What is the deal with all this fruit hating?

[lissomllama]

I've been hearing alot of negative stuff about fruit. People keep telling me not to eat anything that is high on the glycemic index and as a raw, vegan foodist I'm put off by this and I don't understand it one bit. If one is 100% raw I cannot see how fruit could possibly harm one as long as they are getting enough fats and veggies and such. Fruits contain the most water and have great electrolytes and the natural sugars in fruits are healthy and good for energy. I always feel great when I have fruit so I'm just wondering why it is considdered taboo. This seems to go against the ideals of being 100% raw. Could anyone explain this to me?

[juliebove]

I don't personally care for most fruit. And for a long time, I'd get really sick to my stomach if I ate any fruit. I've been gradually trying to add some fruit back into my diet, but really I don't eat much of it.

As for the glycemic index, I think that's a lot of hype! I've seen three dieticians and none of them put any stock into it. Originally, the glycemic index was created in an attempt to help diabetics control their blood sugar. All fine and dandy. But the test subjects they used were all young and healthy and did not have diabetes. So whatever those foods did to those subjects is not necessarily what will happen when a diabetic eats those foods. And even at that, there are over 300 types of diabetes yet they seem to lump us all into categories like type 1, type 2, or gestational. There are so many variations that there is no one diet that works for all of us. Some diabetics find they can eat no fruit at all. Others can eat only certain fruits. Pears are fine for me, but some diabetics find their blood sugar goes through the roof when they eat a pear.

Another flaw in the glycemic index is that it is based on single foods. If you eat any other food along with your pear (just using this as an example), it changes the glycemic index. If you eat something at the meal prior to eating the pear, that too can change the glycemic index. And for someone to come up with a chart that takes all possible food combinations into account would be an impossible task!

Personally, I think if you do not have diabetes, pre-diabates, reactive hypoglycemia or other blood sugar issues, you don't have to worry about fruit...provided it doesn't cause you other problems. But I'm sure if it did you'd soon know it and back off.

[lissomllama]

Thankyou, that was very informative. I totally support not eating something if it puts you off or you just don't want it but I'm talking about the raw foodists that love fruit and want it and feel good after eating but they feel guilty for eating it. It makes no sense to me and it seems that it doesn't make sense to you either, hehe. Out of curiosity, can switching to a raw diet cure diabetes?

[juliebove]

Thankyou, that was very informative. I totally support not eating something if it puts you off or you just don't want it but I'm talking about the raw foodists that love fruit and want it and feel good after eating but they feel guilty for eating it. It makes no sense to me and it seems that it doesn't make sense to you either, hehe. Out of curiosity, can switching to a raw diet cure diabetes?

I don't personally think anything can cure diabetes. Although this is much debated in the diabetic community. I guess it all depends on what you think the meaning of "cure" is. I believe we can control diabetes with proper diet, exercise, sometimes weight loss, sometimes meds or insulin or a combination of these things. But if we go back to our old way of eating, the blood sugar gets high again. Also, type 2 diabetes is a progressive disease and the sad thing is, most of us will wind up on insulin at some point.

The thing about the glycemic index and other things is that the media seems to pick up on this stuff and applies it to everyone, not just diabetes. I can't tell you how many books or magazine articles I've read that talk about fluctuating blood sugar. Fact is, if you DON'T have diabetes, pre-diabetes or reactive hypoglycemia, your blood sugar won't fluctuate out of normal range no matter what. One exception being the use of certain steroids. This can bring on high blood sugar and in some cases cause diabetes. Certain meds for psychiatric problems have also been linked to diabetes, as have beta blockers. But really, healthy people do not have blood sugar that fluctuates out of the normal range no matter how much sugar or fruit they eat. I think a lot of this is just people trying to market their product. Some book or pill we don't need to address some mythical malady that we don't have.

[lissomllama]

Ah, thanks for the answers.

[RawTruth]

I don't personally think anything can cure diabetes. Although this is much debated in the diabetic community. I guess it all depends on what you think the meaning of "cure" is. I believe we can control diabetes with proper diet, exercise, sometimes weight loss, sometimes meds or insulin or a combination of these things. But if we go back to our old way of eating, the blood sugar gets high again. Also, type 2 diabetes is a progressive disease and the sad thing is, most of us will wind up on insulin at some point.

The thing about the glycemic index and other things is that the media seems to pick up on this stuff and applies it to everyone, not just diabetes. I can't tell you how many books or magazine articles I've read that talk about fluctuating blood sugar. Fact is, if you DON'T have diabetes, pre-diabetes or reactive hypoglycemia, your blood sugar won't fluctuate out of normal range no matter what. One exception being the use of certain steroids. This can bring on high blood sugar and in some cases cause diabetes. Certain meds for psychiatric problems have also been linked to diabetes, as have beta blockers. But really, healthy people do not have blood sugar that fluctuates out of the normal range no matter how much sugar or fruit they eat. I think a lot of this is just people trying to market their product. Some book or pill we don't need to address some mythical malady that we don't have. View the trailer at http://rawfor30days.com/ for the documentary filmed at Dr. Gabriel Counsins' Tree of Life Center in February on what happened when insulin-dependent diabetics went 100% raw.

Our bodies are self-healing. That's the way they were designed. I agree that nothing can "cure" diabetes. However, I believe that by eating only raw and living foods, our bodies are given the chance to heal themselves including balancing all the body systems including the imbalances called diabetes.

With this scientific, medically-supervised study, now we know that it's not just a belief. Rather, it is factual truth.

Yay!!! What an easy, simple, and beautiful way of ridding one's self of the scourge of diabetes!

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As to the original post -- I've been mostly off the forum for a while now, so I am unaware of the fruit-hating you're refering to. However, you should know that out here in the "real world" that I live in, among the 100% raw fooders that are part of my community, fruit is NOT considered a bad thing. I know a number of people who follow Dr. Doug Graham's guidelines and eat fruit as 50% to 80% of their daily food. Others who don't necessarily follow the natural hygiene route still eat lots of fruit. I've posted before on this forum that my candida was cured in two weeks by NOT limiting my fruit, but, instead by limiting fats. Anyone who has read Alissa's book knows that she advocates fruit. In this, as in many other aspects of eating raw, there are advocates for one way, and advocates for another way. I think it's best to use your common sense and listen to what your body is telling you.

Well, I'm off to eat an orange (or several)!

[dreamrawalwz]

I don't understand it either. Fruit is so healthy and such a cleansing food. I feel my best on just fruit...most energy and everything.

[ljcoolj]

As I sit here eating cantaloupe, 2 bananas and an orange....I'd have to say that I don't care what anyone says about fruit. I LOVE fruit!! If its raw, its fine....thats my motto and I'm sticking to it.

[rawfigure]

Last night I was listening to the Brian Clement interview at rawveganradio.com and he said part of the mission statement for the Hipocrates Institute is to Eliminate Fruit or very Limited fruit. I backed it up and listened to it two more times to be sure I heard it right. They teach that when you are fighting disease cancer or severe illness you must eliminate fruit, and only the truely healthly can eat it is a controlled amount.

I cannot say I agree with this. I ate loads of fruit as a child and stopped eating it as an adult. Since going Raw I have slowly added it to the diet where it is about 50% of my diet. I never felt better !!!!!!!!! And I am reactive hypoglycemic.

I have been able to test my theroy that whole fruit does not affect my blood sugar the same as any processed or concentrated sugars do (includes raw sugar, grain sweetners, agave, honey and so on) I eat fruit all day, no blood suagr problems...eat a made with the above I go off. So whole fruit is NOT high GI, there are too many other factors, fiber, other food consumed, not concentrated due to the water content and not processed. It does a body good !

[Arky]

Aside from the GI issues (and more importantly, in my view), I believe the primary issue with fruit is that it is very cleansing and can, if eaten to excess, and without adequate greens intake, deplete the bodys mineral reserves. Personally, I have nothing against fruit, and eat plenty of it, myself, but I am increasingly aware of the absolute importance of consuming a hefty quantity of greens daily (and, ideally, some sea vegetables, too), in order to balance bodily mineral reserves. I feel very strongly, now, that many proponents of high-fruit diets, in the raw food community, do not place anywhere near enough emphasis on HIGH greens intake. It's just not good enough to say - "eat as much fruit as you like and, oh yeah, BTW, eat a big salad at the end of the day". It doesn't impress upon people how important, and how large, such salads (or green smoothies) should be (in terms of daily intake, not necessarily all in one meal/smoothie). "A big salad" will be interpreted, by many, to mean a large plate or two, at most, which, in the context of a high fruit intake, is woefully inadequate.

Unless people understand WHY and the specific implications of consuming so much fruit, in terms of the potential effect on mineral balance, they cannot, and will not, truly grasp that high fruit eaters need to consume even more greens than the already-high greens needs of raw foodists consuming fewer fruits as part of their daily caloric intake.

I firmly believe that this is one of the primary reasons so many raw-foodists encounter tooth decay problems - when one begins to eat natural foods in the raw state, and in larger quantities than on a conventional diet, the easiest option for the novice (and an option most people tend to continue with, for the most part, because they don't truly appreciate the implications) is to focus upon all those sweet fruits (to say nothing of acid-forming, phosphorous-rich, seeds and nuts), to the relative exclusion of the highly-alkaline, bitter, greens.

Putting (daily) caloric intake issues to one side, for the moment, fruit, by virtue of its sweetness, is more analagous, in terms of taste, to the nutritionally-sparse foods typical of conventional diets than bitter greens are. It is to be expected, therefore, that many raw-foodists make the error of gobbling up as much fresh fruit as they can get their hands on, when transitioning from their previous diet, while making little or no effort to retrain their tastebuds to bitter greens which, in truth, are essential for sustaining health in the longer term. If one takes the unwise route (as I myself did) of eating too much fruit (relative to greens intake) then one feels great for a while, as the body enjoys the benefits of fruits cleansing power, but then begins to realise that all is not well, as time goes on, because mineral deficiencies begin to manifest as symptoms - the classic one being gradual dental erosion. So when such a typical raw-foodist hears certain 'gurus' pronouncing that fruit is the food they should be eating by the truckload, in order to satisfy caloric requirements and present the least digestive load on the body, they think Christmas has come early, only to find, some time later, that all is not necessarily rosy in the orchard of Eden, if they have not been made explicitly aware of the >potential<, but >avoidable<, dangers of mineral loss.

Equally, when one hears people from the 'Living Foods' faction of the Raw Food Scene remarking that it is unwise to consume fruit in any significant quantity, it is not necessarily that they are 'right' or 'wrong', IMHO, but more that they are making the distinction that, in order to build a body, in the healing sense, one needs to do everything one can to increase one's bodily mineral reserves, and to place the least possible stress on the pancreas and other organs. Healthy though it can be, fruit is, by comparison with bitter greens, more of a cleanser than a builder of bodily tissues.

I feel both the low-fruit Living Foods perspective AND the high-fruit perspective have something to offer healthy raw-foodists. It's simply a matter of understanding the reasoning behind each viewpoint, drawing some careful distinctions and conclusions from each, and constructing one's diet, in whichever direction one sees fit, but doing so with the knowledge of the benefits and potential pitfalls of each, so that these negative aspects may largely be avoided rather than creeping up on one in the longrun. For instance, a pitfall of the low-fruit approach is that one may seek to satisfy caloric needs by increasing fat intake, which can be just as detrimental to health as any pitfalls of the high-fruit approach, as high fat diets impede insulin response, as just one example.

That's just my personal observation on the topic. Others may disagree. However, I should add that I have read many, many books, websites, posts, articles etc. on raw food nutrition and not a single one of them has adequately made the above point, which I have come to my own conclusions about, from personal experience. In fairness, David Wolfe comes closest, and I very much respect his commendable emphasis on the significance and importance of minerals, but even then I still don't feel he is explicit or emphatic enough about the possibility of mineral depletion through unbalanced consumption of fruit. I have no issue with carefully-balanced high fruit intake, if that's the particular path any individual wishes to follow. It is simply the manner in which this approach is often unwisely implemented, and inadequately explained, that I take issue with.

There are practical issues in obtaining good quantities of organic greens to balance mineral intake/excretion. Organic greens can be fairly expensive and not always easy to obtain. I therefore take the view that a decent-sized automatic sprouter (Val's are excellent, in this regard) (www.eatsprouts.com) is an extremely wise investment for one's health, not just from the point of view of the sundry benefits of sprouts themselves, but from the point of view that they can supplement one's greens intake, if baby greens are grown, such as sunflower, buckwheat, pea, and dare I say it, even wheatgrass. All organic, and very cheap to grow, once the initial hardware investment has been overcome. Lastly, adding some sea vegetables to one's daily green juices/smoothies provides even more mineral intake.


J.

[scott]

Excellent Arky

Total agreement.

Scott

[Daddeln]

I love fruit!

[Im2Fruity]

Stop the fruit hating!! My goodness, I don't know what I would do without my fruit. I am one of those people who eat fruit all day and then a huge salad at night!! It seems to be working for me, and I don't usually have a problem with my blood sugar..if I do on one day, I have my salad earlier.
I guess I would eat less fruit if I had a dehydrator and if sprouting grains didn't take so darn long...sprouts are such a treat for me when I decide to not be lazy haha :D

[jaurequi]

Right on, Arky :D. A balance is needed whether people want to accept it or not. If that weren't the case, Alissa's book wouldn't contain the variety it does. Eating too much of any one thing is not optimal for health; however this does not mean that some do better on more of one thing than someone else does: some are good on 10% fat, others need 20%, for example.
Fruit is needed in the diet, but so are greens and fat. If one is excluding any of these or not getting "enough," they are not going to be well, and as you stated, it may not start effecting them until later, just like any nutritionally deficient way of eating. This is why there are so many posts about being so "high" and then a month or two later, people start saying how they lost their "glow" or begin to see problems or even drop off the board and go back to standard fare. Eventually, one has to put effort into this.

Best,

[Sunshine9]

I agree with you Arky, fruit is all about balance. It also depends on one's metabolism as to the appropriate amount to consume. Also I think that all fruit is not created equal, and that there are certainly more excellent choices such as berries (less sugar, more minerals, closer to wild state), as opposed to dates and bananas (hybridized sugar that is overloaded with potassium making it difficult to balance with sodium).

I think if someone is having health issues, it probably has a mineral deficiency underlying it somewhere. High consumption of fruit without proper greens and fat can also lead to neurological problems because of lack of proper minerals.. hence the term "flipped out fruititarian."

In response to the initial post-- what's with all the fruit hating? I think that low fruit intake is THE leading edge of raw nutrition, along with very specific supplements, and it's just where most of the leading edge raw researchers are. So everyone is talking about it and has something to say about it.

But remember.. it took those people years to get where they are with their food intake and fruit consumption and for right now it is always best to be gentle and loving with yourself and what you're eating no matter what that is. Bananas and dates your perfect food? Fantastic! Don't eat any fat? Great! Living on nothing but pine nuts and wheatgrass? Phenomenal.
Enjoy the process :) (And try to remember we ALLL need greens).

xoxo,
Sunshine

[Brianna]

I work at Hippocrates and we used to do more fruit here, but then people just were not healing, especially when they had cancer, candida, etc, because sugar of every kind feeds these illnesses. We found that when we removed fruit from their diets for a period of time, they would heal. That's why Brian no longer recommends a high fruit diet.

I think everyone has to figure out their own body and their own metabolism and if you're healthy, you don't have to worry about it as much, as long as you are getting plenty of minerals from green leafy veggies and green juices.

[Jackie1995]

Arky, you are SO right about the greens! BTW, your posts are wonderful. Truly informative, well written, thoughtful...I'm becoming a fan of your posts!

Also, just as an aside, I started increasing my not-so-sweet fruit intake: tomatoes, cucumbers, chayote, stuff like that. I used to call them veggies. Go figure!

I mostly use my sweet fruits in the morning with my smoothie with AT LEAST 4 cups spinach/kale/beet greens AND at least 1 cup parsley/watercress/turnip greens/mustard greens/cilantro <--not for the faint of heart, everything except parsley is quite strong tasting). I figure they complement each other in my body.

I may have another sweet fruit later in the afternoon. This week it's watermelon, and to make it "better" for me, I also eat the not-sweet rind with it. Also saw a post about juicing the rind with some of the pink to get the total nutritional benefit of watermelon.

I also use celery several times per day, especially after eating fruit, as it offsets the fruit in a beneficial way.

Well, that's my two cents. Great thread, BTW, very enjoyable to read all the different opinions!

[lissomllama]

Arky, thanks, I totally agree. I've always stressed the importance of eating a LOT of bitter, dark leafy greens. Everything must be balanced or trouble will surface. I have had to retrain my tastebuds to like some raw chlorophyl rich veggies but it's working and I know that it will balance out my fruit intake. I'm glad that there are still fruit lovers in the raw community. It's nice to hear.

[paleogirl]

I don't think a lot of us who limit fruit are 'fruit hating' - we are just trying to figure out the best raw diet for ourselves. For me this limits fruit due to blood sugar issues and bloating, for others it's a simple matter of trying to lose weight and limiting carbs/sugar is a healthy proven way to do this.

[rawfigure]

So Arky, others ...what is a High Fruit diet ?

I have been anti fruit for so long and in the 10 months Raw just recently got to two fruits today. On occassion three. My chioces are usually grapefruit and apple, berries. Banana Ice Cream 2-3 times a week.

Today I hit my all time high fruit day in my 10 mo Raw. I "desided " to do a mostly fruit day. Something I have never done before !

I had a Banana, 2 green apples, 6 large Strawberries, and Banana Ice Cream all in one day !! I had Greens today but decided to take a few days off from my daily 30-40 oz of green drinks...then I read this post and I feel like I did myself a dis-serve eating a high fruit day and must pay tomorrow and eat just one !

So in a 1000 calorie diet what would the balance of fruit to greens be ?

[SedonaSun]

And even at that, there are over 300 types of diabetes yet they seem to lump us all into categories like type 1, type 2, or gestational.

Interesting....what are some of the other types?

[Sharon in Colorado]

There are a small amount of fruit haters. They actually disdain hybrids, especially bananas. It doesn't seem to make sense to me as monkeys and apes eat lots of fruit, bananas, plus plenty of greens. Victoria Boutenko researched that at least 50% of their diet is made up of fruit. Also Dr. Graham has said that all fruits are hybrids.

Also we run on carbs. Yes, fat and even protein can turn into carbs but the easiest way to get carbs is to eat carbs. Plus our brains probably use up twice as much energy as the rest of our bodies...on...carbs.

I think some people who miscombine or were raised on poor diets and fed formula as a baby instead of breastfed have a problem digesting simple sugars via fruit. I don't know if it's been proven but I've seen it a lot around me. So it can take a while to readjust the digestive system to tolerate fruit. People tend to blame the fruit for their digestive problems instead of their own health status.

[cornvalley]

How could you not love a Crenshaw melon?, I mean really... send em' all over here.

[dreamrawalwz]

Would it be bad to do 2-3 days of just mono fruit eating (and no greens or veggies at all) to cleanse more and then resume to a balance of greens and fruit?

[Gosia]

I hope that one day perhaps raw foodists will be more united and respectful of each other. Since I entered the raw scene, I've seen a lot of anti-fruit material, and I've seen a lot of sometimes abusive arguing between the pro- and ant-fruit advocates. I've seen so much animosity between various “belief” groups in the raw food movement in general. I experienced that myself, when I was attacked or even verbally abused for simply saying positive things about fruit. Sometimes I feel like withdrawing from all that and doing my own thing, but then my motivation to share my experience with others wins, and I stay. I believe that I should give back to the community what I've been given myself. I've seen things published that directly advise to avoid eating sweet fruit at all costs, warning that if you do, you might end up seriously sick. I've read stories about those who ate sweet fruit for two weeks and ended up with teeth problems, or those who ate fruit for longer and had some other health problems. At the same time, I met so many raw foodists who progressed in their raw food transition, and after a year or two, evolved to a high-fruit diet, and experienced dramatic improvements in their health, as dramatic as when they changed from cooked to raw. I’ve read stories of those who cured themselves, for example, from candida, diabetes and cancer, while on a diet high in sweet fruit; yet there are those who advocate avoiding fruit while having exactly those types of problems. I’ve seen those who grew muscles and improved their athletic performance while eating fruit-based diet; yet there are those who say that one needs to avoid fruit and eat lots of nuts in order improve their body. I’ve read published research that confirms that eating lots of fruit improves bone density in young and older people, yet there those who still think that eating fruit is not good for our bones/teeth. I’ve been asking myself why is this contradiction here? Why on earth there could be any problems with eating fruit? I believe that I begin to understand the reasons, which have nothing to do with fruit, but rather with our attitude, the way we perceive the world and the way we process the information. My own experience has been that I spontaneously progressed to eating more and more fruit. On occasions, I would eat only fruit for extended periods of time, and this never resulted in any teeth or other health problems. On the contrary. My hair is better than in the first stage of my raw journey, when my fruit intake was much lower. Same with my gums, my energy levels, and my general health. My husband Luke also spontaneously progressed to a high-fruit diet. My kids also prefer fruit than any other raw food. Luke told me yesterday that the real reason he eats the way he does is because he feels great. I believe that there is perhaps a little too much over-intellectualizing out there. Our bodies have all the knowledge that we need, it is a matter of accessing it. And, I am totally convinced that accessing that knowledge is totally possible. I believe that the body has means to let us know when it needs something, and one of these means is taste. Interestingly, in another post there is a reference to a published research that highlights that scientists begin to understand how that may happen. Thankfully, we do not need scientists to tell us what’s good for us. Thankfully, once we get to become raw foodists, which may be an accidental and lucky event, our body will give us many hints about what to do or not to do, and eventually, we will discover that feeding ourselves can be a very easy and joyful process. I begin to come to the stage where I eat when I am hungry and I eat what makes me feel great. Food is just fuel. I do not need to think about it. I just grab it and eat. Fruit is delicious, so I eat it!

Sincerely,
Gosia.

[rawpriestess]

Well, I hadn't seen any fruit hating, until I read this thread

[lissomllama]

lol, yes, maybe the title is a little strong.

[paleogirl]

Also we run on carbs. Yes, fat and even protein can turn into carbs but the easiest way to get carbs is to eat carbs. Plus our brains probably use up twice as much energy as the rest of our bodies...on...carbs.

Or to phrase it another way :) ... we would die without adequate protein or adequate fat, yet we can survive and even thrive on low or even zero carbs.

That said I'm not a fruit hater! I eat fruit, but I understand and respect the effect it has on my body. Just like all aspects of raw, what works for one body might not for another. That's why I hate the ratio diets. People need to be allowed to figure out what balance of foods makes THEM thrive.

[rawfigure]

Or to phrase it another way :) yet we can survive and even thrive on low or even zero carbs.



paleogirl...have you tried this living on little or zero carbs ? feel good ? I have gone into ketosis many many times and I could survive for awhile....but not thrive on low carbs and prefer to the way I feel not to even go that low again.

If you eat protein and fat you will get some carbs in there unless you live on meat, eggs and such, even nuts have carbs.

[Vandy]

Arky and Gosia~ Beautifulllllly said!

I am a fruit lover and 80% of my intake is from fruit...this is WHERE I get my energy. I am extremely extremely active and when I cut fruit and ALL sweet fruit out of my diet I saw and felt hooorrrible. I should mention that I have always eaten at LEAST 2 lbs of leafy greens a day (which is about 10%) when compared to the amount of fruit I eat. Just like arky said... a high fruit diet is great, but one should also consider balancing that with the appropriate amount of leafy greens. Check out Dr. Graham's website.... the 8/1/1 actually promotes more GREENS than any other way of eating raw I have found (which is 10%), but most people fail to see that b/c they are caught up in the fact that 80% of what you eat is fruit. Anywhooo... I love fruit and greens so I'm happy.

[rawfigure]

I hope that one day perhaps raw foodists will be more united and respectful of each other. Since I entered the raw scene, I've seen a lot of anti-fruit material, and I've seen a lot of sometimes abusive arguing between the pro- and ant-fruit advocates. I've seen so much animosity between various “belief” groups in the raw food movement in general. I experienced that myself, when I was attacked or even verbally abused for simply saying positive things about fruit. Sometimes I feel like withdrawing from all that and doing my own thing, but then my motivation to share my experience with others wins, and I stay. I believe that I should give back to the community what I've been given myself. I've seen things published that directly advise to avoid eating sweet fruit at all costs, warning that if you do, you might end up seriously sick. I've read stories about those who ate sweet fruit for two weeks and ended up with teeth problems, or those who ate fruit for longer and had some other health problems. At the same time, I met so many raw foodists who progressed in their raw food transition, and after a year or two, evolved to a high-fruit diet, and experienced dramatic improvements in their health, as dramatic as when they changed from cooked to raw. I’ve read stories of those who cured themselves, for example, from candida, diabetes and cancer, while on a diet high in sweet fruit; yet there are those who advocate avoiding fruit while having exactly those types of problems. I’ve seen those who grew muscles and improved their athletic performance while eating fruit-based diet; yet there are those who say that one needs to avoid fruit and eat lots of nuts in order improve their body. I’ve read published research that confirms that eating lots of fruit improves bone density in young and older people, yet there those who still think that eating fruit is not good for our bones/teeth. I’ve been asking myself why is this contradiction here? Why on earth there could be any problems with eating fruit? I believe that I begin to understand the reasons, which have nothing to do with fruit, but rather with our attitude, the way we perceive the world and the way we process the information. My own experience has been that I spontaneously progressed to eating more and more fruit. On occasions, I would eat only fruit for extended periods of time, and this never resulted in any teeth or other health problems. On the contrary. My hair is better than in the first stage of my raw journey, when my fruit intake was much lower. Same with my gums, my energy levels, and my general health. My husband Luke also spontaneously progressed to a high-fruit diet. My kids also prefer fruit than any other raw food. Luke told me yesterday that the real reason he eats the way he does is because he feels great. I believe that there is perhaps a little too much over-intellectualizing out there. Our bodies have all the knowledge that we need, it is a matter of accessing it. And, I am totally convinced that accessing that knowledge is totally possible. I believe that the body has means to let us know when it needs something, and one of these means is taste. Interestingly, in another post there is a reference to a published research that highlights that scientists begin to understand how that may happen. Thankfully, we do not need scientists to tell us what’s good for us. Thankfully, once we get to become raw foodists, which may be an accidental and lucky event, our body will give us many hints about what to do or not to do, and eventually, we will discover that feeding ourselves can be a very easy and joyful process. I being to come to the stage where I eat when I am hungry and I eat what makes me feel great. Food is just fuel. I do not need to think about it. I just grab it and eat. Fruit is delicious, so I eat it!

Sincerely,
Gosia.


Thanks for sharing. I went to your site and did some reading. You are an inspiration.

I have never felt better, adding fruit to my previously non existant fruit diet for the last 20 plus years. It took me 9 months to get it to the level it is now ..maybe 50%...the rest being greens seeds and limited nuts.

I am inspired to continue my fruit eating. I have wanted to lean out by 5 pds and tried varied foods. When I increased my fruit I have gottn leaner and not sacrificing energy for running as I did in the past on my high protein low carb diets.

Yeah a ! :D