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Don't worry, the McDougall Plan is for me!
...and what about the risk for fatty liver disease?!
QubitBob wrote:Don't worry, the McDougall Plan is for me!
Same here--Dr. McDougall's plan makes the most sense to me, and I've read a tremendous amount of material about nutrition and diets over the last 22 years.
However, while I had not run across the videos you had posted about, I have seen videos on YouTube and elsewhere about other individuals who have successfully lived on vegan fruit-centric diets for many years and are apparently healthy and happy. The one which sticks in my mind was a woman who, if I remember correctly, lives in Australia. The reason I remember her story was seeing that she had a number of storage shelves in her home piled high with all the fruit she eats in a week. I remember thinking that the logistics required for a "fruitarian" lifestyle are absolutely crazy....and what about the risk for fatty liver disease?!
Can you please elaborate on this? Why would a person who consumes a large amount of fruit be in danger of fatty liver disease?
DynoDan wrote:Reminiscent of Thor Heyerdahl’s ‘honeymoon year’ (isolated on an uninhabited south pacific island without adequate food stocks). Lots of wild fruit, but lack of essential fatty acids will catch up to you eventually.
QubitBob wrote:Don't worry, the McDougall Plan is for me!
Same here--Dr. McDougall's plan makes the most sense to me, and I've read a tremendous amount of material about nutrition and diets over the last 22 years.
However, while I had not run across the videos you had posted about, I have seen videos on YouTube and elsewhere about other individuals who have successfully lived on vegan fruit-centric diets for many years and are apparently healthy and happy. The one which sticks in my mind was a woman who, if I remember correctly, lives in Australia. The reason I remember her story was seeing that she had a number of storage shelves in her home piled high with all the fruit she eats in a week. I remember thinking that the logistics required for a "fruitarian" lifestyle are absolutely crazy....and what about the risk for fatty liver disease?!
Can you please elaborate on this? Why would a person who consumes a large amount of fruit be in danger of fatty liver disease?
barryoilbegone wrote:QubitBob wrote:Don't worry, the McDougall Plan is for me!
Same here--Dr. McDougall's plan makes the most sense to me, and I've read a tremendous amount of material about nutrition and diets over the last 22 years.
However, while I had not run across the videos you had posted about, I have seen videos on YouTube and elsewhere about other individuals who have successfully lived on vegan fruit-centric diets for many years and are apparently healthy and happy. The one which sticks in my mind was a woman who, if I remember correctly, lives in Australia. The reason I remember her story was seeing that she had a number of storage shelves in her home piled high with all the fruit she eats in a week. I remember thinking that the logistics required for a "fruitarian" lifestyle are absolutely crazy....and what about the risk for fatty liver disease?!
Can you please elaborate on this? Why would a person who consumes a large amount of fruit be in danger of fatty liver disease?
There is the sugar form fructose in fruits. In small - medium amounts, and if someone is getting the bulk of their calories from glucose (starches!), fructose will be usually be converted mostly to glucose. However, if there are very large amounts of fructose from the likes of fruit and/or metabolic vulnerabilities for someone in their liver, they can convert fructose more easily to fat. if this builds up over time, it can cause fatty liver disease in the vulnerable.
This possibly is one part of the reason why some raw foodists and fruitarians do poorly, as the primary fuel of humans is glucose, not fructose.
Given their benefits with fibre, antioxidants etc. people should probably be consuming on average more fruit than they actually do, important to stress - the general SAD diet population more so obviously, than plant only (and principally starch) consumers.
Hope that helps!
Taggart wrote:This I cut and pasted from the True North Center website, but it was posted twelve years ago.
Problems with all-fruit diets
Fruit is more concentrated, providing about 300 calories per pound. Large quantities of fruit could provide adequate calories, but such a diet would be very high in sugar and low in minerals, which would eventually lead to health problems for many, if not most, people. The patients I have seen who have eaten predominantly raw fruit diets for any length of time often develop multiple health problems including difficulties with teeth, gums, skin, immune system, and nervous system. Increased emotional volatility, fatigue, recurrent fungal, yeast, bacterial, and viral infections are also common.
https://www.healthpromoting.com/category/diet
Mom+Me wrote:Taggart wrote:This I cut and pasted from the True North Center website, but it was posted twelve years ago.
Problems with all-fruit diets
Fruit is more concentrated, providing about 300 calories per pound. Large quantities of fruit could provide adequate calories, but such a diet would be very high in sugar and low in minerals, which would eventually lead to health problems for many, if not most, people. The patients I have seen who have eaten predominantly raw fruit diets for any length of time often develop multiple health problems including difficulties with teeth, gums, skin, immune system, and nervous system. Increased emotional volatility, fatigue, recurrent fungal, yeast, bacterial, and viral infections are also common.
https://www.healthpromoting.com/category/diet
Wow, Taggert, that is very eye-opening information; thank you for posting it! Yeah, this only confirmed my suspicions but goes into great detail about actually why with the risks and outcomes about which I was unfamiliar. So thank you for enlightening us!
Mom+Me wrote:DynoDan wrote:Reminiscent of Thor Heyerdahl’s ‘honeymoon year’ (isolated on an uninhabited south pacific island without adequate food stocks). Lots of wild fruit, but lack of essential fatty acids will catch up to you eventually.
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