90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise

Re:90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise by nradov on Monday January 24, 2022 @08:07PM (#30066542)

It's kind of bizarre that the government is still recommending fruit juice. I mean I love it and drink a little bit myself, but based on what we know now about the effects of sugar it's barely healthier than soda pop.

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Re:90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise by commoner on Monday January 24, 2022 @09:16PM (#30067043)

> At least half of the recommended amount of fruit should come from whole fruit, rather than 100% fruit juice.

Baby steps. They also recommend having at least half of the grains in a diet be whole grains.* For the best diet, both of these proportions should be as high as possible in most cases.

* https://www.myplate.gov/eat-healthy/grains

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Re:90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise by itisit on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @12:09AM (#30068327)

It’s not bizarre when you consider pizza as a vegetable. [0]

[0] https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/pizza-still-a-vegetable-for-u...

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Re:90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise by anthk on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @08:44AM (#30071674)

Fruits should be eaten as a whole, so fibers act along the sugars. Drinking just the fruit juice isn't too far from a Coke.

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Re:90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise by throwawayciv651 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @05:58AM (#30070467)

Fruit juice means fresh fruit juiced without adding any sugar right? Some people refer to fruit juice as the ones you see in tetrapacks.

Real fruit juice is very much different from soda pop.

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Re:90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise by lkbm on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @10:19AM (#30072733)

If we're just looking at sugar content, it's really not that different. Pepsi has ~11% more sugar than fresh apple juice:

25g of sugar in 285g of juice[0] = that's 37 grams in 355ml of juice[1] vs. 41 grams of sugar in 355ml of soda[2], which is 110.8% more than the juice[3].

The half gram of fiber probably makes it little better, but it's still a very sugary drink.

[0] https://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=fresh+apple+juice+nutr... [1] https://www.google.com/search?q=25*(355%2F240) [2] https://www.pepsi.com/#!products/pepsi [3] https://www.google.com/search?q=41%2F37

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Re:90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise by throwawayciv651 on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @11:13AM (#30073527)

I might be remembering the details wrong, but I heard an actual doctor saying there is difference between fresh fruit juice and soda pop.

I found this that seems like what the doctor said, but I'm not sure. Click on 'transcript' and read it.

https://nutritionfacts.org/video/if-fructose-is-bad-what-abo...

Edit: Other than this, fresh fruit juice contains minerals, vitamins, antioxidants etc etc.

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Re:90% of US has a poor diet, and 25% don’t exercise by drekk on Tuesday January 25, 2022 @07:46PM (#30080234)

High fructose corn syrup is not the same thing as fructose, all other things being equal. Fiber also helps modulate the insulin response. Sugar isn't the enemy, if you're eating fruit you're getting a lot more than fructose from it. The problem is when people get a large % of their calories from nutritionally deficient food, like soda.

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