Fruit makes you fat?

What do you guys think of this?

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1029501/Can-fruit-make-fa...

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Permalink Reply by Eli on May 25, 2011 at 6:58am

Look at Doug Graham. Look at Harley. Michael Arnstein. There is still the 10,000 dollar reward from Harley to who can find the fat longterm fruit eater.

Eat as much soft drinks and junkfood you can for 2 years and see what happens.

Eat as much fruit as you can for two years and see what happens.

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Permalink Reply by Jacob on May 25, 2011 at 7:01am

A study has shown that fructose - which is used to sweeten soft drinks and junk food - might be more harmful than other types of sugar.

They aren't talking about fruit and the test wasn't with fruit. Case closed. ^_^

It's like the journalist think: "Oh it's FRUITsugar, so fresh, organic, ripe and whole fruits equals obesity. Yep yep, I'm an expert at this journalist thingy!" ;)

Love!

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Permalink Reply by Olive Fruitvegan on May 25, 2011 at 7:22am

I hate it. Compare the last sentence of this 'article' with the headline. Bad publishing i call this.

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Permalink Reply by Diospyros on May 25, 2011 at 7:25am

Subjects then began an 8-week outpatient intervention and consumed either fructose- (n = 17) or glucose-sweetened (n = 15) beverages at 25% of energy requirements with self-selected ad libitum diets.

Naw, their self-selected, high-fat, high junk-food diet absolutely has nothing to do with creating a predesposition to having some negative effects from having an excess of calories from certain sugar drinks.

Not a chance. Fruit makes you fat.

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Permalink Reply by Alix on May 25, 2011 at 5:08pm

Yeah I guess they probably didn't limit fat at all.

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Permalink Reply by PK on May 25, 2011 at 8:24am

Alix,

I quote from the study itself:

Gone fruity: A natural sugar found in fruits could lead to obesity if it is used to sweeten foods

Most of these studies are full of goose poop. All you have to do is read how it is worded. Here, and I am quoting from the page, is the word if.

This implies:

They did not add a control in their study for low fat raw fruits and greens in there natural and whole forms. They isolated the fruit sugar and added it to other cooked and chemical laden foods.

So my question might be is it the fruit sugar or the food the sugar was added to itself causing the problem.

Ironically, this diet proves that low fat fruitarian diets could work although not specifically worded:

Scientists at the University of California put 33 overweight adults on a diet comprising 30 per cent fat, 55 per cent complex carbohydrates such as bread and rice, and 15 per cent protein for a fortnight.

For a further ten weeks they were moved to a diet in which a quarter of their energy came from either fructose or glucose, New Scientist reports today.

The study states that the diet is 30 percent fat which was mixed with 55% comples carbohydrates and then later this was changed to 25% of energy from fructose or glucose.

This was bad science and a lethal mix. 30% fat, cooked bread and rice, and then fruit sugar. No wonder the poor victims of this study gained weight and unhealthy mid section weight as well.

In conclusion, this is what these geniuses came to:

Dr Francine Kaufman, of the Keck School of Medicine in Los Angeles, said: 'It adds to what we have known for a long time.

'It's probably not a good idea to consume too much sugar.'

Experts point out that this does not mean we should stop eating fruit.

Fresh fruit contains relatively low levels of fructose - and the risks are outweighed by health benefits.

But I already knew this from read Dr. Graham's 80-10-10 book.

Peace, PK