I read this in a 'Simplify Your Life in 5000 easy steps' book - where is suggested to take one day where you only eat fruit - so I decided to give it a try. I went to the local grocery store, and bought the fruit for the day, which was:1 cantaloupe
2 peaches
2 cups of cherries
4 plums
2 nectarines
Also had some extras at Mom and Dad's (pineapple, more cantaloupe, blueberries), but I won't really count those.
Although that works out to be 440% and 480% of my daily requirement of Vitamin A and Vitamin C (so I'm seeing better), it is at the bare minimum for fiber (26 grams as opposed to the recommended 25 to 30 grams) and a whopping 194 grams of sugars (70% of my recommended allowance of carbs).
Probably explains why I didn't have any 'explosions' in the bathroom similar to my detox diet of 1992, where I ate 7 carrots, an entire head of broccoli, 3 apples, a cup of lettuce, 3 cups of milk, and 3 cloves of garlic in one day. That last item is still memorable to those around me (I think I drank a bottle of scope that day to no avail). Anyway . . .
Doing the calculations, I realized that not all fruits are created equal (cantaloupe way more loaded with vitamins than the other fruits) and this macro nutrients (e.g. Sugars, Fat, etc) are a load of crap and unhelpful. Why you ask? Because I could basically get the exact same nutritional scores by downing just one little glass of water, 1 cup of sugar, 2 tablespoons of Metamucil, and a multi-vitamin - not appealing at all.
We'll see how it works next Sunday.
