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Today’s dieting trends are tricking people into thinking fruit is unhealthy

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Many diabetics have stopped eating bananas...You may review your decision after reading this

[h=1]Today’s dieting trends are tricking people into thinking fruit is unhealthy[/h]

Some dieters may feel still wary of eating a banana (approximately 100 calories) because they are keeping a daily calorie count, which is increasingly easy to do with apps like LoseIt and MyFitnessPal. But simply staying below a specific number does not necessarily guarantee weight loss or a healthy diet. “A calorie is not just a calorie,” says Rigoli. “One hundred calories of broccoli or 100 calories of a cookie will give you such widely different nutrients and affect your weight and your mood and your energy and your blood sugar and digestion so differently.”
In an article published in July of 2013 in The Journal of the American Medical Association, David Ludwig, director of the New Balance Foundation Obesity Prevention Center at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, makes a similar point about fructose. “Fructose in its primary natural form (whole fruit) is not associated with adverse effects,” he notes. What matters isn’t just how much fructose you eat, but the form in which fructose is delivered. Eating fruit, and the fiber and vitamins it contains, is associated with lower body weights and less risk of obesity-related illnesses.
So why is fruit getting a bad rap these days? Rigoli sees fruit confusion as the result of people’s general tendency to seek out overly simplified nutritional theories. The most common misconceptions, she says, are that all carbs and meat are bad and everything gluten-free is good. “And coconut,” Rigoli says. “People have become obsessed with it.” Carbs and sugar have emerged as the current nutritional villains. That makes it easy to look at a banana and frown at the calorie count and 27 grams of carbs, without recognizing that it also contains three grams of fiber, about 20% of your daily B-6 vitamin needs, and a splash of vitamin C. Plus, there’s just one ingredient in a banana: banana. Try to get that from a 100-calorie package of mini Oreos.

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