I was spending a pleasant weekend with a friend when he asked me a question that I had no answer to:
"Do you have any juice to drink?"
Not what you expected, I imagine, but it was shocking to me. Because over the past decade or so I have analyzed every dietary habit I have. I want to know how things are prepared, what is in them and what the caloric consequences are for everything I eat and drink. And one of the many changes I went through in that process was eliminating every beverage that has anything more than a calorie or two per serving.
The reason is that those calories are easy calories to absorb and are typically undetected by the body. In other words, they don't help satiation. A person can sit down and drink a Coca-Cola or Snapple and in the process, intake a few hundred calories without even thinking about it. And one of the goals of having a healthy mody is thinking about the total number of daily calories consumed.
Which takes me back to juice. I think juice is one of the cruelest caloric jokes ever played on the American people. It is packed with calories--8 ounces of orange juice has 122 calories, 17 more than Coke--and an inordinate amount of sugar (over 29 grams). Beyond that, it has no content--you can swallow it in less than a minute and be done with it. Your stomach, looking for solid material to digest and process, barely registers juice.
So juice is a decided no-no for those of you working on weight issues. No fiber, tons of calories and sugar and not satisfying. Want the benefits of OJ? Eat an orange. Eat two. Forget the propaganda of the past fifty years. Juice is not that good for you.
David Ezell will be giving a free talk on changing your mind and body--your mody--Thursday evening at 7 PM as part of the TRS Professional Suites free speakers series. He will be speaking at 44 E. 32nd Street, 11th floor at 7 pm sharp. Seating is limited so please come early.
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