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chrisfuentes2005
chrisfuentes2005 Posts: 295 Member
edited November 2024 in Food and Nutrition
Is it ok to go over sugar from eating a lot of fruits

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  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    Depends what your goals and issues are. Possibly which fruits too. Is 60 grams or whatever of sugar from fruits not enough ?
  • chrisfuentes2005
    chrisfuentes2005 Posts: 295 Member
    yarwell wrote: »
    Depends what your goals and issues are. Possibly which fruits too. Is 60 grams or whatever of sugar from fruits not enough ?

    I am just eating healthy and maintain weight i am a picky eater because i have a taste bud thing. So i try to eat fruits a lot
  • juggernaut1974
    juggernaut1974 Posts: 6,212 Member
    edited October 2015
    Yes, unless you have a medical reason to watch your sugar intake (and, of course, assuming you're meeting your daily caloric and macro goals)
  • Need2Exerc1se
    Need2Exerc1se Posts: 13,575 Member
    chrisfuentes2005 wrote: »
    Is it ok to go over sugar from eating a lot of fruits

    It's impossible to know the answer to this question without knowing more about your overall diet and health. Fruit is good. Too much of anything can be bad.
  • _John_
    _John_ Posts: 8,646 Member
    fruit is a natural whole food that one can feasibly overeat, so yes, if it puts you to where you can't get the rest of the micronutrients needed from your diet, then yeah, you can eat too much.

    "too much" is going vary widely from a 1200 cal total with weightloss goal, and 3000 cal weight gain diet (hypothetical numbers bruh's).
  • Yi5hedr3
    Yi5hedr3 Posts: 2,696 Member
    Too much fructose bad, so answer is yes.
  • janejellyroll
    janejellyroll Posts: 25,763 Member
    Yi5hedr3 wrote: »
    Too much fructose bad, so answer is yes.

    Is going over MFP's relatively low sugar goal going to give someone "too much" fructose?
  • sinbadfxdl
    sinbadfxdl Posts: 103 Member
    There are ways to cheat. Load up before you run a marathon.
  • Lleldiranne
    Lleldiranne Posts: 5,516 Member
    I don't even track sugar. I track carbohydrates (which includes sugar) along with the other macros, and of course calories.

    I agree that "too much" is a relative term, even for fruit. But if you are eating an overall well-balanced diet and aren't exceeding your calorie needs, I wouldn't worry.
  • Faithful_Chosen
    Faithful_Chosen Posts: 401 Member
    I average 160 grams of sugar a day, most from fruit and dairy. I have no medical issues to stop me from doing so. I stay under my caloric goal. Happy me. Does this sound like you? Then go for it! I have stopped tracking sugar long ago. Sugar is not the enemy, unless you have some medical issue that forces you to keep it low.
  • yarwell
    yarwell Posts: 10,477 Member
    I wonder how many people develop a medical condition through consuming an excess of sugar. Is it a case of not needing to worry about it until the hyperinsulinaemia is diagnosed or symptomatic ?
  • chrisfuentes2005
    chrisfuentes2005 Posts: 295 Member
    Thanks
  • Lleldiranne
    Lleldiranne Posts: 5,516 Member
    yarwell wrote: »
    I wonder how many people develop a medical condition through consuming an excess of sugar. Is it a case of not needing to worry about it until the hyperinsulinaemia is diagnosed or symptomatic ?

    Consumption of sugar is only one small risk factor in the development of T2 diabetes. Family history is much larger, and there are others (for example, being overweight is considered a risk factor).

    If I have no family history of any type of diabetes, am not overweight (or am losing weight), and all bloodwork, including fasting sugar, non fasting sugar, and A1C (that's regularly checked at least past age 50 or something), is good, I'm not going to worry about consuming more sugar than this database suggests. YMMV
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