Should you be eating more fruit?
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Why is fruit important for a balanced diet?
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Now, Norman, I have heard a rumour about doctors and I need you to tell me if it's true or not. It's true. You hate fruit.
I don't hate fruit. I just don't eat very much of it.
Well, I have brought along with me to ward you off today an apple because I heard that they help keep doctors away or something.
Yeah, don't come near me with an apple. It's like the sign of the cross.
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Or daylight or something like that.
Garlic and apples to protect you against doctors and vampires alike.
No, seriously. Yeah, it's really weird. Yeah, I don't, you know, I eat a lot, a bit in summer, the stone fruit, but in winter, you know, not that much.
Well, getting fruity is what we're all about today here on What's That Rash?
The podcast where we answer the health questions that simply everyone is asking.
So I don't know if everyone's ever asked this question, Norman, but Jamie certainly has. Jamie has a question for us today about fruit. Jamie says, my girlfriend and I love your podcast and always discuss the episodes after release. Various diets like the carnivore, Mediterranean, ding, ding, and keto are often discussed on your show. And I had a particular question around my own eating habits. Jamie says, I often get made fun of for having an aversion to most fruit. I really like watermelon, light cheese, berries, and maybe an apple. Well, I've got my apple here, Jamie. Well, that's a fair list. But I almost never go out of my way to reach for one. Aside from that, I basically never consume any fruit in my diet and have never even tasted a banana.
You're kidding, Jamie.
although Jamie does say that they love banana bread, had never had a grape, mandarin, kiwi, plum, cherry. I blame it on my brother for chewing and spitting out a banana in front of me as a child.
What are the health implications of not eating fruit?
I'm not sure we needed that detail, Jamie, but thank you.
I mean, at least we know where the source of the trauma is. Anyway, Jamie finishes, I often wonder what key nutrients that I can't get from vegetables that I may be missing if I continue with my habit. I could definitely be motivated to break my aversion if Dr. Norman Swan told me I am without doubt taking years off my life. Otherwise, I don't have any pickiness and eat anything. any vegetable. You have such an influence, Norman.
I know.
This person is going to change their entire diet just if you say they should.
Yeah.
How does that level of responsibility make you feel?
It's scaring the crap out of me.
As smoothly as it would if you were eating a high fiber diet.
Can I just correct something I said earlier? Because every morning I will have fresh Greek yogurt with blueberries or strawberries in it. Ah, delicious. So there you go. I do have some fruit. But in a sense, that's functional, which we might come back to later.
No, let's talk about it now. What do you mean functional?
Well, I'm taken by the mind diet. So there is evidence. We'll come back to this in a minute. I mean, I eat a lot of vegetables and we'll come back to whether or not I'm suffering because I don't eat a lot of fruit. And of course, you're going to tell me what indeed is a fruit and what's a vegetable.
But nonetheless... It's very much a state of mind.
There's a diet in America called the DASH diet, which is a diet designed to prevent high blood pressure and to prevent coronary heart disease, which is vegetables, not much red meat and so on.
It's three Mediterranean diets in a trench coat, honestly. It's a pretty familiar pattern.
It's tres mediterranei. And an advance on that is the, or if you call it an advance, is the mind diet, where they emphasize green leafy vegetables like kale and they emphasize berries, and particularly strawberries, but also blueberries as well.
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