Fruit Juice is not as good as REAL fruit!

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Fruit Juice is not as good as REAL fruit!

Fruit juice is not the nice, healthy treat we have been told it is! It turns out it’s not (we repeat, NOT!) a good way to get your daily servings of fruit! In fact, you should consider it an added sugar! One 12-ounce glass of apple juice contains the same amount of sugar (10 teaspoons) as a 12 ounce Coca-Cola. And it’s just as hard on your body. 

Last year, the British Medical Journal published a study showing consumption of fruit juice is associated with a higher risk of Type 2 diabetes. And according to a recent study in the journal Appetite, fruit juice raises your aortic, or central, blood pressure significantly, pumping it up by 3 to 4 points. That’s enough to put many of you at increased risk for heart disease and stroke. 

So why is fruit juice still being pushed as a healthy option? “You can’t trust government health advice,” says Joanna Blythman, author of What to Eat. “They have the same advice that they’ve been recycling for 50 years and rarely change it. It’s embarrassing to admit they’ve made a mistake.”
Does she drink juice? “I don’t, really – not in any great quantity,” she says. At one point, she says, in the late 1980s and early 90s, she was “a very enthusiastic orange juicer. I remember coming back from the States, where everyone juices like mad, and I got a juicer. Then over the last couple of years there has been more and more evidence that sweet juices are basically just fructose, and have a similar effect on the body to fizzy and soft drinks in terms of sugar.”
The juice industry has long enjoyed a healthy image. Anything to do with fruit, says Blythman, “has always been used to put a halo of health around dubious products that don’t merit it. That’s business as usual for the food industry.”
For all their reliance on phrases such as “100% pure” and “pure squeezed”, many of the big commercial orange juice manufacturers make a processed product, as detailed by Alissa Hamilton in her 2009 book Squeezed: What You Don’t Know about Orange Juice.

Fortunately, there’s an easy remedy. Eat whole fruits. They don’t raise your blood pressure, and blueberries, grapes and apples, in particular, lower your risk of Type 2 diabetes. Also, enjoy veggie juices, as long as they’re low in sugar (read the label). 

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