Most of so-called 'civilized' Mankind does not care what it puts into its body. It does not question what is good for it and does not have much of a clue about health or dietary aspects until the wheels start falling off. Then it has to apply itself and strive to undo the damage already done, most of which may take years to put right (though the expectation is that 3 pills a day for a week will fix everything - what grand delusion!). Most of modern mankind’s health is in serious decline before they reach their teens. The more physically active individuals will decline a little later. Thereafter they live in a state which Dr N. Munro so aptly called in the title of his book "MAN ALIVE YOU ARE HALF DEAD"

Only a brief look, I trashed my thesis in 1968 as the establishment showed no interest in it. In many ways it was a blessing in disguise as it made me decide to dispose of my businesses and devote the rest of my life to researching mankind’s relationship to the environment and also to establish the fundamental laws that govern nature. It would take at least a year or longer and thousands of hours in university libraries to research the data to reproduce it again. Anyway, I don’t see the necessity. There should be sufficient scientific facts below to prove the point. It is an interesting and informative excise if anyone wishes to pursue it a little further. I would like to see someone do this as a thesis for a doctorate.

The headings of the different dietetic groups were in the following order - Carnivirour, Herbivirour, Graminivrour, Omnivirour, Frugivirour and Mankind in the sixth column. When studied, it would not take long for anyone to see the obvious, that the details in the fifth column, the Frugivirour and the sixth column, Mankind were almost identical. The only difference was that Mankind was more refined/better endowed or equipped than any of the other anthropoids to live on fruit, nuts and berries only.

The flesh eaters such as lions, tigers, cats and dogs.

If mankind was ever meant to eat meat it would have been given a well developed nervous system in the back of the jaw and canine teeth for ripping apart raw flesh plus numerous other anatomical and physiological characteristics. Mankind has its jaw nervous system centralized in the incisor teeth. These are hopeless for ripping and chewing flesh, especially raw flesh the way mankind would have had to eat it in the distant past. Incisor teeth are ideal for tactile manipulation of a nut in the mouth and for cracking it. We also know that the strength of so-called civilized mankind’s jaw and teeth are very inferior to that of primitive tribes and to that of most of those who have lived on a natural diet from an early age.

The carnivorous group of animals have a very high acid level in their digestive juices in order to break down the raw flesh, hair, skin and bones they consume. They also have short cylindrical colons to eliminate the wastes rapidly after digestion before putrefication sets in. Mankind however, is blessed with a long convoluted colon, this being by far the largest section of its digestive tract. This organ produced all the vitamin B group when mankind lived on natural food. Today most of mankind is walking around with a colon coated with fecal matter, most of which was deposited there in the formative years. On a conventional diet this coating is composed mainly of the paste like wastes of cereals and dairy products. Ironically, if this coating was not there before indulging on a red meat diet, one would either die very quickly or suffer a slow painful death from bowel cancer, caused by poisons from the putrefying flesh wastes accumulating in the convolutions of the colon.

Note - peanuts are not a nut but the underground seed of a legume and shouldn't be part of our diet.

Mankind in summer, at a temperature of 95 to 100 degrees Fahrenheit, 35 to 38 degrees Centigrade, needs the minerals calcium and phosphate in a ratio of 4 to 1 to be in harmony with the environment. The huge excess (more than 100 fold) of phosphate over calcium in the red meats, calcium to phosphate ratio of 1 to 27, will make one hyperactive, hot and aggressive. Red meat is probably the main cause of insanity in mankind and has actively contributed to the commission of some of the most barbaric atrocities in history, especially when combined with sugar foods.

If you care to look you will find hundreds more facts to show mankind does not belong in any way to this group of animals or for that matter to any of the following three groups. Mankind only digressed from its natural diet as a result of geophysical catastrophes resulting in ice ages or extreme prolonged weather changes, when it would have had to eat whatever living matter it could find. In the temperate zones it would have been either meat or grasses whereas in the more tropical areas mankind would have added the herbs of the field. The white races that lived outside the tropics, in the colder climates were the barbarians that Pythagoras referred to. It seems there were still crude living, meat eating cave dwellers for tens of thousands of years after other tropical civilizations became highly advanced.

If mankind belonged to this group it would have walked on all fours, had its mammary glands on the abdomen, two or more stomachs, fiber splitting enzymes and acid digestion.

Herb eaters don’t have stereo vision and consequently are browsers. Thank goodness they don’t have stereo vision otherwise they would have eaten their way across the planet and left a desert. Of course mankind did not need the herbivirours to do that when it is far more capable of doing it with bulldozers, chainsaws and fire. The advancing degradation of the planet stems from mankind’s ignorance of itself and it’s relationship to the natural environment.

The seed eaters such as the birds.

Mankind obviously does not belong to this group of animals as it does not have a gizzard for preparing grass seeds for digestion. Mankind is the least adapted of all animals to digest grains besides it is only recently that mankind has (misguidedly) developed grass seed into edible grains that could be ground into flour.

Mankind of all living creatures is the least adapted to eat cereals especially seeing it has what is known as third stage kidney development.

Complex carbohydrates are the main causes of ALL the acid diseases known as the saccharide diseases. To name just a few of the main one’s - diabetes, arteriosclerosis, chronic arthritis (back pain for example), rheumatism, etc.

The complex carbohydrate consumables include all Cereals (Wheat being the worst) and Starchy legumes,

If anyone's only meal of the day was a small handful of cereal, the result would be ongoing malnutrition, yet reproduction would not only be enabled but fully functional even while very young. Then there would be the probability of dying at a very early age if there was no access to any fruit and vegetables. In the 1950s, according to The Food and Agricultural Organization of the UN, the people in certain poverty areas of India did exist on a handful of wheat a day. Malnutrition was endemic and believe it or not, there were teenage grandparents and great-grandparents aged in their 20s. Average life expectancy was 27 years against the national average of 41 at the time. What was that about a short life and a merry one !!!

Some sayings of mine used in talks in the '60s and '70s.

Pigs and other scavengers.

As of now mankind could be said to be at the bottom of the food chain. Mankind makes a better example of the gluttonous hog than the hog itself. It has got to the point where it will eat almost anything. It treats its body worse than a garbage can or sewer. One of the great sages of the past said and I quote:

"The uncleanliness within is far greater than the uncleanliness without."

We only consider washing the outside of the body when the majority of mankind desperately needs a good internal cleansing.

Any comprehensive study of comparative anatomy and physiology of the various dietetic groups of animals would provide overwhelming evidence that mankind was definitely not one of the above groups of animals.

Mankind is the only animal to consume milk after weaning, other than the animals it has domesticated.

The casein in the milk that manages to find its way into the body becomes an insoluble waste and the perfect breeding ground for most viruses and bacteria. Some of these bacteria and viruses have developed into the contagious diseases that plague mankind.

Other animal products consumed also play a part but certainly not to the degree that dairy products do in the overall scheme of things.

Everyone who persists in choosing to consume dairy products should be encouraged to consume only yoghourt or cottage cheese.

The following diseases are predominantly found in countries that extensively consume dairy products. However, countries that consume their dairy produce after bacterial processing are not as susceptible.

Wisconsin in the USA and Switzerland, the two biggest milk drinking areas in the world have the highest incidence of breast and the other glandular cancer.

The above diseases will be found in countries that consume a fair quantity of other animal products especially pig foods.

The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) a division of The United Nations is one source of this information. However, the best way to discover what foods tend to bring on which diseases is to look at the staple diets of different countries and see what diseases their general populous suffers from.

Casein when mixed with lime (calcium) makes one of our finest glues. When this mix dries it sets like concrete. Milk is the source of casein and cereals have the highest source of inorganic lime of anything that mankind eats. You may appear to be getting away with it when young and highly active as in the case of Iron Man Contestants who do benefit from the physical activity, particularly the swimming part of it and by the wearing of little clothing. (Clothing and its effects on health come later.)

There will be a recipe for an acceptable muesli later.

Are you the 1 in a 1000, (going on 10,000) who wants to get off the illness treadmill, who wants to be fit, slim and trim, who has the fortitude to defy convention, who will ignore well meaning friends and relatives that insist you have 'lost your marbles', who is prepared to give up the emptiness of modern socializing in exchange for a more meaningful and exhilarating existence - then stay tuned . . . . . . . . .

Don’t attempt anything until you have studied all chapters (most yet to come). Never make drastic changes unless you are sure you know what you are doing and are confident. If you have had extensive medication or indulged extensively in drugs it could cost you your life when suddenly switching to a full fruitarian diet or going on extended fasts. This is because the body may not have disposed of all the medication or drugs over time as they tend to accumulate in fatty tissue. The fast or total fruit diet can trigger the movement of all these dormant drugs to the blood stream at the same time and if this occurs, the natural function of your whole nervous system may collapse. The consequences can be fatal.

It would be advisable initially to seek some professional help when you intend going into any rigorous fasts. At least when you have finished studying the soon to be included associated chapters on nutrition, health and lifestyle you will be able to have a constructive discussion with a health practitioner. Keep searching until you find a therapist you can trust and be comfortable with, at least in the beginning, until you are sure you can proceed on your own. The best is to proceed cautiously using a transitional approach

WARNING:- The reader needs to be aware that Ben (refer preamble on author) and John gradually over many months, even years, modified our diet until it became full fruitarian. The body, once given a chance (on a fruit only diet), will with unbridled ruthless zeal attempt to purge itself of the waste and toxins that it has accumulated over its lifetime. This can be frighteningly unpleasant, some will then mistakenly blame 'fruit allergy' but the problem lies with the many prior years of bad eating habits. It is important therefore to be monitored by a health care professional if you choose to adopt the dietary practices described here.

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