Really, Fruitarian?
The Fruitarian Diet
A Fruitarian is someone who eats predominantly fruit and ideally 100%. "Fruits" include all tree fruits, all berries, watermelons, vine fruits like kiwis and grapes and vegetable-fruits like tomatoes, peppers and cucumbers. Fruitarians living in tropical environments would consume coconuts although coconuts are often thought of as a nut.
Some Fruitarians will consume nuts and vegetables to a certain extent, although these rarely would be consumed in any great amount by a Fruitarian, however we promote a true fruitarian diet, 100% fruit with no nuts and no vegetables or greens.
Why Fruitarian?
To most Fruitarians, the diet is simply a natural progression, from omnivore to vegetarian, vegan, raw foods and finally Fruitarian. To some it is the chosen diet for health reasons. Others follow it because they believe humans were always destined to eat fruit, starting from the Garden of Eden.
The one thing that more Fruitarians mention above all others is a knowingness, an internal feeling that the Fruitarian diet is the diet meant for mankind.
Benefits of being Fruitarian
Cooked food is an unnatural human creation and is toxic to the body. Fruitarians eat 100% raw food as close as possible to its natural state. It is never possible to improve upon nature, a fact that many humans find hard to accept. When our diet is in harmony with nature, our health excels and our consciousness expands.
Protein shmotein
Vegetarians have been drilled with the age old question time and time again, "but where do you get your protein?" Oddly enough, vegetarians actually consume more protein than meat eaters. (According to Vegetarian Times) The question is about as ridiculous as asking, but where do you get your cholesterol? Americans are dying in masse because of overconsumption of protein rich foods....
I got that from here:
http://www.fruitarianvibes.com/Fruitarian_Facts.html
The bolded parts were mine as well... so there's a lot of lies in the above, and a lot of nonsense, and I wanted to point it out, using evidence, since that method of inquiry is so rare these days.
Cooked food is not 'unnatural'. Our bodies are designed for it. You can think of cooking as pre-disgestion, which takes some of the workload off your body. There's also a lot of hard science that shows eating meat is what fueled our cognitive evolution.
http://berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/99legacy/6-14-1999a.html
Meat-eating was essential for human evolution, says UC Berkeley anthropologist specializing in diet
By Patricia McBroom, Public Affairs
BERKELEY-- Human ancestors who roamed the dry and open savannas of Africa about 2 million years ago routinely began to include meat in their diets to compensate for a serious decline in the quality of plant foods, according to a physical anthropologist at the University of California, Berkeley.
It was this new meat diet, full of densely-packed nutrients, that provided the catalyst for human evolution, particularly the growth of the brain, said Katharine Milton, an authority on primate diet.
Without meat, said Milton, it's unlikely that proto humans could have secured enough energy and nutrition from the plants available in their African environment at that time to evolve into the active, sociable, intelligent creatures they became. Receding forests would have deprived them of the more nutritious leaves and fruits that forest-dwelling primates survive on, said Milton.
Her thesis complements the discovery last month by UC Berkeley professor Tim White and others that early human species were butchering and eating animal meat as long ago as 2.5 million years. Milton's article integrates dietary strategy with the evolution of human physiology to argue that meat eating was routine. It is published this month in the journal "Evolutionary Anthropology" (Vol.8, #1).
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So without eating copious amounts of meat our ancestors likely would not have survived. Before agriculture fruit and vegetables would have been available seasonally at best, so evolutionarily speaking, we're designed to be meat-eaters.
Also keep in mind agriculture is a relatively recent invention, we've been doing it for about ten thousand years. There's anywhere between two-hundred and five hundred thousand years of human history before that point, depending on which fossils you're talking about. Several ice ages - which wouldn't have allowed much flora to grow, but animals would still be an excellent source of protein and fat.
Coming back to Fruityism (I've changed the name), and fruits in general, they're composed primarily of carbohydrates in the form of fructose, water, fiber and very little protein. Most of the cells are surrounded by a cell wall that is indigestible by humans. That means we can access the protein and nutrients in that cell (we call it fiber). Let's talk about fructose for a moment, its a sugar, but a different type, and apparently it fuels cancer cells really well:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/08/02/cancer-fructose-idAFN0210830520100802
Cancer cells slurp up fructose, US study finds
Aug 2 (Reuters) - Pancreatic tumor cells use fructose to divide and proliferate, U.S. researchers said on Monday in a study that challenges the common wisdom that all sugars are the same.
Tumor cells fed both glucose and fructose used the two sugars in two different ways, the team at the University of California Los Angeles found. They said their finding, published in the journal Cancer Research, may help explain other studies that have linked fructose intake with pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest cancer types.
"These findings show that cancer cells can readily metabolize fructose to increase proliferation," Dr. Anthony Heaney of UCLA's Jonsson Cancer Center and colleagues wrote.
Steve Jobs was Fruity and died of pancreatic cancer as a result. Ashton Kutcher tried the diet and doubled over with stomach pains and had his pancreatic enzyme levels all out of whack when he went to the hospital. Does the insanity seem apparent yet?
So let's talk about Lectins... these are defensive compounds plants and vegetables generate which inhibit digestive enzymes and/or bind minerals. Lectins are partially broken down when you COOK the fruit or vegetable (Making that whole 'raw' vege craze look kinda silly and Fruityism even worse). This stuff you can lookup anywhere by the way, just google Lectin or antinutrient and you can get the skinny yourself. Don't take my word for it.
You know what I eat? A lot of meat and fat. Animal derived, grass-fed, organic. This makes logical sense to me because human bodies are basically large red-meat-sacks. We're constantly generating new skin, new stomach lining, new hair, liver cells, muscle... all this takes raw material and the only input is coming from your diet. My cholesterol levels are 'on the high side' but still normal, and my HDL:LDL ratio is very good. Every cell of your body is surrounded by fat, your muscles, nerves, brain and heart - all encapsulated by a fatty protective layer.
Interestingly, when I get sick it's mostly due to a lapse in my dietary vigilance which means I'll have too much sugar or carbohydrates in a short period of time, or get poisoned with dairy/gluten - and my body reacts literally as if it's been poisoned.
The diet I'm on is called Ketogenic, and it's fascinating because it's impossible to get cancer while on it.
The Ketogenic Diet
All cells, including cancer cells, are fueled by glucose. But if you deprive them of glucose, they switch to the alternate fuel, ketone bodies.
Except cancer cells. A defect prevents them from making the switch to using ketone bodies as fuel and therefore, cancer cells can only survive on glucose. All other cells can use either glucose or ketone bodies.
"Your normal cells have the metabolic flexibility to adapt from using glucose to using ketone bodies. But cancer cells lack this metabolic flexibility. So we can exploit that," Dr. D'Agostino explained.
People like Hatfield, who want to deprive their cells of glucose and fuel them with ketone bodies instead, eat what's known as a ketogenic diet. It consists of almost zero carbohydrates, but lots of natural proteins and fats.
Always wanted to have a cancer cure by the time I was thirty. Can scratch that one off the bucket-list.
