Quickie! Bagels Suck & Apples Prevent Cancer: Dietitian Kim Shapira
Dietitian Kim Shapira shares the best & the worst things you can do for yourself today.
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I would love to see Kim on the show regularly. Love the focus on nutrition.
It’s not really the loss of vitamins that is of concern (If vitamins are actually destroyed). The main difference between eating, say an apple, or juicing it is the loss of the fiber in the whole fruit. The fiber in the fruit is what will make you feel fuller and you will more than likely consume less calories than if you were to have the fruit in juice form.
I have to agree that losing weight is about sheer caloric numbers consumed and burned…. Not about weather a bagel equals a certain number of bread slices. If you are eating a well balanced diet with lots of fruits, veggies, and protein, a 300 calorie Noah’s bagel isn’t a diet killer. It’s far more useful to talk about whole grains vs. processed foods, and limiting exposure to sugar, bad fats, and pesticide laden foods. Plus if people are drinking things like carrot juice on the go, and wouldn’t be able to eat the equivalent 5 carrots in solid form, the loss of vitamins from juicing seems inconsequential.
Yeah, not real sure why blending something would affect vitamins. If there is some scientific reason I’d love to hear it. The one thing I am sure of is that this is NOT the reason juice shops sell boosters at an additional charge.
I guess this is how you become “dietitian to the stars”- have magic food rules.
A bagel has about 300 calories. Thats all from carbs but it is an appropriate sized breakfast so there is no reason your body cant handle it, assuming you arent diabetic. Whether or not that is the “worst thing you can eat” depends on what nutrition you are going to be getting the rest of the day. Its maybe 3 or 4 slices of toast, not 6.
And juicing does not “destroy” vitamins.
Since this is a short episode, I’d assume that she’d have just as much information as Salley over a full episode.
Most bagels have about 85 grams of carbohydrate, if each starch serving (and we are talking appropriate portions) is about 15 grams- you do the math, well I will just tell you it’s 5.5 servings! And that is the amount most of us should have in a full day not in 1 meal
And juicing does destroy vitamins that is why juice shops have boosters!
When are you going to become a regular on this show! You’re great.
Well I looked at the nutritional information at Bruegger’s and Panera before I posted and their bagels are around 300 calories and 60 grams of carbs.
Which is not to say there arent giant bagels out there; but if they are one of the worst things to eat its not because of an analogy to toast. This reasoning by analogy doesnt work. People wouldnt eat 6 slices of bread, but that is just because they’d be bored. There are fewer calories in the bagel than in a slice of cake and people eat cake so does that mean the the analogy should work in reverse and the bagel is ok again?
The only valid reasons to avoid the bagel are 1. too large of a percentage of total daily calories 2. too much simple carbs for your metabolism. A 300 calorie breakfast is totally in line so I dont see a problem there. If you wanted to discuss the carbs that might have been sensible but I find the analogy to bread to be simplistic.
Added to this you were talking Teresa who obviously enjoys her morning bagel and has lost all her baby weight in 6 months. It doesnt seem obvious to me that the bagel is causing her a problem at this point.
As far as juice shops- I assume the reason they sell vitamin boosters is because it an easy way to get a 95% profit upsell off of their gullible customers, not because they have run a spectral analysis of the product when it comes out of the blender. There is no chemical process by which a vitamin is converted (into what?) by a spinning blade. These things are served cold and drunk almost immediately so the conditionals for any chemical conversion to take place are poor.
What you might object to is that something like the Jamba Juice Acai Supercharger Power has over 100g of sugar carbs in it.
I dont think there are any “bad” foods. Just inappropriate diets. Even 100G of sugar might make sense depending on what your activity level was when you were drinking it. If you got your 2000 calories a day from bagels or radishes, those are both bad diets.
When you blend vegetables/fruits you release nutrients and expose them into the air, when they mix with oxygen nutrients will be lost due to oxidation (hence converted into free radicals).
Does blending vegetables or fruits destroy vitamins/nutrients/minerals? Actually the answer is yes. Slicing or mashing vegetables/fruits in a blender/mixer actually does diminish the vitamin/nutrient/mineral content found within the vegetables/fruits by releasing them, exposing them to the air and thus, reacting to it, and turning them into free radicals. Or so I’ve learned in my science studies.
Where is this study then?
Putting fruit in a blender submerged in milk or yogurt is not exposing it to air. And there is often ice involved which would retard any chemical interaction even further because of the cold temperatures.
Even if you thought oxidation was a plausible mechanism there is no way a 40 degree smoothie served to the customer and consumed in 5 minutes has had its vitamins destroyed.
A bagel a day keeps the doctor away.
Love one for breakfast every day.