Brain booster #1: FRUITS
The Ultimate Brain Fuel
Raw, organic fruits are the original and highest quality super-food known to man. They have the highest levels of micronutrient, vitamin, and mineral availability of all foods. Fruits are oxygen-rich, water-dense and fibre-rich. Additionally, they are the best source of natural sugars for brain and body use.
Fruits are considered to be the “ultimate brain fuel” because their natural, balanced sugar content enhances memory recall and stimulates the brain to think faster. Because they contain their own enzymes for assimilation, raw and ripe fruits digest quickly and supply energy at their own expense. This process provides readily available energy to the brain.
The Fruit Advantage
Fruits act as time-release capsules that rapidly, yet steadily, discharge their energy to the brain. These “brain exciters” provide increased oxygen availability, giving you a steady high to quicken your brain to higher levels of productivity, mental alacrity and focus. That translates into maximum energy input for utmost energy output.
Fruits are renowned for their renewing and cleansing effects on brain and body cells: they supply raw materials for regeneration; dissolve toxins; detoxify the brain and body; encourage internal purification; increase circulation and drastically reduce constipation.
Fruits on the Job
Fruits are an ideal choice for a quick brain boost before business meetings or any other crucial event, or even when you are preparing for your professional exams. Let fruits also be your preferred snack during those unavoidable late-night work sessions. They provide a lasting “pick-me-up” that won’t weigh you down or make you sleepy.
Enhance your job performance by changing your eating habits before any important meeting, business engagement or job interview that requires concentrated, intense thinking: eat only fruits from the time you wake up through the actual event to position your mind for clearer, faster thinking.
Why Raw?
Eating fruits raw is the best way to enjoy them and maximise their energy potential. Raw fruits are an essential for high-fliers, who need to keep their brain consistently alert. So, when you are going to work, carry a big container of cut-up pieces of raw fruits to snack on throughout the day. They will deliver to you a balanced high, with plenty of energy to spare- mentally and physically.
Raw fruits are a great replacement for refined sugars, artificial sweeteners, flour-based snacks, and sweetened beverages and drinks, which give you an injection of energy, followed by a plummeting drop from the high. This rollercoaster effect saps your energy, destabilizes your immune system and can leave you feeling drowsy and distracted throughout the day.
Juicing
Drinking fresh-juiced fruits supplies you with steady energy for mental exploits and is an expedient way to boost brain power, without interrupting your busy schedule.
Note that commercially available juices are not the same as fresh-juiced juices because they are heated to kill bacteria and lengthen their shelf life. This processing destroys the nutrients of the fruits and makes the juice acidic. Also, many fruit juices on the market have a low fruit juice content (always read the labels!) and contain other ingredients like concentrated sugars and flavourings that have negative effects on your brain.
Common Fruits for Juicing
Watermelon – Cut off the rind, remove the seeds and blend, undiluted.
Oranges, Grapefruits, Tangerines and Tangelos – should be ripe. Squeeze by hand or juice with a citrus juicer.
Pineapple –Juice in a juicer, blend in a blender or squeeze by hand.
Apples –Juice in a juicer.
Juicing Etiquette-
Citrus fruits may only be mixed with each other.
Watermelon should be taken alone because of its quick digestion time.
Fruit Tips:
Eat your fruits raw. Cooking destroy nutrients.
Eat ripe fruits. Unripe fruits create an uncomfortable, acidic environment in your body.
Eat a variety of fruits to get a variety of nutrients and benefits.
Look for organic fruits, grown without chemical pesticides and fertilizers that have not been irradiated. These toxins and toxic process lower the nutritional value of the fruit and also contribute to added health risks.
Eat local fruits and avoid imported ones, which also most likely contain chemical pesticides, fertilizers, irradiation, preservatives and the like.
Always eat fruits at least 45 minutes before a cooked meal to ensure proper digestion. Fruits eaten after a cooked meal ferment in the stomach because cooked food takes longer to digest than fruits.
More Fruit = Better Health
Fruit is not just brain food. The more raw fruit you add to your diet, the more you improve in your overall health. In America, many studies have proven that low fruit and vegetable intake is considered a major risk factor in the promotion of diseases like heart disease, strokes, lung, gastric and colorectacal cancer; birth defects, premature aging, Alzheimer’s disease, hypertension, obesity, and poor vision. That means that the lower your fruit and vegetable intake, the higher your likelihood of acquiring one of the diseases listed above.
Two studies conducted by the Harvard School of Public Health noted that for every extra serving of fruit and vegetables per day that participants added to their diet, their risk of developing heart disease dropped by 4%. Another 26-year study provides evidence that fruit intake is positively linked with longevity.
So, it is VERY important for you to give fruits, and even vegetables, a more prominent place in your diet. I strongly urge you to steadily increasing your raw, fruit intake from henceforth.
Don’t forget to eat a variety of fruits, because no single fruit has all nutritional benefits. Remember- the more you eat, the better the results for your brain, your body and your overall whole health.
Angeli Olorunsogo is a God-inspired researcher, who has a deep passion for the spiritual, mental and physical growth of Africans worldwide. She has been researching on the subject of longevity for more than 39 years, with practical proofs to match, making her a living testimony of the reality of lifespan extension. Please contact her at gzussjoy@yahoo.com.
