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Fruits are designed as attractions for critters to spread their seeds. Thus they contain sugar (fructose, not glucose) and a bit of fiber to hold it together.

Fruit is a fun snack, especially with pears. Pears are perfect with cheese.

If you want to lose weight, fruit is something to avoid. Fructose goes directly to fat storage.

Posted by Dr. Joy Bliss in Medical at 16:14 | Comments (9) | Trackbacks (0)

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Ohhh!! The horror!!! Those kids are scarred for life. Send them money.

#1 Don (Link) on 2021-10-27 16:21 (Reply)

Whoops, wrong article.

#2 Don (Link) on 2021-10-27 16:24 (Reply)

There about as many calories in an apple as there is in a cookie. You might snack on an apple or two. But how many cookies can you eat?

#3 Zachriel on 2021-10-27 16:43 (Reply)

Most fruits also have glucose. This is because the sugar content of a ripe fruit is the result of the enzymatic breakdown of starch during ripening, The cleavage results in a keto-aldo isomerization, which gives both fructose (keto sugar) and glucose (aldo sugar). And the fiber (hemicellulose) helps hold together the plant cell wall by cross-linking cellulose microfibrals. Which ultimately holds the fruit together.

#4 brad on 2021-10-27 17:30 (Reply)

Correct. And fructose is very easily converted into glucose in the body.

#4.1 JTW on 2021-10-27 22:41 (Reply)

whether or not fructose or any thing you eat gets stored as fat depends upon your genetics and other factors like how much 'work' your body is doing. IF your body is likely to convert fructose to fat storage THEN it is likely to convert virtually anything you eat to fat storage.

#5 OneGuy on 2021-10-27 21:46 (Reply)

Well, there’s probably no reason to avoid fruit — even if you’re trying to lose weight — as long as you severely restrict far worse carbs like pasta and bread and other flour products, with little nutrition or fiber but loads of HFCS.

The article even states that, with a crucial qualifier you left out: “if your body’s already consumed adequate amounts of sugar, this extra fructose will be basically stored as fat.”

I’m all for demonizing sugar and starch as the root of all evil in the American diet, and the evidence for that is very clear at this point — but let’s be real, fruit is not the problem here, it’s all the garbage carbs in processed food (including alcohol and other drinks) that people should be advised to cut way back on.

#6 Jeff Brokaw (Link) on 2021-10-28 07:51 (Reply)

I treat fruit like candy.

#7 Texan99 on 2021-10-28 09:17 (Reply)

This is some of the worst advice I have ever seen on the internet.
I have gone from 215 to 160 eating mostly fruit. Around 12 pieces a day. Fruits are nutritionally dense with minimal calories.

Avoid at your own peril.

#8 J smith on 2021-10-28 10:21 (Reply)

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Fruit is for dessert