[Tobias Zimpel]

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

Yes, there are even food combining tips for fruit, like acid fruits before sweet fruits, melons before berries, berries before bananas. Generally you want to eat the lighter foods first like watermelon and cataloupe and the heavier fruits like bananas last.

That's quite insightful. Any online sources on that topic that you would recommend?

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

The ideal way to eat for optimal digestion is to consume mono-meals, meaning meals consisting of a single food. So 7-8 bananas would be breakfast, for instance. But that gets pretty boring

I don't worry about that. I still believe I have some form of asperger's, so even eating the same foods every day wouldn't be all that bad for me - variety is a lot harder in my case.

However, I recognize that variety might be an issue to neurotypical people.

Steve, apart from variety for variety's sake, how necessary is it for health's sake to vary different fruits, veggies etc, i.e. would it be OK in terms of long-term health to eat only a handful of different foods, like apples, tangerines, grapes, walnuts, red and yellow pepper, kohlrabi, cucumber and green salad, to just name a few of my favourites?

I'd still be interested in how one can get a proper amount of calories (as long as burning food in a glass tube is a good measure for their nutritious value) without spending half the day on eating through a whole fruit store. Because when I tried a raw food diet based on the above list, I felt great, but I could spend the whole day constantly eating.

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

The less energy you spend on digestion, the more energetic you feel.

That's a given to me, and the first thing I recognize is a huge increase in energy and motivation when I eat lots of fruits.

Originally Posted by Steve Pavlina

The human body has no need for added salt in the diet. You can get all the sodium your body needs from veggies.
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Animals don't salt their food, and human beings don't need to either if they just eat enough calories.

I've read about some no-salt raw foodists here in Germany who after some years added sea salt to their diet again, because they recognized that their bodies were craving for salt. So they ate it pure whenever they felt like their body needed it, and only as much to stop he craving. When you eat pure salt and your body needs it, it tastes delicious. As soon as your body has enough, it tastes just ugly. So this is a good measure of when you have enough.