According to a new research published by Dr. Theresa Nicklas there is no link between 100 percent juice and the risk of overweight in young children.

Dr. Nicklas has used for her study the same database that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) use to confirm the rise in obesity rates.

“We did not find a relationship between 100 percent juice consumption and overweight among children.” Dr. Theresa Nicklas said. “Even among the children who consumed the most juice, we found no association at all with the children being overweight or at risk for overweight.”

Dr. Nicklas’s study has found also that 100 percent juice consumption also did not decrease the amount of milk consumed in children’s diets.

In fact it may be concluded that children who drank any amount of 100 percent juice (“juice consumers”) have a healthier diet. Juice consumers had higher intakes of a number of key nutrients such as vitamin C, potassium, magnesium, folate, B6 and iron.

Nicklas encourages parents who are concerned about their child being overweight to look beyond their juice consumption. "My advice would be to look at the total number of calories that child is taking in and look at where the bulk of those calories are coming from and equally important look at the activity level of the child.", she said.