Seriously, Juice is not healthy
An unthinkable title a few years ago...
Op-Ed in the New York Times. Quote:
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/07/...lthy-sugar.html Many links in the on-line article. |
I'm old enough to remember when juice served in restaurants was in a little 4-oz glass. I love those glasses - I have 4 that I got from beer festivals as tasting glasses. They're what I use if I drink V8 or similar veg juice.
(Puts on tin-foil hat) I'm sure TPTB will fight back against this kind of anti-juice opinion, because what else will they do with all of the fruit that isn't good enough to be sold on grocery store shelves, if they can't turn it into juice and sell it to us? |
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Whoa. Pray tell, what juice naturally contains calcium? It's all added, so that the juice has some kind of nutritional value (other than the few vitamins in it, which quickly degenerate after the fruit is juiced). The push to fortify orange juice with vitamin D makes it sound as if fortifying it with D will actually increase the body's vitamin D levels, despite being delivered with no added fats, since being a fat soluble vitamin, D can't be absorbed in the absence of dietary fat. Quote:
They're talking about WIC, which is the food supplemental division which allows additional provisions for pregnant or nursing women, infants and children. WIC checks name specific items each beneficiary is allowed. WIC does not permit fortified juices - just plain, 100% juice. Pure sugar with a fruity flavor. |
It's a "natural" food that unnaturally contains calcium. What is it about the word "natural" that you don't understand? :lol:
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They'll just use it to make an ever increasing number of types of squeeze pouches of fruit based goo for babies and toddlers, sauces (apple sauce, pear sauce, etc), canned pie fillings, fruit leathers, and "all natural" fruit flavored candy. Problem solved. |
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:duh: (I don't think we have a :duh: smiley. We need one.) Maybe a :banghead: smiley would work. |
NO juice for my kids. I weaned them off it by about 5-7 years old. They only had diluted juice but looking back I wish I had known more and not introduced it at all.
I dont waste money on juice. And no sugared sports drink. ( I keep lemon gatorade for emergencies for the livestock.) My youngest son prefers a protein drink or chiaseed drink after a workout. Pediatric appointments sort of beat around the bush when it comes to the diet of children. They ask just a few questions---and as a parent left wondering what they are after. I was pushed to change from whole milk to 2%. I REFUSED to cut those fat calories as my kids eat good quality foods thanks to my reading of DANDR. They finally gave up harassing me on that. We did start up buying a huge soda after hours of working in the garden, and would stop on the way home for a big refreshing soda....but that too has been nixxed by me and the kids have adapted to the "no". And I explain what that sugar does in their body......54oz of soda has a shocking amount of sugar! I dont depend on the "government" for food advice. I come HERE. |
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I started reading about about jaw and teeth development, and all these sauces are not helpful to correct development. Eating whole foods and chewing is VITAL to proper jaw construction as the child grows. CHEWING is important. I wish I had known this when my kids were little-- |
While visiting my sister, we discussed this very topic yesterday and laughed about how back in the day we'd cut cranberry juice with soda water. Even diluted, it has a massive amount of sugar. I found out the hard way years ago when I ordered a can of cranberry juice (thinking it was a healthy choice) early in a flight to the west coast and had my first hypo upon arriving in San Francisco. I was able to get to the lounge before my next flight and 1 chocolate chip cookie completely restored me. That incident alerted me to two things: 1) Cranberry juice has a boatload of sugar, 2) I had a blood sugar issue that the doctors could never find with a simple BG test. That incident started the beginning of my interest in low carb.
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My reaction to these types of articles lately has been "You've just figured this out?"
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And yet, the authors of the article have no better argument against sugary beverages other than that they are "empty calories" and "liquid calories". And then they even admit that juice calories aren't empty but come with vitamins and minerals.
So then we are just down to "liquid calories" and lack of fiber (which if you don't eat at least 30g per day of you're going to die!!!) No mention of insulin. No mention of fructose causing insulin resistance and fatty liver. |
It's an Op-Ed, not an expose. If you want that, you can read Gary Taubes "What If It's all been a Big Fat Lie?" bumped up yesterday, near the top of this section now. 16 years ago he wrote all about insulin and fructose in the NYT and we are still waiting for dietary guidelines to change.
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Well, they did change to the plate...... (wink, wink)
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