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    8 months ago

    @qyron fruit is healthy.

    The fructose in fruit isn’t as easily absorbed due to fibre. Also there’s a natural limit to how much we can consume, no one eats 20 oranges in one sitting.

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      8 months ago

      no one eats 20 oranges in one sitting

      Unless they are looking for a serious case of the runs.

      But I admit to have over indulged on this particular fruit more than once.

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        8 months ago

        @qyron grapefruit is my particular achilles heel!

        Nevertheless we are physically limited by our stomach capacity and would be very unlikely to consume bioavailable fructose at the rates made possible by industrial fructose such as HFCS.

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        8 months ago

        @FleetingTit I’m still haunted by that scene in Se7en where the guy has “striations” in his stomach from being forced to over eat.

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        @msage even that isn’t as hard on the liver as processed orange juice that has no fibre in it. But it’s the things that have extra fructose added into them that I would be wary of.

        An Australian guy did a documentary where he ate the exact same number of calories he’d eaten before, and worked out just as much, but he went for food with added fructose. It’s really interesting.

        That Sugar Film.