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I eat a mostly fruitarian…some veggies. I try and stay away from fatty stuff and only eat nuts every now and then or basically keep it to nutmilk. I think one of the keys to fruitarian eating habits is too make sure after a meal, brush or at least rinse your mouth out…it will help keep dental problems at bay.
anybody that need proof of the benifits of the fruitarian lifestyle i suggest you check out Richard Blackman… his website is www.fruitarianfitness.com
He also has plenty videos on youtube.com… just type his name in to search.. he shares plenty of info on frutiarian and on fitness
I did it for two years, I blogged about it on Suvine.com. I got everything I needed. It was extreme. I was extreme. The best I ever was.
before you all knock this fruitarian diet, I suggest you do some research. Humans were made to live on fruit. All necessary vitamins and nutrients that the body needs are found in fruit, nuts, and seeds. If you’d like to see a list, and all the facts please check out www.fruitarian.com or www.fruitarianfitness.com. It cannot cause diabetes, and you will only benefit from this diet.Look at suvine up there…look at her website, it’s proof!!
Again, you don’t have to only eat sweet fruits. Fruits are considered to be anything with seeds. Therefore, bell-peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, avacados, and squash are all fruits!! And you don’t even have to drink water because natural water is in fruits.
I heard an interview with Victoria Buchenko where she said they felt amazing on raw food for three years and then they hit a slump. Lost loads of energy, got warts (sign of low immunity) and were generally miserable. She did some research and found that they barely ate any greens. I guess they were eating mainly fruits then.
Frederic Patenaude’s book “Raw Secrets” is a great book that explains how people are Frugivores and how a fruit based diet is our natural diet.
http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/rawsecrets.html
Thanks roadrunner. I’m glad someone that is knoweledgable on this backs me up. I love the way I feel, and am not deficient, or lacking anything my body needs. We dont even need to drink water!! Isn’t Richard Blackman such an awesome inspiration? Keep up the good work and cheers to our health!
IM SORRY BUT RANDALL NONE OF YOUR ISSUES COULD HAVE BEEN THE FAULT OF FRUIT AT ALL.IT IS IN NO WAY AT ALL DEMINERALIZING. THATS THE DUMBEST THING IVE EVER HEARD! SORRY ABOUT ALL OF YOUR HEALTH ISSUES, BUT MY DIET HAS CURED ME FROM LOTS OF THINGS
I haven’t posted on these forums before but I do frequent them. I felt compelled to offer some advice on this as well, especially because jmasterson is only 20 years old and seems to already be getting sucked into the fruitarian dogma.
Jmasterson, from reading your responses to people’s often genuinely concerned advice, based on experience (like Randall’s), you already seem to be spitting back out the rawfoods/fruitarian “party line,” which is extremely dangerous, seeing as you’ve only been on the diet for TWO weeks (at the time of your post, which is now around a month I guess). Don’t be fooled by what you read on the internet. IT’S THE INTERNET. Let’s repeat that again – NOT EVERYTHING YOU READ ON THE INTERNET IS TRUE. The people you called “knowledgeable” also cited links to fruitarian websites in their posts, and things you referred to as “factual” were from fruitarianism promoting websites. Don’t believe all the hubub about people being “naturally evolved” or adapted to eat a certain diet. Even nutritionists and biologists with PhDs and YEARS of experience can’t agree on what humans are “naturally adapted” to eating. I’m pretty sure that some fanatic raving on his blog doesn’t have the answer either.
People will use pseudo-science and citations of “fact” to get you to believe anything, and that has only gotten exponentially worse with the advent of the internet, especially because of the preponderence of people who will seriously believe anything they read online and spew it back out to others on forums like these. They’ll try to tell you that our prehistoric ancestors were all on raw vegetable diets, that primates don’t eat meat, etc. Just read a couple of studies by anthropologists and primatologists and you will immediately find that this is NOT true. Our ancestors did eat raw vegetables, but they ate a lot of raw lean game as well.
As for feeling great all the time right now… I was basically fruitarian for a little while as well, and have known many failed ones. The fact of the matter is, you’re consuming such an OUTRAGEOUS amount of sugar that you’re just constantly on a sugar high. Many raw-fooders (non-fruitarians at that) become seriously addicted to dates or other small sugar-packed fruits over time because that “spiritual” feeling of well-being becomes diminished over time after your body becomes used to all that sugar.
In addition, fruit is very easy for your body to digest, a little too easy. Most long-term fruitarians develop digestive problems because their digestive system stops working hard, and when they try to switch their diet back to normal, they encounter a lot of problems because they just can’t eat anything else anymore.
I would highly recommend reading over all of the articles on this website (yes, even after my internet rant). The authors frequently cite REAL studies by anthropologists, nutritionists, and biologists, and most of them speak from 30+ years of experience in raw foods. They caution against idealism and dogma in raw foods, because it’s extremely dangerous in more than just nutritional terms. Psychological problems sometimes develop. Some raw fooders become absolute nutritional fanatics, and go out of their minds obsessing about foods and what they can and can’t put into their body.
Troubleshooting in rawfood/vegetarian diets – very useful if you’re experiencing problems
http://www.beyondveg.com/billings-t/troublesh/t…
List of several articles that critically examine raw foods dogma and myths. These are written by current raw-fooders and insiders with 30+ years on a variety of raw diets, so it’s not like it’s an outsider criticizing rawfoods outright. It’s just looking at the diet reasonably.
http://www.beyondveg.com/cat/frank-talk/index.s…
jmasterson, all in all, I would just recommend that you keep your eyes open for the time being. If people are offering you advice, don’t dismiss them just because what they say isn’t agreeing with what you read on fruitarian.com or whatever else. It is easy to get unwittingly pulled into nutritional dogma, and right now is the time that you’re most vulnerable to that.
i don’t believe that the essence gospels are the real teachings of Christ. I believe Christ ate cooked food. He ate the passover meal which was cooked lamb and bread (matzah). When He was in His glorified body He told the disciples to go to Jersulam because that was were He would be instead they went fishing. He stood by the shore and told His disciples to cast their net on the other side and they caught a bunch of fish. They came to the shore and Jesus already had fish grilled for them. Don’t forget about the mulitpling of the fish and loaves. If Jesus didn’t eat it. He would have made sure He’s disciples didn’t eat it, but He did eat it and His disciples ate it too. So I think the essence gospels is a big lie. I really don’t believe Jesus said those things at all. Many people hated Jesus so I’m sure someone would have made something up and said those were the words of Jesus in order to confuse people. If you read the Bible and then read the essence gospels you see that it doesn’t even have the same flow in speech. I like eatting raw, but I really don’t think Jesus was a 100% raw foodist because He did eat with the sinners, He ate with his disciples. His disciples offered Him bread. They would not have offered if He said that cooked food was poison. I put no trust in the essence gospels…I think it’s full of lies and it’s just the conclusion I came to with reading the Bible and comparing. It just doesn’t add up. The two are contradictory.
I think if we look at Jewish customs we see that in the Mosaic covent that God gave the jewish people a lists of laws and rules to follow, and in the category of food God told the people that their were unclean meat and clean meats. Really the mosaic covenant was only set in place in order for people to realize they couldn’t live up to those standard, so they would need someone to take away their sin. So they sacrificed a lamb, but the blood of animals could never take away sin..The idea behind it is reference to Jesus ‘the lamb’. That He would come and take away the sins of the world..so they might know God and become the sons and daughters of God. Okay sorry I got off subject. Anyway Jews tried to keep the laws, so their were certain types of meat that was unclean, but they still ate meat. I’m sure it was probably on a rare occassion. Like weddings and celebrations. In the New Testament we see that Peter is give the instruction to eat meat ‘raise peter, kill, and eat’. He protests and says ‘I have never eatten anything unclean.’ Then the voice says ‘What God hath cleansed, that call not thou common.’ It was the sign to go to go teach the gospel to the Gentiles and also it was the sign that they were free from bondage under the law. If you think about it, the church was just starting so they were still thinking by the laws standard and under legalism, and God wanted them to think in the standards of freedom throught Christ.
To everyone who is interested in raw fresh fruitarianism, you are welcome to learn and get inspired here: http://fruitariankveta.blogspot.com/ and here: http://mangodurian.blogspot.com (If anyone believes in 100% fruit diet, and heading that way, or already there, would you like to be interviewed?)
i have lived happily on raw fresh fruit for almost 23 years and i am still euphoric.
fruit & love,
kveta:
Hello,
i would like to share my experience with you:
i wanted too to be a fruitarian, but i couldn’t. It was OK only in the summer, but during the winter, it was not possible (i live in the south of France, in Cannes, with a mediterranean climate). I also wanted to be a raw vegan, but it was not OK.
Now, after about 10 years of veganism, and about 12 of veg, i include some dairies, and i eat mostly cooked.
I think that someone who is in good health, has a good gene pool and live in hot climates, can live some years with a raw vegan/fruitarian diet, till there are health problems.
In fact, i believe that the diet is just one part of life.
Bye everybody ;)
fred
Pianissima, i would love to see you: fred.77@orange.fr :)...i have to go…i come back, in theory ;) After my experience, i did a research with the words “former veg / raw vegan / vegan / fruitarian” or “danger …” and there are some sites like these ones: http://naturalhygienesociety.org/diet3.html where it is said about the raw veganism: I
Hi. I’m not fruitarian, but I have a question for someone who says fruitarianism left him open to unhealthy toxicity.
Randall (Gentry of Sacto CA). I know this is a little late in the game, now that you don’t follow Dr Bass anymore and are well. But why do you say, “The late Dr. Stanley S. Bass”? He’s alive and well. Do you mean late in some other way?
Samilicious, I don’t feel good with stainless steel either, I prefer wooden chopsticks, hands, glass, etc.
123, I empathize with your struggle and am happy to hear of your results!
Y’all have a great weekend :D
Miss Feather
That is a SAD(standard american diet) way of looking at fruit. Almost all fruits are sweet. Northern fruits are more sour or bitter, and of course there are different types of fruits, but most fruits in the world are all incredibly sweet. Most fruits in the world come from more tropical climates. There are so many fruits to eat in a rainforest and in tropical climates, your mind would be blown. Some taste like key lime pie, some taste like vanilla ice cream or flan, some taste like sweet chocolate, its limitless.
I will only name a very small percentage here: Jocote, ice cream bean, Manzana de Agua, Guanabana, mamey, Maracuya, passion fruit, Soncoya, Caimito, Fruta de Pan, soursop, Guaba(not Guava), Guanábana, sausage fruit, rambutan, mangosteen, jackfruit, longan, tamarindo, mamones, granadilla, caimitos, anona, maranon, nanzi, papaya, Pejibaye, rose-apple, sapodilla, zapote, black sapote(chocolate pudding fruit), persimmon, mangos(hundreds of varieties), bananas(hundreds of varieties), jujubes, cherimoyas, Buddha's hand citron, star fruit, dragon fruit, surinam cherries, durian, coconuts(though coconuts aren't really a fruit, but a nut), seagrapes, cocoplums, avocado, figs, dates, melons etc... etc.... etc....
People in the tropical regions have been living on mostly fruit for far longer than any man has been living on meat. It is senseless to live on meat when there is a paradise of fruit on this earth. Completely senseless. Why kill if there is no need for killing. There are so many fruits in these regions, you people wouldnt believe the amount of nutrition you can get. We are starving for nutrition compared to these tropical regions. I live in florida, which is a sub-tropical region, and tropical in south florida. The amount of fruit that grows here alone can feed ao many people. We have two mango trees in the yard that could feed the whole block, they produce so much fruit, and there are mango trees all over the place, not just the ones in our yard. The common things that people grow here are papaya, mangos, star fruit, bananas, guava, sapote, sapodilla, florida pear, surinam cherries, coconuts, seagrapes, etc... since this is a subtropical to tropical state, we can grow pretty much anything here. I personally grow guava, star fruit, mangos, avocados, jackfruit, figs, etc. You cant say fruits werent originally sweet. We have at the most 20 varieties of fruit in our regular chain grocery stores, not much compared to our local farmers markets, which have at least 50 varieties of fruit around. If you think you cant get your nutrients from fruit, you must not know what fruit is. And to say fruits werent originally sweet, my my.... you need to get out a little. I dont know what kind of fruitarian you were. Lol. Must have eaten apples, oranges, and bananas for every meal. I dont even look at apples as fruit, let alone food. If you really want to be a fruitarian, you have to go explore. You cant stay stuck in the SAD(standard american diet) world, which sees fruit as only apples, bananas, and oranges, mere side items that are rarely touched over more processed junk foods that all come in a wrapper, can, or box. Of course you arent going to get the proper nutrition that way, sticking with only a handful of varieties of fruit. EXPLORE our fruity world. Most fruitarians live where the fruit is, and always have.