Diabetes patients are routinely counseled on their diets, making sure to stress the importance of not overdoing it on fruit.
But if you are approaching diabetes or even if you have full blown type 2 diabetes and need to reverse the direction you are going, stocking up on these specific fruits may be the very thing you need to reverse the process.
A new study recently published in the British Medical Journal has shown that for preventing diabetes, one of the easiest ways is to load up on whole fruits.
Whole fruits are those that you don’t have to peel to eat, such as blueberries, apples, and grapes.
Even the seeds can be consumed if you run the whole thing through a juicer.
In the study, researchers from the US, Singapore and the United Kingdom looked at people who were not yet diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and found that those who ate the most whole fruits were also at a far lower risk of developing diabetes.
However, those who drank bottled or canned fruit juice were among the highest risk of developing the disease.
Researchers offer an explanation that the whole fruit, including the peel, provides an excellent source of dietary fiber, which is critical in good health.
Simply drinking the juice, especially if it is processed or has added sugar or preservatives, eliminates the fiber component almost completely and really only offers concentrated amounts of fruit sugar and added sugar.
The best idea, say experts, is to eat fruit in its whole, unprocessed form, and if you do juice it to drink it immediately after juicing to preserve nutrients and not filter it excessively.
Very interesting article…..
Grapes? Aren’t these very high in sugar?
to Umeesh:
Grapes have sugar like most of the fruits. The difference is that it is not added sugar like in sodas.
The added sugar is what you should consider avoiding the most.
Grapes consists of natural sugar called glucose and fructose. Of course if you have diabetes you should take it into consideration but other than that grapes surely bring you more benefits than harm.
I do not have this issue but I know co-workers that are affected. I pass onto them the information you send.