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How Your Fruit and Your Alcohol Stop Your Weight Loss

Fruit & Alcohol Halt Weight Loss

Yes, your fruit makes you fat just like your beer gives you a beer belly. . .

It is fascinating how similarly fructose (the sugar in fruit) and alcohol are processed through the liver.  Both of them increase insulin and both increase triglyceride production as a byproduct of their metabolism.  This is clearly pointed out in Robert Lustig’s paper published in the Journal of the American Dietetic Association in 2010.

The metabolic pathways are very clearly outlined below:

Metabolism of Ethanol

Metabolism of Fructose

You can Katch my PeriScope conversation about this below or with the comments and hearts included at Katch.me/docmuscles.

Carb Thoughts

A number of patients come in to the office struggling with loosing weight.  When I review their dietary journals with them, I notice that many of them never stop eating fruit (because, fruit is good for you, right?!).  Well, lets put it this way:

One banana for breakfast is equal to . . .

banana

. . . just over seven (7) teaspoons of sugar.

teaspoon sugar

Count them . . . seven (7) teaspoons.

If your eating a banana for breakfast, it is halting your weight loss for up to 12 hours.  Give the banana’s to the monkeys and cook up some sausage and eggs for breakfast tomorrow.