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No, I am suggesting that people consume healthy juice to replace entirely unhealthy drinks or sugar in snacks which many children consume, not meals. And sure,
by code_duck 8y ago
No, I am suggesting that people consume healthy juice to replace entirely unhealthy drinks or sugar in snacks which many children consume, not meals. And sure, if you want to replace a meal, make it a smoothie by throwing in some protein powder or dairy, and putting some of the fruit directly in the blender. But that’s kind of a different topic.
- emodendroket 8y agoI think what's at issue is that parents are not thinking of juice as a treat -- they're thinking of it as something healthy for their children to drink all the time. In fact, it's, at best, a marginal improvement over soda and, because it does not fill them, will not serve to replace snacks.
- code_duck 8y agoI think that is true for the junk food juice which realistically, is what most parents will serve their kids. I'm referring to anything in grocery stores in plastic bottles, which is 95% of what's on the market. Filtered, pasteurized, made from concentrate, blended with grape juice, tainted with pesticide residue and plastic. It is less true for parents giving their kid fresh carrot or beet juice, for many reasons that this article ignores because western medical orthodoxy is not interested. Vitamins, enzymes, healthier forms of sugar and other nutrients present in actual juice more than make up for the presence of sugar, in my opinion. Of course this should be part of a truly healthy diet, which almost no parent offers their child in the US because they have no idea what it is and don't eat that way themselves.