| You've probably been hearing a lot about the | | | | challenge to get enough essential protein in your |
| value of a raw foods diet. A raw food diet | | | | diet. A fruitarian eats nothing which has been killed |
| consists primarily of uncooked, unprocessed fruits, | | | | or stolen. That supplants meat, dairy, and plants |
| vegetables, sprouts, seaweed, nuts and juices. It's | | | | with the thousands of fruit and nut combinations |
| a vegetarian diet, but one that rejects any animal | | | | on the planet. E.g., a fruitarian can eat an avocado |
| products. Its central tenet is that cooking and | | | | sandwich, a coconut milk shake or the purest |
| processing take out the majority of essential | | | | coconut ice cream made from the milk and meat |
| vitamins, enzymes and nutrients that our bodies | | | | of the fruit, veggie burgers made of lentil or bean |
| evolved to thrive on. | | | | paste or tofu, a succotash of corn, limas, peas, |
| Fruitarians, as the word implies, eat primarily fruits, | | | | and tomatoes, sweets made with pure maple |
| with nuts and grains as well. A fruitarian diet also | | | | syrup or date sugar, pecan pies made with fruit |
| includes foods like tomatoes or avocadoes, which | | | | sugars, fruit shakes made of a mixture of orange |
| are fruits. | | | | and banana, pear and peach, pomegranate, |
| Fruit is nourishing and refreshing for your health. It | | | | papaya, and plum. |
| doesn't clog the body's vital arteries; better still, it | | | | A pizza of tofu, tomato, and pepper (not |
| actually flushes and cleanses. A fruit diet also | | | | pepperoni), salads of tomato, cucumber, green |
| lightens our bodies and spirits, in line with the | | | | and red peppers (but not lettuce, cabbage, or |
| general lightening of our planetary vibration rate | | | | celery), nut butters such as almond butter or |
| which many higher sources tell us is taking place | | | | tahini, hummus {chickpea paste}. In other |
| at this time. | | | | words, fruitarian may eat fruits 99.9% of the |
| You need to eat carefully if you choose a | | | | time, but occasionally do indulge in the delicacies of |
| fruitarian diet, because it can be more of a | | | | other food groups. |