Fruit Deficiency?

Warning: This post may sound slightly kooky. Okay, a lot kooky. But I'm just kooky enough I don't care.

The other evening I was having my dinner - a quart of OJ. And as I was sitting there sipping it and fulfilling my hunger and thirst, I became aware of a deep physical and emotional satisfaction bubbling up inside, almost a tingling that spread directly from my digestive system to all my millions of cells. It was almost instantaneous as soon as the OJ hit my stomach. Talk about "fast food"! This feeling was strongest in my head (literally, haha) and scalp, and I felt like my hairs were standing up just a little and shouting, Yes! Yes! as they grew another millimeter from the carbons in the sugar. :)

That probably sounds completely insane to most people. But I've become more and more sensitive over the last year to my body and it was just such a content and amazing feeling to have, to physically FEEL the fruit nourishing me on the deepest level, to FEEL the fruit sugar moving directly to feed every cell in my body. I felt so alive and aware on every level.

This is opposed to how I felt last year when I'd eat cooked, empty calorie food and have pain in my joints and feel slightly achy, feverish, dull and deadened afterwards.

I couldn't help but think, that first of all I might be turning slightly kooky. And second of all that I wished all human beings on earth could experience the simple, earthly pleasure I'd just experienced - the undeniable intuition that fruit is what my body wanted, needed and was looking for all along to thrive. And now that I'm finally correcting this, my body is reacting joyfully and doing strangely amazing things I never knew it was capable of doing.

I told Kevin about this later that night. I was feeling a little sheepish about it. After all, people, it's just food! But Kevin was very encouraged to hear my experience and he said, "You ARE going to blog about this, aren't you?" And I meekly said, "Yes, sir." So here it is.

Just a few days later, I came across this post from Dr. D on Vegsource. He was responding to someone who had had a similar but less kooky experience with a big banana smoothie. His post is so right on and I wish I could send this simple little truth to the entire hurting, sick world this Christmas, along with a big hug:

Yes, there are hundreds, maybe thousands of conditions of poor
health that are actually nothing more than a deficiency of good,
sweet, fruit.

Dr. D

Do you possibly suffer from a fruit deficiency? If so I'd like to encourage you to throw all caution to the wind this holiday season and give it a little whirl, see how a low fat/high fruit diet works for your health. You have nothing to lose and cooked food will always be there if you want to go back to it!

Merry Christmas to my wonderful friends, and a blessed year ahead!