How Much Fruit Should You Eat In a Day? | Dr. Neal Barnard
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🗓️ 4 February 2021
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
How much fruit should you be eating each day? What are the healthiest fruits? Find out when Dr. Neal Barnard joins "The Weight Loss Champion" Chuck Carroll on The Exam Room podcast!
Did you know that only 1 in 10 adults get enough fruits and vegetables in their diet? It's true, according to CDC research.
Dr. Barnard also answers many other listener questions when Chuck opens The Doctor's Mailbag. So, get ready to raise your health IQs during the healthiest half-hour of your day!
- Are canned vegetables as healthy as fresh varieties?
- Why do older adults have a hard time losing weight and what can be done to help?
- Is it better to eat three big meals or 5 of 6 smaller meals throughout the day?
- Is 20 grams of protein enough each day?
- And many more!
If you have a question you'd like to ask the doctors on the show, tweet it to @ChuckCarrollWLC using #ExamRoomLive.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes people wonder about the sugar that's in fruit. |
| 0:02.6 | And there are natural sugars that are in fruit, |
| 0:05.1 | but surprisingly enough, in research studies, |
| 0:08.0 | when you feed them to research volunteers, |
| 0:10.8 | you discover that the absorption |
| 0:12.8 | of the natural sugars in fruits is very slow and steady. |
| 0:17.8 | It doesn't hit you like a punch the way |
| 0:20.6 | let's say you got a soda, |
| 0:22.4 | and or you ate some sugar itself. |
| 0:25.1 | You get this big spike in your blood sugar. |
| 0:28.9 | You don't see that with fruit. |
| 0:29.9 | It's much more gentle. |
| 0:30.9 | We call that a low glycemic index. |
| 0:32.4 | So if you like fruit, have a happy. |
| 0:35.1 | Hi, and welcome to the Exam Room podcast, |
| 0:46.3 | brought to you by the Physicians Committee. |
| 0:48.2 | I am the Weight Loss Champion, Chuck Carroll. |
| 0:50.4 | Thank you so very much for giving the show a listen, |
| 0:53.0 | or a view, or a download, wherever it is in the world |
| 0:56.9 | that you are, we appreciate the fact that you are here. |
| 1:01.9 | And it is Nutrition Q and A Day, my friend. |
| 1:05.8 | The professor of nutrition himself, |
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