Does eating fruits anyway harm a diabetic person ?
that other person is wrong. My father in law has diabetes and was told to specifically stay away from grapes. Fresh fruit CAN raise your sugar levels. Q Avoid Fruit With Diabetes? My sister says you should eat very little fruit if you have diabetes, and that eating too much will raise your blood-sugar level. I say fruit is a natural source of sugar and yet you don’t want to overdo it. What do you think about eating fruit if you have diabetes? A Answer (Published 12/28/2004) Fruits provide us with health-enhancing vitamins and phytochemicals as well as fiber, all important components of our diets, and there is no reason why people with diabetes should forego these benefits. However, you may have to be careful about the fruits you choose, how often you eat them and when you eat them. If you take a look at the glycemic index (GI), a measure of how fast carbohydrate foods (which include fruits) are converted in the body to blood glucose, you’ll see that there are big differences between fr
I was diagnosed with gestational diabetes recently. I’m in no way an expert, but I did have to see a nutritionist. I posed the same question to her because I have always loved fresh fruit. What she told me was that a diabetic on a normal 2000 calorie diet should consume 4 servings of fruit a day, spaced throughout the day. For me she has me have one serving with breakfast, one at lunch, one in the afternoon and one in the evening or with dinner. Each serving of fruit should be consumed with at least one serving of protein (peanut butter, nuts, cheese…something like that). One serving is about 1/2 a cup of grapes, strawberries, or melon, 1/2 a banana, 2 plums or one small apple or peach. Certain fruits react differently with blood sugar for different people. For example, my mother in law who is a type 2 can eat apples with no effect on her blood sugar, but I can’t touch them without spiking. So to answer your question, diabetics can eat fruit and it won’t harm them as long as they eat
The answer is a little bit complicated, and not quite what most people think. Here’s a brief explanation: 1. Fruits and animals co-evolved over many tens of millions of years. The fruits provide valuable nutrition for the animals, which disperse the fruit seeds in nice warm piles of … uh … fertilizer, all ready to start the next generation of plants. 2. Fruits were the natural diets of our evolutionary primate ancestors, millions of years ago in east Africa. Fruits are still the bulk of the diet for our closest surviving relatives, the bonobos, chimpanzees and gorillas. 3. Fruits are a very, very nutritious food for us, with lots of fiber, water, vitamins C and A, potassium, and more. The problem is that agriculture, especially modern agriculture, has turned fruits into something very different from what our ancestors once ate. Over thousands of years, we have selectively cultivated sweeter and sweeter fruits, which means that they do have a much higher sugar content than the fruit
