Message #18185

[Heba E. Husseyn]

You're right sis Ruhi.   You mom-in-law's sister does need to cut down on her 'gluttony' ......   lol.

Well, let me explicate that a bit more.

Eating fruits is unarguably good for health and good for weight loss.   The most popular range of fruits are the stoned ones such as peaches, nectarines, apricots, plums and cherries.  Avocado too is a stoned fruit but it's far higher in calories than others, and thus requires greater moderation.  Medical views of Western researchers keep changing periodically as do their already altered Bibles.   Until a couple of decades ago, we were told that if you or anyone in your family is diabetic, the safest fruit for them is an apple a day.  Even an orange a day was viewed with a frown.   Nowadays they say that except dates, watermelon, pineapples and papayas which are high on the glycemic index (GI), all other fruits are okay.  By the way, GI is a rating of foods on a scale from 1 to 100.  The score indicates how quickly the food item may raise blood sugar levels.  They say foods up to the 20s range are okay for diabetics and weight watchers. However, don't grab those adventurous suggestions to go haywire on fruits.  Again, the bottom line is, whether natural sugar or added sugar, neither is ideal for diabetics nor weight loss.  This doesn't mean an embargo on fruits for diabetics.  By all means they can consume stoned fruits including avocados, but that doesn't go to say it's fine to consume a platter full of 2 peaches, 2 nectarines, 4 apricots, 2 plums in addition to two or three avocados daily.  That would be far from wise for any one, particularly if one is overweight or has a parent who is/was diabetic.  Giving that much credit to fruits as a safe diet (as many do) could be hurtful even for non-diabetics on the longer term who  have a family history of diabetes.  Never forget, moderation is the key to keeping a diet (no matter what) within the safe limit.