Orthodox nutritionists recommend that breakfast should be the main meal of your day.
However, many people following the Natural Health Lifestyle have found that a fruit breakfast
offers better health. They feel ‘lighter’ and their head is clearer during the morning.

This is because elimination of waste products is enhanced, as fruits produce negligible wastes-
it burns clean- Also, metabolism is in its elimination phase between four o’clock in the morning
till noon. If a heavy meal is eaten during this phase, it diverts energy from the elimination process and actually impedes elimination, increasing toxemia in the long term.
Accordingly, fruit is the only food that is entirely suitable to be eaten during elimination phase.

Also, according to recent research at the University of Sydney, eating only two main meals in the day adjacent to each other greatly reduces the risk of cancer. This means main meals either for lunch and dinner or for breakfast and lunch.

The suggested daily meal plan is a light fruit breakfast followed by two mean meals.
This occupies the body with full-scale digestion and assimilation for only about nine hours a day, leaving 15 hours for the elimination of metabolic wastes and reducing their tendency to build up in the body. In contrast, two main meals a day leaves only around 10 hours a day for elimination and encourages toxemia.

A manual worker having a fruit only breakfast would probably need more fruit at mid-morning,
or ‘heavier’ carbohydrate, such as bread, rice crisps or other grain food.
People may say that in the old days farmers would always have a hearty breakfast in the morning. indeed they may have done, but it was after a 4.00 or 5.00 am start and a number of hours hard work in the fields.

Breaking a lifelong habit of heavy breakfasts needs to be done gradually for physiological reasons and may require several weeks. If it is not a successful change, gradually revert to the former pattern. A fruit only breakfast may not suit everybody. This is not a recommendation, simply an option to try.