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Natural Healing With 6 Seasonal Summer Fruits
Eating fresh, locally grown fruit as opposed to imported fruits shipped from far-off places keeps you eating in season and more in harmony with your environment and climate. We all know a healthy lifestyle is key to optimum weight, longevity and abundant energy. Fruit, used as part of your healthy lifestyle, has many nutritional qualities for your body.
As the temperature rises, eating raw fruit in the summer months is cooling for the body and is great for those who are overstressed or overheated from hot climates or excessive mental strain. Using fruit to satisfy your sweet tooth can help you begin to leave behind chemically processed and refined sugars. Although fruit juice is very cleansing, the fiber content is lower then that in the whole fruit. Since fruit contains lots of natural sugar without the extra fiber, you should be cautious of energy or moods swings. In it�s whole form, fruit offers you more fiber which helps to balance the natural sugars that can cause dips in your blood sugar levels for some people.
Whether you have fresh fruit for a light breakfast, a midday snack or evening treat, enjoy nature’s sweetness instead of refined sugars and buy seasonal organic whenever possible.
Here are a few summer fruits and their health benefits.
Apricots: Great for lung conditions and asthma, used to help treat anemia due to their high copper and cobalt content.
Bananas: Help to lubricate the intestines, treat ulcers, detoxify the body, and manage sugar cravings; are rich in potassium (which helps hypertension).
Cherries: Slightly warming in nature; increase overall body energy, remedy arthritis and rheumatism, and are rich in iron, which improves the blood.
Grapefruits: Treat poor digestion, increase appetite during pregnancy, alleviate intestinal gas and reduce mucus conditions of the lungs.
Papayas: Tone the stomach, act as digestive aid, moisten the lungs and alleviate coughing; contain carpaine, an anti-tumor compound.
Raspberries: Benefit the liver and kidneys, cleanse blood of toxins, regulate menstrual cycles, treat anemia and can promote labor at childbirth.
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Be careful eating bananas if you have problems with constipation or slow digestion. My Ob/Gyn doctor told me that after I delivered our first son. If you do have digestive problems, make sure you supplement with other high-fiber foods to counteract that unwanted side effect.
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Many yrs. ago, I decided to grow strawberries. In Az. there was only one variety that would survive the heat, overall weather. soil condition,ect. I planted 240 baby plants on the south side, the east side of house was better, cause of less afternoon sun. It took alot care but we had fruit all yr. We were the talk of the neighborhood, when they flowered white they stood out-what a sight! Cheeries, I really loved, but could not grow them, But luckyfor me my nieghbor would bring me alot of cheeries from his folk's growing farm. So, it helps to know people that have excess to fruits that don't grow in your area.
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Wow! Great information! I need to head to the fruit section at the grocery store ASAP!
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This is just wrong. First you say, "Eating fresh, locally grown fruit as opposed to imported fruits shipped from far-off places keeps you eating in season and more in harmony with your environment and climate." And then you put bananas, grapefruit and papayas on the list??? Those might be local for a tiny portion of Florida and Southern California, but certainly not for the vast majority of this country.
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Who edits these articles? They REALLY need to work on their information processing, maybe the fruit will help!
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and don't forget- the papaya peels should be rubbed flesh side onto your face for an enzyme facial!
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I've been reading about fruit here lately. Because fruit processes faster it should be eaten by itself. When eaten alone any/all fruit is alkaline. When eaten with food that processes slower, it will slow down causing it to ferment and become acidic acidic. So eat your fruit about a half hour before the rest of your meal not after.
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We do grow bananas here in small areas of California. Last year there was an article that said bananas may become extinct because of a disease that is attacking groves in central America. We are also blessed with citrus year round. Summer brings peaches, apricots, cherries etc. Up in Washington state I know they grow some great strawberries and huckleberries which are akin to blueberries. Each region seems to have fruits that people can grow that have great health benefits. Love picking wild blackberries. Rarely can fruit anymore, since I prefer drying fruit because it retains the taste better. That and freezing.
~Beth~
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I wouldn't call bananas a summer fruit, and unless you live in the tropics, they certainly aren't local! What about strawberries, blackberries, blueberries?
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