Fruit salad bad???

Need2Exerc1se

Serah87 wrote: »

Need2Exerc1se wrote: »

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Emilia777 wrote: »

Oooh I see, whether it’s per meal or per day does matter. Sorries.

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fitfatz wrote: »

For breakfast I've had 2 scrambled eggs, a tomato and some fruit salad made from a banana, a pear, some melon and an apple. Now the Nutrition section is showing that I've gone over my cholesterol, sugar and carbohydrate allowance for the day. Surely my breakfast wasn't unhealthy? Should I avoid eating that much fruit because of the sugar content? Any advice would be appreciated!

If you are diabetic, then you cannot eat that many fruit in a single meal. If you are not diabetic, you are fine.
The 2 scrambled eggs are considered fine regarding cholesterol, but not for every day. While eggs are no longer considered "evil" by the medical community, current recommendation is on average 1 egg per day.

I see absolutely no information saying you should limit egg consumption to one a day, in fact three a day is perfectly fine and consistently raises HDL and LDL remains unchanged. There really isn't much in the way of evidence either way when it comes to eating more than three eggs a day.

There you go: http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/eggs/

I see your point now regarding fruit and meal vs day. Thanks for clarifying. However, on the topic of eggs, the one study cited in that article as a reason to eat no more than one egg per day concludes:

Although egg consumption up to 6 times per week was not associated with incident HF, egg consumption of > or = 7 per week was associated with an increased risk of HF. Compared with subjects who reported egg consumption of < 1 per week, hazard ratios (95% confidence intervals) for HF were 1.28 (1.02 to 1.61) and 1.64 (1.08 to 2.49) for egg consumption of 1 per day and > or = 2 per day, respectively

Association is not causation. I’ll happily keep eating more than 6 eggs per week, myself, but to each their own. I really eggs.

6 eggs per week? I can sometimes get 6 in per day! Lol. I must be in trouble.

I probable eat about 12 to 20 eggs a week. Ohh just to add I don't have high cholesterol.

Many people that develop heart disease don't have high cholesterol.

I no longer have heart disease eating that many eggs.

Cool!

helenarriaza

Unless your fruit salad comes from a can, you are fine.

Lol I love eggs, I'm so screwed.

auddii

Fruit salad is often bad because there is usually fruit I don't like touching (and tainting) the fruit I do like.

Proud fruit segregationist!

fitfatz

Thanks for the advice everyone I won't worry about the carbs and. Sugar so much, but make sure I eat enough protein and vitamins.

ASKyle

Eat all the fruit!

Honestly MFP's low sugar goal kind of irritates me. Why would it discourage people from eating fruit in place of some other high calorie/packaged/etc snack?