Fruitarian diet

Question
QUESTION: What is your opinion regarding the Fruitarian diet?  Have you ever tried it?  Do you think living/eating this way is possible?

ANSWER: I tried the Fruitarian diet before I went rawpalaeo as I preferred the taste of raw fruit to raw veg when I was Raw Vegan. It was an absolute disaster for me, healthwise. I developed very unpleasant glandular-related health-problems and nutritional deficiencies. And many people I know who've subsequently gone rawpalaeo have had similiar unpleasant experiences on raw fruitarian diets in the past.

Basically, the problem with the Fruitarian diet is that plants do not provide all the nutrients a human body needs to survive, so a 100% raw plant diet is unsustainable. Sure, in many cases, the body can manufacture some of the missing nutrients in a Fruitarian diet, but this wears out the body over time, plus there are some nutrients that are impossible for the body to provide, which means, in the long-term, serious nutritional deficiencies inevitably arise.

HTH,
RPG

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QUESTION: Wow...it's hard for me to give up the notion that the Fruitarian diet is the ultimate of all and the healthiest way to eat.  What is your diet now and what do you feel is the best diet for the average person?  Do you think a lacto-vegetarian diet is best or a diet with some meat in it is best?  I am so confused.  I have gone off and on the raw diet for almost 20 years -- and each time I try the Fruitarian diet I end up with eating disorder-like symptoms and "orthorexia (addiction to righteous eating).  I can't make peace with my diet.

Answer
My diet has been a raw version of the Palaeolithic Diet for the last 8 years or so. It is really the best kind of diet because it avoids the heat-created toxins caused by cooking as well as avoiding non-palaeo foods which can cause major allergenic and other toxic effects.

Lacto-vegetarian diets are not healthy given their extreme focus on plant foods, dairy and cooking, even though they are "less worse" than diets rich in cooked animal foods as the latter have much higher amounts of heat-created toxins in them. Of course, cooked diets with some meat in them will help avoid the nutritional deficiencies commonly occurring on lacto-vegetarian diets. The beauty of a raw , palaeolithic diet is that it avoids all those pitfalls.

What I would suggest is that you read the threads on rawpaleoforum and the rawpaleodiet yahoo group to get an idea of what a raw-meat-oriented diet looks like.

HTH,
RPG  

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