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 In the arena of food consumption - and more specifically, that which is considered edible - there are many variables which insist that some forms of commonly accepted terminology lead people to ignorantly assume a whole host of in-edibles to be inexplicably part of the optimal human diet.

 This is especially true among a class of flowering plants which produce what are called drupes, of which many fall into a category more commonly known as fruits. However, this is a very broad terminology which tends to ignore their true function and can erroneously insinuate that they are a natural part of the human diet.

 Some of the varieties of drupe bearing plants are coffee, jujube, mango, olive, most palms (including date, coconut and oil palms), pistachio, and all members of the genus Prunus, including almonds (of which the mesocarp is quite leathery), damson, cherry, nectarine, peach, plum and, due to its gestation activities, the walnut. The defining characteristic of any drupe is that the hardened pit is derived from the ovary wall of the flower. (reference: Wikipedia.com)

 During self-experimentation with various consumables, over a ten year period, many empirical findings - amid varied biological effects - derived from the consumption of almonds, consistently presented as less than desirable. This naturally called into question the many claims of their health benefits, which after careful analysis, appear rather lacking in veracity. Furthermore, the nutrients they possess are difficult to assimilate and the pro-to-con aspect ratio equates a negative factor in the solution. In layman’s terms, the energy expended by gathering, masticating, digesting and defecating almonds does not reproduce enough energy or cell growth to warrant their use.

 First and foremost, the word “fruit” is merely a basic, and largely vague, term which is typically used to define plant growths consisting of an exocarp (skin) and mesocarp (flesh) - or “meat” - surrounding an endocarp (a hardened shell or pit) with a seed inside.

These plants produce such growths for the express purpose of propagation throughout whatever geographical area they inhabit, by attracting herbivores or omnivores to the “meat”, that is then consumed by whatever naturally occurring animate life-forms have evolved within the region; be they mammals, reptiles, insects or bacteria.

The exocarp, or mesocarp - and most commonly, both - are then digested by the consumer leaving the hardened endocarp intact to be either deposited back onto the Earth’s soil by defecation, or simply left behind after eating away the “meat”, then allowing the inner seed to germinate and grow into another plant.

 What is significant to anthropogenically-considerate applications, is the fact that only a very select few of these “fruits” contain endocarps which possess the ability to attract the consumption of homo sapiens, while at the same time protect their function. A function which demands that they be swallowed whole and survive the human digestive system intact to then be deposited in feces, unharmed, into the soil. Furthermore, the mastication (chewing) of the meat inside of the endocarps of these drupes - what many people call “nuts” - upsets the natural balance of nature by grinding up the actual seed inside, thus excreting damaged, and essentially useless, “waste” onto the planet.

 While it can be said that this “waste” still contains much of the vitamins and minerals inherently deposited into the seed during the plant’s vegetation cycle, this degraded state prohibits it from reproducing as expected. Moreover, the fact that much of the seed is never completely broken-down into the necessary putrefied state so critical to human assimilation, clearly indicates that they are less than optimal fuel in the daily, dietary regimen.

 Furthermore these facts lend a great deal of credence to the supposition that much of the alleged “allergies” a vast amount of people experience when eating various forms of nuts, are merely naturally occurring, and quite necessary, defense mechanisms activated by the body when in a malnourished state, or acquired genetic deficiency. Due to the fact that this deficient state allows undigested material to enter what are then excessively permeable cells within much of the body, creating an array of undesirable effects, such as - but not limited to - skin inflammations, nausea, headaches, cardiovascular stress, and in severe cases, even death.

 These findings then begin to expose the fact that a great deal of unsustainable and destructive behaviors commonly ignored, or accepted as plausible, within modern society are based in, and thus created by, an erroneous assumption that humans can eat whatever they please, or whatever appears palatable and will not cause instant death. This analogy is supported by the fact that humans eat mushrooms despite the fact that they all, every one of them, contain the same poison, the ones that can kill merely contain much more of it.

 The destructive nature of humanity’s chosen daily diet is becoming increasingly apparent in various forms of destabilization and dysfunction, created by extended “shelf-life” and tenacious distribution schemes which deliver inhospitable foods - for both humans and nature - allowing dislocated and diffuse societies to proliferate through large, centrally allocated governance, and corporations. While, at the same time, slowly perverting natural growing cycles, destabilizing critical methods of pollination (such as bees), perverting necessary concentrations and activities of microorganisms in the atmosphere, and so on.

 The Earth’s various societies then begin to possess uncommonly innate abilities to create mechanisms which enable them to traverse the planet in relative stasis, outside of their natural habitat, and thus engage various geographical areas and their inhabitants as obtruded forms which would not otherwise sustain them long enough to be prolific. This includes acts of war and aggression, or merely divesting - and atypically convoluted - engagements which create disease, famine and strife among both populations.

 The saying “when in Rome, do as the Romans” clearly exposes the intrinsic design function parameters necessarily bred into humanity which influence multilateral propensities of adaptation which may initially appear - or merely be assumed - to be reserved to the present feasibilities, but upon further analysis, exhibit a vast array of critical evolutionary requirements for proper progression of the species, along with exponentially corrosive and eviscerating circumstances created by refusing to, for whatever reason, properly adhere to them.

 More simply put, electing to exist within an environment which is opposed to the structured confines of nature will eventually, without exception, manifest an entirely inhospitable world because it upsets the balance of power in nearly every way imaginable.

 In light of the facts exposed, and analogies proposed, within the above argument, one may want to take into consideration that nature may very well be suggesting that eating seeds produced by fruits of the drupe variety, such as Almonds, is just plain “nuts”.