@@idocmirk Dates are one of the worst, in terms of carb content, a search shows Nutritional benefits of dates, a 100g serving has 63g of sugar, and 8g of fiber. That would seem to me the very definition of "candy from a tree". Stay away from dates!
@contrarian604 you shouldn't be giving advice because you don't know what you're talking about. Dates and prunes have many nutrients and in fact is an excellent substitute for processed carbs, sugar abd candy.
When given the option, always choose fruit over processed sugar, including juice and honey. Because fruit pairs the sugar with other things like fiber, your body works harder to digest it, creating a natural absorbion rate. Processing speeds up the process, making it easier to overload your system, which is one of the key mechanisms in development of type 2 diabetes.
When given the option, I will avoid fruit, as it contains carbohydrates, and fructose that cause bodily inflammation, contribute to diabetes, cause my eczema to flare up, and feed cancerous cells.
Thanks! Went really low carb and didn't feel great. I would feel guilt eating an apple, thanks to all those fruit bashers out there at work. Whole foods is what I am focusing on now. So much more sustainable ❤
When you went "low-carb", how much meat, fish or eggs did you consume? Can you blame your symptoms on the "low-carb" aspect of your diet, or was it the lack of proper nutrient-dense sources of animal-based proteins?
@@contrarian604 Whole foods. I did it all. Tracked it all. I tolerate no food bashing diet shaming. Medcram should be free of this. So stop being contrarian.
@@addiecoelman1996 ah, no. If you’re born in 1996, you’re not even 30 years old. It used to be “meat and veg, with fruit as the occasional treat”. Not “fruit and veg, and a fruit smoothie every morning”. MedCram is greenwashing fruit, and downplaying the prevalence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, which affects 25-35 percent of the population, and is growing exponentially amongst children and teens. Nature produces fruit seasonally, not year-round in greenhouses and shipped around the world and across the country. The most pushback I get from my patients is from their fruit habit, and my friend/neighbour does a solid business selling 800 calorie fruit-protein smoothies at his franchise next to my office. It’s an addiction. I’m off of fruit. Anyone who is a fruit apologist, do yourself a favour a learn about NAFLD.
@@javadivawithdog your name says it all. Java Diva with Dog. Meghan Markle denied being a diva also. No ones bashing fruit-it’s the fructose that creates the slow silent scream at the liver for two decades before a pre-diabetic diagnosis. If you tolerate no food bashing, maybe that’s why your sick when others who have gone low-carb have done so well. There is nothing inherently good or bad about fruit. However it contains fructose which is a toxin to the liver, and the direct cause of NAFLD. Go on living in your echo chamber. I’m whole foods also, but include meat and eggs in what foods the body thrives on, and not daily fruit. No thanks to a daily toxin to my liver.
I am type 1 diabetic and have to work out carbohydrate counting to work out how much insulin I inject, fruit has such a different effect on me than processed sugar! Fruit does not make me crash, it gives me energy, I do not have a bad spike and then a low like what happens if I was to eat something like chocolate or cake even with taking insulin, I also need less insulin with fruit even if it's high in sugar/carbs because it overall effects my blood sugars differently! Fruit is the best!
The advice that fruits and vegetables are equivalent to added sucrose is congruent with the theme of the 1971 Powell memo. The gist here is that corporations pushing processed foods do not want their market shares to dwindle. If you measure our current American society against the advice in the Powell memo, you will instantly see that revenue drives every piece of misinformation about nutrition. The only advice I have ever needed came from my grandmother in Japan whose generation preceded the baby boomers of the west. Any advice after hers has always been motivated by people wanting me to open my wallet. My grandmother advised me to: Eat fifty different things a week. Eat vegetables of every color. Don't eat too much. That's it. Anything else is somebody trying to make a fast buck.
Thank you. You're the only doctor I've seen who is brave enough to state this. I tried a plant based keto diet for over a year and although it was OK, I knew something was off. I feel better adding daily fruit to my diet.
Sorry, most fruits (other than berries and avodado) are laden with carbs. Worse, the carbs are fructose, which must be processed at the liver. Fruit is nothing more than "candy from the tree", and should be regarded no differently than ice cream or a piece of apple pie. Arguably, as it must be processed at the liver and directly contributes to fatty liver disease, it should be avoided and regarded as a treat, sparingly. Daily vegetables are fine, but not the modern fruit which has been bioengineered for maximum sweetness, size and shelf stability.
Keto works best when there is adequate fat. Quite hard to do in a purely plant based way, I hear. Most plant based fats are the wrong forms and are not easily used by the body. The best fats tend to be animal based. There is the added difficulty of getting enough bioavailable protein. You might need an expert’s help to properly formulate a plant based keto diet. Hopefully, you’ve been able to include eggs or dairy or shellfish? That might make things easier.
@@miklimecat9636 good points. Humans are animals, but unlike ruminants we have short colons that are ill-optimized to ferment plant fibers. Plant-based keto is a serious misnomer. If one is eating low carb and essentially avoiding animal products, then where in God’s green earth is one actually getting any nutrition from ? The human GI tract is designed to process meat and fat, and extract nutrition efficiently using acid and enzymes in a relatively short GI system.
@@contrarian604 Fructose can only turned into fat when more is coming into it then the liver can process, so for example with isolated fructose because it’s absorbed instantly or combined with fat which inhibits the liver function. But with on fiber bound fructose that process is physically impossible because of the fructose absorbtion limit which is present when fructose is absorbed really slow like when it’s bound on intact fiber.
You are honestly one of my favorite people and I’ve never met you! Your wisdom and viewpoints heavily based on science is helping humanity to be better ❤
Thanks for the information. I had been hearing that the fructose in fruits made them as bad for you as granulated sugar and so reduced my fruit consumption.
Do not eat fruit, sucrose, or any carbohydrate. Fruit was never designed to be consumed by humans at all. The fruit that was eaten by our ancestors resembles nothing to what you buy at the shops today. Their levels of sweetness was low and formed a small part of the diet of our human and pre human ancestors. Fruits main purpose is to reproduce, and so in doing so it must appear attractive to its vector. That is fruit eating animals, who poop their seeds out. Humans dont poop any seeds and disperse them into the environment like those animals that do. Fruit bats, orangutans, spider monkeys, fruit doves, howler monkeys, and some species of parrots are the most common frugivores. Most of these animals have a stomach ph in the range higher than that of humans. You see humans are designed to eat mainly the flesh and associated fat of mainly large ruminant animals. Nature gave us a stomach cavity ph of 1.5 for this reason. To digest animal protein. We would never need such a low ph if we were mainly plant, or fruit eaters. Take dogs and cats for example. We know them to be carnivores at the trophic level. Yet in modern society they could be considered omnivores, why because they are fed kibble on a daily basis and suffer all the modern day human diseases. No carnivore in the wild. No carnivore ever gets heart disease. This is a fact. Why do cardiologists prescribe SGLT2 inhibitors, because they know glucose beyond the bodys requirement for it approx 4g at any given time is bad. All they have to do is tell their patients to stop eating all carbohydrates, and problem solved.
@@Medcram DrS, are you a vegan or fruitarian? --as you are out to lunch on this topic, though your other videos such as on PBM are right on the money. Fructose is arguably worse than sugar, as fructose must be processed at the liver. No one credible from the low-carb or carnivore camp is stating that a whole fruit is as bad as a liquid sugar or juice from the same fruit. What is being advanced is that with few exceptions, all fruits contain fructose, and whether consumed whole or as a juice, fruits increase carbohydrate intake and glycemic load on the body, regardless of the nature of the spike.
It is an awesome full video! This is the first short of yours, and you pulicked a great subject. Great to see you distill it down into a short! Apples rule, coke is is a glucose spike in a can. The graphs from the studies really show how even fruit in smoothies the fruit sugar is absorbed in a quicker spike.
Fruit contains fructose, which must be processed at the liver. Colorful and tropical fruits are the worst, as they absorb sunlight year-round closer to the equator, and convert that sunshine to sugar as a store of energy, and as an enticement to get animals to consume the fruit, allowing the tree to spread their seeds. Remember, trees have fruits that aren't sour or bitter because the sweetness attracts mammals to consume them, and then to deposit their seeds further away.
Dang I’m going to get a apple. Really though the sweet taste would turn on my cravings for “MORE” I don’t think I will actually risk it but I believe you, always do.
The more often you eat them, like once a day, the less they will have this effect. Oats do this to me. The more routinely I eat them, the problem of being hunger inducing resolved. I coasted almost 8 hours after protein baked oats yesterday. It was an unintended fast.
Great video. I recently switched to a whole food all plant diet and have been eating way more fruit. Was worrying about all that fructose but this great info to know. Thanks so much!
I’m a fruit fatty okay? Like the old adage goes “Daddy daddy I’m now a fruit fatty…” Bananas for some thunder thighs, apples for them love handles. Oranges makes you put on the pounds BABY!
Exactly! I have tried to explain this as a Dietitian to so many people but even Drs and Dietitians around here tell patients to stop eating fruit due to sugar content and say to stop eating nuts due to their fat content.
I'm following a mainly carnivore diet and I always eat fruits as a dessert. Mainly berries, watermelon, apples, pears, never before the meal. Feeling great!
Encouraging to hear this from you bc I like fruits, but I just saw someone else explain fructose can only be metabolized by the liver, which taxes and can harm the liver if overdone - thoughts?
I've had a sugar addiction since childhood, so i switched to fruit about 15 years ago and my health is good. No issues with my blood tests. I probably eat five servings of fruit a day.
Changing our family’s diet. Definitely thought the sugars in whole fruit needed to be limited, which contrasts with the “eat x a day” number. Thanks for the information!
the information in this video is mistaken, or misleading at best. Eating the whole fruit is obviously better than drinking just the juice from the fruit. However, fruit contains fructose, and the fructose adds to the carbohydrate load placed on the body, and fructose must be processed at the liver, no different that alcohol, or high-fructose corn syrup. The fact that the MedCram channel liked your comment, shows that the doctor posting this video is mis-informed about the long-term dangers of excess carbohydrate consumption. I would say, if you are one of the 5% of the population whose BMI is normal, and if you are not pre-diabetic or diabetic, then for sure, have the occasional fruit (the darker the better). Otherwise, stay away, as it is nothing but "candy from the tree"
What kind of cereal should I buy or something else it have to say no sugar added but what kind of store Because I'm looking for a recipe to make a healthy peanut butter and homemade bread What kind of website to find kind of healthy food
Unfortunately any form of sugar has similar results for my children on the autism spectrum and me, but we still eat organic and choose God's beautiful, delicious, healthy garden over anything processed or artificial. We just have to keep good boundaries, no biggie. 🤗
So we don’t need to worry about the amount of sugar found in fruit & veg or worry about having or going over the RDI of total daily sugars (from fruit and veg)?
It makes perfect sense! If I eat an apple my body has to work to digest the fiber with the fructose where if I eat a chocolate bar it's instant sugar for my bloodstream and nothing to be broken down...I was once told that I shouldn't eat avocado bc it's fattening yet I'm vegetarian for 27 years and I need fat in my diet so sometimes I will eat 2 avocados for a meal and make a salad w them...
Doctor here, you are correct that plant based carbs are not the same as processed carbs. For folks who already have diabetes however, some plant based carbs such as grapes and oranges, can cause blood sugar spikes and, if consistently consumed, increases in A1c, thus increasing the chances of negative diabetes outcomes. I find that patients with diabetes should ensure that their plant based carbs are those with a low glycemic index and high fiber content such as blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries; not necessarily apples, grapes, and oranges
My friend who's diabetic enjoyed an orange her morning blood sugar was higher. Saying it's higher after eating fruit. Maybe fruit in small portions is better.
THANK YOU!!! The nutrient composition of fruits and vegetables cannot be compared to processed foods. It’s not even apples and oranges. It’s more like an apples and donuts comparison.
Good fats can slow down the metabolism, too. Avocadoes are awesome for this! Fiber is necessary, too. (Not from bread, though.) We need to toss most so-called "fast foods", too. Make your "fast food" grabbing a carrot, some celery, a leftover piece of lean steak, or perhaps a scrambled or sunny-side-up egg cooked in butter, or poached. If eating nuts, such as pine nuts or almonds, eat them raw and soaked overnight in the refrigerator to start to sprout, to change the enzyme blockers to enzymes, etc. Enjoy! We need to get back to using real, unprocessed, or very minimally-processed fruits, vegetables, meats, milk, and natural cheeses, and perhaps a tiny bit of grains, such as wild rice, and/or buckwheat. Be sure to NOT drink fruit juice where the fiber has been removed, such as "no pulp orange juice... drink full pulp or even extra pulp orange juice instead. Celery juice with all the pulp is amazing with a low to zero glycemic index, natural sweetener. Try monkfruit sugar. Use less that you normally use of sucrose, as monkfruit sugar is usually sweeter. Stevia is a good choice for some applocations. Use the full herb, not the processed white stuff, if possible. Stevia has somewhat of a licorice taste that can be great in some foods and drinks, which is not so great in others. Try to use fresh fruit pieces, like apples, as sweetener. Learn to can jellies with apples or pears instead of processed sugars and pectin.
Yes. The blending breaks down the fiber structures, which is what you want your body to do. There are some specific applications for using blends and purees, but for general daily life whole fruit is better.
Have to watch that video but apples have a few grams of dietary fiber in them some others do not. Does the video or study cover some of these differences? I do know that fruits and veggies will kick someone out of ketosis so it at least does that
Sugar just messes up your metabolism. I was stress eating and drinking the past month, junk food and cola...5lbs around the waist. As soon as i stopped and went back to more fruits, only 2 cans of cola a week and natural foods...waist shrank back to normal. Ofc thats with working out too tho.
My entire diet (almost) used to be fruits and vegetables, never fruit juices. I do remember though that mangos could "feel" like too much sugar, apricots next on the list for me...but never actually tested back in those days. Your gums and teeth gum line erosion may tell a story (acid+sugar). Perhaps at least rince your teeth with water after eating sweeter fruits. Apples or blackberries usually fine.
The older a person gets, the less these randomized trials are meaningful. How a younger body metabolizes sugar can be very different from an older persons. That may be because of several factors, but it doesn’t change the fact that most people are going to benefit from limiting any food that is a high source of sugar, and a very low source of protein.
@@carolreid1473 but the sugar and structure is different between the sucrose and fuctose and also depending on how processed it is it may still contain some of that fiber.
But what do we do about the propensity of us humans to selectively breed sweeter and sweeter fruits in order to sell more? Our modern fruits today are already much much sweeter than the original varieties found in the wild and in ancient times. How much of these sugars can we take when we didn’t exactly evolve eating the amounts we find now? Also, we used to eat them seasonally. Now we can get them shipped everywhere, available year-round. They’re way better than eating processed sugar products, for sure. But at a certain point, one wonders if we’re going to end up with nothing more than fruity bags of sugar that just happen to grow on trees.
Can you provide me references for evidence that the fruits today are sweeter and also that eating fruits in season (or out of season) makes a difference from a diabetes standpoint. I need a scientific reference for this. Thanks.
Some people believe ALL types of sugar are harmful. They choose everything sugar free and not consuming fruits at all. I called them stupid. In some cases sugar free items are more harmful than items with added sugar. Also fruits are good for us, unless you have blood sugar issues and have to carefully monitor your diet.
Of course dear dr I do innately understand that added refined sugar and processed foods with sugar are indeed undesirable to eat. However I can sometimes feel very unwell, depleted and low energy from too much fruit. Even one peach. As it’s so hard to determine but I could have fodmap intolerances . In Australia we only have breast testing kits.
But fruits in masses still add weight, I know that from own experience. I replaced them ( about 3/4 of the amount) with veggies that contain little to no „sugar“ and my weight dropped gradually within weeks:) ( Don‘t know all the engl names of the fruits I ate and the veggies I eat as replacement, else I would have listed them)
@@drakerothstein4857 Sure, but I didn‘t change the total amount of calories per day. So it has to make a difference from replacing fruit w veggies. ( The additional calories the fruits contain compared to veggies I replaced through nuts bc I needed to add some proteins anyway. We can‘t be 100% sure what causes what without looking at everything in detail and in combination too. Our bodies are complex systems, I don‘t think it‘s wise to look at an isolated process within a complex system to make a valid statement on the whole system so I‘m careful with all nutrition „tips“, I look at my experiences, the changes that come after I have adapted my nutrition, and how healthy I feel, how much energy I have throughout the day etc. Then I can talk about experiences but without telling ppl that a single change made the difference for my health or similar possibly unhealthy suggestions. I can say though that I lost weight after replacing most fruits w veggies. That is true and what I experienced. Could other factors play a role I‘m not aware of? Maybe? The additional proteins could or any other little piece of the whole picture;)
Sounds like a volume thing. You get full quicker with the high volume low calorie veggies. So eating 3 servings of veggies might only add the same calories as 1 serving of fruit. Veggies are also generally higher in fiber and nutrients that help your body work more efficiently. All this works together to allow long term weight loss. WeightWatchers has been using this understanding of fruit and vegetables for years.
That's not the point of the claims. Refining the sugars from fruits, then adding them to foods is the concern. Of course having the sugars combined with the non broken fibre within fruit is going to be better. Fructose has to come from somewhere in nature.
Speaking from personal experience when I eat anything but berries and if I eat corn or potatoes my sugar goes stupid high so it's probably the person's personal situation.
I’m pretty deep in the low-carb rabbit hole and I’ve never seen anyone state that fruits are the same as high fructose corn syrup or anything like that.
I don´t know, but what he failed to mentioned here is that the diffrance between fruites is very large. Apple probobly being one of the best, if not the best, and grapes being one of the worst, if not the worst. but if i just speculate, you might damage the fiber if you juice it. That is true for potatoes. Potatoes carbohydrate is not that bad. But if you mash them, you damage the fiber making the carbohydrate more suggar like. Even worse, if you make powder mash its pretty much the same as eating suggar.
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What about dates? They seem to have 30 grams per 5 date serving.
@@idocmirk Dates are one of the worst, in terms of carb content, a search shows Nutritional benefits of dates, a 100g serving has 63g of sugar, and 8g of fiber.
That would seem to me the very definition of "candy from a tree". Stay away from dates!
@@contrarian604 Thank you. I was eating way to many of them. I have cut them way back to one or two.
@contrarian604 you shouldn't be giving advice because you don't know what you're talking about. Dates and prunes have many nutrients and in fact is an excellent substitute for processed carbs, sugar abd candy.
@@idocmirkdon't listen to the person who said dates and prunes aren't good. Over consuming anything isn't good. Prunes and dates are nutrient loaded.
When given the option, always choose fruit over processed sugar, including juice and honey. Because fruit pairs the sugar with other things like fiber, your body works harder to digest it, creating a natural absorbion rate. Processing speeds up the process, making it easier to overload your system, which is one of the key mechanisms in development of type 2 diabetes.
Exactly
When given the option, I will avoid fruit, as it contains carbohydrates, and fructose that cause bodily inflammation, contribute to diabetes, cause my eczema to flare up, and feed cancerous cells.
Thanks! Went really low carb and didn't feel great. I would feel guilt eating an apple, thanks to all those fruit bashers out there at work. Whole foods is what I am focusing on now. So much more sustainable ❤
When you went "low-carb", how much meat, fish or eggs did you consume? Can you blame your symptoms on the "low-carb" aspect of your diet, or was it the lack of proper nutrient-dense sources of animal-based proteins?
@@contrarian604 Whole foods. I did it all. Tracked it all. I tolerate no food bashing diet shaming. Medcram should be free of this. So stop being contrarian.
@@contrarian604STOP - you're giving bad advice. NOTHING you're saying is factual.
@@addiecoelman1996 ah, no. If you’re born in 1996, you’re not even 30 years old. It used to be “meat and veg, with fruit as the occasional treat”. Not “fruit and veg, and a fruit smoothie every morning”. MedCram is greenwashing fruit, and downplaying the prevalence of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease, which affects 25-35 percent of the population, and is growing exponentially amongst children and teens.
Nature produces fruit seasonally, not year-round in greenhouses and shipped around the world and across the country.
The most pushback I get from my patients is from their fruit habit, and my friend/neighbour does a solid business selling 800 calorie fruit-protein smoothies at his franchise next to my office.
It’s an addiction. I’m off of fruit. Anyone who is a fruit apologist, do yourself a favour a learn about NAFLD.
@@javadivawithdog your name says it all. Java Diva with Dog. Meghan Markle denied being a diva also. No ones bashing fruit-it’s the fructose that creates the slow silent scream at the liver for two decades before a pre-diabetic diagnosis. If you tolerate no food bashing, maybe that’s why your sick when others who have gone low-carb have done so well.
There is nothing inherently good or bad about fruit. However it contains fructose which is a toxin to the liver, and the direct cause of NAFLD.
Go on living in your echo chamber. I’m whole foods also, but include meat and eggs in what foods the body thrives on, and not daily fruit. No thanks to a daily toxin to my liver.
Thanks, Doc, I'm eating an apple right now without regrets.
An apple a day...
I am type 1 diabetic and have to work out carbohydrate counting to work out how much insulin I inject, fruit has such a different effect on me than processed sugar! Fruit does not make me crash, it gives me energy, I do not have a bad spike and then a low like what happens if I was to eat something like chocolate or cake even with taking insulin, I also need less insulin with fruit even if it's high in sugar/carbs because it overall effects my blood sugars differently! Fruit is the best!
Makes complete sense! Big Food ain’t gonna like this…
The advice that fruits and vegetables are equivalent to added sucrose is congruent with the theme of the 1971 Powell memo. The gist here is that corporations pushing processed foods do not want their market shares to dwindle.
If you measure our current American society against the advice in the Powell memo, you will instantly see that revenue drives every piece of misinformation about nutrition.
The only advice I have ever needed came from my grandmother in Japan whose generation preceded the baby boomers of the west. Any advice after hers has always been motivated by people wanting me to open my wallet.
My grandmother advised me to:
Eat fifty different things a week. Eat vegetables of every color. Don't eat too much. That's it. Anything else is somebody trying to make a fast buck.
Thank you. You're the only doctor I've seen who is brave enough to state this. I tried a plant based keto diet for over a year and although it was OK, I knew something was off. I feel better adding daily fruit to my diet.
Sorry, most fruits (other than berries and avodado) are laden with carbs. Worse, the carbs are fructose, which must be processed at the liver. Fruit is nothing more than "candy from the tree", and should be regarded no differently than ice cream or a piece of apple pie. Arguably, as it must be processed at the liver and directly contributes to fatty liver disease, it should be avoided and regarded as a treat, sparingly. Daily vegetables are fine, but not the modern fruit which has been bioengineered for maximum sweetness, size and shelf stability.
Keto works best when there is adequate fat. Quite hard to do in a purely plant based way, I hear. Most plant based fats are the wrong forms and are not easily used by the body. The best fats tend to be animal based. There is the added difficulty of getting enough bioavailable protein. You might need an expert’s help to properly formulate a plant based keto diet. Hopefully, you’ve been able to include eggs or dairy or shellfish? That might make things easier.
@@miklimecat9636 good points. Humans are animals, but unlike ruminants we have short colons that are ill-optimized to ferment plant fibers.
Plant-based keto is a serious misnomer. If one is eating low carb and essentially avoiding animal products, then where in God’s green earth is one actually getting any nutrition from ?
The human GI tract is designed to process meat and fat, and extract nutrition efficiently using acid and enzymes in a relatively short GI system.
@@contrarian604AGAIN, STOP giving advice. You're wrong about everything you say.
@@contrarian604 Fructose can only turned into fat when more is coming into it then the liver can process, so for example with isolated fructose because it’s absorbed instantly or combined with fat which inhibits the liver function.
But with on fiber bound fructose that process is physically impossible because of the fructose absorbtion limit which is present when fructose is absorbed really slow like when it’s bound on intact fiber.
You are honestly one of my favorite people and I’ve never met you! Your wisdom and viewpoints heavily based on science is helping humanity to be better ❤
Yay! Thank you!
Thank heaven for MedCram & its team! Dr. Roger, you are such a joy. Thank you for your immensely informative content.
I tell my patients all the time, eat a fruit instead of a piece of bread.
I am so appreciative of your ethical work! Keep it up and blessings to you and yours! 💪🏼💚
Thanks for the information. I had been hearing that the fructose in fruits made them as bad for you as granulated sugar and so reduced my fruit consumption.
Yeah. That’s nonsense.
@@Medcram fructose and sucrose are not required by the human body. There is no data anywhere in the world that says otherwise.
Do not eat fruit, sucrose, or any carbohydrate. Fruit was never designed to be consumed by humans at all. The fruit that was eaten by our ancestors resembles nothing to what you buy at the shops today. Their levels of sweetness was low and formed a small part of the diet of our human and pre human ancestors. Fruits main purpose is to reproduce, and so in doing so it must appear attractive to its vector. That is fruit eating animals, who poop their seeds out. Humans dont poop any seeds and disperse them into the environment like those animals that do. Fruit bats, orangutans, spider monkeys, fruit doves, howler monkeys, and some species of parrots are the most common frugivores. Most of these animals have a stomach ph in the range higher than that of humans. You see humans are designed to eat mainly the flesh and associated fat of mainly large ruminant animals. Nature gave us a stomach cavity ph of 1.5 for this reason. To digest animal protein. We would never need such a low ph if we were mainly plant, or fruit eaters. Take dogs and cats for example. We know them to be carnivores at the trophic level. Yet in modern society they could be considered omnivores, why because they are fed kibble on a daily basis and suffer all the modern day human diseases. No carnivore in the wild. No carnivore ever gets heart disease. This is a fact. Why do cardiologists prescribe SGLT2 inhibitors, because they know glucose beyond the bodys requirement for it approx 4g at any given time is bad. All they have to do is tell their patients to stop eating all carbohydrates, and problem solved.
The juice is really baaad
@@Medcram DrS, are you a vegan or fruitarian? --as you are out to lunch on this topic, though your other videos such as on PBM are right on the money. Fructose is arguably worse than sugar, as fructose must be processed at the liver.
No one credible from the low-carb or carnivore camp is stating that a whole fruit is as bad as a liquid sugar or juice from the same fruit. What is being advanced is that with few exceptions, all fruits contain fructose, and whether consumed whole or as a juice, fruits increase carbohydrate intake and glycemic load on the body, regardless of the nature of the spike.
The apples in my garden are just the same size as in the video. They're going to be so big and juicy by September!! Yum-yum!
Yeah, they seem to have survived the freezing chill this spring.
Thank you Dr. Roger Seheult. Your informations are precious. ❤
You are a true man of medicine, been following your channel since covid. Medical field needs/must have more people like you ❤🙏🇮🇪
Happy to give up Soda but there is no way i am giving up apples and watermelon
It is an awesome full video! This is the first short of yours, and you pulicked a great subject. Great to see you distill it down into a short!
Apples rule, coke is is a glucose spike in a can.
The graphs from the studies really show how even fruit in smoothies the fruit sugar is absorbed in a quicker spike.
That’s correct.
Thank you for the clarification 😊🙏🏼
This is great news! I love fruit.
Fruit contains fructose, which must be processed at the liver. Colorful and tropical fruits are the worst, as they absorb sunlight year-round closer to the equator, and convert that sunshine to sugar as a store of energy, and as an enticement to get animals to consume the fruit, allowing the tree to spread their seeds.
Remember, trees have fruits that aren't sour or bitter because the sweetness attracts mammals to consume them, and then to deposit their seeds further away.
@@contrarian604 You are so wrong.
This ain’t the Garden of Eden. Eat the apple already. The country, heck the planet, is not becoming obese/diabetic cause of whole fruit.
Dang I’m going to get a apple. Really though the sweet taste would turn on my cravings for “MORE” I don’t think I will actually risk it but I believe you, always do.
The more often you eat them, like once a day, the less they will have this effect. Oats do this to me. The more routinely I eat them, the problem of being hunger inducing resolved. I coasted almost 8 hours after protein baked oats yesterday. It was an unintended fast.
Apples tend to act like an appetizer, in my experience. I will often eat a few nuts along with the apple.
Great video. I recently switched to a whole food all plant diet and have been eating way more fruit. Was worrying about all that fructose but this great info to know. Thanks so much!
I'm glad someone said it! Tired of these other people trying to say, stay away from fruit 🤦🏽
Thank you !! And hello from Chateauguay, Quebec 🇨🇦
A very intelligent and logical delivery of the facts. People seem to be incapable of understanding now.
Thanks thats very useful information
I have never heard of anyone becoming obese from fruit.
I’m a fruit fatty okay? Like the old adage goes “Daddy daddy I’m now a fruit fatty…” Bananas for some thunder thighs, apples for them love handles. Oranges makes you put on the pounds BABY!
Exactly! I have tried to explain this as a Dietitian to so many people but even Drs and Dietitians around here tell patients to stop eating fruit due to sugar content and say to stop eating nuts due to their fat content.
I'm following a mainly carnivore diet and I always eat fruits as a dessert. Mainly berries, watermelon, apples, pears, never before the meal. Feeling great!
Love your work Medcram. Is there a link for this study.
Yes: ua-cam.com/video/3Prb6hG-TXw/v-deo.html
Encouraging to hear this from you bc I like fruits, but I just saw someone else explain fructose can only be metabolized by the liver, which taxes and can harm the liver if overdone - thoughts?
I've had a sugar addiction since childhood, so i switched to fruit about 15 years ago and my health is good. No issues with my blood tests. I probably eat five servings of fruit a day.
Great video.
Also when having candida can instill eat fruit ??
It's better to avoid or use lower glycemic index fruit, such as strawberries, raspberries, and blackberries, and staying dry is often also important.
Thanks Doctor!
Changing our family’s diet. Definitely thought the sugars in whole fruit needed to be limited, which contrasts with the “eat x a day” number. Thanks for the information!
the information in this video is mistaken, or misleading at best. Eating the whole fruit is obviously better than drinking just the juice from the fruit. However, fruit contains fructose, and the fructose adds to the carbohydrate load placed on the body, and fructose must be processed at the liver, no different that alcohol, or high-fructose corn syrup. The fact that the MedCram channel liked your comment, shows that the doctor posting this video is mis-informed about the long-term dangers of excess carbohydrate consumption.
I would say, if you are one of the 5% of the population whose BMI is normal, and if you are not pre-diabetic or diabetic, then for sure, have the occasional fruit (the darker the better). Otherwise, stay away, as it is nothing but "candy from the tree"
About time a real doctor told us this!!! Thanks
What kind of cereal should I buy or something else it have to say no sugar added but what kind of store
Because I'm looking for a recipe to make a healthy peanut butter and homemade bread
What kind of website to find kind of healthy food
One of the best medical advice UA-camr is 12 years behind me. Detailed scientifically based advice is needed to correct many a illness.
Yes, @Medcram but what about fruits like grapes, bananas & mangoes etc with respect to sugar release?
Is it possible to buffer soda or fruit juice sugars by eating something alongside the drinks? Some kind of gel fiber perhaps!?
Unfortunately any form of sugar has similar results for my children on the autism spectrum and me, but we still eat organic and choose God's beautiful, delicious, healthy garden over anything processed or artificial. We just have to keep good boundaries, no biggie. 🤗
I think the low carb community has already acknowledged what you said and still opt for lower sugar content fruit.
does processing fruit through a blender and consuming the juice, pulp and all, alter the rate of absorption vs chewing it?
Amen thanks for saying that! So tired of folks saying that you can't have very much fruits and veggies because of sugar and carbs! Hogwash.
I watched it last night and it was great. Will Ken Berry and Anthony Chaffee et. al. Respond to it? I hope so.
Yes!! From a fruitaholic!!
Absolutely!
What if you put them in a vitamix blender?
It’s amazing that people even disagree about this topic. Mmm an apple or a can of soda, which should i snack on ?
So we don’t need to worry about the amount of sugar found in fruit & veg or worry about having or going over the RDI of total daily sugars (from fruit and veg)?
It makes perfect sense! If I eat an apple my body has to work to digest the fiber with the fructose where if I eat a chocolate bar it's instant sugar for my bloodstream and nothing to be broken down...I was once told that I shouldn't eat avocado bc it's fattening yet I'm vegetarian for 27 years and I need fat in my diet so sometimes I will eat 2 avocados for a meal and make a salad w them...
Where can I find the study? Is it reviewed?
This! Thank you for debunking this myth.🙌🔥
Thank goodness! Someone with sense!
Nice work is that your apples?
Yep! Grow my own!
But does everyone metabolize sugar exactly the same? I am a slow carb metabolizer. Would my score be the same as a fast metabolizer?
Doctor here, you are correct that plant based carbs are not the same as processed carbs. For folks who already have diabetes however, some plant based carbs such as grapes and oranges, can cause blood sugar spikes and, if consistently consumed, increases in A1c, thus increasing the chances of negative diabetes outcomes. I find that patients with diabetes should ensure that their plant based carbs are those with a low glycemic index and high fiber content such as blueberries, raspberries, and blackberries; not necessarily apples, grapes, and oranges
Or just Stopp eating saturated which is the cause of the disease in the first place
My friend who's diabetic enjoyed an orange her morning blood sugar was higher. Saying it's higher after eating fruit. Maybe fruit in small portions is better.
What about fruit smoothies? The packets being broken buy the blades?
Sweet
Bee processing sugars...
THANK YOU!!! The nutrient composition of fruits and vegetables cannot be compared to processed foods. It’s not even apples and oranges. It’s more like an apples and donuts comparison.
This is fabulous news!!! ❤
Assuming we’re talking about non gmo non hybrid fruits
How about carbs from white rice ?
Good fats can slow down the metabolism, too. Avocadoes are awesome for this! Fiber is necessary, too. (Not from bread, though.)
We need to toss most so-called "fast foods", too. Make your "fast food" grabbing a carrot, some celery, a leftover piece of lean steak, or perhaps a scrambled or sunny-side-up egg cooked in butter, or poached.
If eating nuts, such as pine nuts or almonds, eat them raw and soaked overnight in the refrigerator to start to sprout, to change the enzyme blockers to enzymes, etc.
Enjoy! We need to get back to using real, unprocessed, or very minimally-processed fruits, vegetables, meats, milk, and natural cheeses, and perhaps a tiny bit of grains, such as wild rice, and/or buckwheat.
Be sure to NOT drink fruit juice where the fiber has been removed, such as "no pulp orange juice... drink full pulp or even extra pulp orange juice instead. Celery juice with all the pulp is amazing with a low to zero glycemic index, natural sweetener. Try monkfruit sugar. Use less that you normally use of sucrose, as monkfruit sugar is usually sweeter. Stevia is a good choice for some applocations. Use the full herb, not the processed white stuff, if possible. Stevia has somewhat of a licorice taste that can be great in some foods and drinks, which is not so great in others.
Try to use fresh fruit pieces, like apples, as sweetener. Learn to can jellies with apples or pears instead of processed sugars and pectin.
Is there a difference between eating whole fruits versus blended/puréed fruits such as in fruit shakes?
I think so.
Yes. The blending breaks down the fiber structures, which is what you want your body to do. There are some specific applications for using blends and purees, but for general daily life whole fruit is better.
Have to watch that video but apples have a few grams of dietary fiber in them some others do not. Does the video or study cover some of these differences? I do know that fruits and veggies will kick someone out of ketosis so it at least does that
What about dried figs for diabetes?
Amazing to me how many people think its ok to guzzle fruit juice, I've had people tell me that I'm out of my mind when I tell them about it !!
So eating fruit is okay but, what about when fruit is turned into fruit juice or squeased removing the fiber?
That’s it. Checkout the video in the pinned comment. It’s different. That’s correct.
But don’t fruits still glycate Cells ? Please add to my understanding.
Are you saying sugar increases the incidence of diabetes but the sugar in fruit reduces it? And do you explain why in your full video?
I’m not saying that. The data shows that and yes it’s in the full video.
Health is achieved by maintaining as much of a natural lifestyle as possible
Sugar just messes up your metabolism. I was stress eating and drinking the past month, junk food and cola...5lbs around the waist. As soon as i stopped and went back to more fruits, only 2 cans of cola a week and natural foods...waist shrank back to normal. Ofc thats with working out too tho.
Dr Berg hated this video
Listening to him will make u not wanna eat anything in general lls. But he has some insightful stuff
Do you recommend lots of fruits for diabetics?
He's Adventist👍
Roger is awesome
My entire diet (almost) used to be fruits and vegetables, never fruit juices. I do remember though that mangos could "feel" like too much sugar, apricots next on the list for me...but never actually tested back in those days. Your gums and teeth gum line erosion may tell a story (acid+sugar). Perhaps at least rince your teeth with water after eating sweeter fruits.
Apples or blackberries usually fine.
The older a person gets, the less these randomized trials are meaningful. How a younger body metabolizes sugar can be very different from an older persons. That may be because of several factors, but it doesn’t change the fact that most people are going to benefit from limiting any food that is a high source of sugar, and a very low source of protein.
Don’t care either way. Love fruits. Will eat.
Fruits are good for you unless your names are Adam and Eve
This does not apply to fruit juice correct?
Fruit juice without it's fiber is basically sugar water. Js.
@@carolreid1473 but the sugar and structure is different between the sucrose and fuctose and also depending on how processed it is it may still contain some of that fiber.
But what do we do about the propensity of us humans to selectively breed sweeter and sweeter fruits in order to sell more? Our modern fruits today are already much much sweeter than the original varieties found in the wild and in ancient times. How much of these sugars can we take when we didn’t exactly evolve eating the amounts we find now? Also, we used to eat them seasonally. Now we can get them shipped everywhere, available year-round.
They’re way better than eating processed sugar products, for sure. But at a certain point, one wonders if we’re going to end up with nothing more than fruity bags of sugar that just happen to grow on trees.
Can you provide me references for evidence that the fruits today are sweeter and also that eating fruits in season (or out of season) makes a difference from a diabetes standpoint. I need a scientific reference for this. Thanks.
Some people believe ALL types of sugar are harmful. They choose everything sugar free and not consuming fruits at all. I called them stupid. In some cases sugar free items are more harmful than items with added sugar. Also fruits are good for us, unless you have blood sugar issues and have to carefully monitor your diet.
I agree. Actually in studies eating fruit improves diabetes.
I been avoiding oranges etc all this time 😢
Of course dear dr I do innately understand that added refined sugar and processed foods with sugar are indeed undesirable to eat. However I can sometimes feel very unwell, depleted and low energy from too much fruit. Even one peach. As it’s so hard to determine but I could have fodmap intolerances . In Australia we only have breast testing kits.
But fruits in masses still add weight, I know that from own experience. I replaced them ( about 3/4 of the amount) with veggies that contain little to no „sugar“ and my weight dropped gradually within weeks:)
( Don‘t know all the engl names of the fruits I ate and the veggies I eat as replacement, else I would have listed them)
Calories are still calories
@@drakerothstein4857 Sure, but I didn‘t change the total amount of calories per day. So it has to make a difference from replacing fruit w veggies. ( The additional calories the fruits contain compared to veggies I replaced through nuts bc I needed to add some proteins anyway. We can‘t be 100% sure what causes what without looking at everything in detail and in combination too. Our bodies are complex systems, I don‘t think it‘s wise to look at an isolated process within a complex system to make a valid statement on the whole system so I‘m careful with all nutrition „tips“, I look at my experiences, the changes that come after I have adapted my nutrition, and how healthy I feel, how much energy I have throughout the day etc.
Then I can talk about experiences but without telling ppl that a single change made the difference for my health or similar possibly unhealthy suggestions.
I can say though that I lost weight after replacing most fruits w veggies. That is true and what I experienced. Could other factors play a role I‘m not aware of? Maybe? The additional proteins could or any other little piece of the whole picture;)
Sounds like a volume thing. You get full quicker with the high volume low calorie veggies. So eating 3 servings of veggies might only add the same calories as 1 serving of fruit. Veggies are also generally higher in fiber and nutrients that help your body work more efficiently. All this works together to allow long term weight loss.
WeightWatchers has been using this understanding of fruit and vegetables for years.
@@k.c1126 Yes that‘s possible:)
@@877swissmiss do you now about frutariens? yeah most of them have the problem of beeing to thin.
So you don’t tell me what the big difference is?
That's not the point of the claims. Refining the sugars from fruits, then adding them to foods is the concern. Of course having the sugars combined with the non broken fibre within fruit is going to be better. Fructose has to come from somewhere in nature.
Speaking from personal experience when I eat anything but berries and if I eat corn or potatoes my sugar goes stupid high so it's probably the person's personal situation.
I mean balance is good. God created these things for our benefit. I hate when ppl make it sound like you can’t eat anything!
I quit keto because of the.fruits. No white sugar no pasta , fruits yet can't live without oranges and peaches❤
I eat all kinds of fruits 😋 except banana 🍌 because it has higher calories
Nothing wrong with banana. It's a potassium bearing fruit, and like any other fruit should be eaten in moderation.
I’m pretty deep in the low-carb rabbit hole and I’ve never seen anyone state that fruits are the same as high fructose corn syrup or anything like that.
Read some of our comments on the long video.
@@Medcram ah the civilians….at it again🤷♀️
What about fresh 100% fruit juices? and thanks for the video :)
I don´t know, but what he failed to mentioned here is that the diffrance between fruites is very large. Apple probobly being one of the best, if not the best, and grapes being one of the worst, if not the worst.
but if i just speculate, you might damage the fiber if you juice it. That is true for potatoes. Potatoes carbohydrate is not that bad. But if you mash them, you damage the fiber making the carbohydrate more suggar like. Even worse, if you make powder mash its pretty much the same as eating suggar.
Actually not true. pharmeasy.in/blog/10-low-glycemic-index-fruits-for-diabetes/
me when the processed food
Let's see a blood sugar test before and after eating