This essay is adapted from the eponymous exhibition catalogue for Pocahontas: Her Life and Legend, which was on display at the Virginia Historical Society October 24, 1994, through April 30, 1995. It appeared in the December 1994 - January 1995 issue of American Art Review.
1 If you want to eat fruit after a meal, then you should wait about 3 hours before eating fruit. 2  This is to ensure that the food had previously been digested by the body before the fruit enters the body. 3  Try to eat fruit in the morning. 4  This helps to increase blood sugar slowly and not in a hurry.
If for lunch you eat a salad and some cooked starchy greens (like boiled yams and carrots), it'd take around two hours to digest, so you'd want to wait four hours before eating again. If your stomach hurts after apples, citrus fruits, melons, or other fruits, then your body's flora is probably out of whack.