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Below experiment done by
Dr bass on mice
should serve as a stern warning for those who wish to attempt a 100% strict
fruitarian for long term.
Human experiment
He
told me about his experiences while following Arnold Ehret, which led to
deficiencies in his diet. He once went on a grape cure, recommended by
Johanna Brandt. He lived on nothing but grapes, cases of them for about 35
days. He ate pounds of them at each meal. By the 32nd day, his gum was
bleeding, and his teeth loosened in their sockets. He said that one of his
teeth fell out of his mouth. He exclaimed, "My God, I am detoxicating my
teeth."
At that point he knew that something was terribly wrong with the fruit
diet. It wasn't until later, when he read a booklet by a famous British
nutritionist entitled "Fruit, It's Use and Misuse". He said it was the
best book he ever read on fruit.
Mice and the fruitarian diet
I put a group of mice on a fruitarian diet. But they didn't seem to be
eating very much fruit, and they certainly weren't crazy about it. .....
..... When I returned them to the fruitarian diet, after the second day
they started the cannibalistic behavior again. They grabbed another young
mouse and this time they ate it. The poor thing. I saw it happen. I was
shocked. I'd never seen anything like this. "What happened here?" I asked
myself.
I had given them a fruitarian diet, a diet that some natural health
practitioners fervently believe in. Then I added corn, then avocado, foods
that fruitarians are not supposed to include, and still I ran into
trouble. It really scared me to witness what had happened to my mice. I
worried then and still worry about people who attempt to be fruitarians.
Deficiencies from fruitarian diet
..... To relate the results to humans, this trial seemed to indicate that
after being a fruitarian for the human equivalent of three months, humans
would show deficiencies and imbalances and health problems. My results
suggested that if a fruitarian lived strictly without cheating he would be
able to do so for three months before deficiencies began to show. But
since the average fruitarian cheats, he doesn't know the diet doesn't
work. If he didn't cheat, after three months his body would start breaking
down. He wouldn't necessarily die, but problems would start to develop.
I immediately added greens, lettuce leaves, and carrot tops. I was stunned
by this experience. I determined that the cause of death was due to
protein deficiencies, mineral
deficiencies, and possible sugar poisoning from the excess fruit.
This shocked me. I became so disillusioned that I stopped fruit in all the
cages. I had about five cages at the time with about 150
mice. From there on no mice got fruit anymore. Only later, after many
months, equivalent of several human years, did I gradually re-introduce a
little fruit (
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