Your opinion on fruitarianism.
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Personally I think it's disordered eating with it's roots there as well.0
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Just read up on Freelee the banana girl. How the hell could anyone say they eat 3.5kg of potatoes in one sitting?! I'd be throwing up if I tried to eat anything in that amount. And I can EAT.0
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People that want to put themselves through that kind of extreme eating are welcome to do it.
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terricherry2 wrote: »Just read up on Freelee the banana girl. How the hell could anyone say they eat 3.5kg of potatoes in one sitting?! I'd be throwing up if I tried to eat anything in that amount. And I can EAT.
Anyway, my opinion on fruitarianism:
If you can sustain it and it feels good, go for it. I personally would never do it because I enjoy traditional foods and eating them in moderation. I get a humbled feeling when I have bacon with my breakfast. I like fruit from time to time. I like to eat pasta dinners sometimes with my family and I enjoy the big colorful salad with oil and vinegar that we put on the table. I like to have dessert after dinner and for snack sometimes. I like to try new foods, but I know that if nothing looks appealing on the menu, I'm pretty safe with a salad or a cup of french onion soup. I think a fruitarian diet is unnecessary for weight loss, as a deficit will normally do the trick, assuming that someone does not have a medical condition that would prevent them from losing weight with a deficit.
Freelee has a pretty nice body and I wanted mine to look like that when I was in my sophomore year of high school, but I've come to accept I will never have that because of genetics and the differences among us physically. Not even a diet of just fruit would give me that body because it is impossible for me. And I am okay with that.
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I know he had a very hard time finding foods that didn't make him sick after the cancer progressed to a certain point. I don't know if that had happened by the time he went fruititarian, but if so it's possible fruit was one of the easier foods for him to eat. That would at least be a decent reason to give it a try - although he should have known that eventually he'd get even more sick if he didn't find a way to balance his diet.0 -
I know he had a very hard time finding foods that didn't make him sick after the cancer progressed to a certain point. I don't know if that had happened by the time he went fruititarian, but if so it's possible fruit was one of the easier foods for him to eat. That would at least be a decent reason to give it a try - although he should have known that eventually he'd get even more sick if he didn't find a way to balance his diet.
He did it back in the 70s......hence the name his company Apple.0 -
Laurend224 wrote: »
I know he had a very hard time finding foods that didn't make him sick after the cancer progressed to a certain point. I don't know if that had happened by the time he went fruititarian, but if so it's possible fruit was one of the easier foods for him to eat. That would at least be a decent reason to give it a try - although he should have known that eventually he'd get even more sick if he didn't find a way to balance his diet.
He did it back in the 70s......hence the name his company Apple.
Oy. Well, it was the 70s. Seemed like there was more unwarranted stupidity floating around in that decade than most.0 -
I think it's a good way to know that someone is crazy/drama and you should probably avoid them.0
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Laurend224 wrote: »
I know he had a very hard time finding foods that didn't make him sick after the cancer progressed to a certain point. I don't know if that had happened by the time he went fruititarian, but if so it's possible fruit was one of the easier foods for him to eat. That would at least be a decent reason to give it a try - although he should have known that eventually he'd get even more sick if he didn't find a way to balance his diet.
He did it back in the 70s......hence the name his company Apple.
Oy. Well, it was the 70s. Seemed like there was more unwarranted stupidity floating around in that decade than most.
Meh, no more than now. People have always been crazy.0 -
I think it's a good way to know that someone is crazy/drama and you should probably avoid them.
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People who fling themselves and their bodies into insane new diets usually do have their share of drama. It can be fun to be their friend online if you can stand the vagueposting.0 -
About 30 years ago I saw an article in Strength and Fitness about a Breatheairian. He claimed it was the ultimate lifestyle. When I worked at a psych hospital in the 60s we had a patient who explained that she didn't need to eat because she could photosynthesize like the trees. Those two lifestyles didn't work out too well either.0
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I'm a fruitarian. I eat only fruit, nothing else and I feel pretty good! More energy, better digestion, improved dental health and weight loss (10 kg in 6 weeks to be exact).
Do ya my friend did that same. Would you like to know the results? Lets just say it aint worth the results.0 -
To be fair years ago I stated the case against vegetarians as I knew some carrots that had a strong view on it0
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Couldn't live without protein.0
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