Rex Harrill <[log in to unmask]>: >Yet another testimonial to the dangers of eating industrial-quality >unripened fruit... Tom: Your assertion that the dental probelms were caused by "industrial- quality" fruit is an assumption by you, and it is FALSE. The dental problems occurred while I was living in Florida, and eating local, fresh, natural/organic fruit that I picked and/or grew myself. That is, I was living under optimal cobditions (for a fruitarian), and eating very high quality (and very delicious fruit - far better than "supermarket grade"). Yet I still had serious dental problems anyway, as do many fruitarians. The real world is too complex to be reduced to a brix meter... :-) Tom Billings