The Fruit Cure: The story of extreme wellness turned sour
Written by Jacqueline Alnes
Narrated by Jacqueline Alnes
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A university athlete, Jacqueline Alnes’s season was cut short by a series of inexplicable neurological symptoms. What started with a cough escalated to a collapse on the track and months of episodes that stole her ability to walk and even speak. Two years after quitting the team to heal, Alnes’s symptoms returned with a severity that led to months in a wheelchair but left doctors mystified.
Desperate for answers, she turned to an online community centred around two wellness gurus – Queensland’s ‘Durianrider’ and his then-girlfriend ‘Freelee the Banana Girl’ – who claimed that a strict, all-fruit diet could cure conditions like depression, 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, turned to fruit in hope of a cure.
In The Fruit Cure, Jacqueline Alnes takes readers on a spellbinding and unforgettable journey through the fringe world of fruitarianism. A powerful personal narrative, it is also a damning inquiry into the sinister strains of wellness culture that prey on people’s vulnerabilities through schemes, scams and diets masquerading as hope.
Jacqueline Alnes
Jacqueline Alnes is a writer, runner, and assistant professor of creative writing. Her work has been published in the New York Times, Guernica, Jezebel, Longreads, Ploughshares, Tin House, Electric Literature, The Boston Globe, and elsewhere. In 2017, her essay ‘I Remember, I Re-re-remember’ was selected as runner-up in the Black Warrior Review Nonfiction Contest by Hanif Abdurraqib, who described Alnes’s writing as ‘a complex narrative about the fragility of the body, and the ways in which it can fail us, or dare us to remain triumphant in spite of its failing.’ She served as nonfiction editor of The Portland Review, holds a PhD in creative writing from Oklahoma State University, and an MFA in nonfiction from Portland State University. Find her at: www.jacquelinealnes.com
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