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.
Just eat the god damn fruit children.
Please don’t eat the fruit children.
It’s like drinking sodas.
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.
I have a very vivid memory of working with this girl who had a neck so large that it hung down like a bullfrog’s sack. I had lost some weight myself and we were discussing nutrition and my high water consumption, and I remember she looks at me very seriously and a little exasperated and says, “I’m eating healthier too. I stopped drinking so much pop and switched entirely to juice.”
People really do believe that pure fruit juice is good for your body. I think it’s largely due to the average person’s inability to understand caloric intake and how to decipher a nutrional chart.
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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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.
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.
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
“I lived a year on orange juice,
Thought I was doing well;
But now they tell me orange juice
Is fattening as well!”I see so many things blamed for weight gain, but nobody ever seems to talk about the fact that nearly everyone is staying inside more. Kids don’t go outside to play like they used to. They play video games and watch YouTube instead of riding bikes and climbing trees. Adults too. The human race is becoming increasingly sedentary. The calories catch up way quicker if you aren’t doing anything to burn them. And I’m not pointing fingers here. I do it too.
Have you seen the outside they built?
Kids aren’t allowed to play outside anymore anywhere but the country.
The trees have been cut down and replaced with tiny puffs of artificial grass. There are no yards, it’s all just streets to play in. And the streets are now blasted through at 30mph.
Adults call the cops on children outside just anywhere but their own front lawn. There is nowhere where it is free to be, and kids aren’t exactly flush with cash.
I left the city years ago. My kid has all the outdoors he could want and I about have to twist his arm to get him off red dead.
Same. But as someone who lived in the city. I spoke to the cops more than my drug addicted cousin.
‘You can’t skateboard here’. 'You’re loitering, do you want me to arrest you? ’ 'You can’t ride your bike here… ’
Motherfucker where can I do any of this without you bothering me? There aren’t any parks? So where exactly do you want us to go?
I live in a housing development without a tree in sight. There were kids out running around all over the place all summer long. Never saw anyone complaining about it either.
It’s because of perfection of the ability to stay at home while keeping yourself entertained. The other side that nobody remembers was that their was almost nothing to do at home so you would go out because their was things to do. Now theirs so many things to do you can literally stay inside for the rest of your life and never be bored.
Wall E was a documentary set in the future.
“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.
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.
It’s bad to take the fiber out of sugar bombs? Who knew?
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…
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.
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.
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. 😂
