Re: fruit/cinnamon (was: Also a Post reader)

[Guest guest]

Amelia: welcome to the group. We hope to have a meeting of local CRONIES

soon and hope you'll be interested.

I think you're under a misconception that we eat loads of fruit. Fruit is

very healthy, but higher in calories than veggies, and also sends blood

sugar up. So the best plan is to eat mostly veggies and some fruit, but not

too much. It's the same with nuts. A handful a day is healthy - but too

many nuts are very high in calories.

I now sprinkle my fruit with cinnamon, a known blood sugar ameliorator. I

eat a small bowl of fruit (maybe 1/2 cup of mixed fruit salad) every evening

for " dessert " sprinkled with cinnamon, and topped w/ff yogurt and brewer's

yeast. For past posts on the magical properties of cinnamon, see this post

and the subsequent thread:

/message/8949

on 5/6/2004 10:37 AM, Amelia Favere at afavere@... wrote:

> I'm new to researching all this, but I'm puzzled--how

> can you fast and eat mostly fruit, etc. when blood

> sugar is such a factor? I can barely eat fruit, as it

> sends my blood sugar way up, and if I don't eat a

> starch and protein every few hours, I crash.

[Guest guest]

Depite fruit's reputation as causing high blood sugar, in testing, many

fruits have low glycemic index scores. Even whole grain products often score

significantly higher than many fruits.

http://diabetes.about.com/library/mendosagi/ngilists.htm

>From: Francesca Skelton <fskelton@...>

>Reply-

>< >

>Subject: [ ] Re: fruit/cinnamon (was: Also a Post reader)

>Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 16:10:08 -0400

>

>Amelia: welcome to the group. We hope to have a meeting of local CRONIES

>soon and hope you'll be interested.

>

>I think you're under a misconception that we eat loads of fruit. Fruit is

>very healthy, but higher in calories than veggies, and also sends blood

>sugar up. So the best plan is to eat mostly veggies and some fruit, but

>not

>too much. It's the same with nuts. A handful a day is healthy - but too

>many nuts are very high in calories.

>

>I now sprinkle my fruit with cinnamon, a known blood sugar ameliorator. I

>eat a small bowl of fruit (maybe 1/2 cup of mixed fruit salad) every

>evening

>for " dessert " sprinkled with cinnamon, and topped w/ff yogurt and brewer's

>yeast. For past posts on the magical properties of cinnamon, see this

>post

>and the subsequent thread:

>

> /message/8949

>

>

>on 5/6/2004 10:37 AM, Amelia Favere at afavere@... wrote:

>

> > I'm new to researching all this, but I'm puzzled--how

> > can you fast and eat mostly fruit, etc. when blood

> > sugar is such a factor? I can barely eat fruit, as it

> > sends my blood sugar way up, and if I don't eat a

> > starch and protein every few hours, I crash.

>

[Guest guest]

But high fructose corn syrup is high 89 verse 93 for sucrose. Fructose

itself is 39 if my memory serves me.

Positive Dennis

Dowling wrote:

Depite fruit's reputation as causing high blood sugar, in testing, many

fruits have low glycemic index scores. Even whole grain products often

score

significantly higher than many fruits.

http://diabetes.about.com/library/mendosagi/ngilists.htm

>From: Francesca Skelton <fskelton@...>

>Reply-

>< >

>Subject: [ ] Re: fruit/cinnamon (was: Also a Post

reader)

>Date: Thu, 06 May 2004 16:10:08 -0400

>

>Amelia: welcome to the group. We hope to have a meeting of local

CRONIES

>soon and hope you'll be interested.

>

>I think you're under a misconception that we eat loads of fruit.

Fruit is

>very healthy, but higher in calories than veggies, and also sends

blood

>sugar up. So the best plan is to eat mostly veggies and some

fruit, but

>not

>too much. It's the same with nuts. A handful a day is healthy -

but too

>many nuts are very high in calories.

>

>I now sprinkle my fruit with cinnamon, a known blood sugar

ameliorator. I

>eat a small bowl of fruit (maybe 1/2 cup of mixed fruit salad)

every

>evening

>for "dessert" sprinkled with cinnamon, and topped w/ff yogurt and

brewer's

>yeast. For past posts on the magical properties of cinnamon, see

this

>post

>and the subsequent thread:

>

> /message/8949

>

>

>on 5/6/2004 10:37 AM, Amelia Favere at afavere@... wrote:

>

> > I'm new to researching all this, but I'm puzzled--how

> > can you fast and eat mostly fruit, etc. when blood

> > sugar is such a factor? I can barely eat fruit, as it

> > sends my blood sugar way up, and if I don't eat a

> > starch and protein every few hours, I crash.

>