Everyone's a fruit and nut case

Earlier in the week I awoke to the radio pronouncing that eating fruit was better than eating nuts, or some such. Google turned up a Swedish study "A Randomized Study of the Effects of Additional Fruit and Nuts Consumption on Hepatic Fat Content, Cardiovascular Risk Factors and Basal Metabolic Rate" by Christian Agebratt et al.

This study set out to compare the effects of adding about 500 calories a day of either fruit or nut intake to the existing diet of some young lean active healthy Swedish students. The primary objective was to see if the sugar in the fruits had any adverse effect.

Fruit vs Fruit Juice

As a low carb person I eat berries and sometimes an apple, but fruit juice to me is just a sugar solution. Fruit itself seems to be universally regarded as A Good Thing (TM) and although Robert Lustig has said "the vehicle is irrelevant" when talking about fructose, and admits that he doesn't want to be the guy to say fruit is bad, the reliance on fibre as a moderator is somewhat optimistic.