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From:	Just Me (67.137.157.170)
Subject:	Re: Is it OK to add 10g of flaxseed to date smoothie?
Date:	March 30, 2012 at 11:11 am PST

In Reply to: Is it OK to add 10g of flaxseed to date smoothie? posted by Ben on March 29, 2012 at 12:34 pm:

Hi Ben,

A few questions for you:

How are you preparing your smoothies? (exact ingredients and amounts -- fresh, juicy dates or dried? anything else? Blender? Juicer? Other?)

What is the purpose of your smoothie? (an entire meal? fuel during multiple hour endurance sports? other?)

What else are you consuming during a day?

Are you "earning" your smoothie through activity beforehand?

Have you read The 80-10-10 Diet? Particularly pages 29-31 on fruit and blood sugar as well as glycemic index and glycemic load? Here is an excerpt you may find helpful:

"Eating a diet of mostly fruit, including generous amounts of fresh sweet fruit, does not create high blood sugar . . . not when you are eating a low-fat diet, that is. When the system is not gummed up with excess [dietary] fat, the sugar from even 'high-glycemic' fruit moves easily in and then out of the blood. . . . All fruits fall into the low or medium categories on glycemic load/glycemic index charts. It is best to eat fruit fresh, as drying and dehydrating concentrate fruit sugars to an unnatural level that the body is not designed to handle. It is also important to eat fruit whole, not juiced, as the fiber in fruit slows sugar absorption to its natural speed. In all cases and with all foods, whole, fresh, ripe, raw, and unprocessed is the way to go."

I tend to agree with Ian that mixing raw, organic, ground flaxseeds with your sweet fruit is not optimal (whole flaxseeds are indigestible, by the way). It it were me, and I felt I really "must" eat some overt fats, I'd consume them apart from my sweet fruit meals, with my salad/veg/nonsweet fruit meal at the end of the day so I'd have plenty of time to digest before my next sweet fruit meal sometime the next day.

Any particular reason on why you've chosen dates? Perhaps experiment with other sweet, juicy fruits and see if you fare better with them.

Looking forward to hearing back from you, Ben. :)

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