Or to a puddle on the New Jersey Turnpike. Or to a freshly melted snowcap on a pristine mountain. Or to the water in an aquarium or bathtub or swimming pool. They’re all H2O. But are they the same? Not a chance. That’s how it works with sugar.
You can’t lump together all the different types and say they’re all bad. You can’t say, “Sugar is sugar.” Yet that’s what’s happened in our culture. In recent years, an important theory came to light about how processed foods feed obesity, and how many of these processed foods contain a form of corn syrup. Suddenly a fire started in the collective health-care consciousness about all sugar. Natural and conventional doctors alike declared a well-intentioned war on it.
“What Not to Eat,” it’s true that high fructose corn syrup is not beneficial. That said, the theory that HFCS is solely and directly responsible for obesity is flawed. What’s really going on is that most of the time that processed food contains corn syrup, it also contains lard, processed oils, eggs, dairy, and/or gluten—and it seems that these were ignored while HFCS got the spotlight. Besides which, just because HFCS can be a contributor to health issues does not mean all forms of sugar are automatically bad. The innocent casualty of the war on sugar was fruit. Fruit has almost become a dirty word.
So much so that it’s a little risky for me to even write this chapter. It sounds silly, but it’s true. Because what I reveal about fruit in the pages to come goes against current thinking. It goes against the conditioning of fruit fear. FRUIT IS NOT THE PROBLEM There’s a rapidly developing trend: millions of people who are struggling with their health all over the world visit doctors, practitioners, nutritionists, or healers and hear right off the bat, “Eliminate fruit from your diet.” It started in the U.S. and then found its way to countries around the globe.
Doctors who practice Eastern medicine will say fruit creates dampness in the body. Doctors who practice Western medicine will say fruit worsens Candida, gut problems, and even cancer.
Dietitians and nutritionists will say fruit contributes to diabetes and energy issues or energy loss. And physical trainers will say fruit will make you overweight, or even obese. This was not done by accident. Fairly recently in history, there was a deliberate attack to hinder and slow down fruit consumption. Starting in the U.S., a very small handful of health professionals were given direction to sabotage fruit. New appointees are picked to this day and given their marching orders to shun fruit from a higher order within the health industry. At this point, most health professionals and medical communities don’t know why they associate fruit sugar with health problems.
There’s no evidence, there’s no data, there are no studies. They just do. How high fructose corn syrup got all the blame and how that led to blaming problems on fruit sugar is another mystery, because HFCS is a processed food incorporated into other processed foods—and whole fruit is not a processed food. Without knowing why they’re really doing it, health professionals and medical communities have gotten into the rhythm—the habit—of telling people that fruit is contributing to all their problems, including with Candida, mold, weight, cancer, diabetes, cardiovascular systems, and even their teeth. In truth, who eats that much fruit? In mainstream diets, it’s become a novelty.
While people may still have the occasional banana or lunchbox apple, more often fruit is an accompaniment to something else: the strawberries on strawberry shortcake, for instance, or a few glazed blueberries blueberries swimming in the butter, cane sugar, and lard of blueberry pie. So are the millions of people around the world who are sick with various illnesses unwell because of the occasional Granny Smith? Are millions of people with rotting teeth climbing into the dentist’s chair for a root canal because of the clementine they ate at a holiday party? The reality is that even the average person who’s concerned about sugar intake still consumes well over 100 pounds of refined sugar a year. (By the way, people aren’t even climbing into the dentist’s chair because of refined sugar.
They’re experiencing dental issues because of trace mineral deficiencies, toxic heavy metals, chronic low-grade viral and bacterial infections, stagnant and sluggish livers, inability to produce the proper amount of bile, weakened stomach glands, low hydrochloric acid production to digest and break down food properly, nutritional deficiencies passed down from parents, and high-fat diets.) The sugar in fruit is not to blame for illness. It is not the same as HFCS or the sugar cubes at the diner.
Fruit is not making people sick. I’m not saying that fructose that’s been processed and separated from its fruit source is an ideal source of food. Pure fructose is still harmless. But fruit in its whole form, full of living water, trace minerals, antiviral and antibacterial compounds, enzymes, and fiber-rich pulp, is the real deal for your health. Fruit consumption around the world has substantially declined in recent years, and it’s only growing worse as each year comes and goes. This path is going to continue as time goes on—not because fruit is causing any problems but because some leaders in health are chosen purposely to hinder people’s trust regarding fruit. Do not get a pound of fruit confused with a pound of sugar. A pound of sugar is a pound of sugar.
A pound of fruit is a unique blend of life-creating, life-saving, life-sustaining phytonutrients and other phytochemicals that stop disease and promote long life. Fruit does not have that much sugar in it. Fruits are made up of living water, minerals, vitamins, protein, fat, other nutrients, pulp, fiber, antioxidants, pectin—and just a fraction of sugar. If we wanted to compare 100 pounds of refined sugar to the equivalent amount of sugar you’d consume in fruit, we’d be looking at thousands of pounds of fruit.
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