Fruit and Low Carb eating
One of the common questions that I get asked when discussing how to eat low carb is “what about fruit”? We are told from childhood that fruit is essential to our wellbeing, and most...
Category: Diet
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Fruit and Low Carb eating
One obvious problem with eating fruit on a low carb diet is that fruit is full of sugar. When you are supposed to only be eating 20 grams of carbs each day, and a banana can have up to 20 grams, it precludes this from our list of permitted foods.