Are fruits bad for weight loss?
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Tacklewasher wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »Fruit is actually better for you than refined sugar since most include essential vitamins /minerals /fiber /etc. Just like everything else though, moderation is key.
Most foods I eat with added sugar also contain vitamins/minerals/fiber, etc. What foods only contain added sugar and nothing else, aside from actually eating plain sugar?
Werthers?
Had a Life Saver this morning.
Halloween is less than a week away so I'm sure there are lots of examples there.
I mean, there's some candy corn in the office kitchen, but I didn't think people actually ate that stuff.
I am very much looking forward to November 1st 1/2 price Halloween candy though!
I like candy corn. It's why I'm not buying any this Halloween.
Candy corn
Rockets (they are called something else in the US)
Caramels
Now why was I 330 lbs again?????
So you're the one!
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Tacklewasher wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »Fruit is actually better for you than refined sugar since most include essential vitamins /minerals /fiber /etc. Just like everything else though, moderation is key.
Most foods I eat with added sugar also contain vitamins/minerals/fiber, etc. What foods only contain added sugar and nothing else, aside from actually eating plain sugar?
Werthers?
Had a Life Saver this morning.
Halloween is less than a week away so I'm sure there are lots of examples there.
I mean, there's some candy corn in the office kitchen, but I didn't think people actually ate that stuff.
I am very much looking forward to November 1st 1/2 price Halloween candy though!
I like candy corn. It's why I'm not buying any this Halloween.
Candy corn
Rockets (they are called something else in the US)
Caramels
Now why was I 330 lbs again?????
So you're the one!
He's not the only one. I had a coach nicknamed "Coach Mellocreme" because she ate so much candy corn & its kin (the mellocreme candy pumpkins, Christmas bells, etc.)
Also: Big Ten champion rower. Frequent marathon and triathlon top finisher. Stellar student and later researcher in her field, biomedical engineering.
Seriously, sugar's not the devil. And fruits are actively good for you.
I ate 2-3 servings daily while losing 1/3 of my body weight in less than a year. (It didn't make me an elite athlete or researcher, though. Sigh. Maybe I should eat more candy corn.)1 -
Tacklewasher wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »Fruit is actually better for you than refined sugar since most include essential vitamins /minerals /fiber /etc. Just like everything else though, moderation is key.
Most foods I eat with added sugar also contain vitamins/minerals/fiber, etc. What foods only contain added sugar and nothing else, aside from actually eating plain sugar?
Werthers?
Had a Life Saver this morning.
Halloween is less than a week away so I'm sure there are lots of examples there.
I mean, there's some candy corn in the office kitchen, but I didn't think people actually ate that stuff.
I am very much looking forward to November 1st 1/2 price Halloween candy though!
I like candy corn. It's why I'm not buying any this Halloween.
Candy corn
Rockets (they are called something else in the US)
Caramels
Now why was I 330 lbs again?????
LOL, I can relate.
I don't really like candy corn, however, have you ever tried mixing candy corn, dry roasted peanuts, and plain M&M's (harvest mix colors of course). So good!
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Sugar IS sugar. But sugar isn't evil, so eat fruit if you want to.0
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Tacklewasher wrote: »Tacklewasher wrote: »Fruit is actually better for you than refined sugar since most include essential vitamins /minerals /fiber /etc. Just like everything else though, moderation is key.
Most foods I eat with added sugar also contain vitamins/minerals/fiber, etc. What foods only contain added sugar and nothing else, aside from actually eating plain sugar?
Werthers?
Had a Life Saver this morning.
Halloween is less than a week away so I'm sure there are lots of examples there.
I mean, there's some candy corn in the office kitchen, but I didn't think people actually ate that stuff.
I am very much looking forward to November 1st 1/2 price Halloween candy though!
I like candy corn. It's why I'm not buying any this Halloween.
Candy corn
Rockets (they are called something else in the US)
Caramels
Now why was I 330 lbs again?????
In the US, rockets are called Smarties. Talk about your bait and switch1 -
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Fruits are high in basic sugars like fructose that are easy to digest. That isn't bad at all, but it's true, and to those who think easily digested sugars are the dietary devil then sure, for them it would make sense to call them "bad".
That said I feel people who need to classify foods as being "good" or "bad" are on a path to some messed up and overly complicated eating patterns. Food is fuel, use accordingly.
Will a banana hurt you? No. Will 10 bananas a day hurt you, well...no if you have room in your caloric carbs but for like 2000 calories just from bananas...I'd say most people probably dont and you'd like lend up gaining weight doing that.
Pretty much impossible to eat enough of a fibrous veg to do that, which is why fruit is "scary" to some.1
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