[utahagen]

I’d argue that juices are worse for kids than soda because juice is “healthy” and, therefore, is served to kids much too often. juice is packed with calories and its sugar goes right to the bloodstream, triggering a spike in blood sugar levels and spurring a craving for more calories. Kids are ingesting massive numbers of calories from those juice boxes.

[Dr. Sivana]

I’d argue that juices are worse for kids than soda because juice is “healthy” and, therefore, is served to kids much too often.

When it is used that way, of course you are right, especially as most juices have more sugar than soda. The good benefits of juices (e.g. vitamin C) are maxed out after couple of reasonably sized serving.

Technically, a serving of orange juice is usually described as 4 oz. but who really follows that?

On the other hand, I saw a billboard the other day pushing the Coke 50 oz. twin pack, with the caption "enough for your meal." It wasn't that long ago that a modern McDonald's medium was the old large drink (22 oz.) which of course was filled with ice. Go back a little farther, and soda bottles ranged from 6 oz. (Coke) to 12 oz. (Pepsi). We drink the stuff differently now, and that goes for juice, too.

[brytlea]

When my kids were little I made juice from frozen concentrate. I always added quite a bit more water than it called for, figuring water was better for them than juice. When they finally tasted *real* juice, they realized I had been holding out on them! ;)