The Fruitarian Lifestyle
What your body is craving is not sugar as in refined sugar or organic sugar…your body wants the energy from the natural sweetness that is provided by this planet—what your body is craving is fruit. Your body absolutely needs this and your body will need this more as you ascend. Our bodies are wanting peaches and apples and strawberries and blueberries and all of those things and that's where your body needs to be…ultimately it's the energy from fruit it's the nectar it's the ambrosia and the sweetness of life which is provided by the earth. (Magenta Pixie)
If your blood is formed from eating the foods I teach [fruits and green-leaf vegetables] your soul will shout for joy and triumph over all misery of life. For the first time you will feel a vibration of vitality through your body (like a slight electric current) that shakes you delightfully. (Arnold Ehret)
I do not intend to enter into any lengthy discussion of comparative anatomy and physiology at this place, but will content myself with saying that every anatomical, physiological and embryo-logical feature of man definitely places him in the class frugivore. The number and structure of his teeth, the length and structure of his digestive tract, the position of his eyes, the character of his nails, the functions of his skin, the character of his saliva, the relative size of his liver, the number and position of the milk glands, the position and structure of the sexual organs, the character of the human placenta and many other factors all bear witness to the fact that man is constitutionally a frugivore. -Herbert M. Shelton
There is no way to overstate the magnitude of the collective spiritual transformation that will occur when we shift from food of violent oppression to food of gentleness and compassion. (Dr. Will Tuttle)
In the late 1960s I became a raw-food eater. I was reading books by Ehret, Jensen, Hotema, Mc-Faddin, Tilden, and a dozen other great healers, about the common sense concepts of not destroying the foods you eat before you eat them. I read about breatharianism and the ability
to live off of oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, etc. Since all elements are made up of these higher atoms in the first place, it made sense to me that if our consciousness was in the right place we could survive at this level. Souls that survive at this level are known as “God eaters.” Since I wanted to know God more than anything else, this fit perfectly for me. I decided I would live in remote areas and attempt this level of consciousness. Becoming a hermit, I started the process of eliminating the heavy or low-vibrational foods, including meats and grains. I also wanted to stop eating vegetables, which left me with a diet of only fruits and nuts. Finally, I decided to get away from all acid-forming foods as well, so I stopped eating the nuts. With those choices I had become what is called a “fruitarian.” I lived exclusively on fresh, raw fruits.
(Dr. Morse, Detox Miracle Sourcebook)
to live off of oxygen, hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, etc. Since all elements are made up of these higher atoms in the first place, it made sense to me that if our consciousness was in the right place we could survive at this level. Souls that survive at this level are known as “God eaters.” Since I wanted to know God more than anything else, this fit perfectly for me. I decided I would live in remote areas and attempt this level of consciousness. Becoming a hermit, I started the process of eliminating the heavy or low-vibrational foods, including meats and grains. I also wanted to stop eating vegetables, which left me with a diet of only fruits and nuts. Finally, I decided to get away from all acid-forming foods as well, so I stopped eating the nuts. With those choices I had become what is called a “fruitarian.” I lived exclusively on fresh, raw fruits.
(Dr. Morse, Detox Miracle Sourcebook)
In nature, humans would be frugivores only. A frugivore is a creature that lives primarily on fruits, with the addition of tender greens. (This includes the nonsweet seeded fruits we generally eat with vegetables, such as tomatoes, cucumbers, peppers, okra, zucchini and other squashes, and eggplant.) Like all animals, we can indeed survive (albeit less successfully) on a wide variety of foods. Nonetheless, our bodies are designed to thrive on a diet of mainly fruit. Some people adopt a totally fruitarian diet, meaning they attempt to live exclusively on fruits, but I do not recommend this practice. Dark-green leafy vegetables provide minerals and other nutrients essential for optimum nutrition and health. Nutritionally, fruit comes closer to satisfying all of our needs (including, of course, our desire for delicious soul-exalting fare) than any other food, as meat does for a carnivore. Fruits are replete with the nutrients our bodies require—in the proportions that we need them. Yes, some vegetables and other foods may have “more” of a particular nutrient or class of nutrients, but fruits tend to contain the types and quantities of nutrients our bodies require. More does not mean better.
Humans are sweet seekers by nature, designed to eat sweet fruits. Taste buds on the very tips of our tongues recognize sweet tastes. Most of us are attracted to sweet fruits in their raw state, regardless of what else our culture and circumstances dispose us to eat. When ripened, fruits accommodatingly convert their carbohydrate components into glucose and fructose, simple sugars we can use without further digestion. Enzymes in the fruit convert proteins into amino acids and fats into fatty acids and glycerols. Thus, when we eat fruits, all we need do is savor their goodness.
Fruits and Tender Greens? You may have noticed that I described the frugivorous diet as one consisting primarily of fruits, with the addition of tender greens. Where do the rest of the vegetables fit into this picture? This may shock you, but by every indication, our digestive physiology was designed to process the soft, water-soluble fibers in fruits and tender leaves, almost exclusively. It is true that cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, kale, collards, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage are loaded with nutrients, including soluble fiber. But they also contain cellulose and other tough, difficult-to-digest fibers. These vegetables are best digested when eaten in their youngest and most tender state. For best results, they must be thoroughly chewed or mechanically predigested via the use of a blender or shredding device. To assimilate completely, we need to digest completely, and every time we eat foods that are more difficult to digest, we compromise our nutrition and, over time, our health. To be sure, we are capable of swallowing vegetation that contains cellulose and other rough, insoluble fibers, but such foods put a great load on our organs of digestion and elimination. Where health is concerned, we want to derive the greatest benefits while minimizing the detriments or outright harm. When we apply this idea to nutrition, we are looking for “enough” of the nutrients we need, not necessarily the most we can get. The indigestible fibers in the harder-textured vegetables are very difficult for our bodies to digest, relative to the soft, soluble fibers in fruits and tender leafy greens. Thus, they are not among our ideal foods. (Douglas Graham, The 80/10/10 Diet)
Humans are sweet seekers by nature, designed to eat sweet fruits. Taste buds on the very tips of our tongues recognize sweet tastes. Most of us are attracted to sweet fruits in their raw state, regardless of what else our culture and circumstances dispose us to eat. When ripened, fruits accommodatingly convert their carbohydrate components into glucose and fructose, simple sugars we can use without further digestion. Enzymes in the fruit convert proteins into amino acids and fats into fatty acids and glycerols. Thus, when we eat fruits, all we need do is savor their goodness.
Fruits and Tender Greens? You may have noticed that I described the frugivorous diet as one consisting primarily of fruits, with the addition of tender greens. Where do the rest of the vegetables fit into this picture? This may shock you, but by every indication, our digestive physiology was designed to process the soft, water-soluble fibers in fruits and tender leaves, almost exclusively. It is true that cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, kale, collards, Brussels sprouts, and cabbage are loaded with nutrients, including soluble fiber. But they also contain cellulose and other tough, difficult-to-digest fibers. These vegetables are best digested when eaten in their youngest and most tender state. For best results, they must be thoroughly chewed or mechanically predigested via the use of a blender or shredding device. To assimilate completely, we need to digest completely, and every time we eat foods that are more difficult to digest, we compromise our nutrition and, over time, our health. To be sure, we are capable of swallowing vegetation that contains cellulose and other rough, insoluble fibers, but such foods put a great load on our organs of digestion and elimination. Where health is concerned, we want to derive the greatest benefits while minimizing the detriments or outright harm. When we apply this idea to nutrition, we are looking for “enough” of the nutrients we need, not necessarily the most we can get. The indigestible fibers in the harder-textured vegetables are very difficult for our bodies to digest, relative to the soft, soluble fibers in fruits and tender leafy greens. Thus, they are not among our ideal foods. (Douglas Graham, The 80/10/10 Diet)
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