Doctor's advice is to not eat any fruit

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Binks Mar 2015 1:14pm, 10 Mar 2015 6,457 posts	0 Binks Just been chatting to a work colleague. He seems to always be on some new diet where he is/isn't eating various things. He has just told me that he is not to eat fruit as it has fructose in it. This reacts with yeast in the body which then causes all sorts of bother. He says he's getting his advice from a Doctor and reading a lot. Don't have much info on his sources. However I am amazed that a doctor would suggest not eating any fruit, unless there was a specific allergy. I think he has thyroid issues. Didn't want to press too much. He seems like a healthy, normal sized normal functioning chap, probably about 50. I said he should come for our lunchtime run/walks but he said he needs to sort this nutrition thing out first so that he can have the energy. I don't want to cause any fuss, but I am tempted to say that this no fruit thing is bollocks. I don't know whether this "doctor" is one of those who just photocopied the certificate and put it on the internet. Anyone heard of similar circumstances?
Trin Mar 2015 1:22pm, 10 Mar 2015 4,453 posts	0 Trin I have had an under active thyroid for 10 years and was diagnosed with ME last year and haven't been able to do any exercise for 14 months. I used to eat a reasonable amount of fruit but over the last couple months I have gone off it, I don't feel like I want to eat it... like my body is telling me no. I actually feel like I've got more energy, and I don't want to jump to conclusions but feel a bit better
Mandymoo Mar 2015 1:37pm, 10 Mar 2015 1,591 posts	0 Mandymoo I have a yeast intolerance and cannot eat a lot of fruit as it bloats me and causes issues. That's just me - I try and have an apple and a banana a day but other than that it doesn't really happen
Binks Mar 2015 1:39pm, 10 Mar 2015 6,458 posts	0 Binks Ahhhh OK. The fact that two people have come up with the same thing puts me at ease. He is probably seeing a real doctor then. Sorry to hear that Trin Hope you get back to it soon.
sallykate Mar 2015 1:57pm, 10 Mar 2015 3,855 posts	0 sallykate Hmm. (Dr.) Zoe Harcombe has a thing about yeast and promotes a low-carb, high-fat diet with very little fruit except berries. It's not exactly unhealthy and some would argue that too much fructose does stress the liver.
ChrisHB Mar 2015 2:01pm, 10 Mar 2015 11,113 posts	0 ChrisHB There's a FODMAPS diet that excludes a lot of fruit because of high fructose, but it allows: Bananas Blueberries Boysenberry Cantaloupe Cranberry Clementine Dragonfruit Grapes Honeydew and Galia melons Kiwifruit Lemon including lemon juice Lime Mandarin Orange Passion fruit Paw paw Papaya Pineapple Raspberry Rhubarb Strawberry Tangelo
Dvorak Mar 2015 2:10pm, 10 Mar 2015 9,853 posts	0 Dvorak Just because someone is a doctor (even a real one, not like say "Dr" McKeith) does not mean the won't come out with ideas (especially it would seem nutritional ones) varying from the dubiously founded to the batshit crazy.
Velociraptor Mar 2015 6:10pm, 10 Mar 2015 32,196 posts	0 Velociraptor If he'd said he'd been told not to eat fruit by his dentist because it was bad for his teeth, I'd have been less dubious. Some folk with some bowel conditions do have to lay off the fruit a bit because they can't digest it, but the stuff about fructose and yeasties is in the same realm as crystals and reiki.
Red Squirrel Mar 2015 6:16pm, 10 Mar 2015 18,350 posts	0 Red Squirrel I go to regular nutrition panel talks and debates. They always recommend you eat fruit in season and that if you stew things like pears and apples they can be more easily digested as the cell wall starts to be broken down. I regularly stew pears with grated fresh ginger and sprinkle with cinnamon just before eating.
idio Mar 2015 6:18pm, 10 Mar 2015 24,337 posts	0 idio I'm a bit fed up at the moment with all this don't eat this don't eat that crap that seems the craze with magazines and tv at the moment. I understand avoiding certain foods for medical reason such as my niece who's recently been diagnosed with celiac but having tried some of her food theirs no way i'd go gluten free unless I had to. I work with a bloke who says he won't eat pastry it gives him head migraines and don't eat much fruit as it upsets his stomach but happily slouch in his seat shoving chocolate and chips down his throat that fat twat.