#fruitarian

🌴 На Балі померла полька, яка їла лише фрукти.

18-річна Кароліна Кржижак почала свій шлях зі здорового способу життя: займалася йогою, перейшла на веганство. З часом дівчина вирішила радикально «очистити» свій організм й повністю відмовилась від будь-якої їжі, окрім фруктів. Організм не витримав: вага впала до 22 кілограмів, почали випадати зуби та нігті, розвинувся остеопороз (крихкість кісток). Попри виснаження, Кароліна продовжувала свій «детокс» і у 27 років вирушила на Балі за «чистим життям». Там її тіло просто здалося.

Чимало людей помилково плутають подібні практики з вегетаріанством чи веганством, але це зовсім не те саме. Те, що обрала Кароліна, називається фрутаріанством — крайня форма сироїдіння, коли людина споживає лише фрукти (іноді ще горіхи або насіння). Якщо вегетаріанство та веганство за умови грамотного підходу можуть бути повноцінними системами харчування, то фрутаріанство часто призводить до важких дефіцитів, виснаження та незворотних порушень у роботі організму.

Історія Кароліни — трагічне нагадування про те, що навіть шлях до «чистоти» і «здоров’я» може стати смертельно небезпечним, коли перетворюється на фанатизм.

I recently went on a mostly fruit diet with no animal products because I want to heal my rosacea, which I discovered is linked to many autoimmune diseases, one of the most prevalent in my family is type 2 diabetes.

Upon doing research about skin problems and why they manifest, I came across information about the kidneys and poor filtration through the liver which leads to waste being taken out on the skin if your organs are not working together to remove the waste normally.

I did my research to understand what could work to finally heal my rosacea since it is so deeply misunderstood and judged. All my life I’ve been criticized because of it until I got older and stopped caring so much. But more than just aesthetic purposes, I want to heal my body from the inside out and it causes so much anger for me at times when I open up about these choices I’m making to better myself and I get told I’m not consuming enough protein or that I need to eat meat or eggs or whatever it may be that common media shares.

Our biology closely resembles frugivores, not carnivores. The only way we “safely” consume meat and animal products is by cooking, pasteurizing, or doing some sort of process to make it edible. That, to me, doesn’t make any sense. We get told to eat fruits and vegetables when we’re sick because they heal so wouldn’t it make sense to consume food we know to be healing most of the time?

How can we use it as medicine and then turn around and say “oh you can’t eat too much fruit because of the sugar” as if simple fruit sugar is equivalent to processed refined sugar… also, all our cells need sugar. Our body runs on glucose… which is sugar. Literally everything we consume gets transformed into glucose. Insulin gets released into the bloodstream to help transport glucose to our organs so we have energy and can function. So even foods that are low in sugar get turned into glucose… which again, is sugar. Processed sugar, like any processed food, is bad for you. It is not the same as eating raw fruit - the food the Earth created for us to consume. (Is it really that surprising that the food we can naturally consume is the most healing food for us? It’s almost as if our biology, which resembles frugivores in nature, is made for the consumptions of fruits. Amazing.)

This whole idea that protein is everything was not emphasized until the last 1000 years or so. Protein was not emphasized as the most important source of sustenance for all time. Fruits and vegetables were. There are entire cultures that thrive off of fruits and vegetables and do not struggle with the same level of disease as we do.

It’s so annoying that veganism or any sort of diet with a strong focus on fruits and vegetables gets criticized so much. I’m not pushing my choices on anyone and I wish their choices didn’t get pushed on me, especially coming from people who are currently struggling with health issues and are trying multiple protocols that are not working. It doesn’t make sense to take advice from someone else who is trying to figure it out and is not succeeding yet I’m being criticized personally for taking advice from sources who have healed themselves and others.