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538 days ago 0 additions From: LENA Languages: Nutrition  Tags: radiation irradiation food supply nutrients 
healthalternatives2000.com — Article by J.D. Decuypere Irradiation Destroys Nutrition From a nutritional aspect, irradiation of food destroys essential vitamins and minerals, including: vitamin A, thiamine, B2, B3, B6, B12, folic acid, C, E, and K. Amino acid and essential polyunsaturated fatty acid content may also be affected. A 20 to 80 percent loss of any of these is not uncommon. It also kills friendly bacteria and enzymes, effectively rendering the food "dead" and therefore useless to the body. In the words of Donald R Louria Ph.D., Chairman of the Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health for the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, "The supporters of food irradiation treat the potential damage to the nutrient value of food as if it were unimportant or nonexistent. That is a major mistake. If the nutrient value of food is reduced, then the argument for food irradiation prolonging shelf life is undercut. Surely, it would not make sense to prolong shelf life if the foods are nutritionally defective." Dr. Louria has a point: even if testing showed that irradiated food was 'safe', it has already been shown to lack nutritional value. One good thing is that in the United States, food growers and manufacturers must mention on the label that the food is irradiated, so avoidance of irradiated foods is possible if one shops carefully. However, if you eat out at a restaurant you will not know whether you are eating irradiated food, as they are not obliged to reveal that information. It is clear that food irradiation has not been adequately tested on humans, and the negative implications are apparent: potential nuclear accidents resulting in radiation leaks, more nuclear waste to dispose of, mutating bacteria, carcinogenic substances and depleted nutritional value of the food irradiated.

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  1. To create a truthful and versatile informational source about fruitarianism.
  2. To inspire people to eat enough of fresh fruit with solid reasons.
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The subject of this site is fruitarianism - a quest for optimal basic food, presumably fruit, and for the best ethical and maintainable way to live on this planet.



The main thing that unite fruitarians of all kinds is that they consider various fresh ripe edible fruits to be such a good food, that they make them to a main element of their diet, usually from 75% of total caloric intake and up. Normally they complement fruits by seeds, but there are many ways to be a fruitarian - for health, environmental and ethical reasons.



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