Dr Robert Lockhart- 70 Years Young On A Fruitarian Diet

I have had the pleasure to meet a lot of interesting and wonderful people in my time as a raw foodist.

Attending fruitarian raw vegan events around the globe has brought me in touch with many of the leaders in the raw food movement.

One man who has had a big impact on me is my friend Dr Robert Lockhart.

Dr Lockhart is a pioneer of the Woodstock Fruit Festival and has been on a raw food diet for nearly 30 years.  He is in great shape for a man of 70 and teaches not only about the benefits of the raw food diet but also about corrective exercises that can be used to help limit the chance of being a victim of the common back problems that people get as they age.

In his view, in the modern world our body spends too much time in the 3 common postures: sitting, standing and lying down.  In our primitive environment in which we would have had to climb trees for food and safety, our body would have been inverted or upside down more often and we would have had to hang from our arms more.

Dr Lockhart teaches how to handstand correctly and his daily exercise regime involves walking on his hands for the length of a football pitch.  Handstands and the use of the inversion table put the body upside down and temporarily reverse the direction in which gravity is acting on the spine.

Dr Lockhart talks about other topics that are seen as controversial such as dry fasting (a period of no eating and no drinking) and speaks about practising dry fasting when travelling on planes to lessen the impact of jet lag.

In person, Robert is a humble and interesting man who gets along with just about everyone.  He seems still keen to learn and does not try to come across as a know-it-all.

Originally born in Scotland, Robert now spends his time between his home of North Queensland Australia and his property in the Philippines.  He was the first person to export Durian from Australia and is an expert on fruit tree growing.

Seeing the health and fitness that Robert has maintained into his 70s was one of the big inspirations for me to try to stay on the raw food path for the longterm.  I hope to be in such good shape at his age.

I recorded this short interview with him and I hope you will enjoy it:

This Link Takes You To The Video Interview With Dr Lockhart

Yours in fruitful abundace,

Ronnie