| Chickadee |
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| 05/07/2008 09:59 |
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DAY 97... MAKE IT A FRUITY ONE!
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Recent research has shown that fruit, especially purple grapes and apples (and juices made from them) eally does protect the arteries from clogging upp and help prevent heart disease.
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Drinking fruit juice or eating fruit means lower cholesterol levels, less oxidative stress, and less fat accumulation in the aorta, which is the main vessel supplying oxygenated blood to the body.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7405566.stm
So if you feel like a little something sweet in between meals , or a nice pud, why not head for the fruit bowl - have something low in calories, delicious and that could repair some of the damage done by previous unhealthy food...
| honeybunny |
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| 05/07/2008 10:16 |
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Hi Val,
am feeling fruity today so will take your advice onboard. Usually i do try and have a fruit salad with at least 5 different colours of fruits. I was chatting to one of our dieticians at work and she said you get maximum benefits from lots of colours. I now have raspberries,red, blackberries, black, green grapes, blueberries and oranges in my salad, topped with a vanilla fat free yoghurt. I try and have that once a day, usually for breakfast. I try and do the same with my salad for lunch, different coloured peppers etc.
Before I started the flabulous forumers, i would never have been eating such a healthy diet, now i cannot imagine going back to my former way of eating. I never get heartburn or indigestion now, my skin is clearer and I just feel so much better.
Well done for posting the fruity message, it makes you think of just how much we have all changed for the better.
Have a lovely weekend everybody, here in Cornwall we have force 7-8 winds, driving rain and its really nasty. Not a day to go out so I plan to attack the wardrobe and see what else i have that I can now fit into.
xx
| Spanishlady |
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| 05/07/2008 11:09 |
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good Idea Val I can`t do it today but definatly on Monday and like honeybunny I will have a huge salad.
| AlexP |
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| 05/07/2008 11:27 |
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Thanks for that valaber. Don't you think that a salad made of lots of different coloured fruits (or vegetables)is lovely to look at as well as being good for you. A bowl of colourful salad looks so beautiful - it all adds to the pleasure of eating it.
Your mention of heartburn, honeybunny, reminds me that since I have been eating more sensibly I haven't had heartburn at all - and I used to suffer from that all the time.
| annemari |
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| 05/07/2008 11:36 |
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OH Val,you are an angel, I am so going to show this to my non-fruit eating GS. Maybe just maybe he will believe me then when I say how good fruit is for you.
| mjm |
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| 05/07/2008 12:27 |
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Good afternoon Val, Girls,
Before I started doing this, I remeber moaning to someone on the forum, about not eating fruit, just letting it rot in the fruit bowl, I would always look for some other junk food to get that fast sugar fix.
But now things are totally different, I shop each week, and have run out of the fruit before I go again.
I love fresh pineapples and mangoes.
I usually buy green grapes tho, so thanks for the tip Val, I will get the red ones instead.
I always get berry fruit juices like blueberry and raspberry and cranberry.
Your so right honey, we have come so far, and what a healthy bunch we are now.
| PurpleRain |
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| 05/07/2008 13:24 |
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Hi Guys
Yep whole family consume vast quantities of fruit, I believe you are right and like your thinking of having something sweet and fresh to replace the craving. I did have strawberries in my meringue honest. Its the veggies that we are not huge on unfortunately, as we tend to stick to what we like, and my children are not into salad, so dont eat as much as we should,
| mjm |
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| 05/07/2008 14:17 |
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This is another tip to concider girls when it comes to eating fruit:
Fruit must always be eaten on its own, at least 30 minutes away from other foods. Its better to eat fruit on an empty stomache, preferably in the morning with no other food types. If you eat fruit after a meal, it cant go anywhere, because its stuck behind foods that takes much longer to digest, so it will ferment in the gut. when fruit is indeed mixed with other foods, you can expect bloating. flactulence, indigestion.
NEVER mix melons with other fruits. Melons digest the quickest of all fruits, therefore, eat alone or leave alone!!
| Spanishlady |
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| 05/07/2008 15:17 |
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thanks for that mjm I was going to have melon and ham as a started tonight but when I read your post I decided to have it as a snack now, and have a lemon and onion salad tonight instead
| honeybunny |
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| 05/07/2008 18:42 |
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Lemon & Onion? Forgive me Spanishlady, but I cant quite see me getting my chops around that one.!! What else is with it, would love to know.?
| Spanishlady |
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| 05/07/2008 22:26 |
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slice onions thinly in rings slice lemons thinly in rings add olive oil parsley a a little bit of sugar put in freezer for an hour take out an leave for 15 mins delicious
| Chickadee |
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| 05/07/2008 22:41 |
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Sounds lovely Spanish lady, very...Spanish!
mjm, I had read that about eating fruit at the start of the meal before but wasn't sure if it's true. Does that mean we shouldn't have fruit for pudding?
| mjm |
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| 06/07/2008 08:38 |
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Yes its true Val, you can eat fruit when you want, but dont be surprised then, when you feel bloated and windy.
Its the same as salads as well, The Americans have the right idea of eating their salads before the main course, for the same reasons.
| Chickadee |
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| 06/07/2008 09:43 |
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Thanks mjm, I've followed your advice and had my fruit salad for breakfast ths morning - and very good it was too!