The
Best Years in Life) Fruit is not only enjoyable to eat -- as it should
be, considering the very word fruit stems from the Latin word frui,
meaning "to enjoy, use" -- but it also nourishes and protects the body
with powerful, built-in medicinal activity. Fruits are by design a
"perfect food," intended to entice animals
to consume them in order to help disseminate their seeds, for instance.
This means that unlike grains, and other lectin- and anti-nutrient-rich
organisms, e.g. wheat, tomato, beans, we humans have chosen to make
into our food, fruits are less likely to come equipped with "invisible
thorns," as they benefit as much in being eaten as we do in eating them.
Also, like our now hard-wired biological dependence on obtaining
vitamin C from external sources (unlike most animals we can not produce
it from glucose), countless millennia of fruit consumption has left our
genetic infrastructure in need of continual resupply of many of the key
vitamins and phytocompounds they contain copious quantities of.
Read More:
http://www.tbyil.com/Medicinal_Common_Fruits.htm
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