Cutting back on sugar? Here’s why fruit should stay on the menu
Thinking Nutrition
English - October 18, 2021 14:00 - 7 minutes - 5.23 MBNutrition Health & Fitness Science nutrition health science dietetics Homepage Download Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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With all the recent health focus on sugar, poor old fruit has gotten undeserved attention for the simple reason that it is high in sugar. And from that, some very average advice has surfaced that people need to limit how much whole fruit they eat. Now a systematic review puts to bed any health concerns anyone should have about fruit, finding that whole fresh fruit does not contribute to weight gain. Eat up.
Links referred to in the podcast
Systematic review of the Impact of whole fresh fruit on energy intake and body weight https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnut.2019.00066/fullFrozen fruit and veg increases consumption https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29290348Episode transcript
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