fruit in the morning Re: HCl dosing

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> [jose] This interests me. May I ask you what fruit you are eating in the

> > morning? Is it fresh?

> >

> > Although I live in a warm region (well it is warm to hot most of the

> > time, but not always), it is asking for trouble for me to eat fresh fruit in

> > the morning. If it is already very hot in the morning, I can get away with

> > it, but if it is mild or a little chilly, then eating fresh fruit as

> > breakfast can make me feel dizzy and cold.

> >

> > If it is dried, starchy (bananas) or cooked fruit, then there is no

> > problem, but fresh fruit in the morning for me is not a wise option. I

> > generally eat my fruit in the afternoon.

>

> , Most months I have baked apple in the morning with ghee and

cinnamon. (I can " cook " it all night at a very low temperature in a special

warming oven I have so it's there right when I get up -- doesn't use much

electricity. It's left over from my raw food days :-) Warmer months I have

fermented fruit -- lately I've been drinking fermented watermelon juice.

Sometimes I have fermented pineapple. I always have any fruit I eat with

some kind of oil or almonds. And the fruit, if not baked apple, is at room

temperature.

If it is a chilly morning and I am eating the room-temperature fruit, it is

with green tea nearby... I don't like cold things first thing in the morning

but I do need to eat something. I still can't tolerate starch very well

(even half a banana makes me have gas) and I don't want to wake up my

stomach too fast with anything more complicated. I subscribe to the

traditional chinese medicine approach to food temps always trying to keep

the food a little bit warmer than body temperature...

By the way, I sometimes have fruit as a snack in the afternoon. But then it

is a dried fruit blend that I like -- it's called Fruit-eze (raisins,

prunes, dates ground up to together) and I swear by it for smooth bowel

movements. It's eliminated constipation for me.. But even that stuff I have

with a little almond butter.

~Robin Ann

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--- In , Robin Ann <grainwreck@g...>

wrote:

> I still can't tolerate starch very well

> (even half a banana makes me have gas) and I don't want to wake up

my

> stomach too fast with anything more complicated.

Robin Ann:

I know many people who have trouble with bananas. And it is

unfortunate to say that, being unable to eat them, they do love the

fruit. Here are some tricks that you might want to use if you are

bent on eating bananas. Ideally, bananas should only be eaten where

they grow, that is, in the tropics. If that isn't your case, try to

buy organic bananas and eat them ripe. If you buy them still green,

wrap them in newspaper and leave them in a dark place for two or

three days or until they are soft and ripe. And above all eat them in

isolation, with no other solid food, but a warm herbal tea could make

a good association. For instance, if you eat one or two ripe bananas

at breakfast and nothing else, except maybe some warm beverage, I

don't think you will have difficulty in digesting them. It may be

worth your while trying this way.

> I subscribe to the

> traditional chinese medicine approach to food temps always trying

to keep

> the food a little bit warmer than body temperature...

Well, I think the Chinese knew better...

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> ~Robin Ann

>

JC