Healthy Weight Loss

Healthy Weight Loss

While many people have heard the term "vegetarian" for years, and most are familiar with "vegan" lifestyles, there are many who had never heard about the "fruitarian" lifestyle, until they heard a reference to it in "Notting Hill," a romantic comedy movie. While not well known, and even made slight fun of in the movie, there actually is a group of people who are adherents to the fruitarian diet.

While there are a number of advocates of the living raw lifestyle who claim that a fruitarian diet is healthy and safe, there are also many doctors and nutritionists who strongly disagree. Most medical doctors are unified in saying that a diet which consists only of fruit is unsafe and will not deliver sufficient nutrition to the body.Because of this, the medical profession cautions that following this type of diet for a prolonged period of time is not advisable and will not sustain healthy and vital living. 

As a result of these warnings and concerns, most fruitarians incorporate additional sources of nourishment and other food components into their diets, even though they still rely on raw fruits as the main part of their daily food supply.The idea of a fruit diet goes back a long way in human history to a time when humans were in their primitive state, and only had a diet that consisted of living foods, such as fruits and vegetables. Fruitarians are also quick to point out that many health and digestive problems are created by the cooking of foods, as is commonly practiced in today's modern world. 

They claim that many common diseases and illnesses can be prevented or reversed by focusing on raw food in a daily eating plan.There are many who follow a partial fruitarian diet and add some other healthy food choices into their daily eating plans to assure that they get all the nutrition they need, rather than sticking strictly to the fruitarian principles. 

And, while becoming a fruitarian is an extreme step that is not recommended by most health professionals, the idea of increasing the amount of raw food in a person's daily diet can bring definite health benefits.