Fruit in diet?

[trimspa]

as far as loosing weight..

fruit has a lot of sugar and is high GI, causing glucose levels in your blood to rise. you run the risk of storing some of this extra glucose as fat, if your body doesn't make use of it all.


edit: after reading around some of the other threads, i hope my input is correct enough. please feel free to cut me down.

 

[fizzacyst]

To clear a few things up:

Fructose is not a complex sugar like sucrose. Its actually a monosaccharide. Sucrose is made by dehydration synthesis of one molecule each of glucose and fructose.

All of the "stone fruits" produce scelerid cells that are highly lignified, making them a decent source of fiber-type matierial. (this is why pears have a gritty texture).

Consuming too much fructose with no glucose present (from not eating vegetables, etc) prevents it from moving into the bloodstream properly. In this case, in moves into the lower intestine and feed bacteria, causing gas and water retention.

Fructose is also beneficial in that it aids chelation of various trace minerals like zinc, chromium, copper, etc. This improves the absorption of these minerals tremendously. This helps ward off things like type-II diabetes.

That doesn't mean overdo it with the fruit, as overly large amounts of fructose start causing problems such as glycation-related damage to cells, obesity, and too much cholesteral. This is why people frown on high-fructose corn syrup.