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PMR Diet: Foods to eat and avoid
Polymyalgia Rheumatica (PMR) | Last Active: Dec 7 9:36am | Replies (113)Comment receiving replies
I am aware that fruits do contain natural sugar. Maybe I should have stated that these recipes are good because they have no ADDED sugar. The following quote is from Healthline.com:
"Many people now believe that because added sugars can potentially have negative effects, the same must apply to fruits, which also contain fructose.
However, this is a misconception. Fructose is harmful only in large amounts, and it’s difficult to get excessive amounts of fructose from fruit. For most people, the amount of sugar in fruit is safe to eat."
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That article is partly right, but fruits and the sugars in them used to be eaten only seasonally when they ripened locally, that's the natural way to eat fruit. It's only in recent decades with the rise of commercial fruit industries that fruits are transported long distances and sold and eaten all year, and that has contributed to our increasingly high fructose sugar consumption. Even table sugar is 50% fructose. Sugar is sugar.