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Fructose does not raise blood sugar (!) but can lead to NAFLD. Bananas have a relatively low GI. Fat is not the enemy!

• cies 8y ago
  > Fructose does not raise blood sugar (!) It does, but in the absence of fat (>10cal%) in the diet it does not raise it in a significant way. > but can lead to NAFLD Do you have a source for that? Here a pretty comprehensive breakdown of the ways NAFLD can come about. https://nutritionfacts.org/video/prevent-non-alcoholic-fatty-liver-disease/ https://nutritionfacts.org/video/prevent-non-alcoholic-fatty...
  • loeg 8y ago
    FYI: nutritionfacts.org is a quack site run by a quack (Michael Greger).[0][1] It may on occasion present the truth (by accident if for no other reason), but it should not be trusted as a source. [0]: https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/death-as-a-foodborne-illness-curable-by-veganism/ https://sciencebasedmedicine.org/death-as-a-foodborne-illnes... [1]: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-not-to-die-review https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/how-not-to-die-review
    • cies 8y ago
      [0]: Rubbish. Greger (and a long list of other docs) promote a WFPB diet. They are not professionally promoting "veganism" (which is not a diet, but an ethical stance; and wrt to diet is more broad than the WFPB diet), and this article makes claims against veganism. Off point. Let's move on... [1]: HNTD (the book) is on the topic of treating disease with whole plant food. Is that a problem? Is he denying that sometimes another approach is needed? (nope) Is he claiming prevention is better than curing? (yups) Now the article does little more that claiming "cherry picking"... 1/4th of the book is refs to scientific publications. Whether you think this was cherry picked or carefully selected is up to you... It more a matter of taste than anything else.