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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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