what about fruit?

[Mr.X]

Fructose resupplies the liver with glycogen first, if the liver is full, then via the pentose phosphate pathway, all additional fructose goes to fat.
In conclusion, too much fruit=bad, but moderate amounts are always welcome in a healthy diet.

Mr.X

 

[chillin408]

From my understanding, the amount of fructose in fruits is low, and the some fruits that are considered "high" have only approx 50% of the carbs coming from fructose. This could be wrong, please correct it if it is, I don't have a sugar composition chart and don't know where to find a good one?

If that is true, then someone would have to eat 100g of carbs from high fructose fruits to get 50 grams of fructose, but chances are they will be eating a variety of fruits, including those with a low fructose content, so then they would have to eat at around 150 grams of carbs from fruits to get 50 grams of fructose. I don't know what the exact amount of fructose per day is allowable before it becomes sat. fat but many people say around 50, so I"m just using 50 as an example. If its more like around 60 or 65, then you could eat alot more.

This is why I don't think fruit juice is good, because then you could easily be eating too much fructose, but when you eat real fruits, its much harder.

 

[cozmokramer]

take a look at the suzanne sommers diet... its just like
atkins but allows you to have fruit and fruit alone for breakfast... no carbs at all the rest of the day

 

[Sassy69]

Another note about fruit is that if you remove it from your diet for a long period of time, you are also removing the good things (enzymes, etc.) that come from it. There more variety in your diet, the more likely you are to get the things that your body needs to run. For ex, if you follow a restricted high protein diet (e.g. contest prep) for months at a time, it may come back and bite you in the butt - its good to cycle off and eat "normal" every now and then! The secret w/ fruit is just eat it before noon.

 

[Onenameleft]

Sassy makes a good point. I think we are all guilty to some degree of getting so caught up in counting calories/carbs/protein/fat that we forget about vitamins, minerals, enzymes, etc. that we need and can only come from certain fruit sources. Nutrition tends to become a secondary consideration after muscle/fat impact from our diet.

 

[chillin408]

What is the purpose of eating enzymes?? I our body makes them. Vitamins and Minerals can be supplemented, but I'm not saying not to eat fruits and veggies. The amount of vitamins and minerals in most fruits and veggies is nothing comparble the amounts in a supplement. This is from looking at the labels of the ones I eat, sometimes a specfic vitamin, like A or C is high amounts, also maybe a few others.

 

[dngu047]

What is the purpose of eating enzymes?? I our body makes them.

There's absolutely no point in eating enzymes...enzymes are just proteins and the body breaks them down into amino acids before they can do anything useful

As for fruits and vegetables you can actually supplement the vitamins and minerals in a pill and pill form is probably just as good as food form...BUT in the pill you miss out on thousands of phytochemicals etc which probably prevent cancer and do all sorts of nifty things

 

[Natural One]

to avoid too much fructose, avoid dried fruit, fruit juice, honey & soda w/ high fructose corn syrup.

 

[Natural One]

i agree that you don't need fruit for vitamins and minerals. You can find all the vit a, b, c , d, e, f, g you need in non sugary land and sea vegetables.