Healthy Fruits

One of the greatest ways to get an energy boost in the morning is by eating fruit. Many of the popular fruits are a large percent sugar. No not table sugar, fruit sugar. It's not the same thing.

Table sugar is pure calories and no nutrition. Fruit on the other hand is packed full of vital nutrients and quite filling. You get the boost you need, nutritional value of the fruit, but you won't be hungry in 15 minutes. Drop the energy drink and start your day off right with a couple of pieces of fruit.

If you like juicing, I found this really unique website that if you enter in what type of fruits or vegetables you have, it will list all the different recipes with those items in it. It's really cool! There are some great juicing recipe ideas. It has a really good demo on the home page. Click on it and I think you will be impressed with his recipes.

These are my fruit picks.

As a general rule,the darker the fruit, the denser the nutritional value. Black berries, blue berries, cherries, strawberries, kiwi fruit, are all excellent fruit choices. But don't limit yourself. Bananas, peaches, apples, pineapples, oranges, mangoes, apricots, and so many others are all important to total health.

What I do is buy whatever is on sale. Many of the larger grocery stores have regular sales throughout the year on produce as it comes in season. I can achieve a well rounded nutritional balance by simply buying what is available. 4 servings of fruit a day is what the minimum should be. 

If you live in the northern states you will be more limited than southern states.
My recommendation to you is if you can't get fresh fruit, buy 100% juice. Don't buy the cocktail drinks. These are mostly sugar water with at best maybe 30% juice. Many of the stores have organic fruit juice and and even though you aren't getting the fruit pulp, you are still getting the benefit of the nutrients.

I would also use fruit as a regular snack item when you feel hungry. Fruit is quickly absorbed in the stomach and it will give you a decent boost of energy for that 2 o'clock hunger pain.

But be careful not to eat fruit on a full stomach. Fruit could give you indigestion because it breaks down much faster than protein and carbohydrates. Because it can't get to the stomach walls to be absorbed, it could sort of spoil in your stomach. It won't cause anything serious, just a small inconvenience.

So this should wrap this subject up. As I said before, variety is king. Eat what you can get, eat a lot, be creative.
 

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