Diet Articles

Fruit Diets: Facts For Fitness

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 dont 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. Its 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. Its 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 suns 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...

To learn more about the tremendous benefits of water in your dietary routine visit: http://www.privilegedinfo.com/waterwisdom.html . Steve Shannon is webmaster at PrivilegedInfo.com.

Related Links:

Weight Loss Fads that Dont Work

Diets Dont Work

Eat Healthy for Life

Avoid These Five Common Weight Loss Mistakes

Latest Weight Loss News

About.com Weight Loss
Get the latest headlines from the About.com Weight Loss GuideSite.

• "Smart Swap!": Sayonara, Soda
  4 Oct 2008 at 9:46pm
  Do you swig down a few sodas daily? If you drink three cans of soda a day, switching to water or another calorie-free beverage would save you an average...
  
• The Low-Down on Diets
  3 Oct 2008 at 6:08pm
  So many diets, so little time... trying to decide which one is right for you can be confusing and time consuming. That's why we're here to help! From Atkins...
  
• Tune in to Trim Down!
  1 Oct 2008 at 2:13pm
  Tuning in to your favorite music may motivate you to keep moving. Researchers at Brunel University in England found that music helped research subject exercise longer. Choose tunes...
  
• "Smart Swap!": Fruity Beverages
  26 Sep 2008 at 10:02pm
  Love the flavor of fruity beverages, but hate the high calorie count? Consider some of these smart swaps! Swap a grape soda at 160 calories for one of Glaceau Fruitwater...
  
• Get Shut-Eye to Slim Down
  26 Sep 2008 at 12:13am
  Getting enough sleep may help you manage your waistline. Research from the University of Michigan shows you may eat about 6% less food if you replace one hour of...
  
• Get Smart About Restaurants and Portion Sizes
  24 Sep 2008 at 11:54am
  A recent study showed restaurant meals contain at least 60% more calories than dishes prepared by the home cook. Portion control is a likely culprit. In a survey...