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Pediatricians Urge Limitations on Fruit Juice Consumption – (05-31-01)
Pediatricians Urge Limitations on Fruit Juice Consumption
Two points here. First, these recommendations were on fruit juice, not fruit drink. If recommendations are to lower juice consumption, imagine the attitudes towards fruit drink. So many parents are mislead into thinking that drinks such as Sunny Delight and those like it are healthy–and yet they couldn’t be farther from the truth. As for the juice consumption, too often toddlers drink large amounts of juice. Always, the whole fruit is much preferred and much healthier, with plenty of soluble fiber to blunt the effects of the sugars taken in. Although the sugars are natural sugars and have less of an effect on insulin levels, too much of anything is not always a good thing.
Pediatrics — Abstracts: Committee on Nutrition 107 (5): 1210
