Why Fruit May Be Holding You Back

theres nothing wrong with fruits if eaten in right amounts. if you eat 100 oranges a day then don't be surprised to get fat. always the key is MODERATION

I'm totally with you - although whenever I reach a plateau, I try to switch both my diet and my exercise up a bit.

It’s always best to eat fruits alone and on an empty stomach.

Fruits don’t take a lot of time to digest. Normally, they leave your stomach within 30 minutes and move along into your small intestine.

When you eat fruits with proteins or starches, which take several hours to digest, the fruit is held up in your stomach and begins to ferment.

Fermentation in the stomach not only causes poor assimilation of nutrients from the other foods you eat, but worse, the process of fermentation itself creates a sugar feast for pathogenic yeast like candida in your gut to feed off of.

Worrying about small-scale crap like this is a futile and often dangerous endeavor for the majority.

If you're eating in a calorie deficit, doing some training, and consuming appropriate macronutrients, fat oxidation will exceed fat storage, period.

In short, trying to micromanage the acute processes that happen after you eat that white rice or piece of toast or *GASP* A BANANA, is just plain mental *kitten* for lack of a better way to put it.

Long term balance of fat oxidation and fat storage will determine whether or not you gain or lose fat over time and this is all that matters. Focus on your total intake, get off your *kitten*, and WIN.


Lastly:
http://weightology.net/weightologyweekly/?page_id=319


Lastly #2: Eat your fruit. It's good for you.

Fruit is okay. Cheeseburgers are okay.

Also, boobs.[/b]

Hello everyone,

That's right fruit may be the reason that you can't get past that plateau. Simply put, fruit is comprised primarily of fructose, a simple sugar, fiber, and vitamins. The issue with fruit is not the amount of calories that we get from it, but the quality of them. The sugars (fructose) found in fruits convert almost immediately into simple sugar within the body. This translates into elevated levels of insulin within the body which many of us know puts our body into fat storing mode rather than the fat burning we are looking for.

Things get even worse when fruit is separated from its fiber or is breached (separated from its protective skin covering more than 5 minutes before consumption). Guess why? Digestion! That's right before the food even hits your tongue the molecules in the fruit are bombarded by oxygen, which begins the decomposition/digestion process. Although refrigeration slows the process of oxidation a very little (due to lack of air flow, not temperature), by the time you consume those pre-peeled apple slices most of the fructose in the apples has converted to a simpler sugar molecule than fructose- sucrose! That's right, essentially table sugar. Juices are even worse!

Another issue is eating fruit in isolation. Carbohydrates should rarely, if ever be eaten in isolation due to how fast they convert into sugar. When you choose to eat fruit always do so accompanied by some fat and/or protein source such, nuts or a protein shake are great examples.

In closing, I am not saying that fruit consumption is bad, quite the contrary. Fruit is nature’s once and a while snack. It should be treated as the dessert of health foods and should be eaten as often as you consumed deserts before you decided to become knowledgeable and disciplined with your eating habits.

My advice: Stick to wild berries such as blue berries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, etc. They are all eaten with the skin on and are generally low in sugar. They are also loaded with anti-oxidants and vitamins. Cut back on fruit and see what happens!

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According to Body Ecology:

It’s always best to eat fruits alone and on an empty stomach.

Fruits don’t take a lot of time to digest. Normally, they leave your stomach within 30 minutes and move along into your small intestine.

When you eat fruits with proteins or starches, which take several hours to digest, the fruit is held up in your stomach and begins to ferment.

Fermentation in the stomach not only causes poor assimilation of nutrients from the other foods you eat, but worse, the process of fermentation itself creates a sugar feast for pathogenic yeast like candida in your gut to feed off of.

Fruits like lemons, limes, or unsweetened juices from cranberries, pomegranates, noni, acai, and black currants are very low in sugar, and therefore are safe to eat because they don’t encourage yeast overgrowth.Other fruits must be strictly avoided because they are too sweet and feed the pathogenic yeast like candida that thrive on sugar, crowding out the beneficial microflora in your inner ecosystem.

Other low sugar fruits are kiwi, grapefruit, pineapple, and berries.

http://bodyecology.com/articles/principle-food-combining-pt2-fruitful-advice.php

^^ this. We should all be aware of how long specific foods take to digest... not just for the nutrient content but for the gastric issues that eating some foods together cause. Google Food Combination Chart and you will find many articles on this subject. Here's one site: http://www.alderbrooke.com/chart.php.

I just started subbing more fruit snacks (whole fruit) for quite a few of the processed (bar) snacks I was eating and I dropped 2x my expected weight this week (3 pounds!) ... I'm not cutting down on fruit.

most of the fructose in the apples has converted to a simpler sugar molecule than fructose- sucrose! That's right, essentially table sugar.

theres nothing wrong with fruits if eaten in right amounts. if you eat 100 oranges a day then don't be surprised to get fat. always the key is MODERATION

My advice: Stick to wild berries such as blue berries, strawberries, raspberries, blackberries, etc. They are all eaten with the skin on and are generally low in sugar. They are also loaded with anti-oxidants and vitamins. Cut back on fruit and see what happens!


So your thought on how to store them, they mold fast.

Fruit salad.
Yummy, yummy.