You will see chaotic people quip,
"But fruits have fibre"
"But fruits are natural"
"But fruits have vitamins"
Indeed, functional illiteracy is the worst form of ignorance.
The fruits you eat today are nowhere near being natural.
Natural fruits are:
• Seasonal: Modern fruits are present in the market daily. Natural fruits are seasonal. That is how nature raises its organisms. They breed in seasons, not in laboratories.
• Seeds: Modern fruits don't have seeds. Eating a fruit that has no seed is like having sex with someone without gametes, expecting to have a baby.
• Sour, not sweet. This is to discourage you from eating fruit, as fruit trees also want continuity of their species. Modern fruits are insanely sweet.
• Fibrous: Modern fruits don't have fibre. If you ate a mango from a tree 30 years ago, it will leave uncomfortable strands in your teeth. Nowadays, you eat the flesh of a fruit like you are eating the soft flesh of beef.
• Thick dark Pericarp: Modern fruits have a thin fruit wall, which is abnormally colourful. Did you ever pluck a mango or an orange from a village tree? The skin was dark and ugly. This again is to prevent you from seeing it.
• Pedicel: Examine a modern fruit. You will not identify the stalk that attaches it to its tree. A natural fruit has a pedicel, and also a sign of a peduncle on it.
• Cotyledon: Inside a natural fruit is a vital monocot or dicot embryonic organ that nourishes a germinating seed. Modern fruits don't have cotyledons, therefore zero nutrients because the cotyledon is the organ that stores 90% of the fruit's trace minerals.
In addition, unlike natural fruits, modern fruits have been quickened into ripening by the use of chemicals like Calcium Carbide and Ethylene gas. This is to chase profits and compromise safety.
This is basic education, taught in primary school class 6.
People don't eat fruits because of "vitamins," they eat fruits because of the sugar in them. Otherwise, if they wanted vitamins, they would eat Meat, eggs, fermented pickles, herbs, and sour wild berries.
The image below is the authentic, natural banana with seeds.
Most of the time,
You will hear people say,
"I am eating fruits because they have natural sugar."
It is at this point that you realise we have been brainwashed so much by the crappy food industry and adulterated nutrition education.
There is nothing like "natural sugar" or "artificial sugar",
We only have natural and artificial SOURCES of sugar.
Sugar is just sugar.
There are two commonly known types of simple sugars,
• Glucose
• Fructose
• Galactose (this is a simple sugar too, but it is a lesson for another day.)
These simple sugars are biologically known as MONOSACCHARIDES.
Their molecular formula is C₆H₁₂O₆.
But the difference is in their structural arrangement. Glucose is a six-membered ring (aldohexose) that serves as the primary fuel, while fructose is a five-membered ring (ketohexose) found in fruit and metabolized only in the liver.
So, when the sugar comes from the fruit, the body doesn't say,
"Oh well, this is not an enemy, go slow on him,"
Or, if it comes from Sodas, Juices or Energy Drinks, the body doesn't say,
"Shit, man! Get the swords and the guns, the enemy has arrived."
NO.
The body deals with FRUCTOSE from fruits the same way it does with FRUCTOSE from sodas.
FRUCTOSE follows one pathway called THE FRUCTOKINASE PATHWAY in the liver.
The biggest problem with fructose, apart from being insanely sweet, is that, in the liver, it accumulates into fatty acids and triglycerides. This accumulation leads to:
• Insulin Resistance and Diabetes
• Oxidative stress
• Chronic Inflammation
• Elevated uric acid levels leading to GOUT
• Hypertension
Therefore, if you are focusing on recovering from a fatty liver, a fat stomach or losing weight, then avoid eating these fruits.
It is ridiculous when you see people carrying fruits to patients admitted in hospitals because of chronic ailments, and yet hospital nutritionists act dumb, and feign ignorance.
They even tell patients to eat fruit and drink juices like Ribena and Del Monte to "Regain Energy."
This is madness and functional illiteracy.
Link to read: FRUCTOSE and THE LIVER (https://t.co/c7QdUy8tti).
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