Saturday, 14 March 2009

MY BASKET OF FRUITS


I was given a basket of fruit as a token of appreciation for giving the Feng Shui talk on Monday. So far, the basket remains on a table in my living room. I have not had time even to take the fruits out from the netting. Actually, they looked so pretty that I just wanted to leave them there for a few days just to look at them. But I know that I have to start eating the fruits soon or at least put them in the fridge. But there are a lot of fruits and there is only one me. What to do? Make orange juice and apple juice?

Actually I have it all planned in my mind. I will eat all of them as a way to detoxify my body. Yeh! Yeh! The holidays have started and I will make sure I eat lots of fruits for breakfast and watch out for a slimmer and healthier Li Na after the 9 day break. Just you wait and see!


Let me fill you in on some facts about eating fruits and detoxification.


If you haven't eaten fruits on a regular basis and you start to eat a lot of fruit, your body will detoxify itself first. Even if you don't change your use of stimulants! Fruit can be used to help your body detoxify. The best way of doing this is not to eat anything but fruit until noon. Till that time your body is still busy detoxifying from the night before. Now you know why people always drink freshly squeezed orange- or grapefruit juice in the morning. The strongest detoxifying effect is caused by the acid fruits. Especially (red) grapefruit and lemons are detoxifying. Citrus fruit is all acid fruit but also tomatoes and pineapples are acid fruits . Squeeze 3 oranges, two mandarins and half a red grapefruit for breakfast. It's the quickest energy supply to wake you up in the morning!
Be a little-bit careful with the acid fruits when you are ill. Your body is already very busy detoxifying and when stimulating this process it could cause an over-reaction of your body to clean itself even more and could make you even feel worse for that moment. So don't go squeezing 20 oranges to get better.
If you are really sick and don't want to eat or drink, the best drink is a glass with the juice of half a lemon filled up with boiled water and a bit of cane sugar (not refined white sugar!) Because you only use half a lemon the detoxifying effect is not so strong but your body does receive much vitamin C.

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