By Carrie Dennett April 16 In recent months, my dietitian colleagues and I have been encountering more and more people making claims like “fruit is bad for you” or “fruit is toxic.” “What is going ON?” one of them posted on a dietitian Internet mailing list. What’s going on is that the current crop of fad diets, such as paleo, keto, carnivore and pegan — have convinced a lot of people that fruit is a dietary no-no.
Berries are the only fruit allowed on the pegan diet, the subtext being that other fruit is a ticket to high blood sugar; but this is a fairly liberal stance compared with other fad diets du jour. For example, many followers of the keto diet and the trending carnivore diet call fruit toxic because of its sugar. Now, that’s what I consider disordered eating.It’s true that whole fruit contains sugar, but it is natural sugar.
Some of my older patients have adopted the blueberries-only rule because of preliminary research on the MIND diet — a hybrid of the Mediterranean diet and the DASH diet. This research found an association between eating blueberries and a lower risk of Alzheimer’s disease — likely because blueberries are rich in a type of phytochemical called anthocyanins.
What about juice? Juice has been vilified or glorified . Although drinking juice every time we’re thirsty isn’t a good idea, 100 percent fruit juice in moderation — an 8-ounce glass per day — adds nutritional value to the diet without adding excessive sugar. Orange juice, in particular, does not appear to affect blood sugar, possibly because of the soluble fiber and pectin that makes it into the glass, as well as the phytochemical hesperidin.
Ditching Fruit Because of Its Sugar Content? That’s Bananas
Yes, it does. It elevates blood glucose too high. Invest in meter and strips - check yourself. You will know for sure
My doctor told me sugar in grapes would give me Diabetes. I love grapes, she told me not to eat that many.
Natural sugar good. Refined sugar bad.
CALL EM' SWEETNERS mukuru kwa njenga is right-with.
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Anything in moderation is okay.
Duh.
DrKristieLeong your thoughts on the article
Everything is bad for you...till it's good for you...till it's bad for you...
Seems to me humans have eaten fruit for a very long time...& we’re still here
Tell that to a diabetic 🙄
what is bad is having no MAGA in your diet
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