Can you eat too much fruit?
 

I eat like ten portions a day lol it actually replaces my lunch.

Fruit is like anything, too much of it can start to have a dextrimental effect on your body. things like oranges etc have a lot of citric acid, that isnt too good for your teetch.
Fruit also has lots of sugar in it, although, obviously as this is natural sugar, its not as bad as the refined stuff found in chocolate etc.
and.. a lot of fruit can give you the shíts.
Have you thought about replacing some of the fruit with nuts? theyre really good for you.
Are you eating an otherwise varied and helathy diet?

Gosh, this post turned quite serious.. sorry.

You'd have to be eating far, far, far more than that for it to be dangerous. In Japan i think it is, the recommended fruit and veg consumption is something like 17 a day. Fruit does good things and has some good chemicals and vitamins that are super good for brains.

17 a day?! woah.

that levels of fruit could cause dirrarerra, but nothing else


most things in fruit can be bad for you if you have too much, but it has to be a LOT!!! for example, too much vitamin C can be VERY bad, but to have too much you'd have to eat 75 oranges in half an hour (the body cannot store vit C so it doesn't have the cumulative effect thing... hence the half an hour time frame)

Too much fruit makes my insides turn nasty...

Weird story..
the other day I ate 3 oranges, 4 apples, appox. 50 grapes and a pear...and I actually didn't leave the bathroom...It made my tummy very...bleurgh.

For what it's worth, it depends how it's managed, there are some mental illnesses that can be benefited greatly by vitamin therapy.

ye I've heard that too... never properly looked into it though...

but vitamins are important, and a lot cannot be stored by the body so it is easy to end up a deficiency, generally without realising as the sympotms will be so small or seemingly unrelated... and some people don't absorb them properly to start with...
so I can easily see how vitamin therapy could be benificial to many

I'm sure that like with anything else, you can eat too much and end up with a stomachache :-p

Seriously though, I think that the only issue would be that you're eating a balanced enough diet to get enough of the nutrients that you don't get from fruit. You'd have to eat really a lot of fruit for the fruit itself to do any harm, so it's just a matter of what you're not eating when you're eating fruit instead.

Have a look for Patrick Holford, his Optimum Nutrition for the Mind is a very interesting read. Should add, that's in response to shadow-light :)

I would eat protein with the fruit to dull the kick in the pancreas. Fruit is sugary but some are much more mild. Diabetics can have blueberries, strawberries and such while bananas are skull and cross-bones material. Steve Jobs (Apple CEO) was a fructarian many years and he ended up with pancreatic cancer

Yes, fruit is good for you, but I think it has very little fat and protein which are both essential as well.

me and too much pineapple has made me very sick twice. I love to eat pineapple, but it tears me up.

Hot peppers are a type of fruit biologically.. right? cause i've been torn up by those lil deamons several times before!

-brian :smurf:

LOL I do actually go to the loo quite a lot tbh. I do have a balanced and varied diet otherwise (my Mum is a great cook and does really natural, healthy stuff). However I don't eat much in terms of sweets. I will have a sweet once a week.

I have actually been told to get fillings. My Mum had fillings when she was younger because she ate 10 apples a day =/.

Its just that I love fruit and I prefer to eat fruit as a snack rather than eating a load of chocolate or bread or whatever....

*is thinking about very beginning of Lord Of The Flies. ''Them fruit...''*
lol I'd say too much fruit does have its disadvantages

i eat sooooooooo much fruit
my mum has a go at me sometimes for eating all the fruit ¬_¬

Too much fruit = the shíts.

You know how they say eat 5 plus a day? They say it for a reason. If you eat loads of fruit and veg, like has been said. youll be shitting through the eye of a needle.
Itll be funny for eveyone else, but maybe not you.

Watch out for drinking too much fruit juice/ smoothies etc, It rots your teeth!! My dentist always has a go at me about it, grr... but it has to better then coke, right?! That's my theory anyway.

I don't drink much fruit juice or smoothies, but I do eat a lot of oranges and apples, which inevitably leads my orthodontist to say that I need fillings =/.

I eat a lot of fruit too... we even own a juicer as sometimes I buy more than can possibly be eaten and then we juice it lol

Lol. I love apples. Which fruit do you like the most? I think pineapples, very ripe mango and sharon fruit top the list for me.

peaches... in fact nectarines, love them :D
and kiwi... apples... pineapples...

I don't understand all these kids these days that hate fruit! Wtf?

i don't either.....


then agian... i don't get people who eat take-aways and stuff

Did you know that to many oranges can turn you orange..?

and the acid in the fruit can probly cause olsurs (how ever you spell that word )

Plenty of things can cause ulcers, and there are far worse (and more common) causes than fruit consumption. Oranges don't have the capacity to change skin colour as far as i'm aware, that's usually carrots due to the amount of beta-carotene.

carrots and tomatoes can alter skin colour.... not sure oranges can...


if they did then what colour would Sanguinellos turn you?

Lol. I have three partially decayed teeth due to fruit.

Fruit is very high in fructose, which has been proven to affect insulin resistance as much as glucose.
Basically if you don't want diabetes, I wouldn't eat too much fruit in a day, and space it out.

I have a pineapple in the kitchen :D

really????


*goes to look in textbooks*

:crazy: :notsure:


however:


not sure what to think now... :notsure:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fructose#Health_effects

I got a pinapple the other week.
Ended up catapulting it into the canal at 2 in the morning (don't ask).

:O

waste of a good pineapple

Being on that adventure did however lead to me seeing boobs.
I would happily sacrifice a pinapple for such an experience.
I didn't have a knife to chop it with anyway D:

Ok I will slow down on the fruit. Although I often do it out of thirst. I get very thirsty often.

hmm... not sure i can cut down on the fruit...

I've cut down a bit on the fruit because it was making me too full up and interfereing with my appetite for meals.

I ate this massive hypertrophic pear and it made me feel sick and very full.

i've never eaten pineapple. or kiwi. or even bannannas as far as i'm aware.

i'm not a fan of fruit.

although i am partial to the occaisonial apple or orange. perhaps a grape or two. haha.

I love banannas and grapes. I dont like oranges, tangerines satsumas or pineapples. Im quite fussy when it comes to eating fruit. I cant have bananas when they are brown, :nono: they are disgusting :crazy: I can only eat them when they are green, not to green though. I cant eat apples, pears plums or nectarines when they are soft they have to be quite firm, otherwise they taste awful :yeah: As for fruit juice i dont drink fruit juice as i cant drink to much acid, i suffer with alot of ulcers some times.

bananna's smell disgusting. yuck.

I once ate a banana that was black for a dare. It was so off that I had to eat it with a spoon. Lol. goodtimes.

I'm home now and not gone shopping yet so no fruit :(


we have some apple juice though :)

i say yes. its all fibrey and will make you poop forever!
unless its grapes
they wont make you poop
but depending on how you consume them they may intoxicate you ;)

My psych told me that grapes are good for constipation...

Anyway.

My Mum got these massive apples and pears. I actually feel completely full ater eating one of them lol.

I now have a fruit bowl :D

only got a few apples and oranges in it so far... but still :D

Fruit bowl is good. I recommend golden delicious apples (wait until they're half yellow) and clementines. Also mango (ripe) and pineapple (don't leave it for too long) are good.

i'm not keen on mangos...

we have oranges and golden delicious apples at the moment... on friday the international market's coming so will get a load of stuffs there :)