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Fruit might be good for it's vitamins, but in moderation. Increasing fructose consumption after a certain threshold - which could be easily crossed when increas

by leovonl 12y ago

Fruit might be good for it's vitamins, but in moderation. Increasing fructose consumption after a certain threshold - which could be easily crossed when increasing it's consumption - would not necessarily be a good thing.

InclinedPlane 12y ago
That's not really a concern as long as it's just fruit, not juice or processed fruit. There's so much fiber and water in fresh fruit, it's difficult to consume enough at a fast enough rate for the sugar intake to be problematic.
olau 12y ago
Do you have a reputable source for that? Fruit is definitely good for more than its vitamins. Also, we are not monkeys anymore, but monkeys eat a lot of fresh raw fruit. Arguably they climb trees while doing so but eating like a monkey seems like a relatively safe thing to do to me.
- leovonl 11y ago
  http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-fructose-bad-for-you-201104262425 http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-fructose-bad-for-you-2... This is just one source, of course, but is not the only one in that direction. Carbohydrates in excess - specially sugars like fructose - are being linked to increase of fat accumulation on the body and much of the modern day metabolic diseases - Google scholar should give you a bunch of results in this one too.
- logfromblammo 12y ago
  Elephants and manatees are closely related, as well, but I would not recommend that they look to one another for dietary recommendations. Speciation can occur when different populations fill different niches. Human physiology (along with still extant hunter-gatherer cultures) indicates that we are opportunistically omnivorous cursorial hunters. The species closest to us genetically are opportunistically omnivorous frugivores. Chimps and bonobos eat fruits and nuts most of the time, and eat monkeys maybe once a month. If you want to consult the animal kingdom for dietary advice, look to wolves for the meat and bears for everything else. Eat like a bear until you see a potential prey animal, then run it down and eat it like a wolf. When you finish, switch back to bear mode. That seems like a relatively safe diet to me.

by leovonl 12y ago

InclinedPlane 12y ago

That's not really a concern as long as it's just fruit, not juice or processed fruit. There's so much fiber and water in fresh fruit, it's difficult to consume enough at a fast enough rate for the sugar intake to be problematic.

olau 12y ago

Do you have a reputable source for that? Fruit is definitely good for more than its vitamins. Also, we are not monkeys anymore, but monkeys eat a lot of fresh raw fruit. Arguably they climb trees while doing so but eating like a monkey seems like a relatively safe thing to do to me.

leovonl 11y ago
http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-fructose-bad-for-you-201104262425 http://www.health.harvard.edu/blog/is-fructose-bad-for-you-2... This is just one source, of course, but is not the only one in that direction. Carbohydrates in excess - specially sugars like fructose - are being linked to increase of fat accumulation on the body and much of the modern day metabolic diseases - Google scholar should give you a bunch of results in this one too.
logfromblammo 12y ago
Elephants and manatees are closely related, as well, but I would not recommend that they look to one another for dietary recommendations. Speciation can occur when different populations fill different niches. Human physiology (along with still extant hunter-gatherer cultures) indicates that we are opportunistically omnivorous cursorial hunters. The species closest to us genetically are opportunistically omnivorous frugivores. Chimps and bonobos eat fruits and nuts most of the time, and eat monkeys maybe once a month. If you want to consult the animal kingdom for dietary advice, look to wolves for the meat and bears for everything else. Eat like a bear until you see a potential prey animal, then run it down and eat it like a wolf. When you finish, switch back to bear mode. That seems like a relatively safe diet to me.