I took this off http://www.thenewearth.org/fruitext.html I find it quite interesting. A Fruitarian Commitment Fruitarianism is not just an isolated idea of a few, it is not just a fad. Fruitarianism is a concept in depth, a concept that goes beyond some logic, reason and science, although there are many logical reasons why a fruitarian diet is THE optimum diet for the human race. There are two areas which we can look at for the Truth of fruitarianism, one is in the scientific evidence and our physiological and biological make-up, the other in the inner perception which people have about the eating of fruit. The scientific truth is substantiated by the intensive research and studies on the teeth of our earliest ancestors. Dr. Alan Walker and his associates, anthropologists at Johns Hopkins University, using the most modern electronic microscopic equipment, state: "Preliminary studies of fossil teeth have led to the startling suggestion that our early human ancestors were not predominantly meat eaters or even eaters of seeds, shoots, leaves or grasses, nor were they omnivorous. Instead, they appear to have subsisted chiefly on a diet of fruit. Every tooth examined from the hominids of the 12 million year period leading up to Homo Erectus appeared to be that of a fruit eater." Dr. Arthur M. Baker, MA, in Awakening Our Self Healing Body points out: "Frugivores are physiologically equipped to obtain energy primarily from the natural sugar in fruits - our anatomy is such that we are capable of picking fruits, and to masticate, digest and appropriate them with ease and efficiency. The biological equipment of humans and our human structure attests that we are frugivorous, as confirmed by the function of the human body." He also stated that most of the calories in vegetables are bound within cellulose, the fuel and nutrient value of which is largely unobtainable to our system (except for extremely valuable mineral matter from which our body derives great benefit). Unlike purely natural vegetarians in nature (horses, cows, elephants, sheep), a person's stomach cannot process large amounts of cellulose. People cannot regurgitate and re-chew their food as do the herbivorous animals which have more than one stomach. Dr. Abramowski, Fruitarian Diet and Physical Rejuvenation says: "The plant-eaters form still at the present time, as they have always done, the great majority of animals on earth. The highest developed plant-eaters are the fruit-eaters. The highest developed fruit-eater is the human being." Every aspect of human physiological make up, every aspect of the biological makeup, all and everything points to humans being still, in spite of millions of years of diversions, frugivorous, fruit-eaters. The setting and formation of our teeth, our digestive system, the length of the intestines, our physical make up, our hands, our alkaline enzyme system, everything points in the direction of a fruit-eater. The fact that humanity as a whole is not yet ready to return to the life of their frugivore nature is not due to the insufficiency of the fruit but due to their degenerated state after aeons of eating out of harmony and living out of harmony. Hence, our human race has still to revert to other foods and the return to the frugivore's diet now requires a transitional phase so as to avoid a shock to the body system. There is the lack of knowledge and understanding of what a fruit diet entails and humanity has to be re-educated as to what true food is all about and the connection with their health. The other area of evidence that human kind has that connection with being frugivorous is in the inner perception. There are certain things in life where scientific evidence cannot be supplied, where there is that kind of mystery, unexplainable but nevertheless true. Inner perception is an area where logic and reason cannot penetrate, it just IS! Intimate involvement in Fruitarianism has brought us many emails from all over the world. Their message is consistent: they "feel", have an inner perception, an awareness, that it is the fruitarian diet which is their ultimate desire. We may ask ourselves why this is so. There is often no logic in such perceptions, there is still less scientific proof. Indeed, there are many natural therapists who are able to prove that a fruitarian diet is not feasible. Still, the evidence of the "inner knowing" is there to stay. Such evidence should not go unnoticed. There is a reason and it is our task to probe into that reason. Our own health and wellbeing provides us with one incentive; the increased lightness of being which we will soon begin to feel provides another. Finally, or firstly, depending on your point of view, you will be living without taking life.
