Arnold Ehret's mucusless diet / Raw food / Fruitarianism
 

Hi to everybody,

i'm Marco from Italy. Now it's nearly one year the i started a muculess diet of Arnold Ehret. I started with a 14 days (and 14 nights) water fasting, and then i continued in direction of raw food and fruitarianism. In last 2 months i eat nearly only fresh fruits (also tomatoes and lemons, that are fruits).

I experienced severals style as liquidarian diet, only fruits, mono-diet (only apples), etc. Before this, i was vegeterian since 19 years. Now i'm 37.

I like to swaping experiences and so if there is some ehretist, raw foodist or fruitarian i'll be happy to talk about theese topics.

Thanks a lot to averyone,
Peach and Love :)

wow ... how many people that want to answer :-D ?!? one per once, please !!! :-)

I'm sorry I have nothing to say. I've tried all sorts of "diets" in the past. The only thing that has ever really worked consistently for me is (please keep this quiet, I'm writing a book) eating a reasonable amount of real food and doing some (often very) modest amount of exercise. Perhaps someone else more knowledgeable than myself can help you.

Regards,
Michael

Hi :-),
what do you mean with "real food"? I've written this post for knowing opinions and swapping experiences... :-)

Thanks for answering

marco

p.s. mucusless diet and fruitarianism it isn't a "diet" but it's a life-style and it's an infallible system of healing from any illness, in whatever capacity :-)

Maybe you should explain the lifestyle to us since you are doing it and nobody else here seems to know what it is all about. ;)

I've heard raw foodists, particularly those who eat a lot of fruit, can lose their teeth.

Marco, sorry, I simply meant a mixture of "normal" or "every day" foods that provide approx. a 40/30/30 carb/fat/protein mix and do not include any "junk food".

Please do tell us about your experiences.

Regards,
Michael

Hi to everybody :-)

first of all i post this wiki link, for a general knowledge:
Arnold Ehret - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Mucusless diet system it's a kind of life style, where only fruits and raw vegetable with green leaves are considered the real food. With real food i mean the only food that nature prepared for humans, and wich humans can eat without any cooking.

The path to fruitarianism is a process (also long) where human could readapt his body to leave with this kind of natural food. In the middle of this process there is a transition diet, that can include cooked vegetables and other things.

The target is to eliminate starches, flours, grains, legumes, cereals because they are considered foods that create intestinal mucus, which accumulates several layers in the intestines and other parts of the body in the form of faecal concretions harsh. These are the main cause of the only one true human disease and aging: constipation by mucus and toxins. These residues remain there for decades. All other diseases are only symptoms of constipation.

The only food that don't create mucus are juicy fruit, the perfect food for humans.Green leafy vegetables produce little mucus and so the starchy fruits such as banana. Instead, starches, flours, grains, legumes, cereals produce a lot of mucus.

The best way to eliminate mucus is fasting and alternate with a mucusless diet or a transition diet.

No. It happens when the person is too full of mucus, toxins and poisons and he/she want to convert himself to fruitarian and raw food diet too quickly, without a gradual transition diet.

I've forgotten to say that also meat, fish, milk and similar are dangerous because produce mucus and toxins.

The only natural food for human is fresh fruit. But it's important to understand that it needs and adaptation called transition diet (a journey that can last for years sometimes, depends on the physical body), because after years of mucus-food the body is too full of poisons. Fruits are very detoxicating food, but if the body is too full of poisons, it can may become ill or even die, suffocated by their poisons and toxins. So it needs to eliminate poisons and mucus only gradually, with a transition diet.

Hi Marco -- I'm glad you've posted here and don't want to be negative, but to be honest I'm pretty skeptical about Ehret's claims.

Ehret's idea that all diseases are caused by mucus is not credible today. The revolting language Ehretists use to describe digestion ("the human cesspool" etc) sounds more like neurosis than science. Personally I think this stuff's best consigned to the history books along with eugenics and measuring heads.

If this kind of diet's working for you, though, all power to you; it doesn't mean the theory's right, but it does mean the diet's interesting. We're all about the numbers here, so maybe tell us your age, level of fitness before you started, what exercise you've been doing and how your body and fitness levels have changed over the last year. That's the acid test, really.

I think Ehret's theory works very well with everybody that try it.

I started in november 2010 with a water fasting of 14 days and 14 nights. Before this my weight was more or less 85 Kg. During water fasting i've lost more or less 8 Kg.

After fasting i did 14 day by eating only juicy fruits and so i lost more than 10 Kg.

in the following months, eating only fruits and raw vegetables, my weight has dropped in this way:

december 2010: 67 Kg.
gen 2011: 62 Kg.
feb : 59 Kg.
march : 57 Kg.
april: 54 Kg.
may: 52 Kg.
june: 50 Kg.

And now my weight turn aroung 50 Kg. I'm 37 and i'm 1,74 meter tall. Several tables should tell that i'm underweight, but i don't feel like these because my bones are thin (featherweight). In addition, I practice a lot of enemas, so i don't have the typical 5-7 Kg. of fecal residue that ordinary people have in their intestines.

It is noteworthy that throughout this period I have enjoyed excellent health, vital energy, and I have never sick.

So i think, after my experience, that Arnold Ehret tells the truth about everything, and if you try, you know.

During this period, I was very careful to respect the food combinations to avoid fermentation and acidification of the body.

Thanks Marco, that's good information.

18kg in a month is a heck of a fast rate of weight loss, and my bet is that most of that would have been water and muscle. After that you obviously settled down to a close-to-maintenance level of calories, and it sounds as if you've had no ill effects overall. You've certainly achieved a low level of body fat, which is no mean feat.

Rather than pontificating, though, I'm hoping someone with some medical / nutritional knowledge might step in with more informed comments than I can give.

In my opinion, the secret is to listen very well your body and not blind following of medical suggestion or tables values.

And in my experience i find out that a lot of ideas and opinions (medical and nutrition ), considered as absolute true, actually are false.

If you try, you'll find out :-)

My suggestion is to do not believe in nothing, before to try and to check it.

The real knowledge passes only through the experience; and so there aren't experts, doctors or nutritionists, but there is only our experience that can check and give real knowledge.

Marco! I am so glad I found you.

I have read some of Ehret's works and have a general knowledge of the diet. My boyfriend is the real Ehretist, however. His whole family has a great knowledge of his theories. Most of them try to stick to at least a transition diet and practice rational fasting regularly. I can tell you honestly, these are the best looking, strongest, smartest people I have ever met. When they are at their best, truly following their diets, they are superior beings. They do not sweat; they do not need sleep; they speak of a mental clarity that I have only before read in Ehret's teachings.

I, myself, had been a vegetarian for several years before meeting my boyfriend. When we moved in together I started eating a transitional/fruitatarian diet. A year ago I started expecting my first child and completely strayed from the diet; adopting more of Cookie Monster's philosophies than I should have. My son, little LA, was born very healthy in July, but I never completely healed from the birth. I had been to several doctors trying to figure out why my recovery time was so extensive. My BF kept reminding me I could heal myself if I focused on my nutrition. I kept eating unnaturally and continued to get worse.

Two weeks ago I was diagnosed with cancer. Since I came home from the doctor I have been back on a transition diet. I have done a few water fasts only lasting about 20 hours each. I am hesitant to fast for longer because I am still breast feeding little LA and fear I will not produce enough milk for him. My transition diet differs from what Ehret suggests in that I eat about 80% raw fruits and veggies and one cooked meal of veggies per day. My plan is to continue my transitional diet and move to a mucusless diet by the end of this year. In January BF and his family will help me to begin following a Grape Cure diet. I want to heal myself with proper nutrition rather than fighting with chemicals and absolutely believe it can be done.

Am I remembering correctly from your previous posts that you have been on the diet a year or more? I would love to hear about your experience and success. Also, you said in an earlier post "During this period, I was very careful to respect the food combinations to avoid fermentation and acidification of the body." This is one of my greatest fears of this diet. I have done extensive research and the only flaws I am finding are with people sometimes loosing teeth due to the high acid content of fruit leeching the body of necessary minerals.

This page talks about one man's experience with different variations on Ehret's diet. He talks about this problem and his solution is eating mostly melons with low acid content. I also though of adding more calcium rich fruit and veggies to my diet such as kale, apricots and figs. I am wondering how you avoid over acidifying with this diet.

I look forward to hearing about your experiences. Thank you!

Hi!! i'm glad too! :-)

it's been one yaer that i'm raw-foodist/fruitarian and it's...wonderfull!

I suggest to you to buy anne osborne's book "Fruitarianis. The path to paradise"

here the site:

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food combining are simply:

-eat fruits far from meals
-don't mix sweet fruits with acid fruits

-don't mix starchy with proteins, sugars and acids
-don't mix proteins with starchy, sugars and acids
-don't mix fats with proteins, sugars and acids

Avocado is a fat, but is an exeption and can be mixed with acid like lemon or lime.If you eat avocado, don't add another kind of fat like oil or similar. Only one kind a time.

If eat proteins, only one kind a time.
If eat starchy, only one kind a time.

-Don't use vinegar, but lemon if you want an acid taste
-leave salt and sugar

-Don't drink in a meal, but if you want half an hour before, or 3 hours later.

Teeth:
That could be happen only if the person is really full of mucus and toxins. In my experience nothing like that happened. My teeth are very strong.

I hope to give you some support, but if you have other question, ask me :-)

See you

marco g l

Marco,

I am seriously considering starting this life change. I have serious chemical dependencies such as alcohol and cigarettes. I would be interested to see how much depression and suicide could be avoided by changing what we eat. I eat relatively well though I do crave potatoes and occasionally meat. I read Ehret's book, the Mucusless Diet but I am still unclear on how to begin. Any suggestions?

To each his or her own, I suppose. In the past, I did juice or raw food fasts but it is not a lifestyle I would choose. According to his biographer, Steve Jobs often followed a fruitarian diet. He still wound up getting cancer. Then again, the author of The Crazy Sexy Cancer Diet says that raw foods and juices saved her life.

I also tried food combining but honestly these kinds of programs just don't interest me or work for me.

I have hypoglycmia and so lower carb seems to work better for me. Plus I love cooking and cooked food. As I said, to each his or her own. Good luck with it.

ciao marco! mi chiamo Alfredo...vivo in Canada. (Montreal)

Are you still doing raw foods in Milan? I will be visiting Milan in April. I would love to know some good places to get some fruits and veggies. organic maybe?

Let me know, so we can connect. I have some questions for you. Parlo anche italiano, pero non e a cento per cento lo scritto ;)

a presto, fratello!

New to forum and reading Arnold's books now.
 

Hello marcomandolino so good to hear you talk about his work, I am in the middle of reading his book and loving it, I hope to one day be a fully fledged member of his work. I am currently fasting every other day and must say that it's easy and feel great. So great to hear from you.

Fruitarian Diet
 

Hi Guys

I think what is considered the Fruitarian Bible right now is the Dr Doug Graham book "The 80-10-10 Diet". Fascinating information on an Ehret type mucuosless diet.

I think everyone interested in health should read this book.

revised and annotated mucusless diet
 

i read a new edition of the mucusless diet healing system that has notes in the margins answering many modern-day questions. most people totally miss the point of ehret's teachings, but this book highlights them. if you are interested in the mucusless diet, i highly recommend checking it out. you can get it here:Mucusless Diet Healing System: Annotated, Revised, and Edited by Prof. Spira