Fruit Juice Study

[Guest guest]

I don't know if this article is off topic but I thought some readers

might be interested in it:

 

NEW YORK (Reuters) -- Contrary to popular belief, drinking pure 100

percent fruit juice does not make young children overweight or at

risk for becoming overweight, new research shows. Pure fruit juice

provides essential nutrients and, in moderation, may actually help

children maintain a healthy weight.

 

Inconsistent research findings have led to continued debate over the

potential associations between drinking 100 percent fruit juice,

nutrient intake, and overweight in children.

 

In the their study, researchers analyzed the juice consumption of

3,618 children ages 2 to 11 using data from the National Health and

Nutrition Examination Survey.

 

The bottom line is that 100 percent juice consumption is a valuable

contributor of nutrients in children's diet and it does not have an

association with being overweight, study chief Dr. Theresa Nicklas, a

child nutrition specialist at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston,

Texas, told Reuters. She presented the new data at the Pediatric

Academic Societies' annual convention in Toronto, Canada, this week.

 

If you look at the weight of the evidence there are at least 7

studies plus the one I presented (this week) that show no association

between 100 percent juice and overweight among children, Nicklas

added. Even among the children who consumed the most juice, there was

no association with the children being overweight or at risk for

overweight, she said.

 

For the full article here is the link:

 

http://www.cnn.com/2007/HEALTH/diet.fitness/05/09/pure.fruit.juice.wei

ght.reut/index.html

 

-Beverly: a new member - mom to 3 and a vegetarian since I was 14, 22

years now - don't do the math!! :-)

[Guest guest]

I made the mistake of turning down apple juice for my guys at a playgroup

about a year ago (it had been made from a concentrate made of 100% juice)

which sparked off a discussion of what kind of juice my guys did drink (the

100% pure, nothing BUT the juice - blueberry, cranberry, cherry, etc., mixed

with water so that the juice flavors the water, but isn't overpowering).

The discussion was 'what is 100% juice'. Someone brought up one of these

type of studies. I tried to point out that made from 100% juice is NOT the

same as 100% juice. The other moms didn't believe me until I challenged

them to read the label on the canned concentrate vs the bottle of pure

cranberry juice I happened to have in the rig (fortunately, we had gone

shopping before the play group) . . . I found it interesting that they were

so involved reading labels for fats, sugars, etc. in their own diets yet

they weren't looking at what they were feeding their kids . . .