Fruit

Onto the fruit conversation... My mom sent me an email a month or so ago about fruit and proper place to eat fruit in a meal. I find it interesting that all the food groups have a theory as to where they should be consumed. Protein first. Dairy with certain foods that promote the absorption of calcium. And now fruit. The fruit people say you should eat the fruit WAY before anything else. This will allow the vitamins to enter your system and the fiber and waters to clean out the system. Who knows for sure if this is the case but I started looking into it - which really just means googling fruit on a rainy day and seeing what they have to say. I came up with a whole variety of information.
I love the fruit diets I found which were really just an attempt to get people to introduce fruit into their diet. It had approaches like - have some fruit with your breakfast, have an apple with your lunch.
Oh and the ones promoting their own products.... eat your normal diet with these fruits and our blah blah blah diet powder shake stuff. Yeah that sounds healthy. I mean these weren't even promoting protein shakes. They were just random mystery shakes.
And then I found a yoga blogger and he did a 3 day fruit fast. All fruit all the time. THIS is what I was looking for. He followed a fruit fast for 3 days and cataloged his experience. (I did find fruit fasts that went longer - I don't know how their bodies handled that - that sounds more like a disorder)
I have to say - I have gotten more fruit in my dy but have yet to get a full 3 days of nothing but fruit. I started yesterday and then buggered it up with chicken, beer, peanuts and a cheese puff or 10. The chicken seemed to be calling my name... it wa surely a protein thing. The peanuts - salt - they were the type in a shell that are so fun to eat. The beer and cheese puffs - well if I had stayed in the comfort of my home I probably could have avoided that.
So today I will try again. And I am doing additional research on what classifies as a fruit. You know a whole lot more classifies as fruit than we think. So I will be adding squash to the mix of it all.