Simple explanations are always enticing to people. It used to be: “saturated fat is bad” or “cholesterol is bad,” and people poisoned themselves for decades eating low-fat processed carbs.

Now the counter-narrative is simple: “carbs are bad”.

For me, I find it hard to believe that something that looks good, smells good, tastes good, grows on a tree and that’s been around for untold millennia, that bears and other omnivorous animals devour at every opportunity would turn out to be poisonous to me.

Coca-cola, box of Oreos, sure. But seems you’d have to be “educated” to worry about fruit, no one would be worried about it naturally.