Posted on 11/11/2009 7:11:27 AM PST by Still Thinking
America’s self-anointed food police have a new punching bag in their obesity crusade: fruit juice. We’re not making this up. The Los Angeles Times reported yesterday that a growing number of dietary do-gooders are now pointing their fingers at juice as a culprit for fattening waistlines:
The inconvenient truth, many experts say, is that 100% fruit juice poses the same obesity-related health risks as Coke, Pepsi and other widely vilified beverages. … [I]t's time juice lost its wholesome image, these experts say.
"It's pretty much the same as sugar water," said Dr. Charles Billington, an appetite researcher at the University of Minnesota. In the modern diet, "there's no need for any juice at all."
Is this new target in the obesity blame game any more legitimate than activists’ perennial demonization of soda? Nope. As the Times notes, a 2008 review of 21 studies found that 15—over two-thirds—did not support the theoretical link between juice and weight gain. But dietary activists still single out soda despite a wealth of academic research finding that soda isn’t a unique cause of obesity, so don’t expect the grape juice naysayers to be quieted in the face of actual evidence.
It’s worth noting that “Twinkie tax” creator Kelly Brownell isn’t jumping on the opportunity to call for a government War on Fruit Juice. According to the Times, Brownell is “loath to provoke the tens of millions of Americans who consider their morning juice sacrosanct.” Read: Brownell won’t target fruit juice yet, but after fruit juice’s public image is dragged through the mud and turned into “the new tobacco,” all bets are off. For now, Brownell is sticking to his soda tax song-and-dance out of purely political considerations, not ideological ones.
We have to ask: What’s next? Raisin rations? Warning labels on avocados? Red-light / green-light stickers in the produce aisle? Paging Alex Padilla…
Or to put it another way, Coke is no worse than fruit juice, so they've been lying to us all along. I love how they demonize one thing, then say it's no worse than the other thing, which SHOULD paint them as liars and completely dismiss anything they ever said, but they think we're supposed to respond by now believing BOTH things are bad, instead of neither, which would be logical. Arrogant asshats.
These guys had best be careful how many things they get so alarmed about. People still have to eat and drink, and if they object to everything, it's the same as not objecting to anything.
High fructose corn syrup is the culprit.
Scurvy!
For liberals its ALL about control.
They really don’t care about your health.
They get a thrill at CONTROLLING YOU and YOUR KIDS.
OTOH, they want to legalize marijuanna!
Here’s a lovely outcome from a Mom that was a “regular marijuann user”:
Report Finds N.Y. Wrong-Way Crash Mom Smoked Pot When Kids Were in Bed
Monday, November 09, 2009
WHITE PLAINS, N.Y. — State Police investigators said in a written report that a woman who killed seven people plus herself in a crash on the Taconic State Parkway was a regular marijuana user.
The report says Diane Schuler’s husband told police his wife “smoked marijuana once in a while to relieve the stress of work and the kids.”
Schuler’s sister-in-law told police she “didn’t believe in medicine and used marijuana to relax,” usually smoking after her children went to bed.
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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,572912,00.html
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You got it!
How republicans can win elections.
simply state
“I VIGOROUSLY oppose the Democrat Party’s support of the Chocolate Tax. The Democrat Party’s desire to tax all chocolate is just plain wrong!”
fake but accurate.
I always buy the Simply Orange. It’s pure 100% juice with no HCFS and it’s not from concentrate.
Same kind of idiots that turned health food stores into row after row of small white bottles of pills.
Ah, one of the bigwigs at Center for Science in the Public Interest, an organization which authored dietary alarmism such as "Movie Theater Popcorn: Kernels of Death" and "Chinese Food: The New Yellow Peril".
But, but, but...
We just went to all the trouble and expense of removing that nasty soda from school vending machines and replacing it with water and 100% fruit juice...
I have two orange trees in my back yard, and whenever enough oranges are ripe, I squeeze them for fresh juice. My only regret is that I didn’t plant two more trees.
.....and ALL preservatives and additives in our food supply. WHOLE FOODS are the way to go...and that includes 100% fruit juices. I’m the living proof....down 40 lbs since May eating all the WHOLE FOODS I want until full. It’s been amazing.
Nothing like the taste of fresh squeezed.
Eating the oranges without squeezing would be better health wise, as the fiber slows the availability of the sugar.
Instead of a massive sugar overload, you get a trickling.
All the Simply ___ products are excellent. Try the lemonade with raspberry. Talk about thirst quenching!!!
"Aw geez! Not this $#%@ again!"
Thankfully no one is yet injecting corn syrup and additives into fresh oranges. I squeeze 3 oranges every morning.
“there’s no need for any juice at all.”
Why do these skinny clip-haired Communist harpies prattle on and on about my “needs”? The only d@mned thing that matters one iota is my “wants”. Maybe i just WANT the orange juice.
I love the taste of orange juice and I’m not about to give it up for any food fascist. I’d also point out that a lot of kids will drink juice more readily than they will eat many fruits.
OTOH, I loathe so-called “juice drinks” that are mostly HFCS and flavoring rather than anything that ever came from an actual piece of fruit.
Just my dos centavos.
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