a fruitloop - totally nuts!!

I've decided to detox for a while and become a fruitarian ... maybe for a couple weeks? Maybe for a month? We'll see how that goes... I'll have to make an exception this Sunday because I promised to make lunch for the boys who are helping me move - and I think for any balls I attend I'll have to stick to just veganism cos I don't think I'll get very far explaining fruitarianism to the chef...

But otherwise, here's what I've read on it:

The fruitarian diet consists of RAW fruit and seeds ONLY!

Examples of fruits are: Pineapple, mango, banana, avocado, apple, melon, orange, etc., all kinds of berries, and the vegetable fruits such as tomato, cucumber, olives; and dried fruits such as nuts, hazelnuts, cashews, chestnuts, etc.. And seeds including sprouted seeds.

The Fruitarian lifestyle includes avoiding all cooked food and consider it non healthy for the individual and pollutant to the environment, causing unbalanced nutrition, all kinds of disease, mood swings, cravings for synthetic nutrients and chemicals, decrease of vitality, loss of external beauty and loss of inner happiness, depreciation for life and lack of wisdom. All of these consequences we can identify very well in modern civilized societies!

fruitarian.com

Fruitarians (or fructarians) are a subgroup of vegans who eat only the fruit of plants. This includes not only what one typically thinks of as a "fruit" in the culinary sense such as apples and oranges, but also other foods that are botanically the fruits of flowering plants (that is, the seed-containing reproductive parts), including berries, nuts, seeds, capsicums, tomatoes, squash, beans, peas, and so on. There are different variations of fruitarianism. Some fruitarians will eat only what falls (or would fall) naturally from a plant—fruits, seeds, nuts. Others may eat all biological fruits. Grains are usually accepted, as they are conventionally harvested by cutting down the plant. Most fruitarians are also raw foodists.

* Adam and Eve in the Book of Genesis.
* There is evidence that the Essenes were raw foodists and fruitarians. Some scholars even believe Jesus to have been an Essene and practiced a fruitarian diet, although this contradicts the mainline Bible.
* It is believed Leonardo Da Vinci was through evidence left in his notebooks. One comment he made was:

"The time will come when men such as I will look upon the murder of animals as they now look on the murder of men."

* Mahatma Gandhi in his later years.
* Steve Jobs, co-founder of Apple Computer, was during the 1970s:

"I was actually a fruitarian at that point in time. I ate only fruit. Now I'm a garbage can like everyone else. And we were about three months late in filing a fictitious business name so I threatened to call the company Apple Computer unless someone suggested a more interesting name by five o'clock that day. Hoping to stimulate creativity. And it stuck. And that's why we're called Apple."

* The fictional Eloi from HG Wells's The Time Machine. Note: These were not fruitarian for ethical reasons but were forced to by the Morlocks who took all of the animal-based products.

en.wikipedia.org

Hmmm... should be a fun challenge :)

Also, started Yoga yesterday... quite famliar with a lot of the excercises because of meditation... but hey, a little bit of instruction is always good!