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Step Three — Timing is Everything!

Let´s discuss more about how the body works.
Your body handles the food you eat in essentially three different ways:

• It digests it.
• It assimilates the nutrients.
• It eliminates the unused waste.

The body has an internal, biological clock that is set to perform each of the above functions at different times. The best time for digesting is from 12:00noon to 8:00 pm. The best time for assimilation is from 8:00 pm to 4:00 am. Elimination is ideally performed between the hours of 4:00 am and 12:00 noon. This doesn´t mean that you can´t do these things out of order or at different times, only that your body works and expends energy most efficiently during the above hours.

Your body also works best when it has only one major task to perform at a time. Digestion always takes priority over assimilation or elimination. If you eat while your body is supposed to be eliminating waste, you interrupt the natural process and force it to digest. If you eat in the middle of the night when your body is assimilating nutrients, you cause it to stop and digest instead.

Fruit to the Rescue

The key to making this all work properly and provide for individual preferences is fruit. Because fruit isn´t digested like other foods, it can be eaten without interrupting the other processes. The only thing to always remember is to eat it on an empty stomach. If you want a snack at 10 at night, have an apple or a grapefruit. If you´re hungry at 6 in the morning, have a breakfast of different kinds of fruit. Actually, eating only fruit until as close to noon as possible helps your body during the elimination cycle, and still provides all the energy you need to get you to lunchtime.

To Summarize

Because your stomach is empty in the morning, breakfast is the ideal time to have fresh fruit such as: apples, oranges, melons, berries, etc. or unprocessed fruit juices. In fact, you can eat fruit off and on all morning if you like. The longer you eat only fruit, the more time your digestive tract has to clean itself out.

Lunch is the best time to eat proteins like meat. Because steak requires about 4 to 6 hours to digest, it is best to eat it at lunch along with a salad, or steamed vegetables, or both.

You can eat dinner as late as 6 pm. Dinner is the time to eat starches like baked potatoes, rice, and bread. If you only add fresh or steamed vegetables, you make it easy on your stomach when you go to bed. Instead of expending a lot of energy to digest food, your body will conserve its energy for the next day and provide you a good night´s sleep in the process.

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