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Fruit - good or bad...?

Mbaker said:
I can tell you what I do, which is nothing special. I either eat once or twice a day. I ignore pre / post work out mantra, no protein shakes, nothing. I make sure I stretch properly to get the lactic out (this is generically important). The body will naturally replinish the glycogen in the muscles, and unless you are seriously bodybuilding timing isn't essential.

I eat berries, nuts, full fat yogurt, seeds, lots of spices, meat, fish in moderation (but sometimes a double portion on ocassions), loads of vegetables, squeezed lemon juice and pulp each morning, freshbrew coffee, teas, water.

I am able to do brisk walk 15 to 20 minutes, 30 minute gym class, and HiiT weights in a fasted state, eating at circa 16.00 if omad. I think once you are fat adapted this is so easy. I remember once viewing on youtube a Vegan strongman on omad and didn't believe it was possible, obviously I am a convert now. I pick when I eat once or twice (my non-diabetic wife also now easily does omad).
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Thanks Mbaker, very helpful. I love your graph/avatar. Please, what is omad?
 
caroline_92 said:
5 a day is an arbitrary number, but it works well as being memorable and an achievable target for people, which can only be a good thing. A good place to start for many people!
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Yes, it's just a pity that the mantra, even in guidance for diabetics, always starts "FRUIT and vegetables", despite the fact that the advice is usually to eat 3 servings of vegetables and only 2 of fruit.
 
Alexandra100 said:
Yes, it's just a pity that the mantra, even in guidance for diabetics, always starts "FRUIT and vegetables", despite the fact that the advice is usually to eat 3 servings of vegetables and only 2 of fruit.
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Absolutely - I keep say it should be veg first and then fruit.
 
caroline_92 said:
5 a day is an arbitrary number, but it works well as being memorable and an achievable target for people, which can only be a good thing. A good place to start for many people!
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I agree. In particular, it is a much larger quantity than many people on the modern western diet eat (or what is called here in America the Standard American Diet, with its appropriate acronym SAD). It is nice and memorable. I mean, there are plenty of people here in the States who not only aren't getting "five a day" but are effectively getting "zero." It crosses borders -- there are public-service ads on French TV for it, along with the slogan, "manger bouger" which very loosely translates as, "eat and exercise."

(That is totally aside from the issue of whether it makes sense for those who have diabetes.)
 
Other than small amounts of berries, I eat tiny bits of pineapple (never on its own) and tiny amounts of banana in baking from time to time, because I figure it's better than licorice allsorts, which I shall always miss, and jelly babies, and milk bottle sweets and.....

sigh.
 
I eat MASSES of fruit

avocado
bell peppers
tomatoes
courgettes
aubergines
cucumber
chillis
squash
marrow
...and berries

they've got great nutrition, esp vit C, and v low fructose levels.

very happy with my fruit intake ;)
 
Brunneria said:
I eat MASSES of fruit

avocado
bell peppers
tomatoes
courgettes
aubergines
cucumber
chillis
squash
marrow
...and berries

they've got great nutrition, esp vit C, and v low fructose levels.

very happy with my fruit intake ;)
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and:
beans
peas
...

:DYes I was thinking last night about how many fruits we probably think of (and eat) as veggies....

But I think we probably should be adding nuts and seeds to @Brunneria's list as well as they're also the reprodutive parts of plants and trees.

Like @AloeSvea I don't actually count - or bother - about the number of portions of (in alphabetical order:) fruit or vegetables I eat a day - I just eat some, but try to enure that over a week I have a reasonable variety of both.

Robbity
 
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