Fruit sugar vs regular sugar

[livenraw]

Is there a big difference between the two? I always hear people say 'sugar is sugar - even fruit so limit your fruit.' But I want to start eating more fruit and really believe that it will react differently in the body than white sugar. Can someone give me some more explanation to this? I sometimes stray from fruit because I am afraid of looking bloated and craving real sugar. I have had this problem in the past but I want to work through it and not be afraid of fruit if I can get over the cravings it causes me. I figure - maybe if I just keep on eating fruit for awhile - the craving for real sugar will finally just pass. So someone, please tell me not to be afraid to eat fruit! And please tell me the difference between the two sugars. Are they both simple sugars? Or is one a simple sugar and the other one a different kind of sugar?

[Revvell]

I googled this: http://answers.google.com/answers/threadview?id=751591

There is a comment at the bottom which I don't agree with. Fruits also contain fiber PLUS, fruit sugar IF isolated is different than when it's eaten as fruit. When eated as fruit, it goes through the digestive system whereas white, processed sugar and even isolated, processed fructose goes directly to the pancreas. Many people have healed themselves from diabetes while eating whole fruit.


Revvell

[mongomango]

Is there a big difference between the two? I always hear people say 'sugar is sugar - even fruit so limit your fruit.' But I want to start eating more fruit and really believe that it will react differently in the body than white sugar. Can someone give me some more explanation to this? I sometimes stray from fruit because I am afraid of looking bloated and craving real sugar. I have had this problem in the past but I want to work through it and not be afraid of fruit if I can get over the cravings it causes me. I figure - maybe if I just keep on eating fruit for awhile - the craving for real sugar will finally just pass. So someone, please tell me not to be afraid to eat fruit! And please tell me the difference between the two sugars. Are they both simple sugars? Or is one a simple sugar and the other one a different kind of sugar?

Don't be afraid to eat fruit. It's the most natural food in the world for you. When I went raw for the first 6 months all I ate was fruits: an all fruit smoothie in the morning, a few nuts with dates and raisins for lunch, and another smoothie for dinner. My body loved it. I had NO cravings for other foods after a very short time and I could easily toss out candies and cookies that well meaning loved ones would send me, and prepare all sorts of dishes for others without the slightest inclination to cheat.

Fruit sugar is fructose and it's broken down differently in the body. While modern fruit is much sweeter than the fruit of only 100 years ago, it is still a very beneficial sugar that your body needs to make glucose which is what your brain needs. Eat your fruit with abandon. My diabetic mother could also do so with no repercussions to her sugar levels provided that she stayed 100% raw...while one piece of candy would send her sugar screaming....so all sugar is NOT the same.

[Linda1970]

When I went raw for the first 6 months all I ate was fruits: an all fruit smoothie in the morning, a few nuts with dates and raisins for lunch, and another smoothie for dinner. My body loved it. I had NO cravings for other foods after a very short time and I could easily toss out candies and cookies that well meaning loved ones would send me, and prepare all sorts of dishes for others without the slightest inclination to cheat.

I'm exactly like this too. :)

[Ariannah]

I can't speak, obviously, from the point of view of anyone with diabetic issues or whatnot, but I have been specifically highly addicted to refined sugar (including corn syrup, maple syrup, honey, - any isolated sugar that is added to something else to alter the taste).

With refined sugar products, I'd eat and eat until there's none left in the house... period.

I have ZERO problems with fruit, even something "high sugar" like dates, I don't have the "eat until it's gone" problem. When my body is done, I am done. The fruit sugars don't overtax my body and manipulate it and confuse the natural signals, because my body has indeed has just had food. But put one bit of "sugar" in my mouth, and all bets are off.

Fruit is our birthright, it's a real food, and I don't see it as "a sugar", like the mainstream media tries to sell to us in an attempt to tell us "fruit is bad, buy our substitute 'sugar free' product instead". (ick)

Our culture wouldn't be so confused over "sugars, carbs" blah blah blah if they'd just do like other species - pick and eat.