I'm Nick, originally from the Pittsburgh area, currently pursuing my PhD in physiology and living in Switzerland. Penguins hockey, pumping iron, hip-hop, South Park, God & family are what's best in life. If you don't have a good sense of humor we probably won't get along.
wfmeets asked: lovely dinner, man. and according to you, what is a good general approach to the quantity of fruit consumed in one day? i go overboard, very frequently.
Thanks! This is a great question and really we don’t know. Fruit is high in fructose, as is honey. Could eating a ton of fruit every day be as bad as drinking regular soda or fruit juice every day? Possibly. When you think about our ancestors, they only had an availability to fruit seasonally and not all year round like we do now. This could be a problem. I’ll admit, I eat a lot too, at least 2 bananas and an apple a day, but the studies show as long as you’re exercising you’re going to use that excess fructose as energy instead of creating triglycerides via de novo lipogenesis. There is actually a group looking at this now so the study should be published within a year or so (long-term study).
Shoulda asked me this on my exercise blog hahaha. Hope all is well in Spain!
Et bonne nuit :)
