Andrew Kim on Starches & Intuititive Eating

[cliff]

When you eat glucose and fructose together like in fruit and sugar they both stimulate each others oxidation so you burn more and store more glycogen.

More fructose can be eaten than glucose without fat storage because fructose raises the metabolism more and causes more energy to be burned.

If you get bloated from pure white sugar it's probably because you have a bacteria overgrowth problem, white sugar is probably one of the most easily digested foods.

 

[j.]

Some fruits have starch too.

 

[key]

'Wheat contains more vitamin B1, vitamin B2, iron, and selenium than rice and potatoes; potatoes contain more vitamin B6 than wheat and rice; and rice contains more manganese than wheat and potatoes. Nonetheless the nutritional profiles of these three starch sources are still a wash.'

Andrew compares supplemented wheat flour to potato

 

[key]

"Fruit can be taken in large quantities daily without adverse effects."

Not necessarily true. Fruits have their own special problems, for example fiber in oranges, toxins in grapefruit, over-stressed bananas, small seeds in berries.

I'd rather eat potatoes and white sugar than lots of bananas and other crappy fruit.