That's a good silver lining.
Sounds like you have a good diet, that's great. I tend to like vegetables more than fruit and for quite a while I've steered clear (for the most part) from wheat products and sugar. Also... considering your hip injury, I've heard sugar has very inflammatory properties at the cellular level, so I'd think staying away from anything that increases inflammation is a good thing. Not that I'm a nutrition expert, I'm not. I just think about how it's only been in recent generations that we've consumed so much sugar, and there have to be reasonable conclusions to make from that.
Sounds like you have a good diet, that's great. I tend to like vegetables more than fruit and for quite a while I've steered clear (for the most part) from wheat products and sugar. Also... considering your hip injury, I've heard sugar has very inflammatory properties at the cellular level, so I'd think staying away from anything that increases inflammation is a good thing. Not that I'm a nutrition expert, I'm not. I just think about how it's only been in recent generations that we've consumed so much sugar, and there have to be reasonable conclusions to make from that.