From: wadley@mullauna.cs.mu.OZ.AU (Fruit Loop)
Subject: frugivory references
Organization: Computer Science, University of Melbourne, Australia
Date: Tue, 5 Jan 1993 10:06:09 GMT

Some people have asked for references on fruit-eating.
I'm cross-posting to r.f.veg, though I've posted there already
a few months ago.

"POPULAR"
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This list is copied verbatim from the most recent Fruitarian Network News.
I haven't read most of them. Those that I have, and recommend, are asterisked.
Not all of these authors would call themselves fruitarians, but the message is
much the same (though the style varies between "straightforward" and "zealous").


Moris Krok,	Fruit, the food and medicine for man
"		Formula for a long life
Arnold Ehret,	Mucusless diet healing system
"		Rational fasting *
H and M Diamond,Fit for life *
"		Living health
Ross Horne,	Improving on Pritikin *
"		Health and survival in the 21st century
V.Kulvinskas,	Survival into the 21st century
Leslie Kenton,	Raw energy *
"		Ageless aging
Herb Shelton,	Superior nutrition
"		Fasting can save your life
"		The hygenic care of children
H.Santillo,	Food enzymes, the missing link to radiant health
N.Walker,	Become younger
D.Collison,	Why do I feel so awful? *
J.Alexander,	Blatant faw foodist propoganda *
Elton Baker,	The "uncook" book
David Shelley,	Food of truth, the key to dietary perfection
E.Honnibal,	I live on fruit

You can also write to the (Australian) Fruitarian Network,
po box 293, Trinity Beach, N.Qld 4879, and I'm happy to answer email questions.


"SCIENTIFIC"
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None of these are really about fruitarianism, they just provide some support.
Of course, for every article like this, you could find a thousand saying
something different, so you'll have to choose what you want to believe.
Overall, this sort of 'evolutionary' approach makes more sense to me than the
'ingredient-counting' style of most nutritionists.


Cohen, M.N. (1989),	Health and the rise of civilization
Dohan, F and Grasberger, J. (1973) Relapsed schizophrenia: earlier discharge
	from the hospital after cereal-free, milk-free diet,
	in American Journal of Psychiatry 18:685-8
Dohan et al (1984)	Is schizophrenia rare if grain is rare?,
	in Biological Psychiatry 19:385-399
Peters et al (1981)	The early hominid plant-food niche: insights from an
	analysis of plant exploitation by Homo, Pan, and Papio in eastern and
	southern Africa, 
	in Current Anthropology 22:127-141
Peuch et al (1983)	Tooth microwear and dietary patterns in early hominids
	from Laetoli, Hadar, and Olduvai,
	in Journal of Human Evolution 12:721-9
Rensberger and Brody	Research reveals surprises about early human diets,
	in New York Times, 15 May 1981, page C1
Speth, J. (1989)	Early hominid hunting and scavenging: the role of meat
	as an energy source,
	in Journal of Human Evolution 18:329-343
Susman, R.L. (1987)	Pygmy chimpanzees and common chimpanzees: models for the
	behavioural ecology of the earliest hominids,
	in Kinzey "The evolution of human behaviour: primate models"
Walker, A. (1981)	Dietary hypotheses and human evolution,
	in Phil.Trans of the Royal Society of London B292:57-64

Susman is probably the most forceful argument that the early human diet was a
frugivorous one. Note though that this is controversial: many authors still go
for the 'man the hunter' idea, but the latter is losing support with time.

Of course, you could argue that the (evolutionarily recent) switch to large
amounts of meat and cereals was a change for the better, but there is good
evidence that this is not the case, see especially Cohen and Speth.



In case anyone missed the start of this, we're talking about "fruitarianism",
which is the notion that since the natural human diet is relatively small
amounts of fruit (and nothing else, except perhaps even smaller amounts of
meat and vegetation), then if you eat this way, you will get healthy
(as well as save a lot of money, time, and unnecessary housework).

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