Eating Fruit

[woohoosue]

i have a thing for bananas ....is that bad?

[GloBug]

i have a thing for bananas ....is that bad?

depends om what you do with them.

[klinkman]

I'll just leave this here.....

snopes.com: Fruit on an Empty Stomach

[BnLM5]

Poker Kitty, most of that email is not true. It is a forward that for some reason people send on and on.

You do not have to eat fruit on an empty stomach, for it to deliver any nutrition or vitamins to your body. You can eat fruit at any time and it will remain the same as far as nutritional value. Also during the process of digestion which begins in the mouth food does not ferment. If it did we would smell wine when we passed the waste. Several organs of the digestive system secrete special digestive juices that perform complex chemical processes of digestion. Because the different things that we eat require different chemicals to break them down.

And as far as food loosing all of its nutrients after being cooked that is not true. If it were true than most of us would be malnutritioned. As most of the food we eat is cooked. Beans/lugumes are very nutritious but they have to be cooked. Could you imagine popping raw pintos for a snack?

As a matter of a fact unfortunately a majority of the information that you may find on the internet regarding nutrition is untrue. You should be very careful to check your sources and credibility before you take what is good for you and what is not to serious. Government sites are usually the best. As far as nutrition guidelines goes I would suggest checking information from the Dietary Refference Intakes Committee (DRI) as they set the standards for The USA and Canada.

[BnLM5]

Oh and as far as drinking water goes, yes it is ok to drink water before, during or after eating. Truthfully tap is prob. more safe and better the bottled.