD BE EATEN ON AN EMPTY STOMACH.

If you eat fruit like that, it will play a major role 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.

In the meantime the whole meal rots and ferments and turns to acid. The minute the fruit comes into contact with the food in the stomach and digestive juices, 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 durian my stomach bloats up, when I eat a banana I feel like running to the toilet, etc – actually all this will not arise if you eat the fruit on an empty stomach. The fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas and hence you will bloat!

Graying hair, balding, nervous outburst, and dark circles under the eyes all these will NOT happen if you take fruits on an empty stomach.

There is no such thing as some fruits, like orange and lemon are acidic, because 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 from the cans. Don’t even drink juice that has been heated up. Don’t eat cooked fruits because you don’t get the nutrients at all. You only get to taste. Cooking 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 enhances 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.

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 have a cup of cold drink after a meal. However, the cold water will solidify the oily stuff that you have just consumed. It will slow 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 or warm water after a meal.

I have done 7 day water only fasts but this is my very first prolonged juicing fast. By juicing i mean fresh juice from organic fruits and veggies put in a juicer and consumed immediately. I’m on day 4 of a 48 day juice fast. I’m used to going around 3-4 times a day (in the morning and around a half an hour after each meal). But I haven’t had a bm since the first day of my fast.

Juicing is usually along these lines
breakfast is fruit juice with little veggie+ 17 oz distilled water
Lunch more veggie little fruit+ 17 oz distilled water
17 oz distilled water
dinner is mostly veggie and maybe one piece of fruit for the taste+17 oz distilled water

i took my first colon cleanse last night but nothing has happened yet. It’s very hard for me to take pills. I end up choking and it takes about fifteen minutes to get 1 out of 2 capsules down.

Is it normal not to go on a long juice fast? should i be worried if I don’t start going? are there things i can juice to help me go so i don’t need to take pills?

I hear about stuff on the radio that cleanses the walls of your intestines and flushes the colon. Can’t you do that by drinking a lot of fruit juice for a couple days?

Can't a person just drink too much fruit juice and flush out their system? Doesn't the body do it naturally?

I’ve had a horrible journey with health & beverages. Read my story, & see if you can help.

I started my “journey” with the popular athletic drink Gatorade. It was always in my fridge & I thought it was really good for you because of all the commercials with the athletes. I was talking to my mom one day while drinking it. She babbled on while I surfed Yahoo Answers, reading her magazine & talking about the “pickle diet”. When she spotted my bottle of Gatorade, she lost her mind. She went into this speech about how she saw some big program on CNN about it. Turns out there’s piles of sodium in Gatorade, which is salt. & it was terrible for me, especially considering how much of it I drank, & had been drinking everyday. I was really upset. The commercials were complete bull. Unless of course you ran 10 miles a day. Which only like 10% of society actually does. I was furious, upset, & I determined not to let anything like this ever happen to me again.
This was right around the time Vitamin Water became really popular. I tried it just to see what all the hype was about, & it tasted really watered down, so I figured it HAD to be good for me. So after about a month of drinking it, Propel came out with those commercials about how many calories & stuff are in it, & how you’d have to run miles to work it off, which really angered me. It was Gatorade all over again! They basically lied. “Vitamins + Water = all you need.” That’s what it says on the bottle. That’s true, but you don’t need the fat bahookie you’re gonna get from all the calories in it.
From that day on, I was done with popular drinks, & everything I saw a flashy commercial for. I decided to try tea. I switched to Arizona Tea. You know, that milky sweet stuff in the cute green bottle? I drank it religiously. Surprise, there’s 51g of sugar in each bottle, & it was putting weight on me. Now I was fed up. & a little fatter. I decided to just switch to a fruit juice, since everything else was either making me fat, or lying to me. I tried grapejuice, because of the great reviews it got on colon cleansing. I forgot why my mom wouldn’t let me have it when I was a kid. It’s loaded with sugar, just like the tea. But I wasn’t about to give up on the fruit juice idea, I switched to cranberry juice, but got a stomach ache after every glass. It’s supposed to be really good for women, especially when we’re on our periods. It’s supposed to regulate our systems & help everything go smoothly. Which it does for most women, but it made my stomach hurt so bad that I felt like I had swallowed Taz from Looney Tunes.
I lost all hope on anything with well, taste. Lastly, out of desperation, I made myself drink water. Plain water couldn’t hurt me right? It’s basically like drinking nothing. Wrong. I switched to Dasani water, which I got worms from. Yes, worms. I had to take pills & everything. They told me @ the hospital to NEVER drink water again. So now I’m @ a stand still in my life. I haven’t drank anything for a week & a half. I’ve just been eating. Isn’t there ANY drink out there that I can live on without gaining weight or getting sick from? Help!

Keep in mind that I’m not trying to lose weight, just stay healthy!