Comment by redwards510
9 years ago
I agree. People always spam the "eat fruits and veggies" meme but come on, what is in fruit? Sugar and some fiber, maybe some vitamins. You are still just eating useless sugar. Let's not delude ourselves that fruits somehow contribute to fulfilling daily macros in a significant way. I consider them a treat, not a staple.
Sugar isn't useless. It gives you energy to function.
If one overconsumes and allows for that useless sugar to circulate, or useless cholesterol, or useless anything from overconsumption, a plethora of interesting metabolic things happen in the body and some of them cause disease.
This is a very nice skeptical stance on how to observe food in this age of non-personalized medicine and nutrition:
https://atheismfaq.quora.com/Is-this-food-healthy
They're not entirely bad though, like candy for instance, though perhaps they should be treated like candy. There appears to be some evidence that fibre suppresses the insulin response required to turn sugar to fat.
The problem is that people say "eat fruits and veggies" but what they hear is "eat [sugary] fruits"