The Truth About Wine And The Contribution Fruits Make To Good Health

why do you say the optimal level of alcohol is zero aren’t there studies saying red wine is good for you uh when it comes to alcohol the research that shows that red wine is good for you i’m a little suspicious of my guess is they are comparing people who drink lots of red wine with people who don’t drink who are former alcoholics who were former alcoholics and so they have a lot of health issues so they’re not necessarily comparing them to healthy individuals who are you know non-drinkers and so i i’m suspecting that i’m not positive of it but i i think we have to be very careful of that research because we know without beyond any shadow of a doubt that any amount of alcohol increases cancer risk and it’s really simple alcohol is helping carcinogens get into cells it eases the entrance if you will of carcinogens into cells it also speeds the oxidative stress it it creates free radical reactions and it is so so we know that that there is no amount of alcohol intake that is helpful in terms of cancer and any amount is harmful we know that alcohol can also increase risk of you know liver disease and there are other adverse health effects associated with excess alcohol consumption so in my view the optimal intake of alcohol is zero if you drink you definitely want to keep it moderate and that means on occasion and in moderation i don’t know that there’s anything wrong with having a you know a small glass of wine once in a while but i’m not sure it’s a good idea to make it something you do every evening and and something you do um i can remember so many when i was a young person so many uh of the adults i knew it was um a dinner be a drink before dinner like a ryan ginger or something it was a glass of wine with supper and it was an after-dinner little liqueur or something after supper and that was standard and this is just not a good plan so i think for you know just for most people the less the better brian clement says all sugar including fruit feeds yeast mold and fungus and that we should eat only around a piece a day do you agree with this what have you observed in people’s blood sugar levels when they ate or did not eat fruit

well i i have a different experience and i know brian’s basing his recommendations on his experience at hippocrates and and working with cancer patients and and i appreciate that but based on science we come up with something quite different and even my experience working with i work more with diabetes than with cancer i just don’t see that but if you go on pubmed this is where the research is available to everyone and you do a search fruit and health or fruit and heart disease or fruit and cancer or fruit and diabetes whatever you search you can’t find negative studies they are non-existent as a matter of fact 2018 they did there there was a research team that that published a meta-analysis of 356 studies on the relationship between fruit and and disease and basically what they said is that fruit consistently reduces the risk of cardiovascular disease hypertension diabetes various types of cancer depression osteoporosis skin disorders gi disorders the law just a laundry list of of diseases it was quite amazing and then their conclusion was is that uh they’re recognizing that fruit is contributing the the lack of fruit that low fruit intake is a very significant contributor to global morbidity and mortality and that we need to be putting more emphasis on it based on 356 research studies in terms of looking at what it does to blood glucose there was a study from denmark not so long ago that compared very low fruit intake with higher fruit intake and they saw no differences in terms of glycemic you know response in the individuals that fruit didn’t have an adverse effect and they said that fruit absolutely should not be restricted there were two studies that i know of that looked at giving people 20 servings of fruit a day and even then they saw improvements in cholesterol and triglycerides and all of these things that that was a that were fairly surprising to the researchers there there are a couple of um of of folks that run this uh cirrus and and robbie that run the mastering diabetes uh site and um they promote a very fruit heavy diet for people with diabetes and their results have just been stellar so a lot of us who have been hesitant to include too much fruit in the diet are recognizing that it’s probably not such a big issue and i have to say from a personal perspective i’ve always been a heavy fruit eater even as a child my mom would buy a basket of peaches and they would be gone in a day and a half i would eat three or four at the time i would eat you know blueberries just bowls bowls full and and so i’m a little bit partial to fruit i love fruit but i think it’s a a wonderful source of potassium i can remember when we were analyzing our menus for for our becoming vegan books we actually had a hard time getting potassium up to where it needed to be without including a significant amount of fruit i think for most people um eating two or three or four or even more servings of fruit a day is not a problem