Is An All Fruit Diet Smart?

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As a detox diet yes, as a long term fruit salad 300x225 Is An All Fruit Diet Smart?
solution for losing weight, no.

Fruitarian Movement

The explanation is very easy, the fruitarians, which is a movement devoted to eating only fruits, try to eat only fruits all the time.

There are not many who really remain fruitarians, because some nutritional deficiencies appear. For instance, there is no fruit source for Vitamin B 12, necessary for the formation of blood cells and functionality of the nervous system. Other essential nutrients which are missing are calcium, iron, Vitamin D and riboflavin.

Many fruitarians develop a sect like eating disorder, where they regard all food other than fruit as “evil”; the clinical name is orthorexia nervosa.

The Trouble with an All Fruit Diet

The main problem is that all fruit contains a lot of fruit sugar, therefore losing weight is probably not going to happen, because you will need to eat a lot of fruits to satiate your hunger.

The blood sugar spikes, when sugary substances are ingested, when the level of sugar plummets down, you feel hungry again. Since fruit is digested easily, you will be hungry most of the time.

On the other hand, using the fruit diet to detox before a regular diet is a very smart move. Generally it is enough to be on a fruit diet for one to three days, in order to detox completely.