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Monday, May 4, 2009

5 a day

I am trying to eat at least 5 servings of fruits a day. That's part of my trying to "eat healthy" campaign.

The usual fruits I buy are: mango (sometimes dried mango, hahaha!!), grapes, papaya, watermelon, apple, orange and lanzones if I get lucky.

If I can have my way and if it's available year round, I'd eat lanzones everyday. It's my favorite fruit!

But since it's seasonal, I eat what's available on the market.

Currently I am addicted to papaya. And I just found out that papaya has far more benefits than I thought.

Among the many benefits of papaya, I am delighted to find out that it is a great cleanser. The fiber in papaya flushes out the cancer-causing toxins in the colon. So if you want to have a cheap colon cleanse, eat more papayas.

Having a cancerous genes from my mother's family, I am afraid that I'd inherit those genes. So knowing all the right food to eat while I am still young and healthy is very precious. Prevention is definitely better than cure.

I must always remember from now on to put in my tray basket a lot of papaya and green tea during my grocery trips..

4 comments:

witsandnuts said...

Thanks for reminding me about papaya. I'm trying for the longest time to eat healthy stuff. When I was still in the Philippines, I used to have a banana a day. But bananas in UAE are generally awful. Oranges are my current fave. Do fruit shakes count? =)

Kayni said...

that's a great idea. i've been eating a lot of mangoes...i love mangoes...especially green ones.

josiet said...

@witsandnuts - hahaha, not sure about fruit shakes. i guess if there's no sugar and cream added it will count =)

@kayni - i love mangoes too but not much of the green ones.

Francesca said...

à fruit à dày is not bàd;
àko din i squeeze mixed fruits now to hàve juices