TCM, The Energy in Fruit

 The energy fruit contains is the form of natural sugars. The burning of these sugars is a 'clean' process.

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People are getting more conscious about nutrition and what they eat, the interest in fruit and substances that fruit contains are growing. We know it is beneficial for us, and a diet of raw fruits and vegetables can cure sickness. Even cancer can sometimes be cured by this diet, but which substances fruit contains is a mystery. Fruitarians have proven that a human being can live healthily on fruit diet alone.

 

The water in fruit

The body consists of 80% of water. So what is the food that contains 80% water, it is extremely sensible to eat food that contains water. We need to drink 8 to 12 glasses of water each day, but does not clear the body. We need to eat food that is rich in water: fruit, fruit juices and vegetables are the food that fit this definition.

 

Why is it better to eat food that contain lots of water in it?

All substances that we eats need to be digested. Meat takes about 8-10 hours to digest, while a fruit salad only takes about 30 minutes! If one extract the fruit salad and drink the juice, our body can combine the nutritive element even faster. In this way, the body can use its energy for other purposes than digesting. For example, thinking or detoxifying.

Let's take a closer look at how our body extracts energy from food.  The burning process and the sugar in fruit. Everything we eats or drinks has to be digested to obtain the energy from it.

 

Our body can extract energy from food in two ways:

  • Burning with oxygen, for sugar and fat (fruit)
  • Burning without oxygen, for proteins (meat/dairy)

 

Burning with oxygen, for sugar and fat (fruit)

The energy fruit contains is in the form of sugars (glucose). The body can easily change this glucose into energy by using oxygen. When the body burns the sugars with the help of oxygen, there are waste products produced. The waste products of this chemical reaction are water and carbon-dioxide. One body can use the water and disposes of the carbon-dioxide through the lungs by breathing. It is a remarkably quick, free and easy way to extract energy. One body does an excellent job: it extracts 50% of the energy. A combustion engine about 10 to 20%, the rest lost through heat. Fruit juice takes only about 15 minutes and raw fruit about 30 minutes to absorb!

 

Burning without oxygen, for proteins (meat/dairy)

Proteins burnt in a different way. The energy that for instance meat, milk and dairy, contain consists of proteins and animal fat. The largest part consists of proteins and the transformation of proteins into energy is more difficult and costs more energy than the conversion of sugar and fat into energy. When the body burns proteins other waste products produced than with the burning of sugars. The waste product of the burning-process without oxygen is ammonia which connected with carbon-dioxide and forms the less toxic which excreted by the kidneys it is a complicated way to extract energy.

Meat takes up to 8 or 10 hours to digest, especially when eaten in combination with potatoes. In comparison to fruit, (30 minutes) a lot of energy lost to the digestion of proteins and this means that one cannot use that energy for other things, like for thinking or the disposing of toxins for example.

 

Proteins

When it comes to fruit and vegetables people tend to say: "But what about my proteins? I need them." We knows that we needs proteins, because proteins are an essential building material for our cell. It also known that meat, dairy and eggs contain many proteins, so we eat meat, dairy and eggs for robust health.

This three arguments that prove that the human body does not require that many proteins:

  • The fruitarians
  • Babies
  • Amino acids

 

The fruitarians

The vegetarians (no meat), vegan (no animal products) and fruitarians (only fruit) do not eat food that contains many proteins. They live a healthy life without massive doses of proteins and look younger too!

Proteins are indispensable though, and the best source of protein is from the same raw fruits, and vegetables that provide all the other nutrients: vitamins, minerals, enzymes and carbohydrates. Although fruit and vegetables contain less proteins than other nutrition, about 15 to 20 times less than meat, the best way to get all these nutrients, including protein, is to eat a well-balanced selection of fresh fruits and vegetables. For the exact amount, of proteins in fruit see contents of fruit.

 

Babies

Baby is lucky enough to obtain most of the natural food it can by breast feed for the first three to twelve months of their lives. Mother milk contains not only the essential nutritional elements but also protects the baby against allergies and infections. It consists only of about 1% of proteins though proteins are the most valuable component for building cells!

Babies get lots of cells so obviously it is not necessary to achieve many proteins for the cell-building process. Fruit only consists of 1% of proteins and that is normally enough proteins for a human to obtain the amino acids required for building the cells. Fruit does not contain many proteins but has everything in it to develop fully grown humans and babies grow.

 

Amino-acids

Proteins consist of amino acids, and our body uses 20 different amino-acids. There are 8 amino-acids that the body cannot make itself. They called it essential amino-acids and the bodies have to get them through food. There are many fruits and vegetables that contain the eight essential amino acids in the fruit or vegetable.

This means that it is not necessary to consume animal products to achieve the proteins that contain the essential amino acids that the body needs.

The following fruits and vegetables contain all 8 essential amino acids:

  • Fruits: Bananas, tomatoes, cucumbers.
  • Vegetables: Potatoes, sweet potatoes, carrots (also good for the memory), corn, cabbage, cauliflower, brussels sprouts, okra, peas, summer squash and kale.