Fruit and Diabetes: How Much is Too Much? It's Not What You Think.

"Not too much fruit!"

"You can't have a banana every day."

And on and on and on...

Does this sound familiar?

Have you ever wanted another handful of grapes but you weren't so sure if you should?

Or have you ever felt frustrated by seeing information online or hearing from {ahem} "helpful" people about that evil banana you're eating?

And if you look online, you can easily get overwhelmed by the amount of information there about good carbs vs. bad carbs.

And fruit is no stranger to the bad press.

But after you've looked online for what feels like 10 hours, you just want some answers you can trust already.

That's where I come in 🙂

Here's the deal with fruit:

1. Fruit has 2 kinds of carbs generally speaking
2. The 2 kinds are: sugar and fibre
3. The sugar is called "fructose" (Fruct = fruit; -ose = sugar)
4. Fructose has a naturally low glycemic index, which means it won't spike your blood sugars
5. The fibre also helps to keep the glycemic index low, meaning it doesn't spike your blood sugar

So not only does fruit not spike your blood sugar, it also provides major nutrition.

Fruit provides fibre, vitamins, minerals, antioxidants and other bioactive compounds that we don’t even know about yet!

Without fruit in your day, you'll likely:

• Crave simple sugars
• Not get enough fibre
• Miss out on major antioxidants

And this could totally sabotage your changes of reversing your prediabetes if you try to follow a diet plan that is too low in carbs.

I've blogged before about the importance of including carbohydrates into your diabetes prevention diet.

And if you cut waaaaay back on fruit, you're missing out on some of the healthiest carbohydrates out there.

Not to mention, you'll deprive yourself of some of the sweetest foods around - and why cut back on sweet stuff when you don't have to, right?

The take home point is this:

I'm here to reassure you that you should include fruit in your prediabetes reversal diet.

You CAN eat fruit and reverse your prediabetes.

In fact, in my opinion, I think you MUST eat fruit.

And if you want to know exactly how much fruit to eat, grab my freebie:

How Much Fruit Can I Eat (And Still Reverse My Prediabetes?)

Always remember, the most joyful and effective way to reverse your prediabetes is to include carbohydrates in your diet.

Start with fruit every day and you're well on your way my friend.

Now. Where's that banana?

~April