Is fruit and Veg the best?
By skmak110
@skmak110 (79)
November 4, 2010 7:50pm CST
APPARENTLY not. Vegetable, yes did allows a great addition to the diet. If served in butter to deliver the fat soluble vitamins they contain. But fructose,the fruit sugar in fruit, goes straight to the liver and is stored as fat.
Fruits in my opinion is avoided by those trying to loose weight. 'Vitamins and minerals in animal foods-meat,fish,eggs,and dairy products beat those in fruit hands down (Zoe Harcombe)
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@magtibaygom (4858)
• Philippines
5 Nov 10
You're talking about sugar, specifically sugars that are readily available in the blood stream right after consumption. You may be right about fructose, but you may have overlooked other great benefits of eating fruits, like antioxidants... Vitamins from plant source are always better than those that come from animals. They usually have lesser side-effects. Like for example, Vitamins A (beta-carotene) from carrots is safer than Vitamin A in Retinol Acetate that are extracted from animals.
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@asliah (11137)
• Philippines
5 Nov 10
not that much.our body needs also meat,rice and specially water of course. due to our biological make up body,we are not adapted to make use of any nutrients derived from animal products. our body cannot effectively using them,compromising digestion, energy levels and producing toxins.
@swirlz (3136)
• Philippines
5 Nov 10
I don't think you got that right. Fructose is stored as fat only when there are large amounts consumed that the liver can't process it anymore.
This is my source of information: http://lowcarbdiets.about.com/od/nutrition/a/fructosedangers.htm
It also said there: Fruits and vegetables have relatively small, "normal" amounts of fructose that most bodies can handle quite well. The problem comes with added sugars in the modern diet, the volume of which has grown rapidly in recent decades. The blame has often been pinned to high fructose corn syrup (HFCS), which is made up of 55% fructose and 45% glucose.