Energy usage

Below you see a table with some numbers. The purpose of these numbers is to show that fruitarians very easy can manage their daily intake of nutrition. I have assumed that fruitarians use their energy intake up to 75% and that people who eat a "common" diet use it up to 25%. I have no scientific evidence that these figures are correct, but from what many people have experienced, I think they are good average numbers. The energy usage is very individual...

In the "Recommended" column are numbers for Recommended Daily Intake (RDI), provided by the "Swedish National Board for Health and Welfare", for men and women. I don't approve of these numbers, but we have to have something to make a comparison.

There is two "Usage" columns, one for a common diet and one for a fruitarian diet. In the Common diet columns I have just multiplied the RDI with 25% to see how much energy is really needed (according to Socialstyrelsen). Supposing these are the true values, fruitarians need the amount stated in the Fruitarian columns (because they use the energy more sufficiently).

Now this is the old system of calculating the energy need, which is based on an idea that we have to supply our body explicitly with every mineral in sufficient amounts. There exists, however, something called "Biological Transmutation" (BT) (Read this article). What happens is that the human body transmutes one mineral into another, which means that you can't say that you must eat 600 mg of Calcium each day, because Potassium transmutes into Calcium. This article describes some of the experiments that have been made with BT.

You can download this table as a Microsoft Excel file (version 2.1 so everybody can use it), in which you can specify your own numbers.
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