Hi All,
If fruit is so healthy for us, why do so many seem to have problems with fructose?
http://www.drbriffa.com/2010/10/21/anot ... -fructose/
Tex
More Evidence Of Fructose Malabsorption
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More Evidence Of Fructose Malabsorption
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.
Tex,
Like with everything else we develop problems with, we are overconsuming it, modifying it beyond recognition and eating it year long instead of seasonally. When I was growing up we had many fruit trees in our yard. I remember the apples being relatively small compared to the giant size ones of today, which are really considered 2 fruit servings by dietitians. We eat a fair amount of fruit in our house and don't have a big problem with it, but I mostly buy organic, normal size fruit, in season. The other day I sent pomegranate seeds in my son's school lunch for his fruit serving - not a sugar laden peach cup. I don't think fruit is the enemy, but rather how we include fruit in our diets these days.
Here is an article that just came out about HFCS and how soda now contains MORE than they claim. The news about HFCS, aka corn sugar", gets more disturbing by the day.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/la ... 5466.story
Mary Beth
Like with everything else we develop problems with, we are overconsuming it, modifying it beyond recognition and eating it year long instead of seasonally. When I was growing up we had many fruit trees in our yard. I remember the apples being relatively small compared to the giant size ones of today, which are really considered 2 fruit servings by dietitians. We eat a fair amount of fruit in our house and don't have a big problem with it, but I mostly buy organic, normal size fruit, in season. The other day I sent pomegranate seeds in my son's school lunch for his fruit serving - not a sugar laden peach cup. I don't think fruit is the enemy, but rather how we include fruit in our diets these days.
Here is an article that just came out about HFCS and how soda now contains MORE than they claim. The news about HFCS, aka corn sugar", gets more disturbing by the day.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/health/la ... 5466.story
Mary Beth
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Mary Beth,
IMO, you've accurately described the problem. I had the same experience when I was growing up. We ate a lot of fruit and veggies when they were in season, (IOW, available from our own garden), but the rest of the year, other than potatoes, (which were a daily staple), beans, (which were eaten maybe 2 or 3 times a week), and occasional fruit salad, (mostly on holidays), they were eaten much less frequently. Until I was in my 40s, I considered salads to be rabbit food.
The closest I ever came to eating a salad, was the onions and lettuce in a hamburger. Whenever I forgot to specify "cut the tomatoes", I carefully removed them and discarded them, before eating the burger. 
Now that's an interesting article. Who woudda thunk that such huge manufacturing corporations would lie to us about the amount of such a healthy ingredient as fructose, in their products. Maybe they figure that if they're going to rip us off anyway, they may as well do a good job of it.
Thanks for the link.
Tex
IMO, you've accurately described the problem. I had the same experience when I was growing up. We ate a lot of fruit and veggies when they were in season, (IOW, available from our own garden), but the rest of the year, other than potatoes, (which were a daily staple), beans, (which were eaten maybe 2 or 3 times a week), and occasional fruit salad, (mostly on holidays), they were eaten much less frequently. Until I was in my 40s, I considered salads to be rabbit food.
The closest I ever came to eating a salad, was the onions and lettuce in a hamburger. Whenever I forgot to specify "cut the tomatoes", I carefully removed them and discarded them, before eating the burger. Now that's an interesting article. Who woudda thunk that such huge manufacturing corporations would lie to us about the amount of such a healthy ingredient as fructose, in their products.
Maybe they figure that if they're going to rip us off anyway, they may as well do a good job of it. Thanks for the link.
Tex
It is suspected that some of the hardest material known to science can be found in the skulls of GI specialists who insist that diet has nothing to do with the treatment of microscopic colitis.