Fruit Makes you Fat

Oh, the good ole Media. Taking a sliver of truth, and turning it into wild untrue proclomations.

Oh man, no wonder I didn't lose 45 pounds in the last 6 months.

Oh, wait, I did.

Fruit does not make you fat.

TOO MUCH of anything makes you fat.

Fruit junkie right here and 81 pounds down so far! :bigsmile:

^^^ :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:

No food makes you fat but eating too much of almost any food does. I've lost a lot of weight and I haven't given up anything I like; I'm just careful of how much I eat.

I'm with them.

FFS its in the Daily Mail, no one takes anything they print seriously.

Hmm, how did I get up to 220 pounds then? I hardly ever ate fruit! Couldn't have been the soda, pizza, chips and chocolate. Sheesh, what a load of dung. Yes, fruit has sugar, but eating an apple is NOT the same as eating several tablespoons of sugar. For one, there is the added fiber, vitamins and nutrients in the apple. For two, your body actually needs some sugar to be healthy (ditto on fat, in case anyone didn't know that), and the sugar that naturally occurs in food is not the same as the sugar in your candy bar.

Common sense people! For the, very few, people who have a medical reason to avoid sugar, by all means limit or avoid fruit. For the rest of us, EVERYTHING in moderation, healthy or not.

Hmm, how did I get up to 220 pounds then? I hardly ever ate fruit! Couldn't have been the soda, pizza, chips and chocolate. Sheesh, what a load of dung. Yes, fruit has sugar, but eating an apple is NOT the same as eating several tablespoons of sugar. For one, there is the added fiber, vitamins and nutrients in the apple. For two, your body actually needs some sugar to be healthy (ditto on fat, in case anyone didn't know that), and the sugar that naturally occurs in food is not the same as the sugar in your candy bar.

Common sense people! For the, very few, people who have a medical reason to avoid sugar, by all means limit or avoid fruit. For the rest of us, EVERYTHING in moderation, healthy or not.

For normal individuals, eating fruit is fine and beneficial. But eating sugar and/or high fructose corn syrup can put one in danger of developing obesity and the metabolic derangement that follows. The fructose in one can of soda is equivalent to the amount of fructose in a dozen oranges. No one sits down to a meal of 12 oranges but someone could easily drink a couple of sodas per day and set off the weight gain (fat gain) that precipitates metabolic problems.

Research shows that it isn't the fruit that is the problem---it's the fructose (fruit sugar). Most obese people have a toxic reaction to fructose---in them it seems to turn on a "switch" that creates fatty liver, high blood pressure, internal and subcutaneous fat, insulin resistance, diabetes, etc. Since table sugar is 50% fructose, it should be avoided by obese individuals. They should also avoid all processed food which can often contain a surprisingly large amount of high fructose corn syrup. This fat gain in response to eating fructose appears to be a normal mammalian response. Black bears gorge on wild blueberries at the end of summer and put on a LOT of fat in the process. But then, that is what keeps them alive during the winter hibernation. Since we do not hibernate, the body fat continues to pile on and it makes people sick and sluggish.

What is worse is that the research also shows that many obese individuals have an ability to turn blood glucose into fructose using the "polyol mechanism" and from there, the fructose does its damage. Obese individuals typically have high blood uric acid levels (anything above 3.5 mg/ml for men or 4.5 mg/ml for women) that seems to be involved with the "toxic fructose syndrome" of obesity. One way to measure whether you have this toxic reaction to fructose is to have your uric acid level checked. Anything above 3,5 for men or 4,5 for women is now considered to be an indicator that this "fat switch" has been turned on in you. While 5.5 mg/ml is about "average", it should be noted that the "average" person over 40 is either "overfat" or even obese. This correlates well with the fact that uric acid levels tend to climb with age, and that body fat levels climb even if weight does not (muscles shrink and that muscle weight is replaced with fat). Some people have uric acid levels of about 10 or 11 mg/ml. At that level, they will also have other health effects like gout, gouty arthritis, kidney damage and possibly even kidney failure, if not treated. Ironically, a classic, non-drug treatment for high uric acid levels is to drink black cherry juice---there is an enzyme in cherries that inhibits the production of uric acid. BUT black cherry juice is very high in fructose! Sour cherry juice has similar benefits but without the high level of fructose. Only 2 oz, per day is required to help lower blood uric acid levels. But a lower carb--low purine diet is a better plan for lowering uric acid over the longer term. The lowering of body fat and the down-regulation of uric acid will, in time, turn off the "fat switch".

I hate reading this after I JUST ate a banana & was feeling sort of proud of myself for it -__-

I had a peanut butter banana sandwich for lunch. It's all good as long as it keeps your stats in line!