Fruitarians!

There is no medical evidence that a fruitarian diet is a good idea. Tina Stoklosa, 39, and fiancé Simon Beun, 26, met in Bali and have existed on a diet of just fruit for more than three years.

They claim that only eating sweet fruits have kept them looking young, helped them lose weight and given them more energy.

Stoklosa is originally from Warsaw in Poland and adopted the fruit-only diet because she wanted to lose weight. Beun, from Izegem, Belgium, got in touch with her after discovering fruitarianism himself.

According to the couple, they eat between 2,000 and 4,000 calories of fruit each day and drink fresh coconut water. They also claim that the fibre from all the fruit cleans their teeth and they haven’t needed to use toothbrushes for two whole years.

Stoklosa said, “I have been overweight most on my adult life. Engaged in cycles of binge eating and dieting in turn only growing bigger and feeling more helpless with each year. Whilst researching a green smoothie recipe for the first time – I found a girl online that only ate fruit, and then I found a whole group of people online eating this way and calling themselves fruitarians. The vast majority of them looked incredibly healthy, and had so much energy they chose to be endurance athletes. I was intrigued, and decided to do a week long pre-Christmas weight loss cleanse on just fruit.”

“I felt amazing that week – light, optimistic, even high, I was walking 30cm above the ground – it felt like I was in love with everything. I decided to never go back to “normal” food. With little to no exercise I am able to eat as much as my boyfriend – a 26-year-old male – and not gain any weight. Perks of the fruitarian lifestyle? Certainly. Weight maintenance is just so easy on fruit. It cures depression, cures so many mental illnesses, relieves anxiety. Cures all chronic digestive issues. There are thousands of personal accounts of people who have cured cancer on this diet.”

Qualified medical professionals are united on this issue. Fruitarianism and raw food diets do not cure mental health problems and they do not cure cancer.

We all need protein, fat and carbohydrates to keep our bodies healthy. The NHS recommends that a well-balanced diet includes oily fish, pulses, dairy or dairy alternatives, starchy foods like rice, pasta and potatoes, and five portions of fruit and vegetables each day.

A fruitarian diet is extreme, restrictive and medically unsound. Late Apple CEO Steve Jobs famously spent some time on a fruitarian diet, but when Ashton Kutcher tried a bit of method acting to get himself truly into the Jobs mindset, he became very ill.

He told reporters at the Sundance Film Festival, “I ended up in the hospital two days before we started shooting the movie. I was doubled over in pain, and my pancreas levels were completely out of whack, which was terrifying.”

Trying fruitarianism isn’t recommended, and expect bloating, stomach pain, headaches, irritability, hunger and big blood sugar spikes due to a the fructose (fruit sugar) you’re consuming.

Sugar is very bad for your teeth, so probably don’t combine fruitarianism with not brushing your teeth for years. In fact, just don’t do it at all.

Metro