Worst Fruits in Calories to avoid

hello well done on your weight loss im new to all this.

I don't think anyone ever gained weight because they ate a bag of potatoes or a whole bunch of bananas. Everything in moderation is the way to go. However, I have switched out the baked potato for steamed vegetables when eating out because of the sour cream & butter that I normally put on it. I do still have a banana with my yogurt for lunch occasionaly.

Can anyone tell me which fruits & vegetable should be avoided and which should be consumed most often?
I understand bananas and potatoes are the worst...any others?
What are the best???

Some fruits have more fructose than others so you need to be careful of how much you eat of those fruits... keeping your sugar to 10 percent of your calories will solve that problem.

Fructose is NOT metabolized as glucose is and is converted to fat!




Joanne Moniz

ANY sugar over consumed will turn to fat.:yawn: While fructose has the propensity to metabolize to fat IF the liver can't hold it, dosage is always going to be the culprit. If the liver is depleted of glycogen, then fructose will be converted to glucose like any other sugar.
Again, over consumption is the issue.

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That's right overconsumption is the KEY word. And overconsumption is more than 10 percent of your calories in sugar. "Everything in moderation" means nothing if we do not know what moderation is. We are no longer living in a world with healthy food all around us...

I always have bananas. I usually have 1 a day because I find that their sweet, filling taste gives me more energy in the morning or before studying. And they don't even have too many calories. Potatoes are not even fruits, I don't have them often because it's like eating bread or pasta to me, I can't have all of them at once. But paired with other veggies (or meat, if you like it) they make a good side dish. Also, you don't need to season them with much, just a spoon of olive oil, salt, pepper and other spices if you want. I try not to avoid any kind of fruit but to be honest I prefer to have different kinds of fruit throughout the day: some are richer in sugars, some in fibers, some are mostly water, but at least I get all of those nutrients, and also vitamins and so on!

Can anyone tell me which fruits & vegetable should be avoided and which should be consumed most often?
I understand bananas and potatoes are the worst...any others?
What are the best???

You can find a list on line; if you cannot, I can send it to you. Generally fruit with small pits have the least amount of fructose. Again, it is the fructose in the sugar that is DANGEROUS when there is too much. If we eat foods (usually fake foods) we consume too much fructose and then we add the fruit, it takes it over the top. Eat fruit for your sugar, not other foods with sugar and you will be fine as long as you don't overdo on fruit.

DANGEROUS?! Like Zombie apocolypse dangerous?

Assuming no medical conditions, allergies, intolerances, etc. any fruit or vegetable can be part of a healthy diet as long as it fits in your calories and macros.

THIS.

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Can anyone tell me which fruits & vegetable should be avoided and which should be consumed most often?
I understand bananas and potatoes are the worst...any others?
What are the best???

Some fruits have more fructose than others so you need to be careful of how much you eat of those fruits... keeping your sugar to 10 percent of your calories will solve that problem.

Fructose is NOT metabolized as glucose is and is converted to fat!

Joanne Moniz

:huh:
RIIIIIGHT.

She is speaking the truth. From WebMD, which the majority of you all seem to like around here..............

http://www.webmd.com/heart/metabolic-syndrome/news/20090421/fresh-take-on-fructose-vs-glucose

From the very first sentence..........

New research shows big differences in how the sugars fructose and glucose are metabolized by the body.

Here is a Pubmed study also

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2189777

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition?

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/4/895.full

Can anyone tell me which fruits & vegetable should be avoided and which should be consumed most often?
I understand bananas and potatoes are the worst...any others?
What are the best???

Some fruits have more fructose than others so you need to be careful of how much you eat of those fruits... keeping your sugar to 10 percent of your calories will solve that problem.

Fructose is NOT metabolized as glucose is and is converted to fat!

Joanne Moniz

:huh:
RIIIIIGHT.

She is speaking the truth. From WebMD, which the majority of you all seem to like around here..............

http://www.webmd.com/heart/metabolic-syndrome/news/20090421/fresh-take-on-fructose-vs-glucose

From the very first sentence..........

New research shows big differences in how the sugars fructose and glucose are metabolized by the body.

Here is a Pubmed study also

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2189777

American Journal of Clinical Nutrition?

http://ajcn.nutrition.org/content/86/4/895.full

The WebMD link is a news blurb with no source referenced or named so it's hard to evaluate.

The studies you linked to: one is 24 y ears old which concludes that fructose isn't better than anything else, and the second isn't a study but a review and doesn't really say much about what we're talking about.

Here's a good literature review by Alan Aragon on the subject, which emphasizes context and discusses a number of actual studies:
http://www.alanaragonblog.com/2010/01/29/the-bitter-truth-about-fructose-alarmism/

"Currently in the literature is a liberal camp reporting that fructose intakes up to 90 grams per day have a beneficial effect on HbA(1c), and no significant effects are seen for fasting triacylglycerol or body weight with intakes up to 100 grams per day in adults [15]. The conservative camp suggests that the safe range is much less than this; roughly 25-40 grams per day [19]. Figuring that both sides are biased, the middle figure between the two camps is roughly 50 grams for active adults.

Although the tendency is to get hung up on the trivial minutia of an exact gram amount, it’s not possible to issue a universal number because individual circumstances vary widely (this is a concept that baffles anti-fructose absolutists)."

"Saying fructose is levulose is like saying that margarine is the same as butter. Refined fructose lacks amino acids, vitamins, minerals, pectin, and fiber. As a result, the body doesn’t recognize refined fructose. Levulose, on the other hand, is [fructose] naturally occurring in fruits, and is not isolated but bound to other naturally occurring sugars. Unlike man-made fructose, levulose contains enzymes, vitamins, minerals, fiber, and fruit pectin. Refined fructose is processed in the body through the liver, rather than digested in the intestine. Levulose is digested in the intestine."

-- source: http://www.naturalnews.com/024892_fructose_food_health.html

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