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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.
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