This Thanksgiving involved a trip to see my sister in Sacramento and her kids, the jungle monkeys. The boys are doing well and they're super energetic. It's exciting watching them all grow up. Nathan and I spent one and a half days in Sacramento and two days driving. It was a pretty uneventful trip until the way home when I realized that my nephews had graciously shared their kid germs with me and I had a stomach flu. I even ralphed on the way home at a gas station. It was horrible and now I have a lingering stuffy nose from the ordeal. So today I'm home from work.
Children are little harbingers of disease and I have a weak immune system because I don't eat fruit. My sister has recently purchased a Vitamix blender and has been drinking fruit smoothies all fall and has not been sick once. My question is, how can I get the benefits of fruit into my body without having to go the smoothie route (or the eating fruit route)? The fruits I can eat are blueberries, watermelon, and apples. In juice form I can also drink lemonade and all manner of cranberry blends. The problem there is that juice is super high in calories and I don't want to be subsisting off juice alone. Who's got ideas as to how to better integrate fruit into my diet?
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Vegetables have a lot of the vitamins that fruits have but much less sugar. Removing sugar from you diet may help you loose weight. Try looking at "Get the Sugar Out." It's a good book.
Christina,
The only thing that I can recommend is a multi vitamin that touts greens and fruits. I have a juicer myself but it is such a pain to use because of the amount of fruit/veggies that you have to use to get a but o juice. A local health store should have them, just make sure that they are water soluble. Sorry to hear that you are sick!
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