Are fruits really our primary foods? [Archive on sweet fruits; blood sugar]

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Hi Alix and all,

 

I'm continuing to go through my message backlog ... Alix, you wrote the

excerpts below all the way back in January. Hopefully a belated reply will

still be constructive for you, and for others.

 

Yes, emphasis upon sweet fruits in particular. I located some related posts

in the archive that may interest people: 14774, 15895, 18062, 27186

(addressed to you in the first place , 29318, 29890, 31172.

 

Regarding your first comments, below, blood sugar upsets result primarily

from consuming excessive dietary fats. In other words, so-called blood-sugar

problems are really blood-fat problems. For more information on this, please

see posts #18011, 18174, 29008, and 29890.

 

Regarding eating 100 or more nuts per day, that is a LOT of nuts ... a lot

of fat and a lot of insoluble fiber. And that won't mix very well with

fruits. The nuts are best eaten toward the evening meal, perhaps in

association with a salad and some kind of acid or subacid fruit.

 

From my perspective, perhaps your most significant comment is

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" It's delicious and heavy so i m not hungry for 4 or more hours during my

work. The nuts are heavy and a little bit difficult to digest at the

beginning (but every day less difficult to digest) but like this i don't

need to feed myself every two hours and it's balanced my quite well. "

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The heaviness you describe comes from both the fat and the indigestible

fiber in the nuts. It signals to your conscious awareness that your

digestive system is moving at a very slow crawl. That this combination seems

" every day less difficult to digest " simply means that your system is

becoming increasingly overloaded and backlogged ... literally.

 

We are designed to process primarily fast-digesting foods, foods high in

water content. Yes, there is a process of relearning to eat ... learning to

eat enough (see some of the abovereferenced posts in the archive). And when

you accomplish this crucial aspect of transitioning, then you will no longer

feel the need to eat so frequently on a diet consisting primarily of fruits

and greens. For more information, please see the archive. I've written 29

posts with the word " transitioning " in the subject line.

 

Best,

Elchanan

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rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of

Alix Bernet

Sunday, January 21, 2007 3:27 AM

rawfood

RE: [Raw Food] Are fruits really our primary foods? (WAS: Heating

raw foods (WAS: VERY new to raw food diets)

 

 

Hi Elchanan,

 

Thanks for your information.

 

I didn't meant that fruit are bad. I think they are really good in a

moderate quantity mainly the sweet one, but the acide ones aswell in more

moderate quantity. Because even if there are really healthy there are full

of sugar (even the fructose the best sugar) and so contributes to high

variation of glucose in your blood which is not very very good. Isn't it ?

 

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I try to focus more on vegetables mainly greens. Big salads with all kind of

veggies, seaweeds, wheatgerm, flaxseeds oil, and sprouted seeds are my two

main meals.

 

But I eat a lot of nuts aswell (100 or more per day) because even if i know

that there is protein in veggies, seaweed, and sprouted seed i need them

(even if there are very fat).

 

Twice a day since i began i ate a mixture of :

 

2-3 dates (or dried fruits)

1 or 2 table spoon of tahini or peanut butter

2 or 3 small spoons of sunflower seeds or cashews or pistachio

1 banana or an apple

some apple juice

 

It's delicious and heavy so i m not hungry for 4 or more hours during my

work. The nuts are heavy and a little bit difficult to digest at the

beginning (but every day less difficult to digest) but like this i don't

need to feed myself every two hours and it's balanced my quite well. And

plus i adore the taste !