The starting on the many intricacies that are involved in the understanding of  The raw food diet , and the lifestyle change that

 comes with it is not made any easier by the conflict in certain camps as to the role that fruit plays in a successful adherence to

a raw food diet. The following information sets out some of the misinformation that you can encounter during your search for the

best way to enjoy the benefits of a raw food diet.

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It will invariably up to you and your own body needs as to what will settle with you as being the best for you. There are some

fundamentals that will all ways be a base line for the benefits that you can obtain from the raw food lifestyle some of these

 benefits don't always come with the food choice is that you make, but also the spiritual and mental decisions that you are

required to make as you move more into a conscious eating regime.

 The aspects of fruit consumption, and the many fallacies that go about regarding the role that fruit takes in a conscious diet

 will be what is addressed here. Again, this is just one of many conscious decisions that you will be required to make as you

progress on your journey. Please understand that nothing can be set in stone as an absolute truth. The following information

 is based on good science, and extensive experience, personal progress and non-dogmatic understanding.

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Fruits are such a delight to the senses. Of all the foods available to us, fruits are the most attractive, delicious and enjoyable.

 Of all natural foods, that is, the foods we can eat in their natural state, fruit is the food we are most attracted to and that

 first entices our senses. Humans are born with a natural instinct for sweet foods, and in nature that instinct naturally draws

 us to fruit.

When we are hungry - and I mean really hungry - fruit is often the most satisfying food we can eat. Is there anything better

than to devour a delicious ripe mango on a hot summer day? Or to bite into a luscious, freshly-picked apple? Or to enjoy a

sweet, juicy, ripe orange? Is there any man-made dish that can beat the perfection o

Fruits have been consumed by human beings going as far back in time as we know,

 whereas grains, legumes and dairy products

have only been cultivated for 10,000 years or less, which is just a breath in the life of humanity. Fruit  has always

been recognized as one of the healthiest foods there is. In the minds of most people, fruit is seen as a healthy food we should

eat more of due to its vitamin content. But even when realizing the exceptional nutritional qualities of fruit, very few people

actually give it the place it deserves in the diet. Fruit is still eaten as a "snack" or a "dessert," but is rarely seen as a staple

food. In the mind of the masses, fruit is a "healthy snack" but not something that can really sustain a hard-working man, like meat or bread can. They don’t realize that fruit should be a staple in the diet, and has been for thousands upon thousands of years.

People who eat lots of fruit live longer. A study published in the British Medical Journal(September 2001), showed that fresh fruit offers the best bet for a long life. The resultsof a study showed that frequent fruit eaters had a 32 percent lower risk of dying from cerebrovascular disease such as stroke.

Natural Hygienists have known for a long time that fruit doesn’t combine well with other foods. The reason is that fruit contains simple sugars that require no digestion. Thus, they do not need to stay in the stomach for long. Other foods, such as foods rich in fat, protein and starch, will stay in the stomach for a longer period of time because they require more digestion. So if you eat fruit after a meal containing protein, fat and/or starch, the fruit sugar will be held up in the stomach for too long and will ferment. This is why people experience digestive trouble when eating fruits that way. They then blame that fruit for the problem and declare it an allergy.

Natural Hygienists have been recommending for a long time that fruit be eaten alone with no other foods.

They have also recommended eating melons alone and avoiding mixing acid fruits with sweet fruits such as bananas these are great recommendations but can be greatly simplified

Many people have a difficult time eating a meal of fruit alone. They’ll eat a meal of melon and not so long afterwards they’ll be hungry again, for the simple and obvious reason that melons are not calorie dense. Eating a small cantaloupe (200 calories) is not going to sustain you for very long. But because they have read somewhere that mixing melons with other fruits is not allowed, they’ll try to wait until the next meal to eat something else, and in the meantime, snack on dried fruits and nuts to compensate

The solution to this is very simple: since fruit digests so fast, it is possible to eat fruit

	before any other food.  When you are hungry, you can eat as much fruit as you care for. One type of fruit only would be ideal. Then wait a little bit, like 5-10 minutes, and have any other food you desire. This can be a salad, a little avocado with tomatoes, some nuts, or anything. It can be cooked food too. If you have been trying to follow food combining rules, and having a hard time. This could be valuable information to you.

The same goes for mixing other fruits together. You can eat all the melon you want and then, if you are still hungry, eat another type of fruit to satisfy your appetite. It is not necessary to eat melons alone if they are eaten before other foods. You can even have melon and then have an avocado afterwards. The only thing to remember is to have the fruit first, and preferably have one variety at a time.

Fruit & Physical Exercise 

Fruit is the ideal food for exercise. The best post-workout snack or meal is not muffins, yogurt, or protein shakes, but fresh fruit. Runners and other athletes have known for a long time that there is nothing better than high water content, sweet fruit, such as oranges or melons, after a workout. 

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Runners and other athletes have known for a long time that there is nothing better than high water content, sweet fruit, such as oranges or melons, after a workout. They contain enough water to hydrate the body and the natural sugars are easily utilised for energy production..

The same goes for mixing other fruits together. You can eat all the melon you want and then, if you are still hungry, eat another type of fruit to satisfy your appetite. It is not necessary to eat melons alone if they are eaten before other foods. You can even have melon and then have an avocado
afterwards.  
Regular physical activity improves insulin sensitivity.

                         Is Fruit Alkaline or Acid Forming?

It is acid to the taste, like oranges, after digestion the end result is alkaline-forming.However, some authors have recently claimed the contrary.

According to Dr. Robert Young the author of "the pH miracle" fruit is acid forming due to its high sugar content. He goes on, to explain his unproven theory that the sugar in fruit ferments and produces acidity in the body 
Dr. Robert  is completely mistaken on this point. Fruit is alkaline-forming, even if it contains sugar. The natural sugar that fruit contains is perfectly utilized by the body and doesn’t necessarily ferment to produce acidity.

 The fact is that fruit diets have been used for hundreds of years to combat acidosis. People go on grape cures, oranges cures, etc., and it helps to eliminate excess acidity in their bodies. It has been known for hundreds of years by naturopaths and Natural Hygienists that fruit is alkaline forming and is not challenged by the nonsensical theories of Doctor Robert Young, about fruit being acid forming.

Some authors now recommend that we should avoid eating a lot of fruit because it doesn’t contain enough minerals. According to them. It lacks minerals

 They recommend that we eat more vegetables instead.But do these people realize that if fruit grown today has less minerals than it used to have, then
vegetables, which are grown in the same soil, have less minerals too? Are they suggesting that we eat fewer vegetables too? Then we shouldn’t eat anything at all? Common sense warns us against such advice. Fruit grown today still contains minerals and is still packed with vitamins.

 The solution is not stop eating fruit, but seeking out the best we can find fruit is essential to the diet as it provides natural sugars for energy and is still packed with vitamins

Is fruit too hybridized?

Many authors now claim that we should avoid fruit because it is too hybridized. According to them, hybridized fruit contains too much sugar. Let’s look at this for a minute. The process of hybridization is a natural one.

 There is nothing wrong there. What humans have done is the same as what nature has done for thousands of years. We have selected the seeds from the best-tasting fruits and planted those seeds instead of the seeds of inferior fruits

food that we buy has been hybridized for hundreds of years. Problems arise when fruits are hybridized for purely commercial reasons. For example, we have
witnessed the arrival of seedless fruits in the marketplace in the last few years. These fruits have been hybridized extensively solely in order to produce a fruit of inferior nutritional quality but with other qualities that the market is looking for (such as the ‘convenience')

. Those fruits are certainly of inferior quality.taste and nutritional value,  food with certain cosmetic aspects that the market seeks.  we can still ensure a complete nutritional balance from the foods that we find in the stores.
The fact that these fruits contain a lot of sugar is certainly not a problem, unless one decides to eat only fruit, which I do not recommend.

Of course, I would not recommend that you base your diet on one fruit, such as bananas. I believe in eating a large variety of foods. 
The body needs natural sugar as a source of energy. When starchy foods such as potatoes and bread are eaten, the digestive enzymes break down the
complex sugar (starch) into simpler sugars. When fruit is eaten, the body uses the simple sugars (fructose or others) directly, without needing to break them
down any further. However, this is not like eating refined sugar. In the case of refined sugar, the food is devoid of nutrients and fiber. Thus, the sugar enters the blood quickly and is not slowed down by the process of digesting fiber.

If you cut out most sweet fruit (sugar) and most or all complex carbohydrates (starch), then you will need to get your calories from other sources - protein or fat. It is difficult to get a lot of calories from protein, and high-protein diets are generally recognized to be harmful for health.

So what will happen inevitably is that you’ll end up eating large amounts of fats. The consequences of eating a
high-fat diet are well-researched. (See Klaper, McDougall, Fuhrman, Barnard, etc.

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                          But many raw-food enthusiasts are unaware of this.

They live on a very high-fat diet. They eat raw nut butters, nut pates, refined oils, flax crackers, etc. They’ll make a salad with 2-3 avocados thrown in there (sometimes more!), and the bag of macadamia nuts becomes their comfort food. 

An unfortunate side-effect of that unhealthy diet is that they can no longer handle sweet fruit. It has been proven that high-fat diets decrease insulin sensitivity (the effectiveness of insulin in carryingsugar to the cells), and thus raise blood sugar levels1.

 So those living on high-fat diets, that is, most raw-foodists, will inevitably experience more blood sugar swings when they eat fruit. So the problem
is not the fruit per se, but the high amounts of fat consumed. Once you substantially reduce other fatty foods, your body will be able to process and utilize fruit sugar much more efficiently.
With the knowledge that the primary source of fuel for the human body is natural sugar, the concept of fruit having too much sugar becomes illogical fruit.
A fruit-based diet would be a diet in which you get most of your calories from sweet fruit. That means at least 50% of your calories from fresh fruit. Does that sound like a lot? 

 Fruit and your Teeth

It has long been known by dentists that fresh fruit doesn’t encourage tooth decay. Even though fruit contains sugar, it is generally not a problem because nature has packed a lot of fiber and water along with that natural sugar. The combined effect of fiber and water is to clean and rinse the mouth.

 With that in mind, we can clearly see the problem with dried fruit and fruit juice. With dried fruit, the water has been removed. Because of that, dried fruit will stick to your teeth and gums, greatly encouraging tooth decay and gum disease.

 Many perfectly healthy teeth have been ruined by the daily consumption of raisins, dates and other dried fruits. With fruit juice, the water is still present,
but the fiber has been removed. You then end up with a product more concentrated in acids and sugar. If the fruit juice is sipped and not drunk all at once, it will encourage tooth decay. The fiber is no longer present to clean the teeth. This has long been known by preventative dentists, who have
blamed apple juice for ruining the teeth of many of our children.

Acids in fruits can have a negative impact on the teeth and contribute to enamel erosion and decay. That goes especially for the citrus fruits and for unripe fruits. For this reason, and also because many of us are prone to tooth decay, I highly recommend rinsing your mouth with water after eating fruit.

Eating Fruit Only

With any good thing, there always seems to be someone to take it to the extreme. A very few people are claiming that since fruit is an ideal food, it is all we should eat.

Every credible nutrition expert knows that living on fruit alone will deteriorate health. That doesn’t mean that fruit is not healthy. Eating green vegetables only will also prove to be unsustainable - but that doesn’t change the fact that green vegetables are healthy food.

Non-Sweet Fruit

In this report I have been using the culinary definition of fruit: sweet fruits. Of course, anyone with a little knowledge of botany knows that in nature, not all fruits are sweet. Cucumbers, squash, eggplant (aubergine), and tomatoes are all examples of non-sweet fruits. However, for the purpose of clarity in nutritional information, those fruits are best classified as vegetables.

Eating More Fruit

A great way to eat more fruit is to make fresh fruit smoothies. Smoothies need not be complicated to be tasty. For example, I like to blend bananas with water and have that as a smoothie. When I make that smoothie, I will blend a few bananas with about 1 cup of water and drink it after my exercise session. I also like blending mangoes with other fruits. For example, mango blended with papaya or peaches is amazingly delicious.

Frozen bananas go pretty well in all sorts of fruit smoothies. Try, for example, blending a few frozen bananas with a little water and some fresh berries. You’ll be amazed by the taste.

I hope that this report will encourage you to incorporate more fresh fruit into your diet. In
conclusion, remember the following formulas:

Fresh fruit + more exercise

+ less grains and refined foods

= better health and energy

Less fat + more fruit

+ more green vegetables

= even better health and energy

A good diet + a balanced mind

+ fun - extremism

= unexpected benefits

 I will leave you with one more thought that comes up often

“I get so hungry when I eat only fruit.”

One of the most common complaints related to fruit is the idea that fruit’s satiating power is not lasting. “I tried that ‘fruit in the morning’ thing and about an hour later I was starving,” is about the way the story usually goes.

At first glance, this may look like a valid indictment of fruit's inadequacy as a meal, but the situation deserves a bit more investigation. When I ask the nature of the fruit meal, I am usually told, “I had an orange,” or “a slice of melon,” “ a banana,” or “some grapes.”

For most people, a typical breakfast usually contains close to 750 calories. A medium sized piece of fruit averages about 75 calories. When we eat a breakfast of just “a piece of fruit or two,” we are eating only 10-20% of the calories that we previously did, thus we feel empty and low on energy.

Even if the goal is weight loss, this is too extreme a reduction to be satiating, maintainable, or nutritionally adequate. When I explain that fruit has a lower caloric density than all other foods except for vegetables and, therefore, fruit must be eaten in greater volume if one endeavors to consume sufficient calories, there is sometimes a glimmer of comprehension before the curtain of dismissal falls again.

“Yeah, but how much fruit can I eat at one sitting? You’re telling me to eat more than one slice of a melon or two bananas?” “Yes,” I say. We can train ourselves to comfortably eat satisfying fruit meals, allowing ourselves to actually eat fruit until completely satiated. This could mean that you eat an entire melon for breakfast or six, twelve, or even a greater number of bananas for lunch. There are three main factors involved in feeling satiated, and here is how fruit figures in each.

It is very likely that as a child you heard your mom say, “Don’t eat sweets before your meal, it willspoil your appetite.” In effect she was explaining that fruits are a satiating food, although she may have been speaking of candy or other less acceptable foods at the time.

Even a small rise in blood sugar to the above-normal range results in a satiated feeling. Fruit certainly supplies the necessary sugars for such a rise and, hence, is very satiating. This is why many people are initially satisfied to eat just a small amount of fruit.

Another reason why fruit eating results in satiation is the high content of essential nutrients. The nutritional composition of fruit comes closer to mimicking the full spectrum of human nutrient needs than that of any other food group.

Also, the nutrients in fruit are the most easily accessed and absorbed, as fruit requires less digestion than do other foods. Many of the nutrients in fruit require no digestion at all - they are readily absorbed. These include, but are not limited to: water, sugar, minerals, vitamins and many phytonutrients.

Although not digestible, the fiber in fruit is soft and soluble and thus gentle on the delicate membranes of the digestive tract, while affording relatively easy access to the nutrients it encapsulates. These factors combine to make fruit the most satiating of foods.

Last but not least, our level of satiation is directly related to the volume of food we consume. As such, in order to feel satiated, we must ingest a significant volume of food.

All of our essential nutrients can be concentrated into a tablet or cube and consumed in just a few bites. While some experts may consider such a concentrated “meal” to be nutritionally complete, research has repeatedly shown that people are not satisfactorily satiated because of the meager volume. Exactly
because of its low caloric density, fruit perfectly supplies satiating volumes of food per meal.In fact, for many people who have become accustomed to the commonly consumed low-volume, fat-rich meals, deriving satisfaction from a meal of all fruit at first typically poses a seemingly
insurmountable volume challenge. “My stomach can’t hold all of that!” people believe.

Yet, if they take the challenge and stick with it for a few days, they will learn they can eat sufficient quantities and they will feel satisfied and reap the benefits of improved health.

Fruit makes the ideal meal

It takes a bit of practice to learn how much fruit is sufficient for a meal which will satiate for several hours. It is equally true that a mental adjustment is required in order to expand one's understanding of how much fruit is actually appropriate at a meal. With sufficient experience, one’s ability to consume extremely satisfying fruit meals will grow to become one of life’s great pleasures. After all, fruit is health food. Anyone interested in attaining, maintaining, and gaining increased health should consider consuming fruit as their predominant food.”

Some More Guidelines

• Avoid the sweet fruit and fat combination. If you just eat an apple, it will digest quite fast
and leave the stomach rapidly. But eat an avocado at the same time and digestion will be
prolonged. The sweet fruit will have time to ferment and produce acidity. The same happens
when you mix nuts with dried fruits — an abominable combination that is likely to putrefy
and ferment, unless it is consumed in very small quantities, such as five almonds with five
dates.  

• You can avoid fats entirely for weeks during times of hot weather, when the body calls for
water-rich foods, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, melons, peaches, etc.

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