Conventional myth about the intake of juice has been exploded by the researchers in Toronto at the Pediatric Academic Societies’ annual meeting. According to their new study, the intake of 100% is not linked with obesity in children.
Findings are based on the health survey conducted from 1999 to 2002, it included parents of about 3,600 children aged 2-11. They gave an in-depth account of the consumption of their children during the previous 24 hours. Also, the children’s height and weight were taken into consideration.
The kids drank about 4 ounces of 100% juice, on average, during the previous day. That accounts for about 3% of their daily calories. Thus, the study suggested that there was no substantial link that could justify the association between the 100% intake of juice and obesity.
In fact, kids who drank 100% juice ate more whole fruit, consumed more of several vitamins and minerals and consumed less salt, fat, and added sugars than children who didn’t drink 100% juice.
Weight boils down to calories consumed and calories burned. The study doesn’t show whether children drinking 100% juice were more active than those who didn’t drink 100% juice, or whether kids’ juice-drinking habits varied from day to day.
