Research Yields Bombshell Of A Surprise

Article #2: Research Yields Bombshell Of A Surprise!

The prestigious New York Times newspaper, in its May 5th issue, surprised your editor more by printing an article than the surprise they express by the findings revealed.

The gist of this article is some research done by an Anthropologist, Dr. Alan Walker of Johns Hopkins University in Maryland.

Dr. Walker has come to the startling conclusion that early humans were fruit eaters—not just fruit eaters but exclusively and only fruit eaters—eaters of nothing but fruit. This comes as quite a bombshell from a noted publication that has a vested interest in a heavy meat-eating society.

By careful examination of fossil teeth and fossilized remains of humans with the aid of electron microscopes and other sophisticated tools, Dr. Walker and other researchers are absolutely certain that our ancestors, up to a point in relatively recent history, were fruitarians.

Hygienists are not necessarily fruitarians but all will tell you that humans are, by physiology and anatomy, Frugivores. A cursory study of biology will reveal this, even if written by meat-eating professors, which most of our Biologists are.

The scope of the article is rather far flung. They trace humans through history as expanding to herbiage and nuts and, finally, to meat as a full-fledged omnivore.

But the essence of the article is that, though we undertook omnivorous eating practices, our anatomy and physiology have not changed—we remain biologically a species of fruit eaters.

Our dietetic character is established by our disposition toward fruits. Our natural diet has great eye and taste appeal. It passes from the stomach in digestible form in from 10 minutes to 30 minutes after ingestion.

Contrast this with concentrated fat and protein foods which take three to five hours to pass out of the stomach.

We do not have the four stomachs that herbivores usually have. This rules out most herbiage.

We have only one starch-splitting enzyme versus a multitude of them in omnivores and starch-eating animals. Our ptyalin is very limited. This rules us out as starch-eaters which includes grains or cereals. We are not graminivores.

Neither are we carnivores. It is repugnant to our thoughts to kill and eat an animal while it is yet warm and bloody, to eat its brains, heart, offal and blood as true carnivores do. True carnivores do not chew meat—they have in their digestive tracts a hydrochloric acid so concentrated, about 1100% more so than ours, that it will digest the flesh from our hands if they swallowed them. But our acids are so weak we digest meat poorly even if we chew it thoroughly. Even then we cannot handle uric acid except at great expense to our vitality and well-being. Cholesterol plays havoc with our circulatory system. So don’t think we’re natural meat-eaters. We’re suffering very dearly for our dietary indiscretions—America has more sick people than any country in the world.

Can you imagine the dismay with which our meat and dairy industry not to mention our extensive junk food industry will view such damaging propaganda? Can you not see how many advertisers will have second thoughts about placing advertising in the New York Times?

Well, it doesn’t quite work like that. The junk food advertising in the New York Times amounts to about nil. It is a newspaper that “prints all the news that’s fit to print.” It serves a cultured, aware audience.

But one of the surprising things that came out of this article is its attribution of the harmfulness of our shift from our natural diet of fruits to other items of food that range from eggs and insects to milk and meats.

I have checked with many Life Scientists in other areas of the country. Not one has seen nary a mention of these universally significant findings. I’ve examined our local papers. You’d never know about it. After all, our local papers serve the industries that a general knowledge and observance of these findings would destroy outright.

Most Hygienists/Life Scientists do not make sweet fruits their primary item of diet. Few do. Your editor’s diet has been only 70% to 80% fruitarian, perhaps more if you consider nuts, tomatoes, bell peppers, cucumbers, avocados, eggplants, and other such items as fruits, which they are. Then your editor’s diet might be considered about 95% fruitarian with the balance being the green leaves and stalks of lettuce, celery, kale, collards, Chinese cabbage, sprouts, broccoli and cauliflowers.

Actually we all naturally have a “sweet tooth” and it is with reference to fruit-eating that we are frugivores.

When I was a youngster I was accused of wanting to eat only desserts and leaving the good substantial food to waste. Now I’m sort of intrigued by all-dessert meals in fact I eat so many of them now I sometimes go days with nothing but. Now that the melon season is upon us plus all the other goodies, I’m afraid my vegetable and nonsweet fruit eating are going to take a back seat. In the mulberry season your editor ate only mulberries for two or three days running on several occasions.

The salutary truths contained in these findings will be hedged by most who learn of it. It will be said that fruits do not supply us with sufficient proteins or nutrients or no longer do. Much will be said but this does not negate the truth. It will all be in defense of wrong learning and wrong notions. Even many Hygienists/Life Scientists will pooh-pooh an all-fruit diet.

If you don’t go along with an all fruit diet, then why not add some greens, sprouts, nuts and seeds? But you should make your diet of mostly fruit. You’ll attain to a high state of health, mental well-being and functional vigor. If you eat a salad every second and third day with a protein, that’s often enough to assure more than adequate nutriment.