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Whole Foods Diet: Fruit or Vegetable?

Hi Dr. Stoll! You have written that anyone starting a whole foods diet should avoid fruit for the first three months. My question is, do you mean fruit in the traditional sense or in the technical sense? For example, apples, oranges, and stawberries are traditionally known as being fruits, but cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, and string beans are traditionally known as being vegetables. However, cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, and string beans are technically fruits because they have seeds. So should I avoid cucumbers, peppers, tomatoes, and string beans for three months or should I only avoid the traditional fruits? Thanks!

Paunch 64

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• Re: Whole Foods Diet: Fruit or Vegetable? (Archive in PWFD.) Walt Stoll 13:49:56 7/20/01 (0)

In Reply to: Whole Foods Diet: Fruit or Vegetable? posted by Paunch 64 on July 19, 2001 at 01:41:02:

Hi, Paunch.

Good question. The key is to have enough micronutrients in the substance to take care of the calories without drawing on the body's storage. SO, stuff that is very low in calories are usually safe in the beginning.

By the way, I only recommend NO fruit IF the person is trying to deal with candida OR the addiction to refined carbohydrates.

The "fruity" vegetables you listed are pretty safe. The problem is not the technical fruit classification but the above.

Hope this helps.

Walt