Posted on 01/17/2024 9:58:04 AM PST by nickcarraway
The brain works better on ketone bodies.
I buy 4 bananas every week. Grapes and berries when they’re on sale.
For example: Bell peppers have more vitamin C content than oranges do without the high fructose and high glycemic index. Yellow bell peppers have the most vitamin C content, followed by red, then green.
As for liquid consumption, stick to water. Drinking your calories, especially with a high sugar content, will pack on the extra fat since those excess carb-laden calories will be stored as fat (hence the term, "beer belly"). Even the "healthy" fruit juices will pack on the pounds. Calories without the satiety.
In other news regarding children’s “health”:
“Biden’s HHS to spend $700,000 on ‘inclusive teen pregnancy prevention for transgender boys’”
Our nation has gone stark-raving mad as Democrat politicians and bureaucrats destroy every institution and democrat voters are cheering on the destruction.
A 0.3% increase??!!! Well, screw all the benefits of vitamins, ya might gain a fraction of a pound! Plainly, diet soda is the answer. (/sarcasm)
Glucose may be the energy source for the brain, but sugar consumption is bad for the whole body. Since you know the word neoglucogenesis then you should know the body is more than capable of creating sugar for its own needs. It is not going to create it in the excessive spikes that consuming sugary drinks and foods does.
Fruit juice is no better than soda with a few vitamins and minerals thrown in. It is flavored sugar water, and rich in fructose more than glucose. It is essentially the subtraction of everything good in fruit to leave only the unhealthiest part.
I will agree that without juice we would still have weight issues. Too much starchy food processed with sweeteners and vegetable oils are killing people, but that does not absolve fruit juice of its contribution to the problem. The worst thing about fruit juice it that if a parent hands their child a soda, they know they are serving them unhealthy, empty calories but they suffer the illusion that fruit juice is healthy. It absolutely is not.
I don’t drink any calories of any kind anymore.
I’m arguing that the article is garbage to pinpoint juice as the cause.
I absolutely agree it’s better to eat an actual fruit over juice.
There’s two fitness sayings of abs are made in the kitchen, and you can’t out train a poor diet. Also, too much exercise can create cortisol, ghrelin, and inflammation issues.
“Moderation in everything.”
You might find this interesting.
There’s other sources if cnn bothers you.
Search Kansas state nutrition Professor junk food
https://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/11/08/twinkie.diet.professor/index.html
Does that hold long term, or is it a short term survival adaptation?
The idea that juice is good for kids is ludicrous.
A friend of mine discovered that apple juice, for whatever reason, was contributing to her daughter’s ear infections. So she cut out the juice and said her appetite improved dramatically.
Makes sense. They are just messing with blood sugar levels with that much sugar so kids actually eat less of what’s good for them. Also, if the sweetener is HFCS, then YES it’s going to make kids fat.
I juice lemons for lemonade and it is delicious.
Or at least if you do consume sugar, burn it off, quickly.
That’s why walking is my main exercise, and it’s the best if you want to lose weight. Plus it’s much easier on the knees. No point in getting in shape if it wrecks your knees.
I usually consume it post workout for glycogen replacement.
Probably unnecessary for me now.
Yes, juice is making the kids fat. Not the inactivity, not the fake food and food adjacent microwave, prepackaged, chemical laden convience foods that are now breakfast lunch and dinner, not the processed snacks that are given out at school in nutrition programs, not the constant grazing. Just cut the fruit juice with water and the kids will be fine.
I mainly do lifting, sprinting, swimming, and walking.
In one year I have my Masters T&F competition, then I will dial back my sprinting and lifting some.
Walking is good for multiple reasons. More should do it as often as possible.
It’s not so much that fruit juice is making them fat, but it’s sold as something that is healthy, when it is not.
Dang, maybe you should try out for the Gator football team.
Among what I learned was an understanding that whole fruit includes fiber, which delays the body's absorption of calories, which, in turn, prevents a blood sugar spike leading eventually to insulin resistance and weight gain.
True. Although, it’s not the actual natural sugar in the fruit juice that is the problem. It is all the added sugar the companies include in those commercially sold juices.
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