Fruit Juice is good for us, right?
In Fat Chance by Dr Robert Lustig, he argues that concentrated fruit juice has a high calorie content and provokes a high level of insulin (amongst other things). It also contains high levels of Fructose, which is a carbohydrate that we musn’t have too much of. He quotes in his book a child that was obese simply from drinking large quantities of orange juice every day. If we are to have fruit we should eat the entire fruit, not drink the juice, because the fibre portion of the fruit is good for you and it slows the calorie intake to a level that your body is more capable of handling.
This is an interesting article that appears to back up that view:
I didn’t drink my calories that much before (apart from cans of Coke), but I have followed his advice and I rarely drink calories now. Cups of tea in the pub for me for sure, not pints of bitter shandy.