10 big fat lies about fruit - a blog rant by Star Khechara (nutritionist)

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Permalink Reply by fruitsandnumbers on July 3, 2012 at 3:51am

"But the anti-fruit brigade only ever tell us about fruit, and go on to extoll the virues of meat (Paleo fruit-phobes) or greens (raw vegan fruit phobes)."

I believe this should read virtues not virues. Am I right?

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Permalink Reply by Star Khechara on August 28, 2012 at 9:45am

yes! I have missing letters from my laptop keyboard and make hideous amounts of typos lol

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Permalink Reply by Joni on July 3, 2012 at 4:17am

Star. Excellent. Very needed. Have you taken on the salt/sodium issue? If so I want to read your thoughts/research on it.

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Permalink Reply by Star Khechara on August 28, 2012 at 9:44am

I wrote an article about that last year I think, it's a featured discussion somewhere on here...

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Permalink Reply by DURIANRIDER on July 9, 2012 at 11:15am

nice.

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Permalink Reply by PK on July 18, 2012 at 3:56am

Thanks Star!  I have bookmarked this in my references and featured this!

Peace, PK

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Permalink Reply by Vered on July 21, 2012 at 5:27pm

this is really helpful. thank you =)

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Permalink Reply by Kerrigan on July 27, 2012 at 3:10am

Lovely post. My favorite part was when you debunked Paleo-diet enthusiasts who believe fruit makes people fat, but you clearly show our society has had a huge decrease in fruit while we get fatter and fatter.

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Permalink Reply by DURIANRIDER on August 26, 2012 at 4:21am

True.

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Permalink Reply by Sylvie on August 18, 2012 at 7:30am

I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this article! Thank you, Star!
I was laughing at #8, because I just had a conversation with a friend of mine who spends all her money on brand name clothes, still has money to get that $5 Frappuccino from 'Starjucks' every day and complains that a fruity diet would bust her budget... *smh

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Permalink Reply by Star Khechara on August 28, 2012 at 9:43am

aw glad everyone liked it, sorry not been on here for a while - too busy chasing the tails of the fruit-phobic LOL

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Permalink Reply by Lisa Dee on August 28, 2012 at 10:04am

Well done!

I was thinking about the cost of this regime recently and I started to list all the things I do not spend money on:
coffee, tea, bread, butter, milk, breakfast cereal (hello five dollar box of Corn Pops), cheese, eggs, meat, fish, ice cream, pasta, sauces, cake, cookies, crackers, condiments, wine, beer, candy.........etc, etc, etc.  By not buying any of these, I can buy fruit.

Additionally, with the corn crop failure in the U.S., a lot of processed food (what doesn't contain corn additives?) and meat (animal corn feed) is going to skyrocket this year.  People will have to find alternatives.  Let's hope they find the right alternatives. 

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