The Downside of Juice

Are you in post-surgery recuperation period or undergoing medication?
If you are, it is good to take caution in adjusting your diet during recovery, especially when you're the kind who always include fruit juice in your meals.

Recent studies in Canada show that several fruits tend to lower (if not deplete) the effectiveness of medication by blocking the body's capacity to absorb certain chemical substances. Grapefruit, orange, and apple are some among them.

David Bailey, professor of clinical pharmacology from University of Ontario, was first to discover the relation between the consumption of fruit juice with absorption of oral medicine. His experiments showed that grapefruit and several other fruits were responsible for the decrease in certain oral medications absorption, and/or depleting their healing potential.

The experiment was done by giving three groups of healthy people antihistamin to tackle allergic reaction, taken with either fresh water, water mixed with naringin, or grapefruit juice.
The result?

Those who took the medicine with grapefruit juice lost half the effectiveness of the antihistamin dose compared to the ones who took it with fresh water.
Moreover, those who took it with naringin showed a decrease of absorption, since naringin prevented the medicine's chemical substance from being released from intestinal track into blood.

For those who suffer from chronic illnesses and are undergoing medication therapy, drinking grapefruit juice is therefore not recommended.

Fresh Fruits: A Must for Healthy Living

An apple a day keeps the doctor away.
Eating fruits everyday keeps diseases at bay.

Any nutritionist would suggest the above advice to maintain health and vitality. Fruit is an essential part of a healthy diet. It contains the vitamins, minerals, and fibers we need to keep our digestion and physical metabolism in prime condition.
Fruit for human body is like lubricant to engine. The lack of its consumption in our diet causes indigestion and metabolic breakdown, the same way an engine undergoes rust and malfunction when the supply of lubricants doesn't balance the amount of work done.

Anyone would agree that fruit is vital for human health.
Even ancient tribes had been using fruit to prevent illnesses.
In this case, fruit is held as a natural preventive medication.

But, wait a second: which sort of fruit?

Nowadays, with the rush of the hustling civilization, people tend to find and choose a quicker, easier way to everything -- which, unfortunately, doesn't always come up with the best results.
Fruits are being harvested before they completely ripen, and are stored in jars or containers to ripen later. Many are sprayed with insecticides and preservatives to keep them "fresh" even after long export/import shipping periods.
Rarely do we find fruits that are ripe from the tree these days.

Yet, this is the best and most beneficial kind of fruit for our health.
Why?

Because, fruit absorbs the energy of the sun in order to ripen. It is the only food on the planet that receives the power of the sun first-hand. The more it changes color, the greater sun-power it absorbs and contains.
This solar energy is released into our body and physical metabolism once we eat it. Thus, by consuming tree-ripe fruits, we actually transfer the energy of the sun into our body. That is the reason why fruit is a key element to maintaining perfect health.

Want to stay healthy?
Do yourself a favor.
Stop buying preserved, insecticide-sprayed fruits to store in your refrigerators.
Pick fruits fresh from the trees and eat as soon as you pluck it from the branches -- and feel the difference it brings to your health.