US researchers have pointed out that fruit juices and smoothies are now a new risk to our health because of the amount of sugar the healthy drinks are believed to contain.
Barry Popkin and George Bray pointed the finger at high fructose
corn syrup in soft drinks in 2004, causing a huge headache for the big
manufacturers, including Coca-Cola and Pepsi. Popkin, a distinguished professor at the department of nutrition at the
University of North Carolina, told the Guardian that smoothies and fruit
juice are the new danger. He added that it's kind of the next step in the evolution of the battle,
and it's a really big part of it because in every country they've been
replacing soft drinks with fruit juice and smoothies as the new healthy
beverage. Researchers from the UK, USA and Singapore found that, in large-scale
studies involving nurses, people who ate whole fruit, especially
blueberries, grapes and apples, were less likely to get type 2 diabetes,
which is obesity-related, but those who drank fruit juice were at
increased risk. People who swapped their fruit juice for whole fruits three times a week cut their risk by 7 percent. The British Soft Drinks Association says that consumption of soft drinks
containing added sugar has fallen by 9 percent over the last 10 years,
while the incidence of obesity has risen by 15 percent.
The study is published in the journal Pediatric Obesity.
The study is published in the journal Pediatric Obesity.
Source-ANI
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