Drinking one glass or more of 100% fruit juice each day is associated with weight gain in children and adults, according to a new analysis of 42 previous studies.
The research, published Tuesday in JAMA Pediatrics, found a positive association between drinking 100% fruit juice and BMI — a calculation that takes into account weight and height — among kids. It also found an association between daily consumption of 100% fruit juice with weight gain among adults.
100% fruit juice was defined as fruit juices with no added sugar.
It’s like drinking sodas.
It’s bad to take the fiber out of sugar bombs? Who knew?
“It’s good for you! Here, have some more!”
– American households with no concept of portion control
xD This is good, I’ll have to remember this.
Most people have zero clue about how nutrition works. It makes sense, educators don’t really spend time teaching it. We had the 4 food groups and the food pyramid, both of which tend to favor eating a shitload of bread as your main caloric intake, which has obviously been debunked. We had the great sugar vs fat debate of the 90s. Now people are skeptical of nutrition as a concept and think “oh, fruit juice, that’s healthy”. Can’t really blame people for not knowing everything, but damn, food is important. Garbage in, garbage out.
2010 called, they said “duh”
This is why my kids don’t get juice or soda other than special occasions. They get full fat milk twice a day and water all day long.
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Just eat the god damn fruit children.
Please don’t eat the fruit children.
I was raised to dilute it with water to get “more” of it.
Something interesting is that the article doesn’t differentiate between “from concentrate” and “fresh juice”.
It’s “no added sugar” metric is flawed too because that likely doesn’t count Aspartame, or other alternative sweeteners, as the Nutrition facts do not count them as sugar either.
As someone who was also raised to dilute it.
Thanks to shrinkflation they are already diluting it. It tastes water thin before you water it down, and it’s still all sugar water.
A glass of fruit juice still has calories in it. I would imagine that if you control for everything else that it’s still a couple of hundred extra calories that one kid is taking in that some other kid isn’t.
Not only that, it’s also almost pure carbohydrates
When I was a kid my mom thought she was teaching me healthy eating habits by doing things like encouraging me to drink lots of fruit juice.
“I lived a year on orange juice,
Thought I was doing well;
But now they tell me orange juice
Is fattening as well!”Why specifically 100% fruit juice?
Edit: I learned to read. It’s because of the no added sugar.
Added sugar is a problem when it’s added to things that don’t need it. The best way to mitigate this isn’t with a sugar tax, but to tax per calorie in the finished food for any amount of added sugar.
This seems like it would be really obvious, no?
If you are simply buying fruit juices at the store you are getting zero to virtually zero fiber. So you are getting a bunch of calories but without feeling any sense of fullness that you would get if you instead just ate the fruit.
Fruit is healthy but you are much better off just eating the fruit and drinking water. If you really want to drink the fruit juice you should just blend the fruit so that you are also getting all the pulp. The fiber is excellent for you and will help prevent you from turning all that juice into “empty” calories.
this is why, while i love fruit smoothies, i also make sure to also add some granola and/or flax seed for extra fiber.
helps me save on t-p, too!
If you like banana smoothies, peanut butter is another great way to round it out a bit more. And yknow, make it taste all the better because peanut butter fucks.
Freeze the banana and then blend the frozen banana with peanut butter and a little almond/oat/other plant milk and it’s like a milkshake without the dairy. Amazingly good!
If you’re adding plant milk, surely it is a milkshake?
If you really want to drink the fruit juice you should just blend the fruit so that you are also getting all the pulp.
Thanks for reminding me I need to go to my local taqueria and get an agua fresca o7
It’s obvious to anyone who has thought about it, yes. Unfortunately there’s a larger than you expect percentage of people out there who just think “fruit healthy” and that’s where the thought ends
what does “healthy” even mean in this context exactly? like if i eat 3 apples tomorrow will i tangibly actually feel different? what about every day for a week? month? what exactly are people getting out of this other than the placebo effect from the word ‘healthy’
my dad, who is quite overweight, would order the sweet potato french fries at Culver’s, after I told him to eat healthier. My mom even supported him - “those are SWEET POTATO fries! that’s healthy!”. I told them that’s not how it works, and it just made them angry.
One word solution:
Fiber
Yep this was my take. Went to Cartagena de Indias in Colombia where people kinda don’t drink water, it’s all juice. Guess what a week+ of juice 3x a day gets you? REALLY BAD CONSTIPATION.
We give our kids those horizon uht whole milk drinks like everyday. It’s milk which is basically sugar, fat, protein, and a few other things. Is this going to cause a similar issue? We also have the siggi yogurt…
Age matters. Milk is not juice.
Please follow professional advice and not people on Internet.
Thanks, I was asking to see what others thought. It’s not like I can really control what kids want to eat. 😂
Calories in calories out
It’s not rocket science if you put in extra fuel the body will eventually turn that extra fuel into fat.
Still, since it’s children we’re talking about it’s a bit more touchy with their growth and everything and creating dietary anxiety isn’t a good idea. Keep them active, give them a variety of food and they should grow up healthy.
Nutritional values are nutritional values, weight is gained by regularly ingesting too many calories, no matter the source. There’s benefits to milk but if your kids have a healthy diet in general they shouldn’t need to drink it.
