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The fruit cure : the story of extreme wellness turned sour / Jacqueline Alnes.

by Alnes, Jacqueline, 1991-

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Melville House, 2023, c2022.

Alnes, Jacqueline, 1991-

Authors -- United States -- Biography.

Women runners -- Biography.

Eating disorders -- Patients -- Biography.

Raw foods -- Health aspects.

Fruit in human nutrition -- Health aspects.

9781685890759 (hc.)

307 p. ; 24 cm.

Jacqueline Alnes is a writer, runner, and assistant professor of creative writing. Her work has appeared in publications like The New York Times, Guernica, Jezebel, Iron Horse Literary Review, Longreads, Ploughshares, Tin House, Electric Literature and The Boston Globe. She has a PhD in creative writing from Oklahoma State University and an MFA in nonfiction from Portland State University. She teaches at West Chester University in Pennsylvania.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-307).

"Jacqueline Alnes was a Division One runner during her freshman year of college, but her season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough, escalated to Alnes collapsing on the track and experiencing months of unremembered episodes that stole her ability to walk and speak. Two years after quitting the team to heal, Alnes's symptoms returned with a severity that left her using a wheelchair for a period of months. She was admitted to an epilepsy center but doctors could not figure out the root cause of her symptoms. Desperate for answers, she turned to an online community centered around a strict, all-fruit diet which its adherents claimed could cure conditions like depression, eating disorders, addiction, anxiety, and vision problems. Alnes wasn't alone. From all over the world, people in pain, doubted or dismissed by medical authorities, or seeking a miracle diet that would relieve them of white, Western expectations placed on their figures, turned to fruit in hopes of releasing themselves from the perceived failings of their bodies.(...)"--From publisher.

Creative nonfiction.

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