Too much sugar?

Question

Hi all,

So I eat a lot of fruit during the day, mainly for breakfast, I have at least 5 pieces of fruit everyday. I'm wondering whether I could be getting too much sugar? I know that it's natural sugar but I can't help but be a little worried im over doing it. Plus I do tend to eat some chocolate in the day (my weakness), so that adds to the sugar levels. What do you think?

Answer

As a registered dietitian we recommend 10 servings of fruits and vegetables. The combination doesn't matter. If one doesn't like vegetables than 10 fruits a day is fine to get in the vitamins and minerals. Sugar in fruit also comes packaged with fiber which minimizes the immediate impact of sugar ingestion. For example, drinking fruit juice devoid of fiber and most nutrients in the fruit goes straight to your blood stream and spikes insulin which sets of a reaction of hormones. Those hormones are what is bad. The fruit sugar is healthy because of the fiber which slows absorption of sugar and because of the nutrients you need. Excess of any sugar will turn into fat and too much weight gain is what is unhealthy in pregnancy. So if your overall diet is balanced your fine. It would be bad if you were eating donuts, cake, sugar sweetened beverages all in the same day.

Answer

Drink a lot of water and maybe change it up now and then by eating some carrot sticks or celery sticks as to much sugar whether it be natural or artificial can be harmful to your baby, so whenever you do eat a lot of sugar drink lots of water

Too much sugar?

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