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    truly a great post and doctor morse is so special. thank you

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    Quote Posted by Constance (here)
    ...so I started taking herbs that targeted specific organs and this really helped.
    Wow, very interesting and inspiring post, Constance!

    May I ask what herbs you are supplementing your diet with?

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    truly a great post and doctor morse is so special. thank you
    Awwww...thanks Robinr1. He is rather special isn't he?


    I watch so many of his videos I hear the words filtration and lymphatic system in my sleep.

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    Constance that's an amazing testimony there. Thanks for sharing. You look great.

    I feel the same about fruits - they jump off the shelf at me! Pears, oranges, apples...i see these fruits and i just wanna run them thru my juicer and guzzle a gallon of the juice. It's so satisfying.

    Sometimes it is a chore for me to juice all the celery and cucumber and carrot, because all i want are the fruits!

    But in my head I keep hearing all the warnings about fruit and blood sugar, fruit and rotten teeth, etc etc. I've never intuitively agreed with it, but it's gotten to me.

    Just like there are certain diets that work for some people and not others, I've often wondered if there are certain diets that work for us at certain times. I don't know if I could do just fruit forever, but I've always thought it might be beneficial for me maybe a month out of the year or something.

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    I don’t know where you live, but here there are no truly fresh fruits for 6 months of the year (in fact rather 8 months). Except for those transported from thousands of miles away. Same for herbs.

    I wonder if frozen fruits would be as good or either the devitaminized one picked up when not ripe and having traveled for a week, being gazzed to accelerate their ripening when arriving at destination.

    Got the same questions to vegetarians in the past.

    Inuits (eskimos) almost never eat veggies or fruits, yet if they do not drink, they are quite healthy on almost exclusively fat and meat diet.

    I do believe it works for you in your climate , but in ours??? I would have to see the studies of vitamins and proteins of fast frozen fruits and the needs in very cold climates. (Today is -30 centigrade, -22 farenheit))
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    I think this is fascinating. Not being a medical professional (or a biochemist!), I do find it all sometimes hard to understand. And I bet I'm not the only one.

    The proof is in the pudding, to make a bad joke. If someone's thriving and glowing on any regime at all, then kudos: it's just WORKING.

    But sometimes, problems may start when another person thinks: Wow, I'm going to do exactly the same thing. And then, sometimes that doesn't work. (For them.)

    There are some equally impressive testimonies for ketogenic diets, paleo diets (those two are very similar), and vegan/vegetarian diets in general. (Yes, see Akasha's All Things Vegan! thread.) Some folks really do switch to eating a huge bunch of meat and fat, and then all their ailments disappear. This really happens. But maybe not to everyone!

    All I can say is that we all need to listen to our bodies, and listen well — whatever they seem to be saying, unless they want drugs or cake and cookies. I suspect that all bodies are different, and maybe in ways that are just not yet fully understood by anyone.

    What we gain from testimonies like this (and those of others, too) is that there may be many things to experiment with personally before settling on something that's just perfect for one's own purpose.

    What I do think does NOT always help is someone saying Listen, this worked for me, so this is what everyone should do. Diet is primarily a practical issue, and if it's a belief (or value) system as well, that might easily get in the way. And there really are a lot of YouTube videos rather like that. That's one reason why the whole arena can be so confusing for someone who wants to change their diet.... but what to?

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    Constance, thanks for a most interesting and informative post. I eat a vegetarian diet that is mostly fresh, raw sprouts, veggies and fruits. In the summer when my fruit trees and berries produce I eat a lot more fresh fruit and notice a distinct difference. There is a lightness and vitality for me when primarily eating fruit. I am also fortunate enough to get it when it is very fresh from the vine or tree. I also notice the ease of digestion and a calmness and clarity of mind.

    I believe the fear that some have of blood sugar imbalances and tooth decay could be more likely if one is consuming lots of juices. Eating whole unadulterated fruit slows down the digestive process and doesn't give a concentrated blast of glucose.

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    Quote Posted by Mike (here)
    Constance that's an amazing testimony there. Thanks for sharing. You look great.

    I feel the same about fruits - they jump off the shelf at me! Pears, oranges, apples...i see these fruits and i just wanna run them thru my juicer and guzzle a gallon of the juice. It's so satisfying.

    Sometimes it is a chore for me to juice all the celery and cucumber and carrot, because all i want are the fruits!

    But in my head I keep hearing all the warnings about fruit and blood sugar, fruit and rotten teeth, etc etc. I've never intuitively agreed with it, but it's gotten to me.

    Just like there are certain diets that work for some people and not others, I've often wondered if there are certain diets that work for us at certain times. I don't know if I could do just fruit forever, but I've always thought it might be beneficial for me maybe a month out of the year or something.
    This is kind of synchronous for me, I recently stumbled across a news article about another fruitarian, and she was being seriously made fun of and looked down upon! She looked wonderful though, and seemed really happy to me. I love fruits too, and also nuts. When I eat them, I'm instantly rewarded.

    I dislike juicers. I got 1 glass of apple juice from 6 apples, and the juice started to turn brown before I even got to drink all of it.

    My teeth are already pretty bad, but technically, I don't really need them ;-) I'm considering this myself, and I do take into account my teeth, and my blood.

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    Quote Posted by Flash (here)
    I don’t know where you live, but here there are no truly fresh fruits for 6 months of the year (in fact rather 8 months). Except for those transported from thousands of miles away. Same for herbs.

    I wonder if frozen fruits would be as good or either the devitaminized one picked up when not ripe and having traveled for a week, being gazzed to accelerate their ripening when arriving at destination.

    Got the same questions to vegetarians in the past.

    Inuits (eskimos) almost never eat veggies or fruits, yet if they do not drink, they are quite healthy on almost exclusively fat and meat diet.

    I do believe it works for you in your climate , but in ours??? I would have to see the studies of vitamins and proteins of fast frozen fruits and the needs in very cold climates. (Today is -30 centigrade, -22 farenheit))
    Not to get off topic but to quickly nip the ole' healthy Inuit yarn in the bud (source: pubmed.gov):

    Quote Life expectancy in the Inuit-inhabited areas of Canada, 1989 to 2003.
    Wilkins R1, Uppal S, Finès P, Senècal S, Guimond E, Dion R.
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    Abstract
    OBJECTIVES:

    Because of a lack of Aboriginal identifiers on death registrations, standard data sources and methods cannot be used to estimate basic health indicators for Inuit in Canada. Instead, a geographic-based approach was used to estimate life expectancy for the entire population of Inuit-inhabited areas.
    DATA SOURCES:

    The data are from the Canadian Mortality Database and the Census of Canada.
    ANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES:

    Areas where at least 33% of residents were Inuit were identified, based on census results. Vital statistics death records for 1989 through 2003 and census population counts for 1991, 1996 and 2001 were used to compute abridged life tables for the Inuit-inhabited areas in each of the three 5-year periods centered around those census years.
    MAIN RESULTS:

    In 1991, life expectancy at birth in the Inuit-inhabited areas was about 68 years, which was 10 years lower than for Canada overall. From 1991 to 2001, life expectancy in the Inuit-inhabited areas did not increase, although it rose by about two years for Canada as a whole. As a result, the gap widened to more than 12 years. Life expectancy in the Inuit-inhabited areas was generally highest in the Inuvialuit region (Northwest Territories) and Nunavut (Territory), followed by Nunatsiavut (Labrador) and Nunavik (Quebec). While these results are not specific to the Inuit population, such geographic-based methods can be used with any administrative datasets that include postal codes or municipal-level locality codes.
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    I would DIE on this diet. I am not exaggerating. If I did it for a month, minus medication, I would lose so much weight I'd have to be hospitalized. I'd feel lighter for sure and more spiritually connected as many people do when they are in ketosis or nearing death.

    Diet is an individual thing and as a weight loss regime for some people, being fruitarian temporarily is a great idea but there is not a society on earth that eats nothing but fruit without eventually suffering ill effects.

    Having said that, you look wonderful Constance!

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    Holy cow arent you afraid of the sugar overload from all that fruits? But the truth is, the best tasting foods are: sweet and sour, sweet and creamy, sweet and spicy, sour and salty, salty and creamy and sweet, sweet and creamy and spicy. you name it sweet and salt is always there. But hey arent sugar and salt is bad for the health. I just realized that if you gather like minded people in one venue its so easy to mind control them because they react in the same manner to the same irritants.
    Natural sugar is the best thing you can give to your body 95% of taste buds cant be wrong.

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    That’s very encouraging and above all, it’s a good option, one of the most natural options of all natural options- for a vegetarian.
    Imagine being alone in a jungle, fruits and nuts can actually feed you , they fed armies of monkeys( and monks) already.
    I think it’s what we are naturally supposed to eat to stay healthy.

    Vegetables are “health supplement”and digestion booster but can’t be eaten in big quantities in my opinion, most of them are hard and difficult to digest, raw or cooked.

    Of fruits I like avocados recently the best- they’re delicious, not too sweet or acidic and contain some precious fats and proteins as well. Avocado is very filling kind of fruit.
    Also coconut is very versatile and has many amazing properties.

    Water melons and other melons that aren’t so sweet are also commendable.

    Human genes are very diverse, as many of us observed already and if you look even closer to individual lives no two people eat the same.

    Purifying ones body and mind so also diet is always worth it nonetheless.

    I think that current standard medical aka scientific approach to human diet is like ball off the court. There is no “one size fits all” I guess. If it was the world would be easier place.

    I completely believe people who listen to their body instead of advertisements and thus they get to their “right place” and health. Sometimes it can mean few errors but thus we learn. Know Thyself is important.

    Once I’ve read a story of young toddler who suffered from all kinds of food related dysfunctions to the extreme he was hospitalised all the time - till his parents let him choose whatever did not cause him any trouble and guess what, the kid then lived on peppermints in chocolate for couple of years till his system matured enough to be able to eat so called “normal foods”. The point is, it was not a quirk, he was monitored medically and it did not cause him any harm either.

    Cheers Constance
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