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Are there any long-term fruitarians left in existance?

I noticed nearly everyone fell off the wagon and started eating cooked food. I can't find a single fruitarian left! 

 

I am finally a full fledged fruitarian after a LONG journey with cooked food addiction and now that I have finally conquered it, I am

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Smoothies vs whole foods

Hey everyone! I'm new here and hoping to get some advice. I would love to try fully raw food! However, I live in Canada and such a lifestyle is pretyy expensive (I hope to oneday build a greenhouse when I own my own home). 

So, in the meantime, I was

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Ultra-processed foods.

Below is from the British Medicine Journal open, a scholarly peer reviewed article. Processing food matters.

"Results Ultra-processed foods comprised 57.9% of energy intake"

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Free Live Webinar this Thursday: Why a Ketogenic Diet Increases Your Level of Insulin Resistance with Cyrus Khambatta, PhD and Robby Barbaro

http://masteringdiabetes.mindfuldiabetic.com/webinarregistration

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Bill Nye urges caution with GMF (genetically modified foods)

I've been reading Bill Nye's book Evolution Undeniable. [0] Bill Nye is very pro science, yet he urges caution with genetically modified foods. This is interesting because I've heard many people scold me when I express doubts about GMF, "are you anti

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Taking good care of your teeth with fluoride.

I've been away for a bit to cool down after the political climate got too hot for me. I am happy to be back. This election did make me acutely aware of how quickly misinformation and fake news spreads.

I love this website. I love vegan-ism. I am excit

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electrolyte (sodium) content of parts (peels) of fruits, ie lemons

I'm looking for studies or other types of information that have measured the nutrient, mainly sodium and other electrolyte content of fruits and am interested in peels.

Google scholar isn't super yielding searching for electrolyte forms (bonds) in ie

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Why Does Soy Reduce Estrogen Levels In studies?

Soy is widely known in health circles as pro-estrogenic and feminizing and men are recommended to avoid it. If that’s actually the case, can anyone explain why serum estrogen levels actually decrease in soy-supplemented groups in studies in both men

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Came Across An Interesting Interview On Health And Longevity

Been thinking about this ever since I read Kurzweil’s book ‘Transcend’. Many people might already be familiar with his ideas and his theory of exponential growth and how that will affect our health and longevity. Here’s the latest interview with him

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Fish Consumption And Diabetes Risk

There’s little question that fish contain environmental pollutants such as mercury and PCBs with, generally, bigger fish such as shark and tuna containing more and smaller fish like sardines containing less. That’s been common knowledge between healt

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Vegetable Oils Make You Fat And Cause Chronic Disease

For anyone who’s looked into and reasearched the health effects of different omega-6 containing vegetable oils, you’ll quickly find that there’s a strong connection between all of them and the major degenerative diseases such as diabetes, cancer, hea

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An Irritated Tongue

I got an irritated tongue a couple weeks ago. It was RED, Blotched, & very painful. I chalked it up to eating too many peaches in 2 days. so I stayed off the peaches (I just ate bananas & watermelon for a few days), and my tongue irritation when away

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When should i eat a salad?

I was just wondering...I eat fruit for breakfast, but for lunch I have a raw food salad (& not more fruit). Is that acceptable in the "ideal" raw til 4 diet? Just wondering.

Thanks.

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Vegan deficiencies! The science explained

Hello friends :) I would be honored if you took the time to watch this video my friend and I produced. It's perfect to share with family members who are concerned we vegans don't get our nutritional needs met and for all the haters that try and say m

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Organic food science

Found a site that has some scholarly peer reviewed scientific articles about organic foods. You would think with all the anti-organic websites that organic is a waste of resources. Apparently there is ample pro-organic scientific studies I've missed.

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Melatonin + BANANAS + unbelieveable stuff

melatonin is a powerful free-radical scavenger and wide-spectrum antioxidant as discovered in 1993.

Melatonin is an antioxidant that can easily cross cell membranes and the blood–brain barrier.

This antioxidant is a direct scavenger of radical oxygen a

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Vegetarians & vegans more emphatic than omnivoires.

"Results
Empathy assessment

The Empathy quotient (EQ) score was significantly different between groups (p = 0.002). At post-hoc analysis, the EQ score was significantly higher in vegetarians in comparison with omnivore subjects (mean EQ score = 49.5, S

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Milk increases chance of mortality and hip fractures.

"The risk of any bone fracture increased 16 percent in women who drank three or more glasses daily, and the risk of a broken hip increased 60 percent, the findings indicated."

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Women who drank three glasses of milk or more every day had a nearly doubl

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MTHFR Genetic mutation and b vitamins and veganism

MTHFR may be a reason some people don't do well on a vegan diet. If you search "vegan MTHFR" you can find discussions about it being a problem. I have MTHFR and my experience is that it is a problem. I'm posting this for help and I'm sure that I'm mi

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Arguing with climate change deniers all day long.

One issue I've seen is about 50% of people seem to deny global climate change. I've been arguing with these people all day and night long for the last few days. Yet, there seems no end to their arguments. 

I find it very hard to sell people on vegetar

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