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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.

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 months ago (2 children)

I mean it's probably better than soda right?

[–] [email protected] 19 points 9 months ago (2 children)

In that it has more nutrients, yes. But once the fruit is blitzed, the sugars in it are just as available as any other highly processed sugar. It's a lot worse than just eating the fruit it came from.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Still, going from pop to juice is a step in the right direction. It's an early step on a long journey, but a step nonetheless.

One reason a lot of people fail to switch to a healthy diet is because they try to go straight from "whatever the hell I want to eat whenever I want to eat it" to "trendy diet full of food I hate only allowed 2 meals per day".

Switching from pop to juice is far from the last step, but it's a good conscious decision if they're committed to continuing.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 9 months ago

Unless they think it is healthier and have no intention of quitting it, of course.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's also expensive as hell buying healthier products to find a balance you like and is healthy. For example I'm trying to move away from white rice. (I added it to literally everything when I was poor because it was cheap and halfway nutritious.) Now I'm finding out I don't like Quinoa. So I'm going to try brown rice and whole wheat pasta. That particular exchange isn't horribly expensive but I never would have risked not liking something when I was hard up for money.

So people make this decision, check out blogs, try super expensive kale, find out they aren't in the group that likes it, and give up because they don't have the time or money to experiment properly.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

Yeah, I tried brown rice as a similar step and it really doesn’t work. Maybe it’s my rice maker though, since brown rice from a restaurant is much better. At home, brown rice ends up too chewy, like it’s undercooked. I’ve tried other grains on and off but they tend to take much longer: I have a bag of Kamut I’ve never used because it’s 45-60 minutes instead of the 15-20 for rice

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

I really dislike a lot of the more fibrous alternatives to our diner carbohydrates. Some more expensive pasta brands can somehow 'hide' more fibre then others, but still. I do exclusively high-fibre bread now, for lunch and snack moments (i just make ham and cheese toasties whenever i feel like a snack, can't really eat more than 2-4 slices of bread that way before I feel full). I can leave my other carbohydrates as is. (for reference: i use about 60g uncooked dry paste pp per dinner)

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago (2 children)

Yes but one reason we get studies like this is fruit juice is the harm reduction for soda addicts. So BMI correlation is a poor measure.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago (2 children)

BMI is a shit measure and studies like this are impossible to do well. That does not mean fruit juice is magically sugar-free.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

BMI is kind of the okay and strongly correlates with health outcomes.

It is not a one size fits all tool, but it is a useful tool in aggregate.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

I agree. The message should be; use in moderation. The message in the article and what many people are taking away though is avoid like soda and cigarettes.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago

Lol, I've never seen harm reduction used in a dietary context before.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 9 months ago

Not enough to make a difference when concerning weight gain.