[petra65]

grains and fruits are not unhealthy foods. They are just broken down into sugar in your body.

My experience with the whole sugar addiction thing is that once you are detoxed it comes on you quite suddenly. I remember once recently, I was sitting in church and I suddenly felt like I woke up out of a fog I had been in for months. I have heard others say the same thing so you will probably recognize it when it happens.

[sylvia78]

Fruits eaten during season, if you do not have insulin resistance or if they won't trigger cravings and binges, are not unhealthy. But did you see what I said at the beginning of that sentence? "Fruits eaten during season." We ate fruits when they were on the tree/bush. If they weren't there, we didn't eat them. And we could not travel to other hemispheres to eat fruits that were in season there. This is the way we were eating for, oh, let's just say 340,000 years before the agricultural revolution. Our bodies are not designed to eat fruits and grains in the abundance that we give it. Most of the vitamins that fruits provide [and I am mainly speaking towards vitamin c] you can get in most of the other vegetables. Brocolli has more vitamin c than an orange, per 100 gram serving.

I just posted this information on another thread, but here it goes for those who missed it:

Originally Posted by sylvia78

I have never experienced the leg cramps on a my low carb diet because of a potasium/magnessium deficiency. I eat spinach everyday and broccoli every other day. So, here are the numbers, per 100g of food, so you all can see.

Food - Iron -Mag -Potas -Vit C -Calcium
bananas -.31 -.29 -396 -9.1 -6
oranges -.1 -0 -166 -59.1 -43
apples -.1 -5 -107 -4.6 -6

spinach -2.7 -79 -558 -28.1 -99
broccoli -.88 -25 -325 -93.2 -46
tomatoes -.45 -11 -222 -19.1 -5
cucumber -.16 -12 -148 -3 -14
cabbage -.84 -24 -292 -74.6 -46
potato -1.1 -28 -535 -9.6 -15

Thanks Ma!

Fruit tastes great! But do we need it everyday? Not if you are eating a good amount of vegetable, like when you are following a low carb plan.

[butterfly_dreams]

I agree Sylvia, our bodies are not designed for the way we're treating them. If we were still in the apostles days, I think it would be nearly impossible for us to be overweight right now.