Paleo Diet and Paleolithic Diet Questions & Answers

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How come fruitarians are not diabetic? They eat carbs all day long...what gives?

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Because carbs don't cause the diabeetus. – Mscott Oct 12 at 0:30

Isn't sugar a carb??? Or am I feeding the trolls? – Luke Oct 12 at 4:20

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Fruit and refined fructose are hardly comparable, Luke. Also, I'm no troll. I am your father. – Mscott Oct 12 at 7:05

Um, they do get diabetes. Or at least they have an abnormally high rate of it, within their population, – Jamie Oct 13 at 0:23

bluebird · Answer 1 · 2012-10-12 01:00:18Z UTC

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Eating carbs doesn't cause diabetes.

Edit: Just noticed Mscott beat me to it!

answered Oct 12 at 1:00

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Bob Smiley · Answer 2 · 2012-10-11 22:45:20Z UTC

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If you eat fruit, and not just drink juices, you get lots of fiber. Offsets some. But, if you eat lots of fruit hopefully you are ACTIVE and burning those carbs. Elsewise you are stressing your pancreas.

answered Oct 11 at 22:45

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HoosierTodd · Answer 3 · 2012-10-11 23:03:22Z UTC

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From what I undersand. . . Cells don't need insulin to use fructose for energy. The reproduced cells are made without insulin receptors so a sugar dependence occurs but not diabetes. If I'm way off, I apologize but that is how it was explained to me.

answered Oct 11 at 23:03

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	That's kind of what I thought too. – foreveryoung Oct 11 at 23:19
	My understanding was that fructose was processed by the liver directly into trigs. I know Glucose can be moved via non-insulin mediated transport (glut4) but I don't think fructose can. – Satchmo Oct 12 at 2:50
	Glut5 can be used for fructose to some degree: ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9781312 – Mscott Oct 21 at 19:35

Janknitz · Answer 4 · 2012-10-12 03:43:29Z UTC

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Maybe they die of pancreatic cancer first (Steve Jobs, for example).

And maybe they are just not diabetic YET.

answered Oct 12 at 3:43

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	Why the down vote? I was going to make the same point re: Steve Jobs, who essentially had an eating disorder. – UncleLongHair Oct 12 at 11:58
	No clue, the answer adds to the discussion, so +1 from me. – j3wcy Oct 12 at 13:36

Mambo · Answer 5 · 2012-10-12 04:21:26Z UTC

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Fruitarians don't become diabetic. It's when those who call themselves fruitarians start eating refined carbohydrates they become diabetic. But then they weren't true fruitarians to begin with.

answered Oct 12 at 4:21

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Diane · Answer 6 · 2012-10-12 17:53:13Z UTC

I think this website has the most information about fruitarianism and its health effects. Somewhere in the millions of words there is something that I read that many fruitarians DO have symptoms that mirror diabetes, if they don't actually have diabetes. But probably the biggest takeaway I got from reading this is that most fruitarian leaders cheat on their diet and keep it a secret from their followers.

http://www.beyondveg.com/cat/fruit-dreams/index.shtml

Michelle · Answer 7 · 2012-10-12 21:50:38Z UTC

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I prefer to think of the potential to get diabetes as a loaded gun and excess carbs is just a trigger. Diabetes is much more complicated than carb intake or else many primitive cultures worldwide would be largely diabetic.

answered Oct 12 at 21:50

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	Excess food made me obese, mostly a highly processed mixture of vegetable oils, starches and sugar. Once I got to be obese I think the excess carbs triggered the T2D, because when I reduced the carbs the high blood glucose came down to normal levels. – thhq Oct 12 at 21:59
	Indeed. Family history of T2D and breast cancer here on both sides. Never been obese, but was a chubby kid. Lost 30 lbs a few years ago. I have less tolerance to carbs than the naturally slim I know, but being young and not having a lot of time to become metabolically deranged, my blood sugar is easily managed with the moderate inclusion of safer carbs. I do have estrogen dominance and mild PCOS. =loaded gun on both accounts. – Michelle Oct 12 at 22:27

August · Answer 8 · 2012-10-12 18:04:20Z UTC

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Because no one eats their way to diabetes?

answered Oct 12 at 18:04

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joanna · Answer 9 · 2012-10-12 20:22:06Z UTC

i was a fruitarian for 2 years and my glucose was always fine; however, i definitely was not lean. i had a good layer of fat around all of my muscles. the "reasoning" behind this according to 30bad members was because "i was starving myself on a regular diet so now my body craved more food and thus had to gain weight." well, i got up to 140 lbs eating this way.

How come fruitarians are not diabetic?

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