Fruitarian Diet
A diet consisting of strictly uncooked fruits and raw foods.
BACKGROUND
The Fruitarian Diet is a diet that is 75 percent made up of raw fruits, and the remainder of the diet is a vegan or raw diet. There are both some positive and negative aspects of a fruitarian diet. Some of the benefits include a short term cleansing, weight loss and spiritual growth. Unfortunately, one of the downfalls of the fruitarian diet is that there seem to be very few documented cases of success with it.
The fruitarian diet can be very strict, since so much of your food intake is raw fruit. It can also lead to binge eating. The fruitarian diet can also cause a lot of social anxiety, because it can be so hard to accommodate the needs of someone on the fruitarian diet. There seem to be a lot more warnings against the fruitarian diet than there are positive reasons to try it. The important thing to remember is to look into all effects or potential effects of any diet before jumping in.
PRO
- Can be cleansing for your body
- Will enhance weight loss
- Allows you to get in touch with natural and raw foods
CON
- Can be very restrictive
- Not a high success rate
- May cause excessive urination and thirst
- May include frequent hunger and intense food cravings
DIET and NUTRITION
The basic premise of the fruitarian diet includes at least 75 percent of all foods being natural uncooked fruits. The rest of the diet is made up of a vegan diet made completely of raw foods. Some go as far as to have 100 percent of their food intake be uncooked fruits. Some suggest that you must only eat one fruit at once on the fruitarian diet as well.
EXERCISE
Exercise does not seem to be a focal point of the fruitarian diet. Basically, the fruitarian diet is going to cleanse your insides and purify your body. This would give more energy and enable you to exercise more. On the fruitarian diet, you will lose weight as your body adjusts to having only raw fruits opposed to some of the foods you may be currently eating.
CONCLUSION
Although the fruitarian diet seems to have more bad effects than good, it may be something you still choose to go with. Just be sure to make an informed decision and listen to your body. Having plenty of fruit in your diet is definitely healthy, but it may not be wise to have that as your sole source of nutrition. It could easily be used as a cleansing for a couple of weeks and allow your body to purge itself of some of the bad elements in your diet. Before starting on the fruitarian diet permanently, get all of the facts so that you can make an informed decision.
Common Misspellings
fruitarion diet, fruits diet, frutarian diet, fruitarianism, fruitetarian
Related Diets: Vegan Diet, Vegetarian Diet, Raw Diet
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