Posts Tagged ‘food addiction’

SharePosted on www.Fitnessgoop.com on August 24, 2011.

It’s a challenge keeping up with vegetarianism these days; there’s ovo-vegetarian, lacto-vegetarian, vegan and pesca-vegan. To add to these options, we also have fruitarianism. Like the title suggests, followers of this diet eat fruit. Some fruitarians eat a fruit only diet, while most also enjoy plenty of leafy greens, [...]

ShareAfter eating pure low fat fruitarian diet for several years, you will notice that you feel better eating high water content fruits such as melons and oranges as opposed to denser fruits such as dates, raisins, bananas, mamey etc.

Lower water content dense fruits are a must during the transition of giving up cooked food and overt [...]

ShareEating today is often done not for survival and nourishment. We associate our meals with our culture, comfort, entertainment, stimulation, reward, and even romance.
A lot of people think that raw vegans or fruitarians have given up a significant amount of pleasure in their lives
Well, during a period of transition and withdrawal you might find the [...]

ShareWikipedia gives the following definition of Eating Disorders:

Eating disorders are a group of conditions characterized by abnormal eating habits that may involve either insufficient or excessive food intake to the detriment of an individual's physical and emotional health.

Insufficient food intake usually manifests as calorie restrictive diets (anorexia), and excessive food intake — as uncontrollable binges [...]

ShareI have so many people asking me 'What's wrong with cooked foods?" Well, I don't even know where to begin, there are SO many things wrong with cooked foods that it's almost an endless subject.

I've tried to cover a few big points in this video, but certainly there are many more reasons why eating cooked [...]

ShareTo try to understand health and diet it is important to get out and experience it in person.

So much of what we know is taught to us but we don’t actually experience it for ourselves.
Look horses – they are so powerful! They have perfect muscle tone, beautiful hair and eyes. They seem to be in [...]

ShareA lot of raw foodists want to know what’s wrong with avocados, what’s wrong with nuts and seeds, what’s wrong with oils, what’s wrong with vinegar, what’s wrong with wine. These things are raw. They are not cooked. They are all natural and full of enzymes!

Well, I’ve experienced eating a diet of high fat raw [...]

ShareIf you want to transform your body – this is the way!

ShareEating a cooked vegan diet will get you into heaven on moral terms. But unless you consider going low fat raw vegan (fruitarian), you might get to heaven faster than you want! Just being a 'vegan' doesn't mean you are eating a healthy diet. Fried vegan foods are probably as unhealthy as cooked meat foods. [...]

ShareI used to call my diet '80/10/10' after the book by Dr. Douglas Graham.
In the video you'll hear me say '80/10/10 diet', but now I refer to my diet as 'Fruitarianism'.