Are packaged juices harmful?
Are packaged juices harmful?
Eat your fruits, drink your vegetables! That's my most essential fundamental tip. Fruits contain fructose (natural sugar).
Dear Pooja,
I have heard that fruits are better than fruit juices. How harmful is it to have packaged juices?
Shalini Nair
Eat your fruits, drink your vegetables! That's my most essential fundamental tip. Fruits contain fructose (natural sugar). When we eat them, the absorption of this sugar is gradual and thus allows the body to utilise this surge of energy for its metabolic needs. However, when you 'drink' a fruit, the rush of fructose energy is too rapid for the body to utilise or burn. Thus, the excess is stored as the one and only medium our body knows — 'fat'. Packaged juices may also have added sugars for added taste and longer shelf-life (if not along with preservatives). Some packaged juices may not be the real fruit, but only concentrates with lots of sugar. So, my advice is eat fresh, seasonal fruits daily and avoid juices.
Dear Pooja,
I am trying hard to lose weight. I am 5.2 feet tall and weigh 54 kg. I want to go back to my earlier 49 kg. I have heard that fruits also make people put on weight because of their high sugar content. Which are the fruits I should avoid?
Suhana Singha
Food is not calories, my dear friend, it's fuel. And fruits are pure essential body nourishing-food that are filled with the goodness of nature. It hurts me to read doubts like these. No food 'can make you gain weight'. NONE, not even sweet and fried — if you know when to eat and when to stop — and especially, not FRUITS. Yes, they have sugar in them — natural sugar, which is the body's source of fuel, the energy that sustains us. Please enjoy fruits — all of them — and nourish your skin, eyes, nails, hair, and each of the millions of cells in your body. Fruits are rich in essential vitamins and minerals.
Dear Pooja,
I am a 27-year-old woman with Type 2 diabetes. After lunch and dinner, I have this urge to eat something sweet, to get rid of the spicy aftertaste. Is it alright if I have two dates or eight-to-ten raisins or two dried apricots?
Niladri Khursheed
All the food we eat (fruit, rice, roti, milk, dal etc) is digested and converted to glucose, which is the source of energy for all the cells in our body. Diabetes is a condition in which this glucose is not available to the cells due to a lack of its carrier, Insulin. Either oral medication or Insulin doses help diabetics deliver glucose to the cells. Post-meal additional sugar intake increases the surge of glucose in the blood. So, I'd suggest that you NOT eat anything after your meals — even if it is 'natural sugar' like raisins, dates or even fresh fruits. Alter habits that don't work for your health. It takes only two-three weeks to 'make' new habits and break old ones. You are the boss, and YOU can ignore or neglect this 'urge' if you have made up your mind to do it!
- Pooja Makhija
Dear Pooja,
I have heard that fruits are better than fruit juices. How harmful is it to have packaged juices?
Shalini Nair
Eat your fruits, drink your vegetables! That's my most essential fundamental tip. Fruits contain fructose (natural sugar). When we eat them, the absorption of this sugar is gradual and thus allows the body to utilise this surge of energy for its metabolic needs. However, when you 'drink' a fruit, the rush of fructose energy is too rapid for the body to utilise or burn. Thus, the excess is stored as the one and only medium our body knows — 'fat'. Packaged juices may also have added sugars for added taste and longer shelf-life (if not along with preservatives). Some packaged juices may not be the real fruit, but only concentrates with lots of sugar. So, my advice is eat fresh, seasonal fruits daily and avoid juices.
Dear Pooja,
I am trying hard to lose weight. I am 5.2 feet tall and weigh 54 kg. I want to go back to my earlier 49 kg. I have heard that fruits also make people put on weight because of their high sugar content. Which are the fruits I should avoid?
Suhana Singha
Food is not calories, my dear friend, it's fuel. And fruits are pure essential body nourishing-food that are filled with the goodness of nature. It hurts me to read doubts like these. No food 'can make you gain weight'. NONE, not even sweet and fried — if you know when to eat and when to stop — and especially, not FRUITS. Yes, they have sugar in them — natural sugar, which is the body's source of fuel, the energy that sustains us. Please enjoy fruits — all of them — and nourish your skin, eyes, nails, hair, and each of the millions of cells in your body. Fruits are rich in essential vitamins and minerals.
Dear Pooja,
I am a 27-year-old woman with Type 2 diabetes. After lunch and dinner, I have this urge to eat something sweet, to get rid of the spicy aftertaste. Is it alright if I have two dates or eight-to-ten raisins or two dried apricots?
Niladri Khursheed
All the food we eat (fruit, rice, roti, milk, dal etc) is digested and converted to glucose, which is the source of energy for all the cells in our body. Diabetes is a condition in which this glucose is not available to the cells due to a lack of its carrier, Insulin. Either oral medication or Insulin doses help diabetics deliver glucose to the cells. Post-meal additional sugar intake increases the surge of glucose in the blood. So, I'd suggest that you NOT eat anything after your meals — even if it is 'natural sugar' like raisins, dates or even fresh fruits. Alter habits that don't work for your health. It takes only two-three weeks to 'make' new habits and break old ones. You are the boss, and YOU can ignore or neglect this 'urge' if you have made up your mind to do it!
- Pooja Makhija
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