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How much fruit daily is too much?

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It reads like one of your meals is nothing but fruit. If the rest of your diet is balanced, as it reads to be, that’s perfectly fine IMO, but it’s bordering the upper limit at the same time. As soon as you’d substitute other important parts of your diet with even more fruit, I’d argue its gotten too much.

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I have a big low carb bias. I guess at around 150g of non-fiber carbs every day I would start to express some concern; it might not be the easiest way for me to stay thin, and maybe it will start to promote metabolic syndrome or something. And really, I’m not trying hard to include fiber. But that stuff actually sounds pretty good; it sounds like a good substrate to grow stuff on. Maybe try to eat the bananas a little green. Take good care of your teeth, too.

I also like short food windows or fasting - I see you’re eating all day long. I wonder if it helps you. But I’m just musing.

The whole spectrum of metabolic dysfunction is going to feel good going into it; there are addictive processes leading you in. But it is what we are built for, to some extent; it’s just growth - or metabolism. It may be what you want, especially if you’re active. But that’s the first thing that will go wrong, I’m guessing - you’ll get a little carb addicted, and it will be harder to function in general without sugars. No big deal.

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If your only worry is that you are consuming too much fruit then your diet is probably in the top 5% of the population in terms of health - Keep doing what you are doing as it is a great alternative what the majority of the population is having for a nighttime snack, and I don’t believe there is any meaningful evidence to suggest it is detrimental to health, but there is plenty to suggest the opposite! The only time consuming a lot of fruit at once might be an issue is if you have pre/diabetes and are watching your blood glucose level/hba1c, but it doesn’t seem like you fit into that category.

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For a 2000 cal/day diet pattern

Daily amounts of food groups per the USDA dietary guidelines

2 cups of fruit

2.5 cups of vegs

6 oz of grains

3 cups of dairy

5.5 oz of protein

27 g of oils

USDA Dietary Guidelines pg 18

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