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**Doug Freyburger** · April 20th, 2010, 05:18 PM posted to alt.support.diet.low-carb

wrote:

I almost felt asleep in the bus within an hour after having a smoothie
made of banana and strawberries. Coincidence or is it my insuline? We
are bombarbed in the media with the "Fruits are great for you""
messages. If they are, then why are they killing me like this?

The idea that a smoothie is equivalent to the fruit is false. Even if
you make the smoothie yourself the blender separates the sugar from the
fiber to make it higher glycemic load. If you didn't make it yourself
even watching how it was made you're likely to miss high carb added
ingredients.

The idea that fruits are good is fine for someone who's never gotten fat
in the first place. It's a load of nonsense for those of us have gotten
fat. What's a fruit? It's a vegitable that grew a fancy outfit and
added sugar to itself. Given the choice between some vegitable and some
fruit there's rarely any up side to picking the fruit over the vegitable.

That said some fruit are a lot lower carb than others. Cucumber is a
fruit but it's so low in carbs few ever consider it a fruit and it's on
the salad veggie list. Tomatoes are low enough folks like to add them
in the early weeks. Strawberries are low enough that they are early on
the lists of fruit.

Other fruits are a lot higher carb than others. Bananas, pineapples and
dates are filled with sugar. I think it was the Greek philosopher
Anaximander who said "If the gods had not made honey we would think figs
the sweeter".

Fruits are great for folks who think french fries count against their
daily 5 servings of veggies. Have you even seen what a serving is? The
salads I often have with dinner are tiny but they count as 2 servings!
I come closer to 10 servings of veggies per day than to 5 when I take
into account the tiny size of a serving. To think that some folks eat a
medium serving of fries at Burger King and count it as their 5 servings
for the day, no matter even something as bad as a banana is supposed to
be beneficial. But it isn't compared to real food. Bananas are candy
without being called that.