A great way to tell if a diary is full of crap

Agreed, I stopped tracking sugar for that reason, I wish we could track fructose and refined sugar separately.
I eat a fruit salad everyday (banana, papaya, watermelon and melon yumm!), and with that only I'm over my sugar for the rest of the day.

Disagree. Body recognizes three things - sugars, protein, and fat. Sugar is sugar no mátter where it comes from fruit, carbs
or candy.

Show me a candy bar with the same nutritional content as a fresh piece of fruit down to the fiber, and I might agree with you.

Yea, my sugar is high almost everyday but ALL or most of my sugar comes from fruit. So I pretty much ignore it

Disagree. Body recognizes three things - sugars, protein, and fat. Sugar is sugar no mátter where it comes from fruit, carbs
or candy.

Show me a candy bar with the same nutritional content as a fresh piece of fruit down to the fiber, and I might agree with you.

This. Its true that your body doesn't know the difference between one sugar and another (at least not that they have proven), but the benefits of fruit (fiber, vitamins) outweigh the sugar, unless you have a medical condition that dictates otherwise. The same cannot be said for a Milky Way.

Disagree. Body recognizes three things - sugars, protein, and fat. Sugar is sugar no mátter where it comes from fruit, carbs
or candy.

I never worried much about fruit sugar at all. This is how it was explained to me, and makes great sense.

Sugar from let's say a Banana (I LOVE THESE = Around the sugar molecule are pieces of fiber and other nutrients. The sugar doesn't start to break down until it gets almost out of your intestine and then you pee/poop it out Nice right?

Processed Sugar from let's say white bread = The sugar starts to break down right in the saliva because there's nothing around it like the fiber/nutrients in fruit. It spikes your insulin and sends you energy for a while but then it makes you want more carbohydrates.

Hope this makes sense.

Disagree. Body recognizes three things - sugars, protein, and fat. Sugar is sugar no mátter where it comes from fruit, carbs
or candy.

That's wrong. Please tell me you didn't actually believe the commercials on TV that say that?

Disagree. Body recognizes three things - sugars, protein, and fat. Sugar is sugar no mátter where it comes from fruit, carbs
or candy.

This is true ..... AFTER digestion. But the way the body breaks things down differs GREATLY. (I am a food scientist).

Disagree. Body recognizes three things - sugars, protein, and fat. Sugar is sugar no mátter where it comes from fruit, carbs
or candy.

Actually not quite true. Fruits eaten whole have other chemicals in them that tell the body what to do with the sugars. Candy doesn't. So fruit doesn't have that negative impact on your blood sugar nearly as much as candy. And, as another poster said, it has TONS of nutrients that can't always be reproduced by your multivitamin. Phytochemicals.

Cox, C., Stanhope, K., et al. Consumption of Fructose-Sweetened Beverages for 10 Weeks Reduces Net Fat Oxidation and Energy Expenditure in Overweight/Obese Men and Women. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. September 2011. Published Ahead of Print.

Abstract

Background/Objectives:The results of short-term studies in humans suggest that, compared with glucose, acute consumption of fructose leads to increased postprandial energy expenditure and carbohydrate oxidation and decreased postprandial fat oxidation. The objective of this study was to determine the potential effects of increased fructose consumption compared with isocaloric glucose consumption on substrate utilization and energy expenditure following sustained consumption and under energy-balanced conditions.Subjects/Methods:As part of a parallel arm study, overweight/obese male and female subjects, 40-72 years, consumed glucose- or fructose-sweetened beverages providing 25% of energy requirements for 10 weeks. Energy expenditure and substrate utilization were assessed using indirect calorimetry at baseline and during the 10th week of intervention.Results:Consumption of fructose, but not glucose, led to significant decreases of net postprandial fat oxidation and significant increases of net postprandial carbohydrate oxidation (P<0.0001 for both). Resting energy expenditure (REE) decreased significantly from baseline values in subjects consuming fructose (P=0.031) but not in those consuming glucose.Conclusions:Increased consumption of fructose for 10 weeks leads to marked changes of postprandial substrate utilization including a significant reduction of net fat oxidation. In addition, we report that REE is reduced compared with baseline values in subjects consuming fructose-sweetened beverages for 10 weeks.European Journal of Clinical Nutrition advance online publication, 28 September 2011; doi:10.1038/ejcn.2011.159.





Consuming fructose-sweetened, not glucose-sweetened, beverages increases visceral adiposity and lipids and decreases insulin sensitivity in overweight/obese humans.
Stanhope KL, Schwarz JM, Keim NL, Griffen SC, Bremer AA, Graham JL, Hatcher B, Cox CL, Dyachenko A, Zhang W, McGahan JP, Seibert A, Krauss RM, Chiu S, Schaefer EJ, Ai M, Otokozawa S, Nakajima K, Nakano T, Beysen C, Hellerstein MK, Berglund L, Havel PJ.
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Department of Molecular Biosciences, UCD, Davis, California 95616, USA.
Abstract

Studies in animals have documented that, compared with glucose, dietary fructose induces dyslipidemia and insulin resistance. To assess the relative effects of these dietary sugars during sustained consumption in humans, overweight and obese subjects consumed glucose- or fructose-sweetened beverages providing 25% of energy requirements for 10 weeks. Although both groups exhibited similar weight gain during the intervention, visceral adipose volume was significantly increased only in subjects consuming fructose. Fasting plasma triglyceride concentrations increased by approximately 10% during 10 weeks of glucose consumption but not after fructose consumption. In contrast, hepatic de novo lipogenesis (DNL) and the 23-hour postprandial triglyceride AUC were increased specifically during fructose consumption. Similarly, markers of altered lipid metabolism and lipoprotein remodeling, including fasting apoB, LDL, small dense LDL, oxidized LDL, and postprandial concentrations of remnant-like particle-triglyceride and -cholesterol significantly increased during fructose but not glucose consumption. In addition, fasting plasma glucose and insulin levels increased and insulin sensitivity decreased in subjects consuming fructose but not in those consuming glucose. These data suggest that dietary fructose specifically increases DNL, promotes dyslipidemia, decreases insulin sensitivity, and increases visceral adiposity in overweight/obese adults.

Actually, fructose doesn't spike one's insulin the way other types of sugar do.

Exactly!

Some years ago, a woman gave me heck when she saw me eating watermelon. I'm diabetic, and she told me her husband, also a diabetic, had been told not to eat really sweet fruits like melon. So I asked my doctor. He said any fruit, IN MODERATION, is fine. It's like anything else. Overeat anything, and you will gain weight or see your blood glucose spike. I eat 2-3 servings of ruit every day. My glucose readings are excellent and my A1C blood tests (for diabetics) are well within the normal range.

Oh, and so far on MFP, I've lost 8 pounds in a month. I consider that to be pretty good.

And my inner-12-year-old just thinks, "If you eat lots of fruits and veggies, you won't be full of crap. High fiber content does a body good!"

agreed!

I basically ate only fruit for a week this summer in Europe - lost a bunch of weight, felt awesome, skin loved it. Calories matter more. An apple will fill you up way more than a piece of candy and have way fewer calories.

Cox, C., Stanhope, K., et al. Consumption of Fructose-Sweetened Beverages for 10 Weeks Reduces Net Fat Oxidation and Energy Expenditure in Overweight/Obese Men and Women. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition. September 2011. Published Ahead of Print.

UGH

"Although examples of pure fructose causing metabolicupset at high concentrations abound, especially when fed asthe sole carbohydrate source, there is no evidence that thecommon fructose-glucose sweeteners do the same. Thus, studies using extreme carbohydrate diets may be useful for probing biochemical pathways, but they have no relevance to the human diet or to current consumption"

http://www.ajcn.org/content/88/6/1716S.long

Thanks for the link, Ron. A good point.