John Mackey

It can only be fruit.

And their health got better, and almost every one of their biometrics improved.

Really?

Every one of them did improve.

But the funny thing, as I tell the story, is because they set a world record.

There's never been those large bowel movements in any controlled study before.

They think it's sugar.

Oh, I have friends that are strictly fruitarians.

Yeah, I'm sure.

And they're very thin.

Well, here's one way to think about it.

So a pound of vegetables, if you eat a pound of vegetables, you're getting between 90 and 100 calories on average.

If you eat a pound of fruit, you're getting about 300 calories.

So to get 2,000 calories of fruit, you'd have to eat seven or eight pounds of fruit a day.

That's a lot.

If all you ate was vegetables, you'd literally starve to death because you couldn't get enough calories.

But how many calories are in a tablespoon of oil?

120 calories.

That's the most calorie-dense food that we have.

If you show a plot for the obesity rate in America, it totally correlates with oil consumption.