News
Top blogs
Podcast
Topics
EventsCan eating too much fruit cause diabetes?
in Sugar/fructose 
A bad idea?
Can eating too much fruit cause diabetes?
According to a new study, eating plenty of fruit during pregnancy was strongly associated with developing gestational diabetes.1 Women eating lots of fruit had almost an almost 400% percent increase in risk of developing diabetes!
As usual, this kind of observational study do not prove causation, but the massive effect in this case (a 400 percent increase in risk!) is hard to explain away.
Fruit is full of sugar, so the connection shouldn’t be too surprising. And while fruit is considered very natural, the fruit you find in the supermarket today has been grown to be both bigger and sweeter than it used to be in nature.
So if you have, or are at risk of developing diabetes, it’s likely smart to limit your consumption of sugary fruits. Check out our guide below for the worst and best kinds of fruit on a low-carb diet.
Low-carb fruits Earlier
What fruits and vegetables looked like before
Gestational diabetes = diabetes during pregnancy. ↩
As a now retired diabetes research I recall the popularity of certain diabetes model, which if any thing was shown to it would develop diabetes and people would leap and down congratulatingtehy'd found tye cause diabetes. Until they tried it on normal population and it had no effect.
As separate observation I eat plenty of fruit as type 1 diabetic. The fibre is excellent. But then I'm not on a keto diet. But I have within BMI tolerance for normal healthy weight. However I avoid mangoes as they taste extrenly sweet. I do know that they are but just in case.