Sadhguru: When we were growing up,
the variety of fruits that were there naturally,
for us to pluck and eat,
in every season there is some fruit.
I have been in jungles for two, three weeks
by myself without any outside support.
Always there was something to eat.
But today I’m telling you, today I walk
into the jungle, I will die within four, five days.
Because there’s nothing to pluck and eat.
So I want you to understand
the plight of all the other creatures.
The monkeys, they’re all invading cities
because there is really nothing to eat.
So this change has happened
in just a matter of thirty-five, forty years.
So fruit is an important part of our diet.
As far back as Megasthenes when he came,
and Hiuen Tsang when he came and
Kautilya when he wrote his treaties.
All three of them have mentioned how in the Indian diet, there is an unusually large segment of fruit.
It seems Hiuen Tsang somewhere says –
I have not read it myself – it seems he says that,
“Indian people are unusually intelligent
mainly because of their fruit consumption.
Their intellect is sharp because of that.”
And whether he said it or not,
I am saying it is hundred percent true.
This much we know, suppose
your friend is sick and in a hospital,
you go there with what?
Biryani, meen kulambu
(Referring to Tamil Nadu fish curry).
Participant: We go with fruit.
Sadhguru: Fruit.
So you know, it definitely works (Laughs).
So you have to get sick to eat the right thing.
But if you eat the right thing, maybe you will not get sick.
There is substantial studies in the world to clearly show, if thirty percent of our diet becomes fruit,
forty percent of the health care bills
in the world will come down.
So in India, right now
fruit consumption is at four percent,
and that too, this four percent
is calculated as per capita.
But it’s only in the elite segment
that people are eating fruit.
Down below, once a month also
he’s not eating a single fruit.
Children, through the mango season,
they go without eating a single mango,
because it’s  no more available  you have to go
and buy it, it costs twenty-five rupees.
A child will never get to eat it.
