Apple Juice Is Not Healthy?
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Apple juice can pose a health risk - from calories
(KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - It's true - apple juice can pose a risk to your health. But not necessarily from the trace amounts of arsenic that people are arguing about.
Despite the government's consideration of new limits on arsenic, nutrition experts say apple juice's real danger is to waistlines and children's teeth. Apple juice has few natural nutrients, lots of calories and, in some cases, more sugar than soda has. It trains a child to like very sweet things, displaces better beverages and foods, and adds to the obesity problem, its critics say.
'It's like sugar water,' said Judith Stern, a nutrition professor at the University of California, Davis, who has consulted for candy makers as well as for Weight Watchers. 'I won't let my 3-year-old grandson drink apple juice.'
BACKGROUND STORY
If you or your family drinks juice, here is some advice from nutrition experts:
-Choose a juice fortified with calcium and vitamin D-3.
-Give children only pasteurised juice - that's the only type safe from germs that can cause serious disease.
- Don't give juice before 6 months of age, and never put it in bottles or covered cups that allow babies and children to consume it throughout the day, which can cause tooth decay. For the same reason, don't give infants juice at bedtime.
- Limit juice to 120ml to 180ml per day for children ages 1 to 6, and 8 to 12 ounces for those ages 7 to 18.
- Encourage kids to eat fruit.
- Don't be swayed by healthy-sounding label claims. 'No sugar added' doesn't mean it isn't full of naturally occurring sugar. And 'cholesterol-free' is silly - only animal products contain cholesterol.
Many juices are fortified with vitamins, so they're not just empty calories. But that doesn't appease some nutritionists. 'If it wasn't healthy in the first place, adding vitamins doesn't make it into a health food, and if it causes weight gain, it's not a healthy choice,' said Ms Karen Ansel, a registered dietitian in New York and spokesman for the American Dietetic Association.
Source: http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/ANN/Story/STIStory_741102.html
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not bad leh this article~ can use it in my future nutri class to debate~
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i believe this refers to the packaged type and not the 鲜榨 type
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most package type also say no preservatives mah...
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apple is also a diuretic. no good at all.
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Apple....i have no iphone...yay.
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my mama says processed food all no good de.
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want totally fresh have to grow your own apple trees at ur balcony and keep ur own cow in the multi-storey carpark
rber to buy season parking for it
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Originally posted by Hello Kitty:
my mama says processed food all no good de.
My doctor from America also say the same thing -
An Apple a day keeps the doctor away...
If Doctor is cute. throw the apple away...
Acid Acid firmly believes this
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Originally posted by ^Acid^ aka s|aO^eH~:
An Apple a day keeps the doctor away...
If Doctor is cute. throw the apple away...
Acid Acid firmly believes this
it's true~ I'm the apple~and I firmly believe this too.
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Originally posted by Darkness_hacker99:
it's true~ I'm the apple~and I firmly believe this too.
/me see cute doctor and throw DH away~ ~~ ~~~ -
Why drink apple juice when you can eat apples? Now that's good for your teeth and adds fibre to your diet. Most store-bought juice (of any fruit) is reconstituted from concentrate, and that's what makes it so sweet.
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Any packaged juice is overloaded with sugar.
Either just eat apples or make your own apple juice from fresh green apples, like my parents do.
FRESH! Memang syiok!
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Why do people even think that the commerial apple juice, orange juice, and the whatever processed product are healthy?
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Originally posted by Lokey:
Why do people even think that the commerial apple juice, orange juice, and the whatever processed product are healthy?
You think corporation spend so much $$$ to advertise for what? =.=
They go show woahhh, frest fruits and stuff, memeng fresh menang syiok...
Acheri what you dunch see is that it's all concentrate, sugar, kept in anaerobic conditions for a year, etc etc etc.
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i seldom drink apple juice but gd info. thanks for sharing =)