Five Fruits That Will Energize Your Body and Spirit
What are your favorite fruits? Strawberry, kiwi, watermelon, plum, and avocado are loaded with many health benefits. These fruits are great as snacks throughout the day.
Summer is upon us and with that we are blessed with an abundant of fresh fruits and vegetables. I love fruits of all kind. Strawberries, avocados, kiwi, watermelon, and plums are among many favorites for many people.
The health benefits of these five fresh fruits are listed here.
Strawberries
Strawberries have excellent sources of fiber, more vitamin than an orange, and can maintain normal blood sugar levels by just eating one cup.
Strawberries also can clean out harmful toxin in the blood, and remove tartar from teeth, plus strengthen the gum.
Avocados
Avocados supply lots of cancer fighting antioxidants. If you think they are loaded with fat then you are right, but the fat are monounsaturated fat, which are good for you fat.
Avocado has been used to aid people with sexual problems, help with digestive and circulatory problem.
Kiwi
Kiwi can help reduce blood clotting, which can contribute to heart attacks. Two or three kiwi a day equal a daily dose of an aspirin. Best of all, kiwi is all natural, and gives no side-effect. Kiwi is also high in fiber which helps protect from heart disease, diabetes, and colon cancer.
Kiwi is also known for uses in treating wheezing, and coughing.
Watermelon
Watermelon contains a good source of potassium, vitamins A and C. Just two cups of watermelon provides 18 milligrams of cancer-fighting antioxidant lycopene, more than in a medium tomato.
It is also advised to keep watermelon at room temperature since they have much higher levels of antioxidants (beta-carotene and lycopene) than those that keep in the refrigerator. They are even better than freshly picked melons. Cool watermelon a few hours before cutting and serving since once cut, it should be refrigerated.
Plum
Plums come in many different colors, and provide a good source of vitamin C, A, B2, beta-carotene, and potassium. Plums are also a great source of dietary fiber.
Plums help to reduce and protect the symptom of cold, flu, asthma, heart disease, stroke, rheumatoid arthritis, and cancer. It also helps absorb iron in the body, and a great natural laxative.
Stock up on these fresh fruits and eat them as often as you can. Most of these fruits are small in sizes, so eating two or three servings a day is possible. Healthy mind, healthy body, and healthy spirit will yield a better life.
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tracy sardelli | May 11, 2008 | Reply
an excellent article, very helpful and informative, i will definately stock up on the fruits you have listed. thank you for sharing.
salvatore | May 11, 2008 | Reply
great article, i 2nd what tracy has said, even though i don’t like avo’s i think i will start eating them.
Judy Sheldon | May 11, 2008 | Reply
I love fruit too. Icy, you are so right, there any many benefits to eating a colorful diet.
Alexa Gates | May 11, 2008 | Reply
one more reason to eat a lot of fruit!!
C A Johnson | May 11, 2008 | Reply
I loved your article. I try to eat as much fruit as I can. It’s great to know how these particular fruits are beneficial to you. Thanks!
nobert soloria bermosa | May 11, 2008 | Reply
great article,
strawberry,watermelon and avocado are abundant here
Francie | May 11, 2008 | Reply
Hey Icy,
Beautiful pictures! Most importantly invaluable information!!
Alexis S. | May 11, 2008 | Reply
I love those fruits! It is great to know they are good for my body!
CHAN LEE PENG | May 11, 2008 | Reply
Thanks Icy! Very powerful article lol!
Shaun Ashcroft | May 12, 2008 | Reply
Thanks Icy for your informative article. As a matter of interest, did you know that Kiwi fruit’s original name was Chinese gooseberry but in a wonderful marketing campaign, good old NZ, who do grow tons of Kiwi fruit, made a new name for them.
valli | May 12, 2008 | Reply
Beautiful pictures and excellent artilce.
jUPiter2 | May 12, 2008 | Reply
Very colourful photographs. Just one small thing; it would be extremely useful if you would reference the scientific data to support each of the claims you make.
IcyCucky | May 12, 2008 | Reply
Thank you everybody for your comment..Deepest gratitude always!
@jUPiter2–Thank you for your suggestion, and if you want to find out the sources for these fruits, just type in the search box and it will bring up many pages for viewing. I’ll try to remember your suggestion though. Thanks!
Anne Lyken-Garner | May 12, 2008 | Reply
I’m glad that these fruits all have such wonderful benefits, because I love them all. I hadn’t realised that strawberries had more vitamins than an orange.
isb | May 12, 2008 | Reply
This is a good cite!! Cause I’m working on a project that I need to know about fruit nutritions.
Dee Huff | May 12, 2008 | Reply
I love all of these fruits, so now I can eat them knowing what good they’re doing.
Lucy Lockett | May 12, 2008 | Reply
They are all so good for you!
MysLykeMeeh | May 13, 2008 | Reply
Icy, very nice article. You really made a thourough input in this. So useful.
Freddie Cook | May 13, 2008 | Reply
Great to see the healthy side come out, “we are what we eat” has never been truer in this day and age of fast processed food, and what could be faster and more nutritious than healthy fresh fruit?
Sandra L. Petersen | May 13, 2008 | Reply
Great information, Icy. This may turn a lot of people off but I eat kiwi with the furry skin on for the increased fiber. I love avocados and am glad there are health benefits to eating it in my salads. You made me hungry just through the photos!
quiet voice | May 14, 2008 | Reply
…Hi IC. whow…what a great
article, very informative,
and the pictures are so vivid.
Excellent work.
Thank you very much.
Jeff | May 14, 2008 | Reply
=) Good content.
Nelson Doyle | May 15, 2008 | Reply
Icy, good job presenting this useful information. I have really been looking after my health better and this information is a real help.
Thank you.
God Bless,
Nelson Doyle
Ibrahim Bello | May 15, 2008 | Reply
This is a very informative article. Liked the pictures as well!
SunGoddess | May 15, 2008 | Reply
The strawberries look delicious!! I’d like to order a 1/2 flat, please! =P
cass blass | May 19, 2008 | Reply
i hate fruit. lol!
Kate | May 20, 2008 | Reply
I love this article! Its really informative.I love fruits and I love to eat them.You should try eating fruits Cass blass…they are good for your body.
Jie T. Elins | May 20, 2008 | Reply
Thanks, Icy. Great info.
Glynis | May 20, 2008 | Reply
Thanks for the info, I get gifts of fruit by the cart load from the villagers and have never really thought about what goodness comes out of them I just tuck in!!! Now I know a bit more…thanks
Silverback | May 20, 2008 | Reply
Banana, Apple, pineapple, grapes, rasberries.
Stephen Nico | May 21, 2008 | Reply
like it!!!
From now on, I will eat any of those fruits!!!
Mollie | May 21, 2008 | Reply
BTW they are known as KIWIFRUIT NOT KIWI! As in grapefruit. Got it??!!
pilarsophia | May 21, 2008 | Reply
Love this information!!I am all about healthy stuff
. Just don’t like avo’s. Great job thanks for sharing.
Timmy B | May 23, 2008 | Reply
Thanks so much! I’ll check out these foods.
Athlyn Green | May 25, 2008 | Reply
This is a good article with nice, clear pictures–a good reminder to us all.
Moses Ingram | May 25, 2008 | Reply
An excellent article, clear pictures and great information for evevyone. Thanks.
k janes | May 25, 2008 | Reply
I love this article. I eat a lot of fruits and vegetables. Organic foods as well. I did not know that strawberries helped with teeth. This is wonderful news.
Thank-you
Steve C | May 26, 2008 | Reply
Wow! Very helpful and nice pictures and info.
http://www.socyberty.com/Sexuality/Top-10-Orgasmic-Foods-to-Spice-Up-Your-Love-Life.130121 | May 27, 2008 | Reply
Good article and vivid pics too of food!
Dr David Enders | May 29, 2008 | Reply
Good helpful information and very well done!
ilona | May 29, 2008 | Reply
good presentation but all fruit good thing and these were up there in cost but thanks anyway—oh and down here winter approacheth
shedeed | Jun 1, 2008 | Reply
this is very helpfull article, thank u very much…..
Yeren | Jun 3, 2008 | Reply
I agree with Ilona that it is too bad that fruit prices have increased, but there are a few ways of counteracting that trend. Shop with farmers’ markets if possible. There is a man who sells his produce at the side of the road near my house, and I make sure to stop to get my watermelons. They are always fresh, and I help out the local economy.
RateMyLeftArm.com | Jun 9, 2008 | Reply
All good foods for you and yummy too!
Dieter Hentz | Nov 8, 2008 | Reply
all fruit are good, no?
Plus Size Plum | Nov 11, 2008 | Reply
Looking at all of those pictures really makes me crave fruit! I always knew about strawberries (or any berry for that matter) being good for you, but I didn’t know about the avocados…good info to have!
trishia | Feb 20, 2009 | Reply
It’s amazing to learn that these fruits offer so much. I thought the orange had more vitamin C than anything else. Thanks for sharing.
... | Mar 31, 2009 | Reply
exallent info for my survey
chris | May 30, 2009 | Reply
thanks great article very helpfull i love fruits i have not visited the doctor since i was 12 now im 30 i think is because i consume many fruits…
Joe | Jul 3, 2009 | Reply
I’m originally from the Caribbean, and I can say I have seen the benefits of eating fruits. As a boy I ate fruits everyday (mangoes, plums, sapodillas, avocadoes, watermellon, bananas, guava, papaya, sour sop, sugar apple)and so on.
I’m 47 years; I have no internal organ problems. No heart problems, no lung problems, no kidney problems, no stomach problem, no diabetes, no high blood pressure, no allergies,an so on. I do not drink, smoke or use drugs. I drink alot of water. I hate medicine.
The food in America is killing people. Go back to what God created.
juan manuel | Sep 1, 2009 | Reply
yo creo que esta bien vacan me encantan esas frutas