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Hot Topics / Re: Gabriel Cousins about fruit and fructose
« on: November 09, 2011, 09:14:24 am »
I tell my patients to avoid excess fruit. Clearly, flora (flowers leading to fruit) are terribly rare in the wild and while fruit offers excellent nutritional value it is at the cost of fatty liver. Excess fructose causes this just as excess alcohol does. So, How much is too much? Generally, as a physician, I recommend less than 30 grams a day. It's harder than you think with all the crap these days, but usually you can eat 2-3 servings of fruit a day and be within this as long as everything else is more veggie/protein.  The fructose goes straight to the liver for storage. Or, if you eat too much, it spills out of the tank as triglycerides. Bad LDLs anyone?  O0

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Fundamentally, this is a logic problem. You see, it's not what the Eskimos' were eating, it is what they were NOT eating. Many observers note lower cancer rates in them due to the high healthy fat content, but because they lacked fiber and plant materials, they must be considered one of the most extreme human conditions. To attach them to a modern diet, one would have to say they are old school Atkins. He believed we were carnivores, purely. As in all things, moderation. Faces give nothing away about aging. Cells do, however. General observations about a population are not scientific. If that were the case, Alabama would be considered the worst population sample ever and they live in a place with abundant supplies of everything. Don't let eskimos' issues take you off the path.

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