Can eating fruits shorten life?

[Guest guest]

Dear Elchanan and everyone:

 

A recent study on worms found that decreasing glucose extends life span.

In addition taking anti-oxidants to destroy free radicals reduces it.

Evidently free radicals are designed by nature to have an important

function! Not good news for vitamin companies! But keep in mind that the

study was on worms.

 

Elchanan, since you are a heavy advocate of fruits and the (80/10/10)

diet, comments from you would be appreciated. I love grapes and oranges

and sweet fruits but they are very high in sugar. If decreasing glucose

extends life, would increasing fruits shorten life? I am framing the

question in this way only to clarify the central point.

 

http://www.cellmetabolism.org/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS1550413107002562

 

Hope you are all well. I am enjoying the discussion and learning much

from you all. I follow a yogic sattvic diet as much as I can which

consists of fruits, nuts, vegetables, some soymilk (for my chai (indian

tea) and some eggs now and then.

 

Namaste and love to all

Harsha

P.S. check out my recent entry on on Krishna as a

leader if you are into Eastern philosophy. I have been experimenting

with raw diets for the last 30 years and went to Hippocrates Institute

in 1980. They are heavy on wheat grass juice and vegetables but not too

much into fruits. Anyway, after three weeks on their diet, I felt really

superb. I love fruits too.

 

Harsha

[Guest guest]

If glucose shortens life span, it might help to eat sweet fruits along with

good fats (pureeing sweet fruits with avocado, for example), to slow down our

metabolism of them.

 

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In a message dated 10/20/07 11:00:21 AM, harsha writes:

 

 

> Dear Elchanan and everyone:

>

> A recent study on worms found that decreasing glucose extends life span.

> In addition taking anti-oxidants to destroy free radicals reduces it.

> Evidently free radicals are designed by nature to have an important

> function! Not good news for vitamin companies! But keep in mind that the

> study was on worms.

>

> Elchanan, since you are a heavy advocate of fruits and the (80/10/10)

> diet, comments from you would be appreciated. I love grapes and oranges

> and sweet fruits but they are very high in sugar. If decreasing glucose

> extends life, would increasing fruits shorten life? I am framing the

> question in this way only to clarify the central point.

>

> http://www.cellmetabolism.org/content/article/abstract?uid=PIIS15504131070025

> 62

>

> Hope you are all well. I am enjoying the discussion and learning much

> from you all. I follow a yogic sattvic diet as much as I can which

> consists of fruits, nuts, vegetables, some soymilk (for my chai (indian

> tea) and some eggs now and then.

>

> Namaste and love to all

> Harsha

> P.S. check out my recent entry on on Krishna as a

> leader if you are into Eastern philosophy. I have been experimenting

> with raw diets for the last 30 years and went to Hippocrates Institute

> in 1980. They are heavy on wheat grass juice and vegetables but not too

> much into fruits. Anyway, after three weeks on their diet, I felt really

> superb. I love fruits too.

>

> Harsha

 

[Guest guest]

" If glucose shortens life span... "

 

It's funny - one of my best friends has done many raw and health

certifications, and watched every video and read every book, pretty

much, on the topic. She is at Hippocrates Health Institute doing the

10 week Educator's program right now.

 

She is definitely being taught that. Since she's met Graham many

times and can see he looks older than his years, which is contrary to

many raw-foodists, this explains that aspect to her. Hippocrates

offered to pay for Grahams $500 B12 test they are so sure he is

deficient, but he refused. The crowd applauded when he was offered,

though...

 

I asked her why Norman Walker and others have succeeded combatting

cancer with stuff like carrot juice, considering that it is high

sugar, and why Hippocrates would be against it since it works. She

asked Brian Clements, who is very involved with scientific research,

and this is what he said:

 

" I did ask him that. Carrots back when Norman was doing it were 50%

to 80% less that todays. Also fruits today are not tree-ripened so

they overwork the body. As far as Graham's book goes in terms of

reversing candida on fruit, or what people are saying they did, they

didn't have it, it was something else... " - that is the observation

I came to, too, and posted---I just feel that as long as people

correct whatever it is, who cares what it was!

 

Erica