Posted on 02/07/2005 9:57:40 AM PST by 7.62 x 51mm
If you read the labels on most 'juice' containers, there is very little juice and a lot of sugar.
As the Old Sage said: "Modern man is being prepared to lead a life of slavery in the most exacting sense."
And slaves don't dring soft drinks or fruit juice.
They don't have naps in Kindergarten or juice in the cafeteria at our elementary school - you can buy low-fat milk in 4 or 5 flavors. They also got rid of cookies to purchase in the cafeteria and serve only frozen fruit bars (as an optional purchase).
Sadly, there are about 4 or 5 very heavy kids in my daughter's first grade class. PE is only 3 times/week for 45 minutes and they have recess everyday for 15 minutes where they can run around on the playground if weather permits.
I remember PE every day - and we ran, and worked and played - and competed!!! We even played DODGEBALL!!!
Every kid is different.
I have identical twin daughters. One of them has always eaten more and drank more than her sister. They get the same amount of exercise.
One is 10 pounds heavier than the other one.
My kindergarten years were in Huntington, West Virginia and we were so poor we couldn't afford cows. We had to run behind the produce trucks and scoop-up what bounced off, and make do with what we retrieved. LOL!
Well most juice today is not real juice. Its loaded with high fructose corn syrup. most foods today are processed foods and the big corporations want you to be fat so you will eat more.
I real ONE fat kid in my classes.
I ate all kinds of junk food as a tyke, but never was fat. What kept me thin was avoiding the following: being baby sat by the TV, chatting for hours on the net, being driven everywhere, having mom, maids and others do my chores, etc. It ain't rocket science folks, kids need more discipline and less sittin' on their patoots.
It's not just juice, though. Sugar is just about everywhere in our diets these days. Condiments, dressings and sauces are major culprits to driving our average sugar consumption to about 125 pounds per person per year. That's a five pound bag of Dixie Crystals in less than two weeks. I remember reading a Consumer Reports article years ago that stated that a single serving of Kraft barbecue sauce had more sugar than a 12 ounce can of Coke.
People these days are getting a constant stream of sugar every waking hour of virtually every day of their lives. You really have to work at it to get away from it. With all the strutting and preening from the food Nazis about how horrible our diets were in the "bad old days" before we had them to trumpet shreiking alarms about how movie theater popcorn will give you cancer, I think that in reality, we probably ate much healthier diets then.
“No sugar added.” Fruit juice contains fructose (like apple juice, for instance) and may contain sucrose.
It just has its sugar in a form other than table sugar. It’s still sugar.
No need to "add" sugar to apple juice. Unless you're working off concentrate and adding a bunch of water and you have to try to get it back something like it was when you started out.
Just get a juicer and feed a couple of apples in it. You won't need sugar. In fact, as a youngster we'd make lemonade that would be sweetened with apple juice - not table sugar.
Also, having spent years juicing Concord grapes from our yard (which I understand aren't the "preferred" juicing grape), that juice ends up somewhat "snotty" - very thick. We typically cut it 50/50 with water just to get it back to something resembling "regular" grape juice. But maybe that was just specific to the grapes we had.
"high fructose corn syrup"
That's the first thing I check for.
Sorta kinda maybe but not really.
Dietary needs differ from kid to kid. If your child is a little chubby then cutting out the sweet juice might keep him from getting overweight.
If not then let the kid have his juice.
I'm not surprised. Your average not-yet-fossilized conservative strikes me as upbeat, confident, ready to rock and roll -- in the best sense of course.
Now I, on the other hand, AM a bitter old fart, and enjoying it too!
I want my nap now.
You can keep your juice and crackers.
So what about those 'leventeen servings of fruit/juice per day that FDA says we're supposed to use to was down the 8 or 10 servings of veggies and all then grains?
If they want the root cause of child obesisty, it is SUVs. The kids ride in them to school instead of walking 10 miles up hill each way.
The $1.85/half-liter stuff is much better for you. They use a higher quality garden hose on their taps to fill the bottles.
But I know kids who are drinking a quart or more of this stuff a day. And calories are calories.
Now I, on the other hand, AM a bitter old fart, and enjoying it too!
Now how did you know I'm in a rock band?!?
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