Those of you who are choosing a fruit diet for the first time should be congratulated. You’re about to go on a journey of discovery of healing and maintaining a healthful lifestyle. What can be more delicious than biting into a juicy ripe mango, ripened pineapple, banana, orange, apple, melon or fresh papaya? It’s a meal and dessert rolled together. Whether you choose a piece of ripe fruit freshly picked from the tree, or you purchase fruit from your local farmers market, your health will begin to change dramatically. In this article I’m going to focus on exactly what a fruits diet is, a bit on how it works, some of the benefits you can expect.
Why a Fruit Diet for Cleansing and Detox
Our world today is a highly toxic place with technology leading towards a higher consumption of petrochemicals, synthetic chemicals, pesticides, even nuclear waste. This harsh environment produces toxins that end up in our water supply, our food chain and straight into our bodies. Compound that with the highly processed foods most people in the western world are eating that is practically devoid of a whole fruit diet; it’s no wonder human beings are getting sick.
Illnesses such as heart disease, cancer, and diabetes were unheard of 40 or 50 years ago, and if you did hear about someone with cancer, heart problems or diabetes, it was usually a person who was much older, and already towards the end of their life. Today these diseases are on the increase, and instead of scientists and doctors being any closer to finding cures, the medical establishment prescribes drugs and more prescription medications for those who suffer from one ailment or another. It’s become quite clear that even prescription drugs are not necessarily aimed at healing the patient, as they merely stop the symptoms temporarily at best, mask the problem, and often bring negative or unwanted side effects.
With all of these harmful toxins in our environment, in our food supply, in our prescription drugs, and bodies, how can we get rid of them? That is the million dollar, million euro, million Yuan QUESTION. Disease, unhealthy lifestyle, weight loss, how to maintain optimum health through a high fruit and vegetable diet are some of the issues we’ll be exploring on the Fruits Diet website. Through the articles I’ll try to explain in brief about the concepts, theories and practical measures you can do to include an all fruit diet into your life.
Regularly going through a fruit flush diet will cleanse and detoxify the body. Fruit is one of the most perfect food sources that can help the body to detox since fruit is filled with enzymes that perform the digestive work. An all fruit diet, loaded with anti-oxidants, vitamins and minerals will get carried by the bloodstream to nourish every cell in the body. Another important point in favor of fruit is that it does not create mucous in the arteries and with its fibrous nature it helps to cleanse the colon effectively, removing toxic mucous that has built-up by poor eating habits over a period of years.
Lack of a Fruits Diet can Contribute to Toxins
I can’t say enough about the important function of the colon and our ability to regularly cleanse it. Perhaps you’ve heard the phrase, “the second brain”? That comes from a reference to the colon at times being termed ‘the second brain’. When the fetus first begins to form, everything stems from one central location, from this center the cells will divide and stem out to develop the nervous system and brain, heart, lungs and limbs, etc.
The central location from which everything originates, or begins might be considered the belly. So in some groups of the newer nutritional sciences, the colon is referred to as the second brain. Since all food ingested goes has to go through the digestive processes in the colon, with its function being to extract the important nutrients, minerals, vitamins, proteins, amino acids, fatty acids, etc. from the food and sends those nutrients through the blood coursing throughout the body, vital organs, heart, and brain, and eliminate the waste product.
If the colon becomes impacted with food, as it inevitably will if you’ve been eating the average western diet, that waste will build up inside your colon. Toxins from the waste will reenter your blood stream and travel back through your body. At this point your healthy bodily systems which are meant to regenerate and heal naturally can easily begin to break down. The digestive process of the colon slows down when it becomes impacted with waste. There are other factors that hinder good digestion as well, such as the use of prescription drugs, eating excessive amounts of processed foods, meat or starchy foods, not eating foods with fibre such as the fruits diet, or not drinking enough fresh purified water.
This waste material from your food, which should eventually be eliminated from the body, can end up sitting in your colon for days, weeks, months or even longer. That leads to some very serious health complications since it means your colon is now reabsorbing those toxins, besides the fact that it is no longer able to properly absorb nutrients from your food. You might literally be starving your body of the very vital nutrients it desperately needs to maintain good health, while at the same time spewing more toxic waste back into your own system. Your body will no longer be capable of maintain a healthy balance between good bacteria and bad bacteria, good germs and bad germs.
With a Fruits Diet, What Benefits Can You Expect?
I hope I’ve built up a good case in which you can better understand the need for a detoxing purely fruits diet. Besides establishing some of the biological functions that make it so necessary, I want to also mention that for individuals who have serious health conditions, this website is not meant to be medical advice and it should not be used as a substitute for consulting with your own physician. Also, with certain people maintaining an all fruit diet continually may not be the best solution and could even make matters worse since, as fruit does lack all the valuable nutrients that most people need. The fruits diet has proven the most effective when used for a specific time period in order to cleanse and heal. The vegetable and fruit diet, with inclusion of fatty acids will have the greater percentage of vital nutrients that your body needs to maintain health.
Having said that, as you begin a detoxing diet program you will find the most challenging and difficult time for you, especially if you are new to the all fruit diet, will be during the first 3 days. Once you get through that period you will begin to experience:
- renewed health, vigor, and sense of well-being
- deeper detoxing of toxins built up by processed foods, polluted air and water
- safer weight loss due to the low caloric intake in a fruit diet
