Fruit...

Not true. All you have to do is eat fewer calories than you burn; it doesn't matter (barring a few specific health conditions) what they are.

Who is telling you this?

Many fruits are high in sugar, and if that's an issue for you, then it's a good idea to reduce the amount of fruit you have, or to choose lower sugar kinds. But you don't need to stop eating it altogether.

shay77223 wrote: »

I have thinking about this a bit myself, but I finally decided that a serving of fruit is still way healthier than an alternative snack like, say, a bag of Cheetos. Eat the fruit, enjoy it, and revel in knowing that you made a healthy choice:)

So true and you feel healthier too

dalissaa wrote: »

Can someone help me out here... I've been told multiple times that in order to lose weight I shouldn't eat fruit... what do you guys think

Go ahead and eat the fruit just don't juice it and throw away the pulp berries are good too and lower in carbs

I eat fruit every day. I am losing weight. Whoever told you that is full of..... well obviously not fruit.

dalissaa wrote: »

Can someone help me out here... I've been told multiple times that in order to lose weight I shouldn't eat fruit... what do you guys think

That is nonsense. The only thing needed to lose weight is reduce calorie consumption to less than what your body burns. The actual item of food doesn't matter.

Fruit has vitamins, antioxidants, fiber, etc. It's healthy and you'll feel well. Eat the fruit.

Mmm, I love fruit, eat it every day and have lost 50lbs...and counting.

I eat two or three servings of fruit a day and am steadily losing .5 to 1 pound a week. Nothing wrong with fruit whatsoever. Fits much better into my calorie goals than cake or pastries.

Sugars and carbs are evil. Or at least that's usually the reason behind why people say to avoid fruit.

It's good for you. Eat fruit.

Ignore those people and work them into your daily calories.

AlabasterVerve wrote: »

There's no evidence that fruit is particularly fattening and there are traditional diets that include a relatively high amount of sugar (The Hadza: honey, berries and baobab fruit) and they, of course, don't have any of the diseases associated with the Western Diet.

Whole foods are good and as far as I can tell aren't implicated in any disease regardless of their carb or sugar content. Skip the fruit rollups, the fruit juice and the froot loops but eat the fruit if you enjoy it, IMO.

http://www.theonion.com/article/fda-recommends-at-least-3-servings-of-foods-with-w-36699



SILVER SPRING, MD—In an effort to get Americans to at least go through the motions of a healthier diet, the Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it is now recommending individuals consume three servings of foods every day that simply include the word “fruit” on the box.

“Though we have in the past advised eating a minimum of three pieces of actual fruit per day, it is now acceptable to eat any food labeled with the word ‘fruit,’ including variations such as ‘fruity,’ ‘fruit-a-licious,’ or ‘fruit-blasted,’” FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg told reporters, also noting that sweetened cereal or gummies shaped like fruit are entirely permissible under the agency’s new guidelines. “If it smells somewhat like fruit, or even if there’s a cartoon strawberry or orange on the wrapper, that’s sufficient at this point.”

The FDA’s new recommendations are expected to be followed up by other guidelines under which anything successfully chewed and swallowed can now be considered a vegetable.

Kalikel wrote: »

AlabasterVerve wrote: »

There's no evidence that fruit is particularly fattening and there are traditional diets that include a relatively high amount of sugar (The Hadza: honey, berries and baobab fruit) and they, of course, don't have any of the diseases associated with the Western Diet.

Whole foods are good and as far as I can tell aren't implicated in any disease regardless of their carb or sugar content. Skip the fruit rollups, the fruit juice and the froot loops but eat the fruit if you enjoy it, IMO.

http://www.theonion.com/article/fda-recommends-at-least-3-servings-of-foods-with-w-36699



SILVER SPRING, MD—In an effort to get Americans to at least go through the motions of a healthier diet, the Food and Drug Administration announced Wednesday that it is now recommending individuals consume three servings of foods every day that simply include the word “fruit” on the box.

“Though we have in the past advised eating a minimum of three pieces of actual fruit per day, it is now acceptable to eat any food labeled with the word ‘fruit,’ including variations such as ‘fruity,’ ‘fruit-a-licious,’ or ‘fruit-blasted,’” FDA commissioner Margaret Hamburg told reporters, also noting that sweetened cereal or gummies shaped like fruit are entirely permissible under the agency’s new guidelines. “If it smells somewhat like fruit, or even if there’s a cartoon strawberry or orange on the wrapper, that’s sufficient at this point.”

The FDA’s new recommendations are expected to be followed up by other guidelines under which anything successfully chewed and swallowed can now be considered a vegetable.

ROFL
Seems legit

dalissaa wrote: »

Can someone help me out here... I've been told multiple times that in order to lose weight I shouldn't eat fruit... what do you guys think

I think I'd stop paying heed to anything diet related from people who say that. How could that even possibly be true? Are they seriously suggesting that no one has ever lost weight while eating fruit?