Going over my sugar limit with my fruit intake

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  • KimWW
    KimWW Posts: 301 Member
    My eating habits are (excuse me, were) so bad that I cannot let the sugar in fruit bother me. If I don't eat fruit, I will eat chocolate, or cake, etc. The sugar in fruit is a much better choice.
  • kmhenry84
    kmhenry84 Posts: 96 Member
    I eat more than one fruit each day and I'm still losing. But I do balance it with veggies. I've just set my goal to have 5 servings of any combo of fruits and veggies per day. I don't make it every day, but I sure try.

    I have to admit that I'm not sure what a lot of the foods in your diary are, but you sure didn't seem to have too many. I have more than that. As stated earlier, fruit gives you the fiber you need, and helps to kick back sweet cravings, and its natural, it's not a processed sugar.
  • Rocbola
    Rocbola Posts: 1,998 Member
    Well if it makes you feel any better, we share >98% of the same DNA with chimpanzees....and they are frugivores, or "fruit eaters". So I don't really see fruit sugar as a big problem unless you are diabetic. I go over my sugar allowance by 10-15 grams, but it is all fruit sugar and not cane or other processed sugar. So I wouldn't worry about it unless you are not losing weight or you are over your calorie allowance.

    From ipzoosites.org:

    The chimpanzee diet consists mainly of fruit (48%), but they also eat leaves and leaf buds (25%), and around 27% of their diet consists of a mixture of seeds, blossoms, stems, pith, bark and resin. Chimpanzees are highly specialized frugivores and preferentially eat fruit, even when it is not abundant. They supplement their mainly vegetarian diet with insects, birds, birds' eggs, honey, soil, and small to medium-sized mammals

    In fact, according to some, we are born fruit eaters!:

    http://www.scribd.com/doc/17111888/Science-Verifies-That-Humans-Are-Frugivores
    Love it!!!!
  • orangePillow
    orangePillow Posts: 1
    I would love to look like a Chimpanzee.
  • ahamm002
    ahamm002 Posts: 1,690 Member
    It would be pretty stupid to avoid fruits for health reasons unless you're a professional body builder or model looking for a 4% body fat. Fruits have been associated with leaness, increased life-span, and multiple other health benefits. Mammals have been eating fruits for millions and millions of years. Fruits actually played a big part in the evolution of mammals.
  • MamaDuckN2MamaWow
    MamaDuckN2MamaWow Posts: 31 Member
    From what I have been reading in my research about sugar intake, a 50g. daily intake is healthy for a woman. Just continue to choose natural sugar sources, aka fruit, instead of processed sugar, and you shouldn't have any issues.

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