Is An All Fruit Diet Smart?
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As a detox diet yes, as a long term 
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.
Bad Fruit Will Make You Sick
The detox takes a very short time, only make sure you use organic fruits. Nothing with pesticides or chemical washes. Drink a lot of water, too!
Remember to take some supplements for the nutrients that are missing from the fruitarian diet.
G. Said,
Wish people would know better about things before posting.
Ie. Many fruit have more calcium than other products, intestine does work better so you don’t need supplements and there is no scientific evidence that we need the RDA volumes of nutrient….especially for raw eaters. This is well show by some “old” fruitarians (been on such diet for over 12yrs). Moreover, meat, grains etc. are very acidic so those who eat them will need more calcium than those who don’t.
Plus, if you were to eat nothing but 20 oranges in one day you would have anyhow met the RDA.
After the initial detox phase fruitarians do not suffer from cravings and there is still to be found a fat fruitarian.
All fruitarians I’ve met have no B12-deficiency symptoms…even after decades on being on such diet….even when the B12 levels tested are low. Funny that most cases of low B12 levels with associated symptoms are found among meatarian/omnivores especially elderly.
We must remember that the normal RDA suggestion are not even tested on vegans (to compare)….forget low-fat-raw vegans or fruitarians.
Thank you,
Gio
April 27th, 2010 at 3:08 pm