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>One of the most respected philosophers of his time, Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900) suffered from a variety of health problems. In an attempt to relieve his terrible headaches, stop his persistent vomiting, and improve his painful digestion, the thinker used a number of medicines and tried different diets.

>The one thing he would not give up was fruit, which doctors suspected to be the cause of his digestive discomforts. The problem was not the type of food Nietzsche ate, but the sheer quantity of fruit he ate. In addition to buying fruit at local markets, the philosopher is known to have received baskets full of fruit from friends in other countries. After breakfasting on a steak, the philosopher sometimes consumed almost three kilos of fruit in a single day.