On Sun, 15 Aug 2010 17:13:08 -0700 (PDT), Manda Ruby
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>http://www.fredericpatenaude.com/art...orstfoods.html

Maybe I can humanely put this thing to death.

There have been "nutritional antropologists" (for lack of a better
word) who have speculated that man evolved over meny eons as a
hunter/gatherer, emphasis on gatherer. According to their reasoning,
man (and proto-man) existed on roots and berries, and occasionally
each other. All was copesthetic.

Then, some idiot discovered edible grasses/seeds and invented
agriculture. Nutritionally speaking, things went downhill from there
because man's digestive apparatus was simply not designed to handle
that kind of stuff. Later he continued looking for new things to eat
and discovered, meat, milk, Jello, Pizza, Brie and Brioche.

Now we suffer from various illnesses and discomforts, from bunions ro
colon cancer, all because of our departure from our natural diet,
which was fruit. Voila - fruitarians.

All this would be well and good, but is just about impossible to
prove. Hence, those who are determined to sell the idea must postulate
specific diseases, illnesses, discomforts, and other ill consequences
that derive from our nutritional transgression, complete with posited
mechanisms that "prove" the Revealed Truth about fruitarianism.

This is where the advocate stops preaching and gets to meddling, as
does this guy Mandy posted. Reminds me of some Harvard grad student's
saying, within the last year (when the Weather Center at East Anglia
University was called to task for falsifying data), that sometimes one
must exaggerate the dangers before the ignorant will take action on
the obvious. (Read: *lie* to get a desired result).

Thus I, and, I suspect, many others reject this person as a charlatan
who, incidentally, just happens to have a pecuniary interest in
providing a solution to what he perceives/presents as a problem.

Sorry, Charlie. No cigar.

HTH

Alex