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Hi Lauren,
For some people, avoiding tropical fruits, dried fruits, canned or pureed fruits will help that person lose weight or control blood sugars, if a person has been on medication that affects blood sugars (such as diabetes meds or steroids). Eating an apple for supper (taking care to finish ingesting calories by 5:30 PM) will also help those people who are trying to reverse pain or lower blood pressure.
For diabetics, the fruits grown in the northern USA will get them to their goals faster than will the tropical fruits or dried fruits. The northern fruits have more fiber, including pears, berries, and such fruits as stone fruits like plums, peaches, nectarines, and cherries.
Eating beans, veggies, and whole grains for breakfast, while saving fruits for supper, will allow the most refreshing sleep and will work best to prevent daytime food cravings the most. The improved night’s sleep may curb pain in the day following.
For those new to lighter earlier suppers, be patient. The body will adjust after a month or so.
If a person is trying to lower their cholesterol, limiting the fruits to those described above (and keeping the servings to a minimum at supper) seem to improve lipid profiles the most. Fructose raises cholesterol. But most especially when ingested as high fructose corn syrup, a sweetener added to Ketchup and many processed foods.
Frozen fruits are almost as good as fresh, but canned fruits so often have more sugar than we need, even if packed in fruit juice.
However, if teen-age boys are reading this, desperate to build muscles and not to lose weight, then the answer is: eat all the fruit you want. Fruit should probably not make thin teen boys fat or sick.
Given that the standard American diet doesn't come anywhere close to the recommended servings of fruit, I personally think fruit consumption should be encouraged. Dr. Carney's answer gives some great advice on how to optimize your fruit consumption, but I am not aware of any fruit whose consumption would be associated with a health risk If you are healthy and at a healthy weight.
Hi Lauren,
For some people, avoiding tropical fruits, dried fruits, canned or pureed fruits will help that person lose weight or control blood sugars, if a person has been on medication that affects blood sugars (such as diabetes meds or steroids). Eating an apple for supper (taking care to finish ingesting calories by 5:30 PM) will also help those people who are trying to reverse pain or lower blood pressure.
For diabetics, the fruits grown in the northern USA will get them to their goals faster than will the tropical fruits or dried fruits. The northern fruits have more fiber, including pears, berries, and such fruits as stone fruits like plums, peaches, nectarines, and cherries.
Eating beans, veggies, and whole grains for breakfast, while saving fruits for supper, will allow the most refreshing sleep and will work best to prevent daytime food cravings the most. The improved night’s sleep may curb pain in the day following.
For those new to lighter earlier suppers, be patient. The body will adjust after a month or so.
If a person is trying to lower their cholesterol, limiting the fruits to those described above (and keeping the servings to a minimum at supper) seem to improve lipid profiles the most. Fructose raises cholesterol. But most especially when ingested as high fructose corn syrup, a sweetener added to Ketchup and many processed foods.
Frozen fruits are almost as good as fresh, but canned fruits so often have more sugar than we need, even if packed in fruit juice.
However, if teen-age boys are reading this, desperate to build muscles and not to lose weight, then the answer is: eat all the fruit you want. Fruit should probably not make thin teen boys fat or sick.
Great question Lauren,
The answer is not so simple and so I am going to ask my wife, hopefully this evening to take a look at your question. There is NOT one answer that applies to everybody. This is because the answer generally relates to conditions that people might have. We do have some information about this in our Starch-Smart System. Please check out the four levels and you will see that there are differences under all of the headings, including the heading about fruits.
You might find it useful to download our Starch-Smart System PDF for easier comparision purposes.
Vegetables, fruits, grains and legumes are great foods and generally are not off limits to anybody.
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