Fruitarian diet

[Lupe]

Anybody tried fruitarian?

[lifetimelearner]

nope
but here is a site I was reading




Fruit ONLY! Cure for one thousand illnesses

[Lupe]

Originally Posted by lifetimelearner

nope
but here is a site I was reading




Fruit ONLY! Cure for one thousand illnesses

Thank you!

Here is guideline: Fruitarian - How to become a Fruitarian...

[MasterD]

I have tried to just eat fruit for a while; however; you will quickly feel demineralized and get 'thirsty' headaches. The solution is to add a substantial amount of greens. Make sure to keep it low on high fat fruits as avocados, durian, olives, nuts and seeds.

[Bleicke]

Read my experience with eating only fruit for 30 days here

[marty]

I've been raw since Christmas and find I need a midday meal of salad to balance the body so to speak. Fruit is so very sweet and I find lettuce,tomatoes,avocados etc..are needed once a day to balance all that sweetness. I eat nuts too.

[cheesedip1]

How do you transistion to fruititarian from raw?

Doesn't one need some fats and greens?

[Andrew Gubb]

Mariana did I think...

I've done fruit with some vegetables and nothing else. A sort of fruitarian diet in the sense that it was based on fruit.

[sarajane]

I am a fruitarian and it changed my life for the better. I still every so often do veg soups with quinoa and I add vegan protein powder to shakes, but I would say 80% is raw fruit. Check 80/10/10 diet and 300bananasaday

[firenexx]

I understand the the fruitarian diet is based on the idea that early humans most likely subsisted on foraged food. While this foraged food may have consisted of mostly berries and other wild fruits (incl. a small amount of nuts which are also considered fruit), I'm assuming they also ate their fair share of wild greens which were packed with many vital nutrients.
So I'm not sure that I would be interested in a 100% fruit diet.

I'm pretty sure our wild ancestors would have eaten wild tubers as well, as there are some wild root veggies that can be eaten raw (before cooking was invented.) I.E. the ancestors of the carrot, beet, etc.

[russianrocket]

Originally Posted by firenexx

I understand the the fruitarian diet is based on the idea that early humans most likely subsisted on foraged food. While this foraged food may have consisted of mostly berries and other wild fruits (incl. a small amount of nuts which are also considered fruit), I'm assuming they also ate their fair share of wild greens which were packed with many vital nutrients.
So I'm not sure that I would be interested in a 100% fruit diet.

I'm pretty sure our wild ancestors would have eaten wild tubers as well, as there are some wild root veggies that can be eaten raw (before cooking was invented.) I.E. the ancestors of the carrot, beet, etc.

Our ancestors also ate plenty of meat, and bugs, birds and their eggs, and fish. Even carcasses of kills by other animals, which is probably how meat eating started in the first place. Why does everyone just ignore that?

And unless people are eating fruit in the same form that our ancestors fruit was, then all is for nothing. Especially that whole thing about eating a ton of bananas, when bananas don't grow naturally in any form that would be edible by us.

[ginkgo]

What can a fruitarian eat? Fruit! What is a fruit?

98% of our DNA is the same as monkeys and their favorite food is fruit. This is also the case with little kids not including man-made foods like fake fruit (candy and cookies). There are over 10,000 different kinds of fruit including gac fruit with 70 times the lycopene in tomatoes and camu camu fruit with 30 times vitamin C content of oranges and sea buckthorne fruit with omega-7 essentail fatty acids. Durian is the king of the fruits (most yang) and mangosteen is the queen of the fruits (most yin).

Eating fruit does not hurt the plant since it comes from the plant having sex (reproduction). Fruitarians can eat the following since they are fruit: all grains are dry fruits. Nuts and seeds are hard fruits. Tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, pepper and pumkin are also fruits. Seeds are part of the fruit.

How many kinds of bean are there? Beans are fruit. Soybeans are fruit! The fruit of your loins are your kids. So the fruit is like the kids of the plant after having sex. Many times plants use bees to have sex. Usually the flower is where the plants have sex. Figs do not have visible flowers since they are inside the figs.

Wiki. says:

In biology (botany), a "fruit" is a part of a flowering plant that derives from specific tissues of the flower, mainly one or more ovaries.

On the other hand, the botanical sense includes many structures that are not commonly called "fruits", such as bean pods, corn kernels, wheat grains, tomatoes, the section of a fungus that produces spores[2], and many more.

[ginkgo]

Originally Posted by russianrocket

Our ancestors also ate plenty of meat, and bugs, birds and their eggs, and fish. Even carcasses of kills by other animals, which is probably how meat eating started in the first place. Why does everyone just ignore that?

And unless people are eating fruit in the same form that our ancestors fruit was, then all is for nothing. Especially that whole thing about eating a ton of bananas, when bananas don't grow naturally in any form that would be edible by us.

Bananas were not genetically altered to become edible but bred that way. Just like Haas avocados were bred by Mr. Haas. Wiki. says:

Recent archaeological and palaeoenvironmental evidence at Kuk Swamp in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea suggests that banana cultivation there goes back to at least 5000 BCE, and possibly to 8000 BCE.[1]

[russianrocket]

Originally Posted by ginkgo

Bananas were not genetically altered to become edible but bred that way. Just like Haas avocados were bred by Mr. Haas. Wiki. says:

Recent archaeological and palaeoenvironmental evidence at Kuk Swamp in the Western Highlands Province of Papua New Guinea suggests that banana cultivation there goes back to at least 5000 BCE, and possibly to 8000 BCE.[1]

Did I say they were genetically altered? Most fruit is bred to have much more sugar in it then what "nature intended", just as a banana can not grow in the wild without being cultivated by humans. So, how can you possibly advocate eating natural, yet tell us to eat something that is far from the way nature intended? Wild and ancient fruit is usually small, bitter and low in sugar. Corn, bananas, oranges, and apples are only usuable because of us.

[ginkgo]

Originally Posted by russianrocket

Did I say they were genetically altered? Most fruit is bred to have much more sugar in it then what "nature intended", just as a banana can not grow in the wild without being cultivated by humans. So, how can you possibly advocate eating natural, yet tell us to eat something that is far from the way nature intended? Wild and ancient fruit is usually small, bitter and low in sugar. Corn, bananas, oranges, and apples are only usuable because of us.

Some animals can use tools like humans and humans can use nature to breed things to make life easier. But genetically altering things is not using nature but abusing nature. Wild animals do everything in their power to eat food that tastes the best. Humans are also animals so it is natural for them to breed plants that taste the best.

Also how do you know what fruit tasted like tens of thousands of years ago? Fossils? We can go by early writings of man that talk about how great figs and dates tasted. Bees have been making honey that tastes sweet since the time of the pyramids. We know that since the pyramids had honey in them. Man did not make honey sweet. Honey tastes as sweet as honey. I also do know that the watermelon that they sell today does not taste nearly as good as the watermelon from decades ago. Although you have to be careful about saying that you should eat your honey if you want to be healthy!

[firenexx]

Our ancestors also ate plenty of meat, and bugs, birds and their eggs, and fish. Even carcasses of kills by other animals, which is probably how meat eating started in the first place. Why does everyone just ignore that?

I'm sorry if I neglected to mention that since this thread was about fruit. I hope I did not offend you. Yes, early man ate meat, bugs, birds, and their eggs, and fish. Even carcasses of kills by other animals. It's true!

And unless people are eating fruit in the same form that our ancestors fruit was, then all is for nothing. Especially that whole thing about eating a ton of bananas, when bananas don't grow naturally in any form that would be edible by us.

Ok, well all is also for nothing since domestic cattle, pigs, chicken did not exist millenia ago. I'm pretty sure most of the developed world is not surviving on wild game. I'm pretty sure any food you eat nowadays that is not wild has been selectively bred, whether it be fruit, legume, meat, poultry, yam, etc.

[learnllovelaugh]

Originally Posted by russianrocket

Our ancestors also ate plenty of meat, and bugs, birds and their eggs, and fish. Even carcasses of kills by other animals, which is probably how meat eating started in the first place. Why does everyone just ignore that?

I ignore that because even early humans are pretty recent on the evolutionary timescale. Our ancestors are not just humans, but all the species leading up to our current stage of evolution. Since our bodies are much more similar to herbivores, I assume that most of our ancestors had vegitarian diets. Sure we adapted the ability to digest meat, but I think we are sill built to handle fruits and vegetables better than anything else.