0 Bananas a day
11-04-2014, 09:12 AM
This girl doesn't just eat bananas.
Anyways, I think there is something to fruit that is often overlooked. I've heard many people say it's the most perfect food, and you can't deny its ability to deliver energy.
If you think about it, nothing takes less preparation to make it palatable. No need to cook fruit or often even to cut it apart - you may have to peel it, and there's your food perfectly protected inside. Think about how perfectly nature packages a banana for consumption - whatever you believe about the nature of reality, there's something interesting there.
And there is no acquired taste with most fruits like there are with a lot of veggies. They're delicious from the first bite.
Fruit is loaded with vitamins, antioxidants, mincronutrients, minerals, even protein in some cases, and and other chemicals that don't even register on nutritional factsheets yet but that may very good for us regardless. Fruit is shown to prevent a whole lot of the diseases we hate.
As a way to lose weight, the banana diet and other fruit diets have been going around for a while, with people getting great results and reporting some interesting side effects at least worth considering when you take into account the other natural solutions the manosphere has discovered.
Not sure if it was ever disproved, but an anthropologist who studied fossilized teeth of primitive humans in the late 70s believed fruit was once the majority of our diet (New York Times artcile). http://health101.org/art_diet2.htm Interestingly enough, the one big hole in the paleo diet that I see (I'm not against high-meat diets at all) is that our teeth do not appear to belong to a carnivore.
I'm no expert, but I've dug around enough to believe that worries about the sugar in fruit are unfounded or at least blown out of proportion, as they are very different from the sugars we consume in ice cream and cookies.
It may not be for you, especially if you're a lifter, but around here many of us believe that the healthiest thing for you is an all meat and eggs diet, which most people think is insane and unhealthy. In fact, I imagine that the average person's response to coming across the steak and eggs diet would be about what yours was to this woman. They would assert the men pushing these diets on their blogs were nutjobs with some unfortunate health surprises in their future.
To be clear, I'm not jumping into this thread to argue for the fruit revolution, and I'm not saying agree with her, or especially with her attitude and lifestyle. But it's always best to keep an open mind before assuming you've got the last word on nutrition, which is one of those arguments that will probably never reach a consensus. I second what Basil Ransom said - try it out and post your results.
Of course, there is speculation that fruitarianism may have caused Steve Jobs' pancreatic cancer (due to the high fructose), so there's that. Then again, it is at the moment, like most nutritional conversations, just speculation - others believe it was his diet that kept him going so long. I'd like to see some real long-term research into all-fruit diets, but I don't think any exist.
Anyways, I think there is something to fruit that is often overlooked. I've heard many people say it's the most perfect food, and you can't deny its ability to deliver energy.
If you think about it, nothing takes less preparation to make it palatable. No need to cook fruit or often even to cut it apart - you may have to peel it, and there's your food perfectly protected inside. Think about how perfectly nature packages a banana for consumption - whatever you believe about the nature of reality, there's something interesting there.
And there is no acquired taste with most fruits like there are with a lot of veggies. They're delicious from the first bite.
Fruit is loaded with vitamins, antioxidants, mincronutrients, minerals, even protein in some cases, and and other chemicals that don't even register on nutritional factsheets yet but that may very good for us regardless. Fruit is shown to prevent a whole lot of the diseases we hate.
As a way to lose weight, the banana diet and other fruit diets have been going around for a while, with people getting great results and reporting some interesting side effects at least worth considering when you take into account the other natural solutions the manosphere has discovered.
Not sure if it was ever disproved, but an anthropologist who studied fossilized teeth of primitive humans in the late 70s believed fruit was once the majority of our diet (New York Times artcile). http://health101.org/art_diet2.htm Interestingly enough, the one big hole in the paleo diet that I see (I'm not against high-meat diets at all) is that our teeth do not appear to belong to a carnivore.
I'm no expert, but I've dug around enough to believe that worries about the sugar in fruit are unfounded or at least blown out of proportion, as they are very different from the sugars we consume in ice cream and cookies.
It may not be for you, especially if you're a lifter, but around here many of us believe that the healthiest thing for you is an all meat and eggs diet, which most people think is insane and unhealthy. In fact, I imagine that the average person's response to coming across the steak and eggs diet would be about what yours was to this woman. They would assert the men pushing these diets on their blogs were nutjobs with some unfortunate health surprises in their future.
To be clear, I'm not jumping into this thread to argue for the fruit revolution, and I'm not saying agree with her, or especially with her attitude and lifestyle. But it's always best to keep an open mind before assuming you've got the last word on nutrition, which is one of those arguments that will probably never reach a consensus. I second what Basil Ransom said - try it out and post your results.
Of course, there is speculation that fruitarianism may have caused Steve Jobs' pancreatic cancer (due to the high fructose), so there's that. Then again, it is at the moment, like most nutritional conversations, just speculation - others believe it was his diet that kept him going so long. I'd like to see some real long-term research into all-fruit diets, but I don't think any exist.
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"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Kipling
"The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.
To be your own man is a hard business. If you try it, you'll be lonely often, and sometimes
frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself." - Kipling