"I've experienced fantastic health and vitality since adopting a fruitarian diet," writes ultra-marathoner and Woodstock Fruit Festival admin Michael Arnstein on his blog the Fruitarian.
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He later embarked on a fruitarian diet, a daunting expedition.
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To date, there are more than 600,000 photos tagged #fruitarian on Instagram.
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Freelee the Banana Girl is one of the internet's most popular fruitarian vloggers.
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Steve Jobs followed a strict "fruitarian" diet, at times limited to just apples and carrots.
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Here are a few reasons why a fruitarian diet plan is probably not the best option for most humans.
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During Jobs' fruitarian period, in which he consumed an all-fruit diet, he visited an apple farm and inspiration struck.
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At another time, he was a "fruitarian" — a diet where Jobs could only eat fruits, vegetables, nuts, seeds, and grains.
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A consequence is an abundance of regimens — vegan, gluten-free, Paleolithic, fruitarian and many more — each promoted by its adherents as the one true path.
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STEVE JOBS once visited an apple orchard while on a fruitarian diet, and it gave him the idea for the name of the company that he, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne went on to found.
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Only an idiot would think that by being a raw-eating, pilates-practicing, auto-enema administering fruitarian on a Monday means you can shoot yourself in the face with a rocket launcher every other day of the week—because, funnily enough, that isn't how it works.
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A fruitarian diet is wholly unsuitable for children (including teens), and several children have died due to having fruitarian diets imposed on them.
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"Go Ask Alice!: Fruitarian teens". Accessed May 20, 2008. The severe dietary restrictions inherent in a fruitarian regime also carries the serious risk of triggering orthorexia nervosa.
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He was a member of the Fruitarian Society whose members lived on "the produce of harvest field, garden, forest and orchard, with milk, butter, cheese, eggs and honey". No alcohol, fish or meat was permitted at the Lady Margaret Fruitarian Hospital. The food was cooked in coconut oil.Guha, Ramachandra. (2013).
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Doddington Historic Buildings. Retrieved 8 January 2020. Oldfield was also director of the Oriolet Fruitarian Hospital at Loughton, on the site of whose open-air ward block is a blue plaque that commemorates both the hospital and Oldfield. His type of fruitarian diet was not a strict type of fruitarianism.
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Some people with a diet consisting of 75% or more fruit may consider themselves fruitarians. The health benefits of a fruitarian diet is not supported by scientific evidence; in fact, the diet increases the risk of nutritional deficiencies such as vitamin B12, calcium, iron, zinc, omega-3 and protein.Wells, Ken R. (2008). Fruitarian diet.
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Gandhi Before India. Penguin India. p. 38 Oldfield also founded the fruitarian Margaret Manor hospital in Doddington, Kent."No.13 Lady Margaret Manor".
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Sidney Hartnoll Beard (1862 – 20 October 1938) was an English fruitarian, vegetarian activist and writer. He was President of the Order of the Golden Age.
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The book endorsed fasting, sunbathing, fruitarian and raw food dieting.Michael, George. (2009). Theology Of Hate: A History Of The World Church Of The Creator. University Press of Florida. pp. 73-74.
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Vegetarian America: A History. Praeger Publishing. p. 119. He translated the German raw food book Fruit and Bread by Gustav Schlickeysen. The book promoted a fruitarian diet of uncooked fruits, grains and nuts.
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Fruitarianism is even more restrictive than veganism or raw veganism.Audrey H. Ensminger, Foods & Nutrition Encyclopedia, CRC Press, 1993, "Severely restrictive vegetarian diets, such as fruitarian and Zen macrobiotic diets, increase the risk of malnutrition and deficiency diseases." Maintaining this diet over a long period can result in dangerous deficiencies, a risk that many fruitarians try to ward off through nutritional testing and vitamin injections. The Health Promotion Program at Columbia University reports that a fruitarian diet can cause deficiencies in calcium, protein, iron, zinc, vitamin D, most B vitamins (especially B12), and essential fatty acids.
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He founded the Oriolet Fruitarian Hospital at Loughton, under the medical direction of Josiah Oldfield. Hills authored Vital Food (1892) which argued for a plant-based raw food diet.Spencer, Colin. (1995). The Heretic's Feast: A History of Vegetarianism.
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Psychoanalysis in Britain, 1893–1913: Histories and Historiography. Lexington Books. pp. 73-74. The aim of the journal was to promote the "fruitarian system of living, and to teach its advantages." The journal promoted vegetarianism from a Christian perspective.
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Giving Nature a Higher Purpose: Back-to-Nature Movements in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933. University of Michigan. p. 18 Schlickeysen was a fruitarian who proposed the use of "fruit medicine", he believed that raw fruits were "sunlight nutrition".Mehdipour, Parvin. (2017).
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The ancient Hindu texts discuss Ahimsa and non-animal life. They discourage wanton destruction of nature including of wild and cultivated plants. Hermits (sannyasins) were urged to live on a fruitarian diet so as to avoid the destruction of plants.
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He argued that meat, sugars and starches should be replaced with fruit, raw vegetables and unsterilised dairy products.Anonymous. (1925). Death in the Pot. The British Medical Journal 1 (3350): 515–515. Williams was often cited as a fruitarian or vegetarian but he eschewed these labels.
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Josiah Oldfield in 1938 Oldfield was senior physician to the Lady Margaret Fruitarian Hospital in Bromley, which he founded in 1903."Oldfield, Dr Josiah (case 20178) Warden of Oriolet Hospital, Loughton, Essex (vegetarian): document file and key file". The National Archives. Retrieved 8 January 2020.
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Oldfield did not identify as a vegetarian. He stated that "I object absolutely to vegetarianism, because the word smacks of onions and cabbage. It gives people the idea that you live on watercress and browse on odds and ends of garbage.""Fruitarian Society Feature".
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To make matters worse, he had significant body odor. Jobs adhered to a fruitarian diet, and believed (incorrectly) that it prevented body odor, so he did not shower regularly or use deodorant. Unfazed by the complaints, Alcorn resolved the problem by having Jobs work only at night.
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His widespread fame and cult status contributed to the popularity of meat-free lifestyles. The 1932 book The Vegetarian and Fruitarian was published in Lewiston, Idaho. It promotes ethics, ideals, culture, health, and longevity. At the time, the vegetarian and raw food movements were, in part, tied to feminism.
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Harriet Hall has written that a fruitarian diet "leads to nutritional deficiencies, especially in children. Fruitarians can develop protein energy malnutrition, anemia, and low levels of iron, calcium, essential fatty acids, vitamins, and minerals."Hall, Harriet. (2014). Food myths: what science knows (and does not know) about diet and nutrition.
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Dandelions for Health. The Popular Science Monthly, 1920. In 1931, he commented that "I am proud to say that the only point on which we of the Fruitarian Society disagree with Mr. Gandhi is that Mr. Gandhi will not eat eggs, because they contain Life.""Foreign News: Royal Tea". Time.
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In children, growth and development may be at risk. Some nutritionists state that children should not follow a fruitarian diet. Nutritional problems include severe protein–energy malnutrition, anemia and deficiencies including protein, iron, calcium, essential fatty acids, raw fibre and a wide range of vitamins and minerals.Holden, Chris, et al, Royal College of Nursing.
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A reviewer in 1909, noted that "as fruitarian dietary includes milk, butter, eggs, cheese, and honey, along with fruits, nuts, and vegetables, healthy existence is quite possible for Dr Oldfield and his followers."Chambers's Journal. W. & R. Chambers, 1909. p. 514 A recipe of his "Margaret Plum Pudding" was included in Cecilia Maria de Candia's cookbook, The Kitchen Garden and the Cook.
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Varied fruits Fruitarianism () is a subset of dietary veganism that consists of a diet of entirely or primarily fruits in the botanical sense, and possibly nuts and seeds, but without animal products. Fruitarian diets are subject to numerous criticisms and health concerns. Fruitarianism may be adopted for different reasons, including ethical, religious, environmental, cultural, economic, and health. There are several varieties of the diet.
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"Ascensional Science teaches the damaging effects of chlorophyll leafage, earthly roots and lower passion producing seeds. We are healed by levitational forces in fruit sugars and acids." Introduction to Ascensional Science of Spiritualizing Fruitarian Dietetics, Johnny Lovewisdom, International University of the Natural Vitalogical Sciences, 1999 Others believe they should eat only plants that spread seeds when the plant is eaten. Others eat seeds and some cooked foods.
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The minor character Keziah in the 1999 film Notting Hill, (played by Emma Bernard) tells William "Will" Thacker (Hugh Grant) that she is a fruitarian. She says she believes that "fruits and vegetables have feeling," meaning she opposes cooking them, only eating things that have "actually fallen off a tree or bush" and that are dead already, leading to what some describe as a negative depiction.
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Syracuse University Press. pp. 92-93. Klassen believed that fasting would cleanse the body of toxins, and he also believed that a fruitarian raw food diet would cure disease. Klassen rejected the germ theory of disease and believed that modern medicine was a Jewish multi-billion-dollar fraud. Klassen contributed an introduction and a chapter on eugenics to Arnold DeVries' book Salubrious Living (1982).
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Siegmeister was a natural hygiene and raw food advocate. He authored many books on dieting and nutrition such as Meat-Eating: A Cause of Disease (1956), Super Health Thru Organic Super Food (1958) and Health Through Scientific Nutrition (1960). He was alleged to have practiced breatharianism and a fruitarian diet. However, it was noted by H. Jay Dinshah that he was actually living as a vegan.
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According to Steve Jobs, the company's name was inspired by his visit to an apple farm while on a fruitarian diet. Jobs thought the name "Apple" was "fun, spirited and not intimidating". Apple's first logo, designed by Ron Wayne, depicts Sir Isaac Newton sitting under an apple tree. It was almost immediately replaced by Rob Janoff's "rainbow Apple", the now-familiar rainbow-colored silhouette of an apple with a bite taken out of it.
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Some fruitarians use the botanical definitions of fruits and consume pulses, such as beans, peas, or other legumes. Other fruitarians' diets include raw fruits, dried fruits, nuts, honey and olive oil,Marie V. Krause, Food, nutrition, and diet therapy: a textbook of nutritional care, p. 343, Saunders, 1984, Original from the University of Michigan, Digitized August 19, 2008, , . "The fruitarian diet consists of only raw or dried fruits, nuts, honey and olive oil." nuts, beans and/or chocolate.
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At one point, Klassen was a Republican Florida state legislator, as well as a supporter of George Wallace's presidential campaign. In addition to his religious and political work, Klassen was an electrical engineer and he was also the inventor of a wall-mounted electric can-opener... Klassen held unorthodox views about dieting and health. He was a natural hygienist who opposed the germ theory of disease as well as conventional medicine and promoted a fruitarian raw food diet.Love, Nancy S. (2016).
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Will's friends try to help him get over his disappointment, and over the next six months they set him up on a series of dates, including one with a fruitarian. But he finds it impossible to forget Anna. Much of the filming took place on Portobello Road One day, a distraught Anna appears at Will's doorstep, in need of a place to hide from a tabloid scandal. She apologizes for the hotel incident, telling Will that her relationship with her boyfriend is in the past.
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The fruitarian diet promoted by Ratcliffe is not considered advisable by many, if not all, mainstream nutritionists. Specifically, there are concerns that raw vegan diets heavy in produce with very few sources of nuts and seeds are too low in protein, essential amino acids, fats, vitamin D, vitamin B12, calcium, iodine, iron, and omega 3 fatty acids. These diets are also associated with higher risk of weight gain, diabetes, and tooth decay because of the high sugar content. Ratcliffe has been known for controversial, and scientifically unsubstantiated claims.
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August Engelhardt is the author of an 1898 pamphlet entitled A Carefree Future, where he describes a utopian society founded on nudism and a diet of coconuts, so- called cocovorism. An ardent vegetarian, Engelhardt argues that just as man is God's embodiment in the animal kingdom, so too is the coconut God's embodiment in the plant kingdom; cocovorism, he concludes, is therefore the path to divinity. Fleeing the persecution he endured for his peculiarities, Engelhardt travels from Germany to the Bismarck Archipelago in German New Guinea to realize his ideas on a coconut plantation. During a stop in Ceylon, however, he meets a Tamil named Govindarajan, who also claims to be a fruitarian, in order to gain Engelhardt's trust, before robbing him of his savings.
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Allen writes, in the opening section, that the vegetarian movement has been achieving "such prominence in Europe and America that a convenient and inexpensive Manual or Text Book" which covers the vegetarian and fruitarian philosophies has "become a necessity." Each subsection begins with an overview, followed by four to six excerpts or quotations, regarding the topic. Several quotations by the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley are found in the pamphlet. The publication is noted, by The Vegetarian Magazine, for containing quotations from leading philosophers, doctors, and authors, such as teacher and philosopher Amos Bronson Alcott, zoologist Baron Cuvier, politician and inventor Benjamin Franklin, doctor and businessman John Harvey Kellogg, naturalist Carl Linnaeus, Greek biographer Plutarch, romantic poet Percy Bysshe Shelley, philosopher and poet Henry David Thoreau, and physician Dr. R. T. Trall.
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