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To think two oranges after dinner is too much sugar

326 replies

jnfrrss · 18/04/2018 22:59

They are pretty large navel oranges, two of them (whole not juiced) is probably half your daily sugar allowance so probably not a good idea to eat two after a evening dinner?

OP posts:
Imnoth3r3 · 21/04/2018 09:50

sugar from fruit (fructose) is a very different thing that sugar from candy, cookies, cake, ice cream (anything processes). Fructose is healthy and will not give anyone a sugar high (or the subsequent sugar crash). Two oranges is fine, yes UABU.

expatmatt78 · 21/04/2018 10:19

Jeez if my kids have eaten sugary cereal for breakfast , biscuits for snack, pasta for lunch and chicken nuggets for dinner I'm thrilled if they've eaten two massive bits of fruit it makes me feel like a better mother somehow

BertrandRussell · 21/04/2018 10:47

" Fructose is healthy and will not give anyone a sugar high (or the subsequent sugar crash)"
Citation needed.

kateandme · 21/04/2018 11:37

this is beyond a joke ad telling of how weve come to think.stop thinking of the content.its two pieces of fruit.thats brilliant! the sugar isn't necessary to think about up to a point.unless your having twelve for goodness sakes.
but no.two pieces of fruit should never be even considered.we really need to get re focused on what health and balance is.good fats bad fats sugar that is natural to digest and otherwise.the world gone fukcing mad

ShotsFired · 21/04/2018 12:00

I've gone and bought two big bags of oranges off the back of this thread, so thanks OP!

Moxiebelle · 21/04/2018 12:53

My recent reading on sugar, as I am doing a low sugar diet is that excess fructose is not very good for you. I'm sure whole fruit is fine for you or your kids because of the fibre content, but once you start doing anything to it like juicing and so on it is easy to eat a lot and that is not so good for you. It's true that fructose doesn't raise your blood sugar but it is all processed by your liver and puts a lot of strain on it if you eat too much, just like alcohol. This is why diabetics are no longer advised to use it as a substitute for normal sugar.

reallyanotherone · 21/04/2018 14:40

sugar from fruit (fructose) is a very different thing that sugar from candy, cookies, cake, ice cream (anything processes). Fructose is healthy and will not give anyone a sugar high (or the subsequent sugar crash). Two oranges is fine, yes UABU.

Bollocks. Prove it...

KeneftYakimoski · 21/04/2018 18:00

Fructose is healthy and will not give anyone a sugar high

Nor will any other sugar. "Sugar high" is bollocks, and has been bollocks for more than 20 years.

www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7474248

Meta-analysis. Gold standard. The end.

TeachesOfPeaches · 21/04/2018 18:13

What about the sugar in breast milk? There's 7g per 100g ShockShockShockShock

isseywithcats · 21/04/2018 19:25

you would have had a heart attack the christmas in my house when my three kids managed to demolish 25 lbs in weight of fruit in three day greedy little gits

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 21/04/2018 19:32

What makes DS2 leap around like a crazy person after a meal then? Then he gets really grumpy. He's 6.5.

SnorkFavour · 22/04/2018 12:19

DS tried to sneak 4 easy pealers into his lunchbox - singing tangerines??? Where can I get some??? Grin Grin Grin

I don't think this was a reverse though, your first paragraph isn't worded like that and the second sounds a little offended, backing the first one up!

MorningsEleven · 22/04/2018 12:27

TeachesOfPeaches

I think we need a breast milk tax - no one wants an obese newborn.

Oliversmumsarmy · 23/04/2018 06:53

Friend (social worker) was reported to SS by her health visitor because her baby was obese. Apparently friends DC should have weighed less at 6 weeks than baby was at newborn.
Didn't take into account that df was 6ft6" and baby was significantly longer than most babies

KeneftYakimoski · 23/04/2018 07:49

Friend (social worker) was reported to SS by her health visitor because her baby was obese. Apparently friends DC should have weighed less at 6 weeks than baby was at newborn.

It's hard to understand why health visitors are treated with such scepticism, really, isn't it?

Idontdowindows · 23/04/2018 08:27

Friend (social worker) was reported to SS by her health visitor because her baby was obese.

Some of my grands are huge and my lovely DIL sent the HV home because of precisely such a remark (she breastfed on demand and sometimes that was every 20 minutes, and both were little round tubbies until they started weaning and I swear the littlest one is taller than me now at 3 years old Grin).

I'm so glad she was such a levelheaded woman, because that HV really tried to mess with her head.

lljkk · 23/04/2018 08:34

Apparently friends DC should have weighed less at 6 weeks than baby was at newborn.

I don't believe that's what was said. Message got garbled somehow.

Oliversmumsarmy · 23/04/2018 08:45

No not garbled. HV had never seen such a huge baby and thought friend must have definitely been over feeding. Friend is tiny .

Baby was closing in on 20lbs . Born at 13lbs something and constantly hungry.

Baby is at primary now and is taller than some of the year 6s

Idontdowindows · 23/04/2018 08:48

I don't believe that's what was said.

You won't believe some of the shit that HVs come out with. ("you should switch to bottle feeding, because it's formulated to give baby everything she needs, you could never do that with breast milk" is a gem that stands out from my own).

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 23/04/2018 10:18

Nobody believed me, from the MWs in hospital through to the HV that DD couldn't suck properly and was falling asleep from exhaustion before she was full, she'd fall asleep after 5 minutes then wake up in 10 because she was still hungry. At 4 months, after she'd dropped from the 75th centile to the 9th, the HV suggested mixed feeding, then was surprised when DD refused the breast except at bedtime, because she was actually getting more from bottles! She was on the 91st for a few years, now at 10 she's back on the 75th. HCPs should listen to patients and parents.

bobstersmum · 23/04/2018 10:35

I would do a little crazy dance if any of mine would eat two actual oranges for their pudding... Yabu

BustopherJones · 23/04/2018 13:15

I would imagine the cause of a 6 year old jumping about after a meal is him being 6...

PerfectlySymmetricalButtocks · 23/04/2018 14:27

😂

TiggerSnooze · 25/04/2018 17:31

I'm pretty sure that our bodies self - regulate our intake of unprocessed foods. It's actually quite hard to eat loads of fruit when it hasn't been juiced. However, making a fuss about it is probably the best way to get a child to be determined to try!

Idontdowindows · 25/04/2018 21:01

I never thought of that Tigger.

One banana and a satsuma and I'm full for hours, very true. But maybe that's just me.

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