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Reading about the body and nutrition is my hobby. To let you know where I'm coming from: authors like Sally Fallon who wrote Nourishing Traditions really inspire me. When speculating about what the body is designed to eat we must consider that humans all over the world were eating very different diets all those thousands of years ago. It depends on where those ancient humans were living.

For example the Inuit people in the arctic ate a diet of primarily whale blubber for thousands of years and are a people who had no known history of degenerative diseases of any kind. Recent research in the western medical establishment has overturned their findings about the evils of fat. There are good fats and bad fats.

Sugar is now implicated as the number one cause of heart disease in America. According to some nutritional historians and many researchers in the field, the human body is designed for fat as its primary energy source. Sugar (especially refined sugar of course) is a rare thing for the human body to have to deal with and it is now recognized that the production of insulin at the quantities necessary to deal with modern fruit and sugary items is actually an emergency response of the body.

Insulin, just like cortisol (one of the human stress hormones) is damaging to the body, particularly the heart. Sugar is so dangerous a thing to the human body that too high a blood sugar count can kill you immediately, this why diabetics can die if they don't get their insulin shot fast enough.

Before you try to subsist only on fruits, please read more on the biology of the human body. Fat is necessary for life. Consider that every single cell in your body needs fat to live because all our cell membranes are made of lipids, which are fat. Our brain is a concentration of fats, and desperately needs those Omega 3's to function properly. Research now correlates a deficiency of omega 3's with depression, and so close are these factors correlated that they have noticed the greater the deficiency of omega 3's, the greater the case of depression. Our skin needs fat in order to retain its moisture and be soft, smooth and healthy. This is why lotion is made up of fat (Shea butter, cocoa butter, etc. are all fat!).

Candida's main source of fuel is sugar! An all fruit diet is exactly what is necessary to sustain and grow an overwhelming candida population in your body. Starve the Candida, heal yourself. Reduce your sugar intake as much as possible. Eat good fats (ie, not over-[processed, or trans-fats).