When I buy fruit I sometimes buy fruit in different stages of ripeness. E.g. I buy some yellow bananas but also some green bananas. This way they won’t be ripe all at once. This is a good strategy to reduce the frequency of having to do groceries.

I also use smoothies made from frozen fruit. Frozen fruit is very flexible in when they are consumed and thus are easy too manage. They too can help reduce the amount of times one needs to do groceries. In addition, fruit that is going bad (like bananas too soft to be enjoyable but that still taste fine otherwise) are often still good for a smoothy. Smoothies may not be the most optimal for health, but I think it’s pretty close.

In the summer I also eat a lot of watermelons. We often buy 3 or 4 large watermelons at a time and then they last for about 5 to 7 days. Since we eat the watermelons from ripest to least ripe, only one watermelon needs to be able to last about 5 or 7 days in storage. The chance of that happening is pretty big. And otherwise it’ll probably still be good for a smoothy.

I also sometimes use pasteurised fruit juices. That’s probably pretty sub-optimal, but it’s tasty and easy to manage.

But we do often chug around a lot of fruit and we still buy fruit pretty frequently. So I see where you are coming from. In fact, I used to have a lot of trouble managing my own fruit supply as well when I just started out. And I still have to throw away fruit sometimes.

Now that I’m commenting anyway, I’d like to mention that I agree to some extend with eating what feels right to eat. I used to every day feel acid in my throat which was really painful. Even though bananas used to make me feel the acid, becoming a fruitarian solved this problem. Now I get a good feeling that’s kind of the opposite of the burning acid whenever I eat fruit (even bananas). I now trust almost anything that gives me that feeling, since it’s normally only fruit which does that. That’s why I sometimes drink pasteurised juices or take smoothies from frozen fruit. It makes me feel as if I ate fruit. Many sweet junkfood tastes like fruit but now makes me sick and thus it does not feel like fruit. It’s as if my body finally realises it’s just a bad imitation.

Listening to the body can be great but only when no addictions are involved. Think of a smoker, smoking his cigarette feels great to him but it’s not healthy. It’s just that his senses are sick as well. Though to someone with a healthy body smoking is gross and feels bad. So even with smoking it’s good to listen to the body as long as the body is clean enough to not be addicted.

I might try fruitarian again. I tried once before, but I had serious problems with getting enough fruit to eat that didn’t pile up uselessly as I waited a week for it to ripen, and then watching them never ripen well and just start growing mold. Or buying 50 apples and throwing them all away because they turn out to be too soft for my tastes because they weren’t fresh enough or whatever. I need about 3000 calories a day and never figured out a way to do this with fruit without having to do expensive and time consuming grocery shopping every day, which I’m not willing to do.

I’ve heard that we digest food better when we’re in a calmer state. But it takes a few hours for food to leave the stomach, and a couple days on average for food to pass all the way through. So to me it seems like being in a better state long-term would affect things more than in the few minutes it takes to eat.
Anyway hopefully he gets his vision back after eating better!
As much as I’m a believer in strenuous workouts, I think light exercise can be better for people with eating disorders. Burning lots of calories makes them noticeably more hungry, and the feeling of bodily stress and tiredness ramps up their cravings too. Also there’s a tendency for people to think that with a hard workout they “earned” a big meal that they don’t really need.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-49551337

Also coincidentally I heard a few days ago a radio programme about Mindful Eating with a radio deejay chatting to a Dr. Rangan Chatterjee who has his own website if anyone again cares to look into it further. Anyway there was nothing in this chat specifically relating to vision, nevertheless as it concerns mind and eating I mention it here. Chatterjee’s most memorable comment to me was that he had a 52 year old male patient who presented with diabetes and he (the patient) was customarily given dietary and nutritional strategies to follow but to no avail. So Chatterjee give his patient instructions on how to eat mindfully , along with meditation and some deep breathing and within 3 weeks the man’s blood sugar came down.

There are a great number of books about Mindful Eating out there, some are very inexpensive and others are a little pricey. I have recently acquired one by a Dr Susan Albers for just a few pounds and it seems very good. I think she likes the idea of eating in silence without the TV or radio on so we can pay more attention to our food and eat more slowly and enjoy it more.

Mindfulness has been called Secular Buddhism since it is originally a Buddhist meditative practice which has been stripped of its religious origins and repackaged for the West as psychotherapy. In its modified form it is popular in the West and it seems to have found its place in medical circles and there are no shortage of books, courses, videos etc on mindfulness aimed at the general public.

Anyway I don’t want to preach but it can’t hurt to eat well if we can, and relax while we eat. Relaxation is a word with a deeper significance than many of us might be aware of.

I agree with David, besides Vacheslav seems to be going on the assumption, like the ophthalmologists and nutritional supplements providers, that vision problems (in healthy eyes that are otherwise normal) have nothing to do with the mind whatever and any solution must come from without, not within. People who follow the Bates Method beg to differ.

Since Vacheslav is unable to elaborate at all, I’m going to guess it’s a wild idea he came up with. I’ve never heard of such a thing, and without any information at all I don’t recommend anyone follow the suggestion to drink it and do experiments on yourself with dangerous chemicals.

Hmm. I’ve had tremendous success avoiding colds and flu ingesting food grade hydrogen peroxide at the first signs of an infection (100% success in the last two years). So, I’m open to seeing if there are any studies showing its ability to widen arteries. BTW: handling and ingesting hydrogen peroxide can be poisonous and cause burns. Please DO NOT ingest unless you use food grade hydrogen peroxide and take the time to learn the necessary precautions for handling, diluting, labeling, and proper storage.

1. I had plenty of calcium in my bones but had a high content in my blood because I was over supplementing
2. I was deficit of magnesium (which is a natural antagonist of calcium)
3. My parathyroid was not putting out enough hormone (PTH), which triggers vitamin-D to convert to an active form and move the calcium from my blood into my bones
4. I had inadequate stores of vitamin-D, so the calcium in my blood was leeching out of my bones

Against her objections, I got my doc to agree to run the following tests:
Magnesium
PTH
Vitamin-D

The magnesium was normal, the PTH was high, and the vitamin-D was low. In essence, my body detected a high blood calcium and was constantly releasing PTH to convert vitamin-D, so the calcium would move from my blood into my bones. However, there was not enough vitamin-D to convert. As a result, I continued to have a high blood calcium and my parathyroid continued to pump out PTH (hyper-parathyroidism).

The blood test information was critically helpful in having me reduce my calcium supplementation while increasing supplementation of vitamin-D3. If left unchecked (as my doctor would have done), then the end result would have been brittle bones and a burned out parathyroid gland. Again, both blood tests and supplementation allowed me to identify and correct what would have resulted in a life altering change to my health. I don’t blame my doc, with regulations the way they are, most docs are busy trying to save lives and keep up with paperwork than to keep up on the science of human health. Information is power, and with the right knowledge, both blood tests and supplements can be a life saver.

BTW, it’s worth noting that I am a 58 year old man who has no medical problems, takes no medications, has a a full dark head of hair, I have a blood pressure of 115/68, and I bike 6 miles 3 days a week and row 3000 meters on an erg with high impact strength training all other days except Sunday – while barely being winded. I took responsibility to learn about and be responsible for my own health in my late twenties. As a result, I physically aged about 10 years in the last thirty years. I look like I’m in my mid-thirties and can out-run, out-fight, and out-sex the average man in his thirties.

exactly! …..

Can you elaborate on peroxide? I’ve used it to clean wounds and dissolve ear wax. Are you talking about drinking it?

Both boil down to a magic pill, whether in synthetic or natural form. It’s the belief that an outside force has to come in to make things right.

Another thought: the orthodox ophthalmologists and the supplements guys both assume that vision problems are essentially to do with the eyes themselves, leaving no room for mind issues. Whether it’s glasses or bilberry tablets,the underlying assumption behind them is essentially the same, even if the approach is different.

From what I’ve read I think bilberries got conflated many years later with the carrots and pilots story. Bilberries are known as huckleberries in the US. I ate tons of huckleberries that naturally grew around my house as a kid, all summer long, every year. The first mouthful each year was super tart, and then they tasted better as I got used to them again. They’re not good enough that you would want to buy them in a store, which along with being very small is probably why it’s not worth it for anyone to farm them over other berries, but fresh and ripe right off the bush they’re fine.