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100% fruit juice is now recognized as being not healthy. It is a "treat" just like cookies or pop. Most sources will advocate "moderation" because you can't te
by com2kid 5y ago
100% fruit juice is now recognized as being not healthy. It is a "treat" just like cookies or pop.
Most sources will advocate "moderation" because you can't tell Americans not to eat trash without Americans getting upset.
"OK in moderation" means "it is unhealthy but if we tell you to stop you won't so...."
Same as alcohol being OK in moderation. It isn't. It is 100% bad for you. (Those studies in wine are all statistically trickery).
Ditto for cookies. There is no healthy amount of cookies to eat. Do oatmeal cookies technically have some nutritional value? Sure. But that is like dropping a multi-vitamin into a shot of jack daniels. Good for you only in the sense that of hitting yourself on the head and then going for a massage.
Or to put it yet another way, there is exactly 0 instances where fruit juice is superior to eating a piece of fruit. Is orange juice better than something getting scurvy? Sure. That's about the limit of its health benefit though.