Welcome back to Cabral House Call. I'm Stephen Cabral, Board certified naturopathic doctor, and I'm here

today to answer your questions. First question is, so Cassie's asking, should I avoid fruit and only eat vegetables to lose weight? So great question and

you know what it's right on topic with kind of our beginning elimination diet.

We do actually have clients eliminate fruit for those first two to three weeks and

the reason we do that is because we're absolutely positively trying to get blood

sugar level stable or trying to make sure that there's no highs and lows in that blood sugar,

so that if we bring insulin levels low, we can begin burning more body fat.

Because keep in mind that there's an inverse ratio between high

insulin and body fat burning or a lot of body fat burning and low insulin. So

essentially it's this that inverse ratio is when you have low insulin or

low blood sugar or just you know normal

low blood sugar not hypoglycemia you are going to burn more body fat that's

just the way it is you're going to be able to tap into more body fat you're going

to be able to oxidize more body fat. You're going to be able to oxidize more body fat. And what that means

is that over a slower period of time, you're going to be able to just extract some of those

calories from fat to be able to use for fuel for your body.

So we do absolutely eliminate fruit in the beginning and then what do we add back?

Well we add back the lower glycemic fruit first and we start to add back berries

berries, berries, raspberries, lemons, limes are always actually okay

because there's almost zero fructose in them and there's no spike at all in

blood sugar. So those you can

always keep a lot of great minerals in them as well. And so what I would say is

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