Fruitarianism - the path to paradise!

Veganism is not a diet, therefore a diet (eg fruitarianism) cannot be "the step up from" it.

Freelee is not a good source of nutritional advice. She fat-shames, body-polices, and claims to be recovered from anorexia while pushing a VERY unhealthy and disordered way of thinking onto her followers. Not that having an eating disorder is something to be blamed for, I'm just saying her sense of health is clearly warped and I find it disturbing that she has so many fans who are being encouraged to have equally distorted ideals. It's all one big positive feedback loop and I recommend against anyone even watching her videos out of curiosity. The last thing she needs is to have more hundreds and thousands of people egging her on, giving her more views, and believing her every word about "thigh gaps" and other people's weight or whatever else she talks about. Unfortunately for everyone involved, she's getting it.

A fruitarian diet is most of the time extremely unhealthy and definitely should not be considered better than your greens.

I also agree wi Aly that vegan is not a "diet", plant based is a diet, vegan is a way of life.

You will not find a dietician that would recommended a fruitarian diet. Fruitarian diets are nutrient imbalanced, lacking in essential minerals and lead of dental problems. Fruitarian diets predominately lack protein severely and definitely should NEVER be followed by children.

Frutairiansim is extreme and I don't feel it should be promoted. Vegan and raw vegan diets have been proven to be health, long term sustainable diets. Frutarianism  has not been proven as a healthy, long term sustainable diet and would be extremely difficult to follow healthily by most people.

Fruitarianism sounds like a magnificent way to develop an eating disorder.

A lot of people here, I would say the majority (given that Animals Australia is an animal activism and rights site!), are vegan for reasons of ethics, not because it's the latest fad diet. If you want to be a fruitarian yourself, then fine, just be aware that it's an incredibly extreme diet with a host of vitamin and mineral deficiencies. But please don't claim it's a step up from veganism.

I love fruit, but I am definitely not giving up veggies, leafy greens, grains, pulses and legumes... chocolate...

A fruitarian diet is not a good idea long term. Fruit is amazing, delicious and very healthy but you need to add your vegetables, legumes, grains, etc to it if you want to be healthy. I like the idea of a fruit cleanse, so short term fruitarian... say cleanse for two weeks but it is not healthy in the long term.

Fruitarianism, and raw veganism is a good way to eliminate toxins from your body, what they won't tell you is for the first three months or so you feel like absolute shit as the toxins leave your system, nor will they tell you whilst it is a good diet when done right, economically it's not very sustainable due to the vast amount of fruit and nuts you have to eat to make up for the lack of "quick hit" nutrients you would get from non raw food. Do your research, and make sure you have the time and commitment to be able to do it properly before delving in such an experience, for instance not a good idea if you have a stressful fulltime job.

Wow the replies to this post are really poorly thought out, simply jumping to the conclusion that 'fruitarians' are unhealthy people suffering from fruit disorders.

The fruitatian diet is not a 'diet' of course and doesnt mean you only eat fruits, you eat a wide range of raw foods including cooked meals with tons of different fruits & vegetables. The 80/10/10 diet means low fat intake to look after your heart and arteries.. Im sure you would agree Vegan can mean so many different ways of eating, just because you're eating something that is vegan does not mean it is healthy, such a vague term i.e. would you have oreo's and skittles for a vegan dinner?

For people that get offended or upset when people have a go at them for being Vegan, you pretty much did the exact same for someone saying they are fruitarian? Hypocritical much?

Again just another personal opinion of mine, like all of you had to mention yours.

Okay, pal.

Large amounts of fruit is not good for your heart or arteries, especially if you have heart disease.

there are two ways the word diet is used...

1, in the sense of describing your eating patterns aka dietary intake; thus this could be used as saying i have a vegan diet... without any reference to a 'diet' for losing weight.

2, to describe that you have now changed your dietary eating habits in hope to lose weight. Thus this option of use originated from the above word use.

So what he means by 'fruitarian diet' is the same as saying 'fruitarian lifestyle' which is describe as word use 1 above and where he has added 'diet' in the below quote he means the 2nd word use.

"The fruitatian diet is not a 'diet' of course" Rowan011.

I think this is where all this confusion has started in the first place with people amping up about the original poster calling it a 'diet'... however like the first poster and 4_da_animals1 has mentioned it is actually really good for your as it cleanses your body of toxins. The claims that it is unhealthy; I'm not sure of... and to be serious and provide clarification into my said view... people though for 100's of years that vegan diet (aka lifestyle) isn't good for you, yet now we know different... also I agree with 4_da_animals in regards to the sustainability for this diet (lifestyle)... thus the reason bread was invented...

Also i too would also like to point out that fruitarian diet (lifestyle) means to eat parts of a plant... so long as it isn't killing the entire plant... so even though the name gives off the vibe 'fruit' is also allow allot of vegetables too.

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