Chapter VII Fruit Diet

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CHAPTER 7

FRUIT DIET

All fruits contain acids which are necessary for the proper elimination of various toxins, poisonous acids, and other impurities.

Natural acids are highly alkaline.

The value of a fruit diet cannot be over-estimated, especially in sickness, ill health, or whenever the body is filled with poisons. Germs cannot grow and live in fruit juices. Typhoid fever and cholera germs cannot resist the action of fruit juices such as lemon, orange, pineapple, strawberry, apple, and grapefruit. A fruit diet will disinfect the stomach and alimentary canal. Fresh fruits are more effective for this purpose than stewed fruits.

Citric, malic, tartaric acids are powerful germicides found in fruits.

Malic Acid is found in pineapples. Apples, quinces, pears, apricots, plums, peaches, cherries, currants, gooseberries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, elderberries, grapes, and tomatoes.

Citric acid is found in strawberries, red raspberries, cherries, red currants, cranberries, lemons, limes, grapefruit, and oranges.

Tartaric Acid is obtained from grapes and pineapples. Tartaric acid is important in treating all diseases hyperacidity, such as lung diseases, sore throat, indigestion, etc.

Oxalic Acid is found in plums, tomatoes, rhubarb, sorrel, yellow dock, spinach, and is especially good for constipation and an inactive liver.

Lactic acid is found in buttermilk and clabber milk, also soybean buttermilk. It is good in treatment of termintation, and putrefaction and in treating hardening of the arteries it is especially good.

It is better to use fruits uncooked. Never sweeten them with cane sugar.

A fruit diet is an excellent cure for chronic constipation, also for reducing. Fruit gives the body strength and energy. Fruits are solvents, and should always be abundantly used in an eliminating diet.

Fruit is an ideal food. It develops more slowly than other products, therefore, for a longer time receives the beneficial effects of the sunlight, and air.

Dates, raisins, and figs and many other dried fruits have become staple foods in civilized countries. Dates and raisins are high in natural sugar which is very easily assimilated. Figs both fresh and dried, especially Black Mission Figs, are rich in bone-building elements.