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| Steve wrote: If you want to learn more about this topic, there’s a detailed chapter on fat in The 80/10/10 Diet, which I think is a good place to start. The numbers in the title refer to getting at least 80% of your calories from carbs and no more than 10% each from fat and protein. You can actually aim for those nutrient targets even without eating an all-raw diet.
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The 80/10/10 Diet
--by Dr. Douglas N. Graham
Fruitarian? Just Fruit? Really? JUST FRUIT??
I'm vegan. So based on the few 5 star reviews I read, and the synopsis of the book in the Amazon post, I expected a raw diet sort of book.
But the diet is essentially ONLY fruit with a little lettuce thrown in.
The author makes the claim that humans are meant to eat fruit and only fruit alone based on a number of what I consider to be somewhat spurious and superficial arguments and "facts" for his premise. If you want to eat fruit and only fruit then this is the book for you. Otherwise I'd recommend about a thousand other excellent cook/health books as being much better and more useful.
Amazon.com: The 80/10/10 Diet: Books: Dr. Douglas N. Graham |
I haven't read the book, so I don't know if the "ONLY fruit" claim above is accurate, but I would be very cautious about going all fruit, or mostly fruit. This isn't the article I was looking for, but....
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Fruitarians, Fruit Based Diets and Dental Disintegration
Many raw-food enthusiasts have experienced dental problems from fruitarian or fruit-based diets. I've talked to people on fruit-based diets who had gums recede, teeth loosen and fall out, had teeth crack, had pieces of teeth break off, etc.
They generally felt fine, and dental disintegration came as a surprise.
One man, who had eaten nothing but raw fruit for six months, told me he had "felt like he was flying". Then he started losing teeth. He gave up raw foods.
This is not a new problem. Decades ago, Arnold Ehret promoted a fruit-based diet. Some people who followed him lost teeth.
inhs.net/drbass Raw food e-groups have posts by people saying I thought this diet was supposed to help me, how come my teeth are falling out?
Some raw food advocates teach that fruit is the perfect food. They often ignore the tooth loss and other dental problems of their followers. Some claim that the suddenly toothless people were all having dental disorders before going raw, even though it's not true.
RawVeg.info · Fruitarian |
Also, seems like Pritikin should have lived longer, you know?