Is it Possible to Gain Weight on Fruits and Vegetables? – Dr.Berg

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so let’s bring up the question is it actually possible to gain weight on fruits and vegetables well it really depends on the amount that you’re consuming and the frequency but if we talk about vegetables it’s very likely you’re going to ever gain weight in vegetables now you might be thinking a potato right because that’s a vegetable well I’m not talking about potatoes of course you’re going to gain weight on potatoes especially if you cook them because the more you cook them the more sugar that’s released and that’s going to create a problem with blood sugars but if you just take vegetables in general leafy greens I mean think about this seven cups of a salad for example with other mixed vegetables would only give you 10. 8 carbs that is an incredibly low amount of carbs but seven grams of that is fiber so we’re really only getting 3. 8 net carbs extremely low very low sugar mostly fiber so you just can’t gain weight on this because the fiber doesn’t affect insulin only the carbs so the situation is we have so much bulk and fiber you wouldn’t be able to eat that much to get that many carbs in to gain weight I mean we’re talking about seven cups right here and that’s only 10 grams so you’re not going to gain weight on vegetables okay now you may get bloating or fluid retention which could result in weight gain not fat gain so if you’re not used to consuming vegetables and you all of a sudden gain weight realize that’s a digestive issue you want to back off you could have a problem with an overgrowth of bacteria in your small intestine that’s called sibo watch my videos on that if you have that but the point is that that’s a different situation it’s not actual fat gain it’s water retention and all you have to do is cut back your vegetables and switch them to other things I have tons of videos on that I’ll put the link down below so the question is what about fruits okay can you gain weight on fruits and the answer is absolutely but it’s also dependent on the amount that you eat and the frequency if you’re snacking on fruits like I was about five years ago between meals I actually went up to 211 pounds okay 211. I just cut out the fruit and went right down to 180. so I have personal experience that fruit definitely can cause weight gain now in the past they had something called wild watermelon you can see a picture of it right here completely different carbohydrate and sugar levels they had wild banana check that out wild carrot completely different than the carrots you see now wild corn very low in carbohydrate in the past and then a wild Peach completely different than the peaches you see now then you have the wild Apple which is the crab apple which are very tart not very sweet they don’t have a lot of fructose and I had a tree in my backyard growing up and you literally chip your tooth if you chewed into it because it was so dense with fiber and so sour it wasn’t sweet so over the years they’ve changed their fruit they basically made them sweeter with more sugar and that results in more fructose an apple contains like 19 grams of sugar that’s a tremendous amount of sugar the problem is that at least 60 percent of that is in the form of fructose and fructose is metabolized differently your liver is forced to deal with fructose and that can turn into insulin resistance and it can make you fat right around the midsection on a positive note fruits do have more vitamins and minerals and phytonutrients and that’s great and that will protect against some of the sugar but as far as weight gain you’re going to gain weight if you consume too much fruit especially the apple and the pear Apple has 60 fructose the Paris 60 melon has 60 percent now melon does have more fiber and more water but it is higher in fructose I mean take a look if we compare that to actual table sugar table sugar only has 50 fructose these fruit have more fructose than actual table sugar and in nature fruit comes seasonally so fruit originally was only at certain times of the year and it definitely didn’t contain the amount of fructose that it has now so yes potentially you can gain weight in Fruit but not on vegetables thanks for watching hey if you’re liking this content Please Subscribe now and I will actually keep you updated on future videos