Posted by 10derHeart on March 30, 2009, at 0:35:22
In reply to How can fruit be bad for you?, posted by garnet71 on March 29, 2009, at 23:36:32
Funny you should post this as my PCP (want to write PCM so badly - military-specific acronyms die hard! lol) and I just talked about this 2 weeks ago.
I can only think of 2 reasons: worry about weight gain and/or difficulty losing due to straight math >>> i.e., excess calories in, not enough exercise. It's so easy to consume a lot of daily calories with fruit as fructose delivers quite a few, but in a good way with other nutrients and fiber, too. The other concern in U.S. society for sure, would be diabetes, and the group who are pre-diabetic (me). If insulin resistance *might* be going on, or is, even slightly then my doc figures don't tempt fate with so much simple sugar, even in the healthy form of fruit, but try to increase the complex carbs instead, to stabilize BS and not stress out the insulin producing and delivery system so much.
(My fasting BS hovers around 104 - 115)
Other that those, fruit is wonderful, compared to the simple sugars we *could* be eating!
Do you think that's probably why you remember always reading they should be limited? Makes sense to me, but I hate doing it. I love most of them, fresh, frozen, etc. You made me crave a smoothie, but I am waaaay too lazy to get out the blender - if I used it, then I'd have to {gasp} - clean it!! lol.
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