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From:	K.D. (85.180.84.186)
Subject:	Re: Is diet 80/10/10 not for me?
Date:	November 11, 2012 at 1:32 pm PST

In Reply to: Is diet 80/10/10 not for me? posted by Kinga on November 9, 2012 at 1:05 pm:

No, the listed fruits are not fiber-free - rather they are free of fermentable oligo-saccharides and sugar-alcohols, and they have about equal amounts of fructose and glucose or more glucose than fructose, which helps with the absorption of fructose that otherwise would go unabsorbed and cause fermentation and thus bloating and diarrhea in some people.
Now that you mention apples - yep, apples are a fruit that exposes multiple of the above mentioned culprits - it is a fruit high in polyol (sorbitol), and with an excess of fructose content (fructose > glucose). Therefore apples will cause such problems in some people.

The lack of precursors to serotonin and GABA and such is due to insufficient amounts that are taken in with the diet, and from malabsorption due to forementioned problems - the same problems that lead to boating. Anyway some people will need more of stuff like choline and others will need less. Most fruits contain about 10 mg choline per 100g edible portion - so at an adequate intake of 450-550 mg (female/male) one would need about 4-5 kg of fruit a day.

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