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Re:Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by theptip on Sunday July 29, 2018 @03:56PM (#17639963)
It does, assuming you're getting enough vegetables; fruit is mostly sugar (high glycemic load which causes crashes, promotes diabetes, etc.), so not actually that good for you on the macronutrient level.
Re:Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by anonuser123456 on Sunday July 29, 2018 @11:22PM (#17641803)
Uh not really. Most fruit is both low to medium GI and GL. Sugar in fruit is bound to fiber and bloodstream uptake is fairly slow.

There is a negative correlation between RDA fruit consumption and diabetes.

Re:Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by gassiss on Monday July 30, 2018 @09:12AM (#17644160)
I'm wondering why you're flagged. Yes, fruits have sugar (fructose), but when you're eating the fruit whole your comment is on point. The fiber in the fruit makes the sugar absorption slower.

Of course if you're drinking 2L of juice a day you're gonna have a problem, as you would going ham on any kind of food. (ANY)

Re:Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by dalore on Monday July 30, 2018 @06:00AM (#17643323)
Correlation does not equal causation. People who generally eat less fruit are people who usually ignore health advice in general, and would replace fruit with stuff like sugar or carbs. Eating too much fruit gives an overload of fructose, which also triggers an insulin response.

If you eat the right meats, like liver, you get more vitamins and minerals then you would from fruit. So if you know what you are eating, it's fine to cut off fruit.

Re:Melatonin: Much More Than You Wanted to Know by anonuser123456 on Monday July 30, 2018 @04:32PM (#17647755)
>Eating too much fruit gives an overload of fructose,

Note the operative modifier 'too much'

You can eat your recommended daily intake of fruit in one sitting with no other food and still remain below high GL levels.

Digestion is a complex process. Your model that anything containing fructose is bad is not supported by any data / analysis I am aware of, and contradicted by nearly all of it.

Mammals process most of thier fructose consumption in their small intestines. Only high doses that overload this capacity lead to harmful spillover to the liver etc.