Bananas and fruit sugar in general?
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You only need to worry about the type of sugar if you've got a medical condition that requires you to limit it. For example, I have gout and need to watch my fructose intake. And the sugar in a banana is about half fructose. I still have bananas, just have to make sure I don't have too many. As long as you're not diabetic or gouty, I think you're cool.0
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My dad was told many years ago not to eat too many bananas. Something to do with potassium but I cant remember why.3
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My dad was told many years ago not to eat too many bananas. Something to do with potassium but I cant remember why.
This is not "science" but probably applies
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-342255172 -
Another pain in the butt, possibly the biggest pain the butt is sodium. I go over by a little 5 out of 7 days a week. Probably by 100 or 200. Once in a while on the weekend I'll go over by 1,000 but that is not the norm at all. What do you think about going over on sodium by a few hundred? Horrendous or ah no biggie?0
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Cavallaro65 wrote: »Another pain in the butt, possibly the biggest pain the butt is sodium. I go over by a little 5 out of 7 days a week. Probably by 100 or 200. Once in a while on the weekend I'll go over by 1,000 but that is not the norm at all. What do you think about going over on sodium by a few hundred? Horrendous or ah no biggie?
Unless you have high blood pressure, it doesn't matter. Sodium helps with electrolyte retention and balance. Between that and the bananas, good electrolytes!5 -
My dad was told many years ago not to eat too many bananas. Something to do with potassium but I cant remember why.
This is not "science" but probably applies
https://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-34225517
Well it was a medical professional that told him this, obviously not a very good one if that article is anything to go by. Im wondering if it was something to do with medication he was on.1 -
Cavallaro65 wrote: »Another pain in the butt, possibly the biggest pain the butt is sodium. I go over by a little 5 out of 7 days a week. Probably by 100 or 200. Once in a while on the weekend I'll go over by 1,000 but that is not the norm at all. What do you think about going over on sodium by a few hundred? Horrendous or ah no biggie?
Unless you have high blood pressure, it doesn't matter. Sodium helps with electrolyte retention and balance. Between that and the bananas, good electrolytes!
Excellent thanks, no high blood pressure here thank goodness. Good info, thanks.
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I don't worry about fruit sugar at all (and not even really about sugar in things like chocolate bars and alcohol, as long as I can fit them into my calories!).
In fact I have almost 300g of strawberries to snack on this afternoon with me. I've been doing this for a couple of weeks (English strawberry season is the best!) and have lost weight.3 -
This is crazy I can see now but many times I will just have 1/2 banana because the old Weight Watchers plan used to be to just eat 1/2 because they were to fattening to eat a whole. Sheesh - I will now eat a whole all the time.3
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jrh_this_better_work wrote: »kshama2001 wrote: »I swapped out Sugar and Sodium for Fiber and Iron, as those are more useful for me to track.
Just did this exact swap myself. Although, now I can see that my iron intake is very low. Guess I'll start working on that!
Make sure you're using good entries. For user-created entries they may not have bothered with iron. I've seen some user-created entries that just had calories and no other values.
Unfortunately, the "verified" green check marks in the MFP database are used for both user-created entries and admin-created entries that MFP pulled from the USDA database. To find admin entries for whole foods, I get the syntax from the USDA database and paste that into MFP.
Note: any MFP entry that includes "USDA" was user entered.
For packaged foods, I verify the label against what I find in MFP. (Alas, you cannot just scan with your phone and assume what you get is correct.)3 -
Unless you have medical issues, eat what you want and don’t worry about it but am really surprised anyone would want three bananas a day. I’d like three slices of banana bread 🤣2
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1 was using another app to track calories when I began but sadly it was dominated by a group of low carb/keto peeps who kept advising that sugar was the devil and the only fruits you should be eating were berries (and those we label vegetables that are actually fruit). Eating was for nutrition only, not something to be enjoyed. I started to feel guilty about eating bananas and wholegrains and ....... It really was not a healthy mindset at all and I am sure I would have development disordered eating if I stayed there.
I then found this app and things are so much more balanced. I started eating more fruit and grains and guess what? I began to feel better, physically and emotionally. The extra carbs gave me more energy. Not only that but I continued to lose weight at exactly the same rate. I stopped seeing food as good or bad, healthy or unhealthy. I realised it was all about moderation and that food and eating should be enjoyed. The take home from this ramble .... if you enjoy eating bananas and they fit within your calories goals then eat bananas guilt free.9 -
Do what makes you feel good and works for YOU!
I used to eat a lot of bananas, I stopped about a month or two ago. I did change my foods and pay attention to sugar because of several health reasons. Anxiety, fungal infections, digestive and imbalance. I feel like a new person with elimination of sugar- however this is recent. Higher carbs worked for a long time,.not now.
Listen to your body, do what makes you happy!4 -
Anyone who thinks eating large amounts of bananas is unhealthy should look up 'Freelee'.
She makes me conclude that eating tonnes and tonnes of bananas bad for your health, but it might make you a mad as a box of hammers.8 -
Luckily, very few people eat the amount of bananas Freelee recommends.
There's a Canadian dietitian (Abbey Sharp) who has made some videos commenting on Freelee's what I ate today videos. Kind of mean but also very funny.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyE_i0yZbBY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2__6XKHHVE 5 -
Unless you have medical issues, eat what you want and don’t worry about it but am really surprised anyone would want three bananas a day. I’d like three slices of banana bread 🤣
I probably started off eating three bananas a day when I was in Costa Rico, but I found this a little constipating, so cut back. I definitely ate at least three mangos a day, every day. OMG, the fruit was SO good there!
I also had rice and beans twice a day, so a very high carb diet, but still managed to lose a size without even trying, because my overall calories were less than at home.3 -
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Luckily, very few people eat the amount of bananas Freelee recommends.
There's a Canadian dietitian (Abbey Sharp) who has made some videos commenting on Freelee's what I ate today videos. Kind of mean but also very funny.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyE_i0yZbBYhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E2__6XKHHVE
Hysterical! Thanks for sharing!3 -
I had 85 grams of sugar today from fruit. It was wonderful.4
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