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Well, maybe not, according to Dr. Robert H. Lustig, a professor at the University of California, San Francisco and director of the Weight Assessment for Teen and Child Health (WATCH) Clinic.
Lustig says that people misunderstand juice - they believe juice is good for health and that it's natural. However, Lustig believes that these perceptions are not only incorrect, but, like soda, are contributing to childhood obesity. "Drinking juice - even if it says "100% natural" - is no better than drinking soda" and in fact, he believes that juice is actually worse than soda because there are more calories per ounce in juice, about 170 calories in a 12 oz. serving, than in soda, about 150 calories for the same serving size.
Hm. I guess that means we're back to water.
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8-10-2006 @10:13AM Faust said... I dont like to drink orange juice during the day cause it doesnt seem to go with anything...its the perfect breakfast drink but it always makes me feel kind of sick. Drink or not to drink, as for me - I selecting the first.
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8-10-2006 @10:36AM Buck Q. Fitch said... Maybe you're allergic to citris and you don't know it.
With regard to the story, I've had more than one nutritionist warn me about the sugar and calories in juice. As with all things, watch your intake.
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8-10-2006 @10:50AM Rhea said... You're much better off having a piece of fruit than drinking tall glasses of juice. I once drank a big glass of cranberry juice each morning. Then someone pointed out how many calories the juice contained. The calories are excessive.
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8-10-2006 @10:55AM Barbara said... Eating fruit is better than drinking the juice. The fruit has all of the fiber, pectin and the fruit pulp in it, which apparently lowers the glycemic index of it. That means that your blood sugar doesn't spike as much when you eat whole fruit, as when you just drink the juice.
The juice however, is mostly the sugar from the fruit--hence the high caloric hit.
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8-10-2006 @12:51PM Nicole Weston said... I second the advice about eating the whole fruit instead of drinking just the juice, too. It's more satisfying and fewer calories, given that it takes several oranges to make a glass of juice and only one to fill you up for a snack.
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8-10-2006 @1:07PM ben said... all posters here are correct; the whole form of fruits are always better than juice, especially for the common ones like apples and oranges. the juices have all the sugar that the fruit had but NONE (usually none anyway) of the fiber that, like the above poster mentioned, control the way your body deals with the large amounts of sugar. also, isnt actual EATING more satisfying than DRINKING something? for me it is. so, i get a lot more satisfaction from chewing my way thru an apple than gulping down a glass of its juice. am i the only one like this?
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8-10-2006 @2:24PM Rick Dobbs said... Amazing that a doctor doesn't know the difference between sucrose and fructose and how the body metabolizes them differently.
Granted, eating the whole fruit is better, but you can still get vitamins from juice and your body disposes of the calories fairly easily. It's always a better choice than soda.
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8-10-2006 @5:37PM POOT-TOOP said... Saying that (pure) fruit juice is worse than pop (soda) just shows how stupid this doctor is; there are ZERO nutrients in soda.
If you are absolutely sedentary; then yeah, maybe you should cut back on the fruit juice AND all caloric intake for that matter. For most active people, juice is a great way to get essential nutrients and calories; its a much better alternative to soda.
I suspect, his view is that extreme becuase he works with highly obese, highly sedentary people.
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8-16-2006 @4:02AM Gabriella said... well this is why I say that kids should not have juice. My boys get it now maybe once a month and that has only been for the past two months.
In fifth grade i was put on a juice free diet bc I was getting too many calories and sugar calories at that from juice.
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8-16-2006 @5:30PM Meganann said... Juice doesn't have to be all or nothing. I love a tall glass of OJ with breakfast, but I mix 8 oz. of juice with 8 oz. of sparkling water. I get the juice flavor without all the calories in a huge glass.
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