Will Sugar from Fruit Cause Weight Gain?
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- Опубликовано: 29 сен 2024
- I often hear from patients that they're afraid to consume much if any fruit due to a fear of its high fructose content. They've "heard" that fructose can lead to diabetes, weight gain, and.... this is the new one, fatty liver.
One doctor actually stated that fruit was akin to an alcoholic beverage!
Separating fructose from the fruit and analyzing the sugar fructose in isolation is the cause of this confusion. Likening the fructose in fruit to high fructose corn syrup is misleading and incorrect.
Fresh fruit does have fructose, it also has a lot of fiber and healthy phytonutrients. To insinuate the fruit could possibly lead to a fatty liver, or the attendant conditions found with a fatty liver - obesity, diabetes, heart disease, is again, misleading and incorrect.
It's interesting that we consume soda and dessert but are afraid of fruit. It's so very backwards.
But let's look at some studies:
The Journal Nutrition in 2019 - research article entitled: "No association between fruits and vegetables and NAFLD (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease) in middle aged men and women". Well the title gave it away but the result was clear - fruits are NOT associated with fatty liver.
The Journal Nature last year, 2022 - research article entitled: "Dietary carbohydrates and fats in NAFLD" (non-alcoholic fatty liver disease). What they found was that diets high in saturated fat DID lead to NAFLD and insulin resistance (leading to diabetes), but that carbohydrates didn't. The evaluation was based on a normal amount of calories, nothing to excess, but the correlation was with fats, not carbohydrates, even though they used some highly processed carbs.
The recommendation was to enjoy a Mediterranean Diet, which means low saturated fat, good amounts of mono and polyunsaturated fats, high dietary fiber found in fruits and vegetables.
No longer scared to eat fresh fruit? I hope so.
Give the video a listen; I review some of the best fruits to eat.
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Sugar from fruit does not cause weight gain AND neither does cane sugar or fruit juice. Most so called sugary foods are loaded with fat and oil. Chocolate without the sugar added is almost pure fat. Even the few sugary products that have no fat like soda are eaten with fatty foods like cheeseburgers and fries and the so called sugary foods that are loaded with fat like cookies, cakes, donuts, and chocolate. Excess dietary fat causes weight gain, not sugar. Maybe sugar makes excess dietary fat more fattening just like gasoline makes fires worse, but sugar by itself in the absence of excess dietary fat from the diet is not fattening. Not whole fruit, not fruit juice, and not cane sugar or maple syrup. I still would avoid sodas because of the acid and other artificial ingredients and I wouldn't eat hfcs because of how it's proccessed and the gmo corn.
Less than 2% of glucose is stored as fat ,in one study 15 fruits a day didn’t add fat to the liver.The fat you eat is the fat you wear
Thank you for posting this! There is a Chiropractor who posted about how bad fruit was for us and our children. I'm not a Dr., but I have a feeling that fruit consumption has nothing to do with the current state of our overweight and unhealthy kids....lol
"If you think fruit is healthy, you may want to think again.
Fructose is nature’s natural method to make us fat.
Fruit, specifically the sugar in fruit, fructose, has an evolutionary role in our existence. It has helped to keep us alive through the winter by making us fat.
Fructose is very different than glucose, the sugar our body uses to make energy, and it is the details that make fructose unique that enable us to see its true nature.
Fructose is 2.5 times sweeter than glucose, and it activates our most understood addiction pathway for alcohol. Fructose is alcohol in the body or the other way around. Either way, alcohol and fructose are metabolized in the same way.
“But I like fruit. It tastes so good!”
Ok, fructose is sweet, and we like the taste. Why is this the case?
Fructose inhibits our satisfaction from the eating sensation controlled by the hormone Leptin.
This means that when we consume fructose, we will not get “full” from our meals like we usually would or should, leading to overeating.
On the other side of that equation, fructose stimulates our hunger hormone, Ghrelin, and this causes us to want to eat more and food cravings within 3 hours after eating it.
Fructose also stimulates accelerated aging by producing high levels of Advanced Glycation Endproducts, or AGEs.
The body only uses about 10% of the calories for energy and stores the other 90% as liver fat.
Fructose increases oxidative stress, inflammation, and cellular damage.
Fat from fructose is transported by small, dense LDL cholesterol carriers and stored in our fat tissue, raising blood LDL cholesterol significantly.
As there are no biochemical reactions in the human body that require fructose.
Global health authorities declared that fructose is the cause of the worldwide type 2 diabetes epidemic.
Evolutionarily our unique fructose metabolism made us gain fat for the winter in the form of visceral, liver, and body fat.
This mechanism is also used by bears preparing for hibernation, birds that migrate, and even fish that can go without food for an entire season each year.
The problem is, however, that we don’t hibernate, migrate, travel long distances, or go without food for extended periods.
Still, we keep eating fructose in all its forms, which causes insulin resistance, obesity, metabolic syndrome, and diabetes, drives our addiction physiology, and ultimately leads to Alzheimer’s Dementia and cancer.
This is the main driver of why our kids are overweight, have problems focusing, and grow up to become sicker than we have ever been, and at a much faster rate.
Fructose is not a nutrient and is not needed in our body. It ultimately causes more damage to our bodies and health rather than doing any potential good.
Carbohydrates are also not essential nutrients that we need in our diet, and as fructose is toxic, it can be eliminated.
If you are concerned about nutrients you might miss, all green vegetables have much more to offer than fruit, and animal products have more than any plant.
We can do better!
Dr. Don"
Whoever wrote that is a charlatan
I can eat up to 2 pounds of dates or up to 5 or 6 pounds of grapes in one sitting and I am not hungry again for a very long time, way longer than 3 hours. He couldn't be more wrong. I'm also 5'8" and 120 pounds eating as much carbs as I want, both fructose and glucose.
All the so called sugary foods are loaded with fat and oils. That's what he and all the others who say what he does leave out. How many obese fruitarians do you see who eat more fruit and fructose than anyone else and very little fat?
Charlatan may be too nice of a word for him and everyone else who says the same thing.