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Topic: Juice
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Tue 08/10/10 05:15 PM

No - there are too many added sugars in juice. The purported amount of vitamins are not enough to be beneficial. Most juice is processed unless you buy organic, raw juice (not homogenized).

- Recommended limit of added sugars per day is 12 tablespoons or 40g
- Average added sugar in 8 oz of juice is approx 26g - that's over half of the daily recommendation.

Eat fruit and drink water instead; there are no added sugars and you actually get the nutrition from the fruit rather than processed juice.

Juice is one of the worst foods to consume that is being advertised as healthy; soy products is the other bad, bad processed food.

Unless you squeeze or use a juicer right from the fruit and add no sugars, juice is no bueno. sad2

From your "pain in the rump" fitness trainer member. tongue2



You win.

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Tue 08/10/10 05:19 PM


No - there are too many added sugars in juice. The purported amount of vitamins are not enough to be beneficial. Most juice is processed unless you buy organic, raw juice (not homogenized).

- Recommended limit of added sugars per day is 12 tablespoons or 40g
- Average added sugar in 8 oz of juice is approx 26g - that's over half of the daily recommendation.

Eat fruit and drink water instead; there are no added sugars and you actually get the nutrition from the fruit rather than processed juice.

Juice is one of the worst foods to consume that is being advertised as healthy; soy products is the other bad, bad processed food.

Unless you squeeze or use a juicer right from the fruit and add no sugars, juice is no bueno. sad2

From your "pain in the rump" fitness trainer member. tongue2



You win.


Oh Plastic - I'm not trying to win. flowerforyou

I try to curb my enthusiasm regarding fitness and nutrition but it flows through my body like blood. I tend to education wherein it's not welcome. I do this 7 days a week, 10 hours a day. I am in a 12 Step Program!

I love your posts! drinker

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Tue 08/10/10 06:49 PM
*high five*

I'm going to go veggie for awhile.

I have to curb my desire to ask you how to get abs. Haha.

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Wed 08/11/10 08:48 PM
the straw in the juice box scares me...

frown

Goofball73's photo
Wed 08/11/10 08:53 PM
If you like Pina Colada's....and getting caught in the rain....

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Wed 08/11/10 09:59 PM
Edited by ValentinaSS on Wed 08/11/10 10:00 PM

You know when the Juice used to rush for the Buffalo Bills, and work in those Naked Gun movies, he was pretty good.

I didn't care for the wife killing, but what you gonna do?


after the first time he beat my sister, me & my family would have made real O.J. outta that mofo

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Wed 08/11/10 10:03 PM
I'm not a big juicer myself...my boys love it though.

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Wed 08/11/10 10:16 PM
Edited by kc0003 on Wed 08/11/10 10:17 PM
juice wasnt very healthy for her...




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Wed 08/11/10 10:16 PM
Edited by 907daydreamer on Wed 08/11/10 10:18 PM
No - there are too many added sugars in juice. The purported amount of vitamins are not enough to be beneficial. Most juice is processed unless you buy organic, raw juice (not homogenized).

- Recommended limit of added sugars per day is 12 tablespoons or 40g
- Average added sugar in 8 oz of juice is approx 26g - that's over half of the daily recommendation.

Eat fruit and drink water instead; there are no added sugars and you actually get the nutrition from the fruit rather than processed juice.

Juice is one of the worst foods to consume that is being advertised as healthy; soy products is the other bad, bad processed food.

Unless you squeeze or use a juicer right from the fruit and add no sugars, juice is no bueno.

From your "pain in the rump" fitness trainer member.


dont forget everything you miss when you drink the juice rather than eating the fruit.
drink a cup of orange juice and youve just ingested the sugar of 8 oranges and you have missed 4 grams of fiber per orange.

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Wed 08/11/10 10:33 PM
Edited by Shasta1 on Wed 08/11/10 10:33 PM
The water we drink isn't all that safe either. It too is reconsituted.
Recycled and (ahem) filtered and purified. It's all just advertising. And what you buy into with your gig, try as you may. Some, who can afford to buy organic, isn't that funny? It was all organic until 30 or so years ago, now you have to 'pay'..

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Thu 08/12/10 11:17 AM

Juice loves you. Even when nobody else does.

It's full of vitamins.

Do you love juice?


yes juices of all kinds frm apple orange and grape to carrot and pineapple - even grapefruit

it's also one of the main ingredients in my favorite receipe: fruit smoothies - a complete meal

take 1 cup of frozen berries (strawberries, raspberries, bluberries, blackberries)and 1/2 cup frozen pineapple, peaches - or some combunation of mixed frozen fruits

plus one ripe banana

put in blender first - top with 4 tablespoons (a little more is OK) of vanilla Greek Style Yogurt

2 scoops of vitamin and mineral fortified soy protein powder SOY (not milk whey egg or meat protein)

pour in fruit juice to cover blades and then a little more to provide a good blending consistency

it will be thick like a milkshake, icy and very sweet - ENJOY!

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Thu 08/12/10 11:18 AM
Why yes I do flowerforyou

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Thu 08/12/10 11:48 AM
yes, all kinds... blushing

$.02 drinker

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Thu 08/12/10 12:30 PM
Theres more sugar in orange juice and apple juice, than in a can of soda!!

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Thu 08/12/10 12:58 PM
A juice extractor costs a hundred dollars.... fresh fruit in season is often free or next to nothing, by the 10 kilo box!


We make our own juice, add nothing, (other than perhaps some fresh ginger)....it is a staple part of our day to day dietry requirements...the amount of fibre alone is huge!!!...and fructose sugars are way more digestible than sucrose...in alcohol, icecream, chocolate, etc etc...

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Thu 08/12/10 01:16 PM


A juice extractor costs a hundred dollars.... fresh fruit in season is often free or next to nothing, by the 10 kilo box!


We make our own juice, add nothing, (other than perhaps some fresh ginger)....it is a staple part of our day to day dietry requirements...the amount of fibre alone is huge!!!...and fructose sugars are way more digestible than sucrose...in alcohol, icecream, chocolate, etc etc...


fruit is typically very expensive here...but all that sounds grand!



I guess depending on whether one lives in the city or rural areas has a lot to do with it...

We have mangoes falling on our heads as we walk down the street in summer...pineapples, watermelons by the carboot load, and right now strawberries are purchased for about $4 au...by the 20 litre bucketfull!

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Thu 08/12/10 02:26 PM

(from Memoirs of a Hurried Mom)

Hectic mornings warming milk
Grumpiness I try to bilk
Binkies, blankets, sippy cup
Burp cloth covered with spit up

Poopy diaper, dirty bib
Babbles coming from the crib
Get them dressed from head to toe

Load the car and off we go

Cooking meals and serving dinner
Hit or miss which one's a winner
Flinging food and apple juice
On my floor make a slippery sluice

Playtime, snuggles, bubble baths
Man and wife just crossing paths
Stories, bedtime, brushing teeth
Eight p.m. sure brings relief

Midnight diaper changes galore
Please end soon, I do implore
Wake up early, start again
Where do I even begin

Can't drink coffee because caffeine
Will wire baby and ruin routine
Each day starts off so bleary eyed
Was it just last night I sat and cried?

So tired that I can't think straight
I don't realize until too late
The first of today's many mistakes
I just poured orange juice on my corn flakes

I'd say that's pretty accurate

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