The Fruit Cure by Jacqueline Alnes

Thank you @Nikki Griffiths for letting me be part of this tour and reviwing this book. The Fruit Cure is a memoir of Jacqueline Alines who was a runner but started to get really poorly with neurological symptoms. I found this a fascinating story of what happened to her, and it must have been awful when the doctors didn't know what was wrong with Jacqueline because that's going to make you feel worse if they have no clue either. The fruit cure is a powerful read that will grip you and I did feel many emotions while reading about Jacqueline illness and then depression, what she went through is awful. I found it to be at a good pace and opens your eyes to the health system and Jacqueline Illness. This is very knowledgeable and interesting read. I am glad that I have read this book. 4 stars. Blurb The Fruit Cure: The Story of Extreme Wellness Turned Sour, is by debut author Jacqueline Alnes. It's a memoir of sorts, telling of her intense story of wellness and recovery, and the dangerous rabbithole of fad diets she descended into. When she was in college in the US, Jacqueline was a professional runner. Running was a passion and a lifestyle for her. So when, one day, she inexplicably started to feel her body working against her, her world began to unravel. She would blackout and experience periods of complete memory loss. She would collapse on the track and struggle with speech. Hospital visit after hospital visit, specialist after specialist, Jacqueline was left without a diagnosis, feeling like it was all in her mind and she was failing herself. So when she stumbled across the website 30 bananas a day, a community led by cult-like leaders calling themselves Freelee and Durianrider who preached ultimate health and body purity if you followed their fruit-only based diet, she was just vulnerable enough and just desperate enough to get sucked in. She started regulating her diet to the extreme, hoping for a miracle cure. But of course none came. In The Fruit Cure, Jacqueline chronicles her health journey, and interweaves her story with that of a wider, more insidious one: the cult-like world of fruitanism and other extreme diets and lifestyles that promise miracle cures to the desperate. Delving into the history of the fruitarian diet which has been around for hundreds of years, the book is an illuminating and alarming read, and one ultimately about hope and taking back control of your life.