Banana Girl

I have heard of her & I briefly read about her. Supposedly she is in "recovery" from an eating disorder. But, I think she just traded eating disorders.

Don't care what she says... it's too much sugar and potassium.

I eat a banana a day....but its forced down. They are snot sticks.

Mmm I love bananas, but the thought of eating twenty at a time makes me throw up in my mouth a little.

Sorry for the lengthiness of this post, but I couldn't help myself:
I followed a (mostly) raw fruitarian diet that included boiled beans (which is kind-of, sort-of cheating if you were to ask a die-hard raw dieter) for the first 5 months of this year. Granted, I varied what I consumed to include a large variety of different fruits and became creative with meal ideas, so bananas were not my main source of nutrition. Most squashes, beans and many commonly labeled "vegetables" - including tomatoes, peppers, avocados, etc. - are really the fruit of a plant. The theory behind fruitarianism is that no living beings are being harmed by one's diet, not even plants - live and let live. Biologically, plants produce fruits as a way to better spread their seeds and increase their species' chance of survival. The sweet fruit-meat around the seed is an incentive for foraging animals to digest said fruit and either discard the seed during consumption (i.e. avocado pits) or digest the seed and later discard within the animal's feces (common with plants with miniscule, easily digestible seeds). This gives the plant an evolutionary incentive as it disperses the seeds over more land, and thus accumulates a better chance for subsequent, successful plants to grow and bloom. Often seeds need a reaction to occur before they can germinate, and the journey through an animal's digestive system provides for this in many cases. To really aid in a plants ability to populate the planet, one should **** in the woods. I add that as a joke, but it is the truth.

My experience was a good one and I plan to try to stay on a fruitarian diet for longer in the future. It was difficult, but it was a great discipline builder and it helped me reach all of my body goals. I lost 8% body fat, maintained a healthy BMI, was able to exercise for 2hrs/day, 6 days/wk without fatigue, my energy greatly increased and I was finally able to say no to processed foods. I was very careful with which fruits I chose, and mostly relied on beans and avocados to cover my fat and protein needs. Unfortunately, I was not using mfp during this time so I am not exactly sure on total daily calorie consumption. I would recommend the diet to anyone that is willing to pay close attention to their bodies and spend a lot of time each week on food plans.

I think I would go bankrupt. Fruit so expensive >.<

There have been two documentaries in Holland about a woman who raises her son on raw-only food. When asked if he'd never had warm food at all he said 'Well, sometimes.. if mum turns the blender up a bit too high....' Awwww!
Turned out he was far too short for his age, and had other problems that had doctors worried. Social services even got involved because mum took him out of school, saying it was the wrong environment for a 'raw' boy... Not sure how he's doing now, but I felt very sorry for him.