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Becky · 01-26-2006, 01:59 PM

Fruit is sugar (with good nutritional value) but still sugar. If you eat it with a meal or as your dessert, you are consuming it with fiber (cereals, brown rice etc) from your meal, proteins and fats (what little you may be eatting). It all mixes up in the stomach at the same time and reduces the glycemic index (how much sugar and how much insulin is put out to use up that sugar) of the fruit. Its like red food coloring. It is very red. Add a drop to water and its pink. Add some milk and its baby girl pink. Proteins and fats and high fiber food reduces the over all "sugaryness" of anything sweet.

So, if you are watching your glycemic index and the way your body outputs insulin (at a nice slow and steady rate), you need to not eat sugary foods alone and fruit is included in that.

I eat fruit with my cereal in the morning or with plain yogurt or as a dessert after a meal. (I eat these things like a diabetic would need to eat it).

I follow alot of Gina's ideas but not this one. Although Gina says eat fruit alone like the Europeans (but they eat it with cheese which has the fat and protein to lower the glycemic index of the whole mess in the gut).

Becky

01-26-2006, 01:59 PM	#4
Becky Senior Member Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Stockton, NJ Posts: 4,179	Fruit is sugar (with good nutritional value) but still sugar. If you eat it with a meal or as your dessert, you are consuming it with fiber (cereals, brown rice etc) from your meal, proteins and fats (what little you may be eatting). It all mixes up in the stomach at the same time and reduces the glycemic index (how much sugar and how much insulin is put out to use up that sugar) of the fruit. Its like red food coloring. It is very red. Add a drop to water and its pink. Add some milk and its baby girl pink. Proteins and fats and high fiber food reduces the over all "sugaryness" of anything sweet. So, if you are watching your glycemic index and the way your body outputs insulin (at a nice slow and steady rate), you need to not eat sugary foods alone and fruit is included in that. I eat fruit with my cereal in the morning or with plain yogurt or as a dessert after a meal. (I eat these things like a diabetic would need to eat it). I follow alot of Gina's ideas but not this one. Although Gina says eat fruit alone like the Europeans (but they eat it with cheese which has the fat and protein to lower the glycemic index of the whole mess in the gut). Becky