The people of Paradise start to eat, always fruits first then meat
MEDICAL WISDOM BEHIND IT….!!!!!!!!!!
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In the Quran, we find that on mentioning the food that the people of Paradise eat, Allah always mentions fruits first then meat. The great medical wisdom behind this order is that fruits contain simple, easy to absorb and digest sugars that are considered an essential source of energy for the human body, and can therefore satisfy the hunger quickly. On the contrary, if one starts with meat, the body will take around three hours to complete the digestion of the meat. We can see how the verse (And with fruits, any that they may select – And the flesh of fowls, any that they may desire.) [Al-Waqi’h 20-21] and also the verse 22 Surah 55 At-Tur ( And We shall provide them (the people of Paradise) with fruit and meat, such as they desire) indicates the medical fact, and try to make use of it during the month of Fasting (Ramadan) by starting our meals with fruits.
Fruit eating offers many benefits:* Fruit is the best source of the natural sugar needed for energy.
* Fruit is packed with vitamins, and still represents the best source of vitamins in any food.
* Fruit is packed with anti-oxidants.
* Fruit is easier to digest than grains. Fruit is basically pre-digested. Digesting ripe fruit hardly requires any digestive enzymes, and is thus less taxing to the body.
* Fruit is alkaline forming (whereas meat, fish, grains and legumes are acid-forming).
* Fruit contains an abundance of pure water.
* Fruit is easy to eat. It doesn’t require much preparation.
* Fruit is beautiful. All of our senses are nourished by fruit, not just our taste buds.
* People who eat lots of fruit live longer. A study published in the British Medical Journal (September 2001), showed that fresh fruit offers the best bet for a long life.
The results of a study showed that frequent fruit eaters had a 32 percent lower risk of dying from cerebrovascular disease such as stroke, and a 24 percent lower risk of dying from ischemic heart disease, than those who ate fruit less than once a day.
* Fruit contains lots of fiber, which is necessary for optimum digestion. have heard of the saying “An apple a day keeps the doctor away”. Fruits are essential in a healthy diet because they are rich in vitamins and fibre. However, to reap the maximum benefits from the fruits that we eat, we should ask ourselves this question.
In our culture, we often eat fruits as desserts at the end of a meal. Did you know that this could actually cause digestion problems?Let’s say you eat two slices of bread and then a slice of fruit. As fruit digests faster than bread, the slice of fruit digests quickly and is ready to go straight through your stomach into your intestines, but its passage is blocked by the bread which takes longer to digest…In the meantime the whole meal ferments and turns to acid. Consequently, when the fruit comes into contact with the food in your stomach and digestive juices, the entire mass of food begins to spoil. So it is better to eat your fruit on an empty stomach or before your meals!
You have heard people complaining – Every time I eat water-melon after dinner I burp. When I eat a banana I feel like running to the toilet etc – Actually all this will not happen if you eat your fruit on an empty stomach.
The fruit mixes with the putrefying other food and produces gas and hence you will bloat!
*Graying hair, balding, nervous outburst, and dark circles under your eyes…all these will not happen if you eat your fruit on an empty stomach.
*It is incorrectly presumed that some fruits like oranges and lemons are acidic and will enhance acidity in your stomach.
*Research however shows that all fruits become alkaline in your body.
When you need to drink fruit juice – drink only fresh fruit juice, NOT from the cans. Don’t drink juice that has been heated up. Don’t eat cooked fruits because you don’t get the nutrients at all. You only get to taste.
*Cooking fruit destroys all the vitamins.
Eating the pulp or whole fruit is far better than drinking the juices. Fibre is good for you.
If you drink the juice, drink it mouthful by mouthful slowly, because you must let it mix with your saliva before swallowing it.
A 3-day “fruit fast” is a very simple and effective way to cleanse and de-toxify your body. Just eat fruits and drink fruit juice throughout the 3 days and you will be surprised when your friends tell you how radiant you look!
During the “fruit fast” you can eat different fruits at different times, although occasionally mixed fruit salad would also be permissible and more interesting.
If you have mastered the correct way of eating fruits, you have the secret of beauty, longevity, health, energy, happiness and normal weight.
Some experts are recommending that fruits should be eaten on an empty stomach, at least twenty minutes before eating a proper meal. The explanation behind this is fairly simple.
Fruits contain simple sugars that are easily digested and take less than half an hour to digest. Other food which contain starch, protein and fats take a longer time to be digested and will stay in our stomachs for a longer period of time. So, have previously eaten. This causes the fruits to ferment and even rot as they wait to be digested together with other food. Thus, all the nutrition will go down the drain (figuratively speaking) and the fruits that we ate were eaten in vain!.
1432 years ago, holy Quran highlighted all the medical facts clearly by mention eat fruit first and then the rest of foods, then you be healthy and able to multiplying by mirage.
Fruit has always been recognized as one of the healthiest foods there is. In the minds of most people, fruit is seen as a healthy food we should eat more of due to its vitamin content. But even when realizing the exceptional nutritional qualities of fruit, very few people actually give it the place it deserves in the diet. Fruit is still eaten as a “snack” or a “dessert,” but is rarely seen as a staple food. In the mind of the masses, fruit is a “healthy snack” but not something that can really sustain a hard-working man, like meat or bread. They don’t realize that fruit should be a staple in the diet, and has been for thousands upon thousands of years, long before bread and rice were cultivated, and long before cheese, sandwiches and twinkies were invented.
Eating fruit before meals and other food combining rules
Natural Hygienists have been recommending for a long time that fruit be eaten alone with no other foods. They have also recommended eating melons alone and avoiding mixing acid fruits with sweet fruits such as bananas. These are great recommendations, but can be definitely be simplified.
Many people have a difficult time eating a meal of fruit alone. They’ll eat a meal of melon and not so long after they’ll be hungry again, for the simple and obvious reason that melons are not calorie dense. Eating a small cantaloupe (200 calories) is not going to sustain you for very long. But because they have read somewhere that mixing melons with other fruits is not allowed, they’ll try to wait until the next meal to eat something else and then will often in the meantime overeat on dried fruits and nuts to compensate. The solution to this is very simple: since fruit digests so fast, it is possible to eat fruit before any other food. You can, when you are hungry, eat as much fruit as you care for. One type of fruit only would be ideal. Then wait a little bit, like 5-10 minutes, and have any other food you desire. This can be a salad, a little avocado with tomatoes, some nuts, or anything. It can be cooked food too. If you’ve been trying to follow food-combining rules without success, this new information could be very valuable to you.
The same goes with mixing other fruits together. You can eat all the melon you want, and then, if you are still hungry, eat another type of fruit to satisfy your appetite. It is not necessary to eat melons alone if they are eaten before another foods. You can even have melon and then have an avocado after. The only thing that is important to remember is to have the fruit first – not after, and ideally only have one variety at a time.
Fruit & Physical Exercise
Regular physical activity improves insulin sensitivity, which is the effectiveness of insulin in transporting sugar to your cells. In other words, if you exercise, you’ll be able to utilize fruit sugar a lot better and will be less likely to experience ‘sugar swings’ and blood sugar fluctuations.
Is Fruit Alkaline or Acid Forming?
However, some authors have recently claimed the contrary. According to Dr. Robert Young, author of “The pH Miracle,” fruit is acid-forming due to its high sugar content. He then goes on to explain his unproven theory that the sugar in fruit ferments and produces acidity in the body.
Dr. Robert Young is completely mistaken on this point. Fruit is alkaline-forming, even if it contains sugar. The natural sugar that fruit contains is perfectly utilized by the body and doesn’t necessarily ferment to produce acidity. The fact is that fruit diets have been used for hundreds of years to combat acidosis. People go on grape cures, oranges cures, etc., and it helps to eliminate excess acidity in their bodies. It has been known for hundreds of years by naturopaths and Natural Hygienists and other health practitioners, both traditional and alternative, that fruit is alkaline forming – and that fact is not at all challenged by the nonsensical theories of Dr. Young about fruit being acid-forming.
Fruit & Minerals
But do these people realize that if fruit grown today has less minerals than it used to have, then vegetables, which are grown in the same soil, have less minerals too? Are they suggesting that we eat fewer vegetables too? Then we shouldn’t eat anything at all? Common sense warns us against such advice. Fruit grown today still contains minerals and is still packed with vitamins. The solution is not to stop eating fruit, but rather to seek out the best-quality fruit we can find. Fruit is still essential in the diet as it provides natural sugars for energy and is still the best source of vitamins.
Is fruit too hybridized?
Problems arise when fruits are hybridized for purely commercial reasons. For example, we have witnessed the arrival of seedless fruits in the marketplace in the last few years. These fruits have been hybridized extensively solely in order to produce a fruit of inferior nutritional quality but with other qualities that the market is looking for (such as a seedless fruit). With that in mind, I totally agree with the hybridization detractors who have launched a war against seedless grapes and watermelons. Those fruits are certainly of inferior quality.
In the future, we can hope that humanity will come back to its senses and grow food with exceptional taste and nutritional value, not food with certain cosmetic aspects that the market seeks.
In the meantime, we will still have to buy the best fruit that we can find. By eating a large variety of foods, we can still ensure a complete nutritional balance on the foods that we find in the stores.
And the fact that these fruits contain a lot of sugar is certainly not a problem, unless one decides to eat only fruit, which I do not recommend. Fruit sugar is utilized perfectly by the body and is the most natural source of energy we can consume. As long as we eat whole fresh fruit with all of its natural water and fiber, that fruit sugar is not going to be a problem.
Of course, I would not recommend that you base your diet on one fruit, such as bananas. I believe in eating a large variety of foods. Bananas are of no more importance in the diet than kiwis or blueberries. I believe in eating according to the season and not eating one food, such as bananas, every day – even though they may be available all year round.
Is fruit too high in sugar?
If you cut out most sweet fruit (sugar) and most or all complex carbohydrates (starch), then you will need to get your calories from other sources – protein or fat. It is difficult to get a lot of calories from protein, and high-protein diets are generally recognized to be harmful for health. So what will happen inevitably is that you’ll end up eating large amounts of fats. The consequences of eating a high-fat diet are well-researched. (See Klaper, McDougall, Fuhrman, Barnard, etc.)
Most leading vegetarian and vegan experts recommend a diet with about 10-15% of the calories coming from fat. Certainly, no credible health expert would recommend a diet with more than 20-25% of the calories coming from fat.
But many raw-food enthusiasts are not aware of this. They live on a very high-fat diet. They eat raw nut butters, nut pates, refined oils, flax crackers, etc. They’ll make a salad with 2-3 avocados thrown in there (sometimes more!), and the bag of macadamia nuts becomes their comfort food. On average, they get more than 50% of their calories from fat, often up to 70%. Without a doubt, such a large amount of fat in the diet is extremely unhealthy and is the main reason why most people fail on those diets.
An unfortunate side-effect of that unhealthy diet is that they can no longer handle sweet fruit. It has been proven that high-fat diets decrease insulin sensitivity (the effectiveness of insulin in carrying sugar to the cells), and thus raise blood sugar levels. 1
With the knowledge that the primary source of fuel for the human body is natural sugar, the concept of fruit having “too much” sugar becomes illogical. The only way you can consume too much sugar in the form of fruit would be to overeat, which is difficult to achieve when eating high-water content fruit.
A fruit based diet – what is it?
And remember how enjoyable and vitamin-packed all that fruit is! I’m also giving you an idea as to which nutrients are being met by eating all that fruit everyday. I did the values for myself (5 10, male, 28 years old), so it is approximate.
A big bowl of cherries (about 50 cherries): 250 calories
1 pint of strawberries (100 calories)
15 apricots (250 calories)
3 mangoes (400 calories)
(That fruit, by the way, will provide 750% of your vitamin C, 385% of your vitamin A, 125% of your vitamin E, 110% of your vitamin B-6, as well as good amounts of magnesium (42%), phosphorus (42%), iron (65%), calcium (23%), thiamin (63%), riboflavin (77%), niacin (55%), and folate (55%))
1000 calories of fruit is about:
3 large oranges (250 calories)
2 pomegranates (200 calories)
1 large apple (125 calories)
(That fruit will provide 612.48% of your vitamin C, 268.04% of your vitamin B-6, as well as a good amount of vitamin E (49.72%), folate (70%), niacin (30%), iron (33%), and calcium (27%), phosphorus (30%), and magnesium (52%))
4 apples (350 calories)
4 large persimmons (475 calories)
2 pears (200 calories)
(That fruit will provide 149.25% of your vitamin A, 158.57% of your vitamin C, as well as good amounts of vitamin E (73%), thiamin (30%), riboflavin (26%), vitamin B-6 (76%), iron (28%), phosphorus (27%), and magnesium (27%))
1 large cantaloupe (285 calories)
1 pound of fresh figs (350 calories)
2 cups of grapes (225 calories)
2 apples (165 calories)
(That fruit will provide 265.73% of your vitamin A, 7977.1% of your vitamin E(!), 670.51% of your vitamin C, 289.11% of your thiamin, and 152.89% of your vitamin B-6, as well as good amounts of riboflavin (30%), niacin (36%), folate (39%), iron (30%), calcium (28%), and magnesium (30%))
Fruit and your Teeth
Acids in fruits can have a negative impact on the teeth and contribute to enamel erosion and decay. That goes especially for the citrus fruits and unripe fruits. For that reason, and also the fact that many of us are prone to tooth decay, I highly recommend rinsing your mouth with water after eating fruit.
Eating Fruit Only…..NO ….NO, in the holy Quran,a two vereses to describe the paradise’ people eating fruits and then fowls ,meat, then they will have the right strength to enjoy their times with hories..”And with fruits, any that they may select – And the flesh of fowls, any that they may desire.) [Al-Waqi’h 20-21] and also the verse 22 Surah 55 At-Tur ( And We shall provide them (the people of Paradise) with fruit and meat, such as they desire)
With any good thing, there always seems to be someone to take it to the extreme. Very few people are claiming that since fruit is an ideal food, it is all we should eat.
Every credible nutrition expert knows that living on fruit alone will deteriorate health. That doesn’t mean that fruit is not healthy. Eating green vegetables only will also prove to be unsustainable – but that doesn’t change the fact that green vegetables are healthy food.
Non-Sweet Fruit
In this article I have used the culinary definition of fruit: sweet fruits. Of course, anyone with a little knowledge of botany knows that in nature, not all fruits are sweet. Cucumbers, squash, eggplant (aubergine), and tomatoes are all examples of non-sweet fruits. However, for the purpose of clarity in nutritional information, those fruits are best classified as vegetables.
Eating More Fruit:
Frozen bananas go pretty well in all sorts of fruit smoothies. Try, for example, blending a few frozen bananas with a little water and some fresh berries. You’ll be amazed by the taste
Senior Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist
GREAT BRITAIN
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