Fruit

ATrebek · #1 08-31-2007, 01:55 PM

Someone give me the skinny on this. I'm reading conflicting info. If I am trying to burn off fat is fruit bad for me to snack on? I'm keeping my overall calorie intake where I need it to be, but midday apples and strawberries have been big for me this last week.

Thanks,
-Trebek

Jay. · #2 08-31-2007, 02:22 PM

Where are you reading fruit is bad for you when dieting?

Super low in calories, high in nutrition, easy to prepare, other snacks suck. How can they be bad?

dethgrind · #3 08-31-2007, 02:38 PM

Carbs

thirddan · #4 08-31-2007, 02:50 PM

fruit is goot...the only time i could see it potentially causing fat loss issues is if you were about to step on stage and needed to get to 4%...

AZK · #5 08-31-2007, 03:04 PM

if you can pick it, peel it or kill it with a stick, it is not bad for you. If it was made by man it's not as good as nature's version. Go by this theory and you will drop weight.

durron597 · #6 08-31-2007, 03:06 PM

the bad thing is to eat fruit right before bed because it spikes your insulin and the released sugar gets stored as fat

someone correct me if wrong please

on the other hand they are great to eat the rest of the day for reasons stated above

ATrebek · #7 08-31-2007, 03:19 PM

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the bad thing is to eat fruit right before bed because it spikes your insulin and the released sugar gets stored as fat

someone correct me if wrong please

on the other hand they are great to eat the rest of the day for reasons stated above

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This is basically what I read sans the before bed part. Raising Insulin = Bad no matter what the source. Guess that's bunk.

thirddan · #8 08-31-2007, 03:23 PM

i don't think fructose (a large part of the sugar in fruits) spikes insulin like other sugars...

dethgrind · #9 08-31-2007, 03:24 PM

I'd guess the insulin spike is pretty negligible actually. Large apple is 100 calories, so 25g fructose. I'm not a diabetic so I don't know this, but that seems like nothing to me. At least compared to say something like a pastry which is several hundred high GI calories.

Blarg · #10 08-31-2007, 03:41 PM

I've read that the insulin spike is much less from fructose.

If you are okay with evolution, we descended, and recently, from fruit eaters. It's what we are most naturally designed to eat.