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Yes, but is unlikely that you overdose your daily sugar intake with fruits whereas with a can of coke or a bag of ships you're already overdosing. Besides that,
by truth_sentinell 10y ago
Yes, but is unlikely that you overdose your daily sugar intake with fruits whereas with a can of coke or a bag of ships you're already overdosing. Besides that, fruits have nutrients and other elements that help fight the possible downsides of the fructuose.
- cheald 10y agoYou'd be really surprised - fruits contain a lot of sugar. Dried fruit and fruit juices (which many people think of as "healthy") can zip you past sugar quotas in a hurry. Honestly, I think it's probably just easiest to limit carb intake overall. Don't bother with the nonsense about subtracting fiber and all that, just set your carbohydrate goals for the day and stay under that. Sugar-heavy foods tend to get naturally eliminated in such a routine because the calorie-to-satiation ratio sucks.
- chillacy 10y agoJust adding on as to one of the reasons: we've bred fruits over thousands of years to be packed with sugar. http://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-fruits-and-vegetables-looked-like-before-we-domesticated-them http://www.sciencealert.com/here-s-what-fruits-and-vegetable...
- deepnotderp 10y agoStudies have been done on this, for some reason, whole fruit sugar is immune to the negative effects of sugar. The mechanism isn't entirely known though and doesn't apply to dry fruits.
- tomerico 10y agolink to studies?
- brandon272 10y agoCan you link to the studies?
- Geee 10y agohttp://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/making-the-case-for-eating-fruit/ http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/07/31/making-the-case-for... http://www.nmcd-journal.com/article/S0939-4753(08)00088-4/abstract?cc=y= http://www.nmcd-journal.com/article/S0939-4753(08)00088-4/ab... etc..
- EpicEng 10y ago>fruit juices Yes, these are deceptive. You're typically getting all of the sugar, but none of the fiber along with it that slows digestion (along with other benefits). Eating an apple and drinking apple juice are very different in terms of sugar content and the resultant insulin spike. That said, I doubt anyone has ever experienced negative health effects from eating too many apples.
- fpoling 10y agoI experienced "negative health effects" after eating in my childhood about 8 kilos of apples within 24 hours. My parents even considered to call an emergency.
- andrewem 10y agoWhat are the effects of eating that many apples in a day?
- EpicEng 10y agoWell, I mean... Yeah, you can drink too much water too, but within reason... Edit: wait, so you ate ~53 apples (googled average weight, came back at ~.15kg)? I call BS.
- fpoling 10y agoI was alone at home and there was a full bucket of tasty apples that our relatives brought from their garden. As a lazy teenager I decided to feed on those rather than prepare food. And consider that if one just eats 3 apples per hour, than in 16 hours that gives 48.
- theonemind 10y agoYou don't digest fiber for calories. Counting that the same as carbohydrates for most dietary purposes doesn't make any sense at all.
- cheald 10y agoI know, but given that people trying to lose weight generally have a problem overeating carbs, "giving yourself credit" for fiber carbs overcomplicates tracking and most people tend to underestimate digestable carbs taken in, so counting fiber against your quota can help correct for that error. Trying to "game" your carb intake by padding with fiber will work for the ultra-disciplined, but will probably just result in a false sense of intake levels for most people.
- Geee 10y agoNot necessarily. I've heard of are studies which show that high-carb diets without fructose are equally healthy to high-fat diets.