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I doubt you could give yourself diabetes from fruit without really trying. The chewing just gets old real quick. But I also don't think you miss much by cuttin

I doubt you could give yourself diabetes from fruit without really trying. The chewing just gets old real quick. But I also don't think you miss much by cutting fruit out entirely. It's a bunch of sugar, a lot of fiber, and a few vitamins that you can easily get from other places like green, leafy vegetables. Really nothing unique about fruit unless you just really like fruit.

natdempk 4y ago
But I also don't think you miss much by cutting music out entirely. It's a bunch of sounds, a lot of noise, and a few repetitions that you can easily get from other places like your natural environment. Really nothing unique about music unless you just really like music. ... But I also don't think you miss much by cutting art out entirely. It's a bunch of brush strokes, a lot of colors, and a few layers that you can easily get from other places like the world around you. Really nothing unique about art unless you just really like art. .. But I also don't think you miss much by cutting vision out entirely. It's a bunch of wavelengths, a lot of rod and cones, and a few optic nerve stimuli that you can easily get from other places like your brain itself. Really nothing unique about vision unless you just really like vision. ... But I also don't think you miss much by cutting walking out entirely. It's a bunch of muscle stimuli, a lot of breathing, and a few images that you can easily get from other places like moving in place. Really nothing unique about walking unless you just really like walking.
- exfatloss 4y ago
  Yes. And?
- natdempk 4y ago
  I can't reply to the child comment, but my main point its ridiculous to reduce down human enjoyment into "nothing is strictly necessary and there is no point to human existence or experience" and "you can get all the component pieces of a thing, so what is the benefit of the combined thing" as an argument for cutting things out. But yes, I don't disagree with "you don't need to eat anything complex really if you don't enjoy it and just care about basic sustenance".
  - exfatloss 4y ago
    It is ridiculous to get mad at someone who doesn't eat fruit for not eating fruit. You like fruit? Great, eat fruit. Enjoy! If OP was anorexic or undernourished or deprived of some essential nutrient there would be a point in pointing that out. But fruit?
    - natdempk 4y ago
      I'm not mad at anyone here, no worries. Mainly just posted originally + here because I think some of the arguments being made are fairly ridiculous as stated, and primarily because I think the claim that you can get diabetes from eating too much fruit is just untrue in practice.
      - exfatloss 4y ago
        I mean maybe if you wanted to you could ;) But not in practice, I agree. I was actually fruitarian for a few weeks and man it's HARD to chew enough food to even get your calories in, lol. Plus it's all cold so it's extra annoying cause you never get the thermal heat of cooked food!
- post-it 4y ago
  Eat fruit then. The OP chooses not to, they're not telling you not to.
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JPKab 4y ago
Important note that the vast, vast majority of fruits that humans consume are as natural as a chihuahua. Apples, bananas, oranges, etc are unnaturally sweet products of generations upon generations of selective breeding. Blackberries, blueberries, and certain other fruits that are naturally sweet in the wild are an exception. The quantity of sugar in an apple is something that was rarely, if ever, found in nature before.
- exfatloss 4y ago
  Still. So much fiber, so much chewing. I'm not saying diabetics should go out and make banana smoothies. But I tried going fruitarian for 30 days in my 20s and I simply couldn't. I couldn't eat enough food to meet energy balance. Maybe if you made banana puree all day but it gets real disgusting real quick. I find fruit pretty self-limiting.
- rootusrootus 4y ago
  > vast majority of fruits And vegetables. Everything gets selective breeding once it is a crop.
  - exfatloss 4y ago
    Or pigs. Basically inedible after they bred the fat out of them in the 80s/90s :(

natdempk 4y ago

But I also don't think you miss much by cutting music out entirely. It's a bunch of sounds, a lot of noise, and a few repetitions that you can easily get from other places like your natural environment. Really nothing unique about music unless you just really like music. ... But I also don't think you miss much by cutting art out entirely. It's a bunch of brush strokes, a lot of colors, and a few layers that you can easily get from other places like the world around you. Really nothing unique about art unless you just really like art. .. But I also don't think you miss much by cutting vision out entirely. It's a bunch of wavelengths, a lot of rod and cones, and a few optic nerve stimuli that you can easily get from other places like your brain itself. Really nothing unique about vision unless you just really like vision. ... But I also don't think you miss much by cutting walking out entirely. It's a bunch of muscle stimuli, a lot of breathing, and a few images that you can easily get from other places like moving in place. Really nothing unique about walking unless you just really like walking.

exfatloss 4y ago
Yes. And?
natdempk 4y ago
I can't reply to the child comment, but my main point its ridiculous to reduce down human enjoyment into "nothing is strictly necessary and there is no point to human existence or experience" and "you can get all the component pieces of a thing, so what is the benefit of the combined thing" as an argument for cutting things out. But yes, I don't disagree with "you don't need to eat anything complex really if you don't enjoy it and just care about basic sustenance".
- exfatloss 4y ago
  It is ridiculous to get mad at someone who doesn't eat fruit for not eating fruit. You like fruit? Great, eat fruit. Enjoy! If OP was anorexic or undernourished or deprived of some essential nutrient there would be a point in pointing that out. But fruit?
  - natdempk 4y ago
    I'm not mad at anyone here, no worries. Mainly just posted originally + here because I think some of the arguments being made are fairly ridiculous as stated, and primarily because I think the claim that you can get diabetes from eating too much fruit is just untrue in practice.
    - exfatloss 4y ago
      I mean maybe if you wanted to you could ;) But not in practice, I agree. I was actually fruitarian for a few weeks and man it's HARD to chew enough food to even get your calories in, lol. Plus it's all cold so it's extra annoying cause you never get the thermal heat of cooked food!
post-it 4y ago
Eat fruit then. The OP chooses not to, they're not telling you not to.

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JPKab 4y ago

Important note that the vast, vast majority of fruits that humans consume are as natural as a chihuahua. Apples, bananas, oranges, etc are unnaturally sweet products of generations upon generations of selective breeding. Blackberries, blueberries, and certain other fruits that are naturally sweet in the wild are an exception. The quantity of sugar in an apple is something that was rarely, if ever, found in nature before.

exfatloss 4y ago
Still. So much fiber, so much chewing. I'm not saying diabetics should go out and make banana smoothies. But I tried going fruitarian for 30 days in my 20s and I simply couldn't. I couldn't eat enough food to meet energy balance. Maybe if you made banana puree all day but it gets real disgusting real quick. I find fruit pretty self-limiting.
rootusrootus 4y ago
> vast majority of fruits And vegetables. Everything gets selective breeding once it is a crop.
- exfatloss 4y ago
  Or pigs. Basically inedible after they bred the fat out of them in the 80s/90s :(