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If you overeat raw food or fruit
or even cooked food remember the reasons why most people overeat:
suppressed emotional issues and a lack of deep breathing. If
you overeat, go outside and take 10-15 deep breaths! Or breathe
deeply at night instead of eating -- if you have problems in
that area.
Hybrid Fruit
Unfortunately the quality of
fruit available in most commercial supermarkets is less than
excellent. The fruit is biologically weak: it has not picked
up the minerals from the soil properly, its sugar are too high,
if left to Nature the insects, worms, and bacteria would wipe
it out quickly. Many fruits today have been hybridized: they
have been genetically or biologically tampered with. For example,
most orange trees are actually two orange trees in one. The roots
are of one type and the stem and leaves are of another type.
They are grafted together. This leads to a fruit which is has
an improper balance -- it is confused. The fruit may be seedless
or the seeds may not be viable.
What to do? Seek out high-quality organic fruit grown from non-hybridized
plant strains or better yet grow your own fruit trees from seed
or even seek out wild fruits. The best way to determine if a
fruit is too hybridized is to examine its seeds. If the fruit
is seedless, do not eat it or at least be very frugal when eating
it. Seedless fruit actually should not be eaten -- you will become
more and more sensitive to this as you become internally cleaner
and cleaner. If the fruit has seeds, try planting them. If they
grow, the fruit, even if hybridized, still has enough natural
vitality to be excellent nourishment.
Farmers and biologists have
noted that after several generations of hybridization a most
interesting event occurs. The hybrid strain will either die out
-- it will have lost its vitality -- or it will revert back into
a more primal form -- a seedless strain can suddenly start producing
viable seeds! I had the most incredible experience the other
day. I was juicing a pineapple for a friend and I discovered
the pineapple contained seeds! This is the first time I had ever
seen this. Pineapples are hybrid fruits many of us have eaten,
at least occasionally, our whole life. How many times have you
discovered seeds in the pineapple? After many generations of
hybridization we see the pineapple reverting back and now seeding!
One final note: hybrid sweet
fruit is still better for you than cooked food!
Is Fruit Too Sweet?
Most fruits on Earth are not
sweet fruits! It is important to include in your fruitarian diet
a host of non-sweet fruits such as avocados, peppers, cucumbers,
tomatoes, cranberries, lemons, limes, squash, corn, zucchini,
okra, etc. These foods provide heavier minerals and are soft
on the body. Ideally, they should constitute at least 50% of
your diet.
Tooth Trip
Are fruits bad for your teeth?
The internal condition of the body is the best indicator as to
the health of the teeth. If teeth are bad, there is an internal
disruption in the body, and we need to bring in more calcium
in the form of green-leafy salads and green juices, as Dr. Shelton
has pointed out in his great book: "The Science And Fine
Art Of Nutrition."
There is a great misconception
that fruits are bad on the teeth. Why the myth of poor teeth
on a fruitarian diet? The clue I picked up from Johnny Lovewisdom’s
book: "Spiritualizing Dietetics: Vitarianism." He attacks
nuts and seeds viciously as being the cause of teeth problems
in fruitarians, not fruit. I’ve noticed that myself. Nuts
leave an acid ash and are high in phosphorous which must be balanced
with calcium (found abundantly and usable in greens). If you
eat lots of nuts and seeds, you should also eat plenty of greens.
If they are not balanced the phosphorous will eventually acidify
the body and leech calcium from the bones, especially the jaw
and teeth -- the body is signaling the mouth to stop taking in
food, especially the nuts and seeds. Another important point
appropriate here is that raw animal foods too leave an acid ash
and are high in phosphorous, just like nuts and seeds. If they
are not balanced off with greens (calcium) they’ll decalcify
the teeth over the long term.
Exercise
Fruit makes you active so that
the tree’s or plant’s purpose is furthered: you eat
fruit, get active, and run around spreading the seeds far and
wide. The more sedentary (stationary) you are throughout the
day, the more vegetables and non-sweet fruits you should eat;
the more active you are, the more sweet fruits you should eat.
Get out and have fun in the
sun, that is the underlying message of the fruitarian diet. Enjoy
life to the max! Achieve your maximum potential by becoming a
finely tuned instrument!
My Personal Diet
I am probably the most networked
raw-foodist/fruitarian in the world today. I speak with raw-foodists
and fruitarians from all over the world nearly every day. I have
noticed a fascinating pattern in the dietary of the raw-foodists
I have read about or met.
Generally, all raw-foodists/fruitarians eat out of three classes
of foods: fruits, green-leafed vegetables, and fatty foods (avocados,
nuts, coconuts, seeds, bananas, durians, dried olives, etc.).
If one goes without one of these classes of foods for a long
period of time, problems may arise -- the body will signal you
to eat from what is missing through instinctive desire. I have
concluded these three classes of foods are the real essentials
of the human diet. I too, eat out of these three classes of foods.
The percentages of foods in my diet is governed totally by instinct.
Some days I eat all fruit, some days I munch on mouthfuls of
wild greens. I generally eat about 80 to 90% fruit of all different
varieties. I eat nuts and seeds in moderation. I have gone 3
months on a diet of 100% fruit. Generally, fruit and raw plant
food has too much nutrition, so I fast one day a week, sometimes
more. I try to eat as much wild food as I can. Wild food contains
by far the highest energy and nutritional content.
Nature’s Master Plan
Invest your Life
In every fruit,
Whose secret is unknown.
Your destiny
You shall see
In the fruit trees you have grown.
Eat the fruit and launch it
far,
Out the window of a car!
Spread more Life,
As much as you can:
Fulfill Nature’s master plan.
Our fate is aligned:
With the fruit of the vine,
With the fruit of the tree,
With fruit that grows
Next to the sea.
Love your food,
It all begins
With a fruit seed simply sown.
Nothing by chance;
It’s a reflected dance of
Fruit seeds that you’ve thrown.
Fruit is your food --
Dispel each myth.
Align your fate, entwine it with:
Sumptuous fruit,
The deepest tan.
Fulfill Nature’s master plan.
A fruit tree,
For those who see,
Is greater than any throne.
It’s enchanting wealth
Can’t be found
In any castle made of stone.
Fruit reveals the truth:
It frees the best in you.
Doing what you do best
Is best for Nature too!
Fun and family,
Life without need,
Spreading the vibrant, vital seed.
This is Life, at it’s most.
Bring enchantment to every coast.
Propagate fruit
Far and wide.
Let Earth flower
On every side.
Take the seed
And hurl it far,
‘Till it reach
The farthest star.
A call to you
As woman, man:
Fulfill Nature’s master plan.
David Wolfe © 1997 |
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