Fruit and Fat?
I have come across an article that says fruit can make you fat and as a follower of your diet I would like to know your take on it:
Regards,
Dirk
posted by Hibernation Diet Blogger @ 10:18 AM
Tuesday, September 05, 2006
Regards,
Dirk
1 Comments:
Fruit could theoretically make you fat if you ate a bucket load of it.
It would be impossible because the quantity of fructose would overload your gut first before it ever reached the liver and you would suffer a major attack of the runs.
This is exactly why the notion that fruits contain sugars and are therefore 'bad' for you is such potent rubbish.
If you go to nutritional data sites you will find this nonsense listed under fruits - 'the bad side is that the carbs consist of sugars' or some such rubbish.
How do they imagine the brain is fuelled?
How do they imagine the investment of human biology in two differing enzyme systems, fructokinase and glucokinase to optimise liver uptake for fuelling the brain and hexokinase (via insulin) for fuelling muscles.
Is all this massive biological investment in these different enzyme systems just some kind of accident?
When Jamie Oliver threw out the junk food in schools and gave the kids fruit and vegetables the teachers reported that the kids were concentrating much better within days.
Why?
Because their brains were being fuelled optimally for the first time in their lives, via fructose uptake, via translocation of the glucose enzyme, (glucokinase - fructose driven), and glucose uptake, providing them with a stable liver glycogen store for their brains - simple, so so simple.
But everybody who thinks that all sugars are the same regardless of source will continue to promote this nonsense.
Humans are made of sugars, but not spices, boys and girls, all biological molecules originate as glucose, whether carbohydrates, fats or proteins are constructed from glucose in plants and then some also in animals including humans (some we cannot make and must be got from diet - essential).
Fats are elongated 2 carbon fragments of glucose and proteins are constructed from sugars with nitrogen and sulphur.
We have 30 seconds of glucose in the brain at any moment and if the liver is not optimally fuelled for the night fast proteins (muscle proteins) are shredded to make glucose for the brain.
When you go to bed the brain will know exactly to the last nanogram exactly how much glucose is in the liver and will act accordingly.
If it is well supplied for the following 8 hours it will activate the pituitary and the recovery (fat burning) hormones will be released.
If not the adrenals will be activated with all the horrors that implies.
It really is as simple as that.
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