Why do people keep telling me that fruit is bad for you? This is clearly a logical fallacy. Who, in the history of man, has grown fat from just eating fruit? Lord Of The Flies is a good reminder that too much fruit makes you incontinent, but the idea that organic sugars can be bad for you doesn’t mesh with nutrition as a whole. I posit that it’s impossible to have ‘too much’ of this food group in one’s diet. Prove me wrong. Show me all the peoples’ lives that fruit has ruined. Bring in the team of medical experts that can explain why apples and oranges are the new scourge of nutritional health.
I agree with you. Obviously eating fruit to the exclusion of other foods would leave you deficient in protein and fat as well as various nutrients in addition to causing gastrointestinal issues but in moderation it is a good component of a healthy diet to add nutrients and fiber. Most people would benefit from eating more fruit. The reason people are telling you it is bad for you is because the latest fad is anti-sugar in general, it is analogous to the anti-fat craze that preceded it. But yeah I am pretty sure no one ever got fat from eating fruit, or even drinking fruit juice for that matter. I don’t think fruit has ruined anyones life, apples and oranges are certainly not the scourge of nutritional health. I have never known or heard of anyone who ate too much fruit and suffered poor health as a result, there is only so much you can eat of it before you naturally get sick of eating it and start craving something else.
It’s not bad for you generally? It’s bad for you if it’s consumed irresponsibly, like all other foods and if organic sugars take the place of other nutrients you need in your body, could then argue that it’s a problem.
Fruit isn’t bad for you, but eating only fruit, juices and organic sugar might mess you up a bit.
Take olive oil for example, it’s good for you for many reasons, but bad for you if you drink 2 litres of it a day.
My old dentist warned me at a really young age not to have a high amount of fruit because the sugar will jus wipe your teeth away over time.
There was a guy whose teeth he done, and this guy was incredible shape, cycled to and from work every day and was very health conscious but his teeth kept on needing work done, it wasn’t until he told the dentist that he had like 5 oranges a day minimum that it clicked.
He jus kept wearing away his teeth, and poor dental health is indicative of heart disease, combined with the fact that you need teeth to eat, the organic sugars in fruit are meant to be a perk up for when we got lucky foraging thousands of years ago, there was very limited supply and that’s why that wasn’t an issue.
And as much as organic sugars in fruit largely come with the fibre which actually help break down the excess sugar, if you blend fruit or change its natural composition you will jus be getting a straight assault on your system, much akin to drinking soda.
So, much like anything else you consume it has it’s good parts and it’s bad parts, I think people are jus addressing the equally balanced position.
‘Organic’ sugar doesn’t mean anything. Most sugar in junkfood comesfrom plants, lactose in chocolate from milk. It’s all organic in chemical terms. And in food terms organic refers to a way of farming.
For fruit you can surely eat too much, because fruit is relatively low in calories versus volume you will probably eat too little protein and fat. Fruit contains fiber and other nutrients which will probably make you feel full quickly. Did you ever try to overeat on apples? You’d need to eat about 25 in a day!
And just like with everything: too much is not okay.
The naturally occurring fruit our ancestors enjoyed was a far different product than the selectively bred sugar machines we buy now in our supermarkets.
No one is saying an apple or an orange is doing you damage.
Just that ingesting too much sugar in too concentrated a form leads to lifestyle related issues. The bouncing blood sugar alone is reason enough to limit it- if you don’t understand the ramifications of chronic high blood sugar then I don’t even know what to say.
Being able to take the high fructose food when avail during autumn mostly gave our ancestors the advantage they need to gain fat for the winter times.
The problem nowadays is that our body still takes the fructose input and tries to store as fat if possible but now there is no unavailability of fruits or fructose in general, leads to the problems we have today.
The same more or less applies to the carbs, they are ok in moderation as well.
Moderation and seasonal selection is the key.
\>I posit that it’s impossible to have ‘too much’ of this food group in one’s diet.
I think that would make you a fruitarian, or at least an advocate for fruitarianism.
If you don’t eat enough fat or protein you will end up with deficiency in them. This is *bad* - unlike carbohydrates - which are just used for fuel - fat and protein are structural; they are required for our bodies to function.
If you aren’t recommending that level of fruit consumption, then I’d recommend you explore:
Google scholar can point you to papers on the first two of those and read any good biochemistry book to understand the third one.