Juices will contain varying percents of actual fruit juice and the label will say so. The reason juices are not so healthy, no matter the % of real fruit juice, is that they have no fiber and have a lot of sugar by volume (you'd consume tons more berries in juice form vs whole berry form). Eating a strawberry is significantly different than drinking juice of one. They both have sugar but sugar + fiber is absorbed/metabolized differently...fiber helps greatly with blood sugar control. Glycemic index.
It has been proven over and over that multivitamins are inferior to nutritious food and are really only beneficial to someone who is seriously nutrient and food deprived.
I don't discount fiber at all, I think it's woefully lacking in the modern diet. But the reality is that vegetables are far more nutritious and lack much of the sugar that fruit does. And I'll say this before I continue: carbs are broken down into glucose (sugar).
It's why if you're diabetic and controlling blood sugar is an issue, you have to watch your carbs as well. Fiber is a carb but one the body doesn't digest, and therefore doesn't affect your blood sugar level.
So my argument is again that if you eat fruit to replace potato chips and oreos, then it is certainly the healthier option. But fruits themselves are hardly healthy. If you want my recommendation, go Atkins and stick to meat, vegetables and fat.
Let me ask you this: what does a cup of strawberries give you that a cup of broccoli doesn't?
The less healthy a life I lead, the worse my mood.
↑ View this comment's parent
← View full post
Juices will contain varying percents of actual fruit juice and the label will say so. The reason juices are not so healthy, no matter the % of real fruit juice, is that they have no fiber and have a lot of sugar by volume (you'd consume tons more berries in juice form vs whole berry form). Eating a strawberry is significantly different than drinking juice of one. They both have sugar but sugar + fiber is absorbed/metabolized differently...fiber helps greatly with blood sugar control. Glycemic index.
It has been proven over and over that multivitamins are inferior to nutritious food and are really only beneficial to someone who is seriously nutrient and food deprived.
--
bubsy
6 years ago
|
pl
Comment Hidden (
show
)
Report
-1
-1
I don't discount fiber at all, I think it's woefully lacking in the modern diet. But the reality is that vegetables are far more nutritious and lack much of the sugar that fruit does. And I'll say this before I continue: carbs are broken down into glucose (sugar).
It's why if you're diabetic and controlling blood sugar is an issue, you have to watch your carbs as well. Fiber is a carb but one the body doesn't digest, and therefore doesn't affect your blood sugar level.
So my argument is again that if you eat fruit to replace potato chips and oreos, then it is certainly the healthier option. But fruits themselves are hardly healthy. If you want my recommendation, go Atkins and stick to meat, vegetables and fat.
Let me ask you this: what does a cup of strawberries give you that a cup of broccoli doesn't?