Ok, many of my Singapore personal training and fitness boot camp clients as me if fruit juice is ok for them to drink… I mean, fruits are healthy right? so why not just juice them and get all their goodness… and as an added benefit you can have so many fruits in one glass… my answer (after a short chuckle)…NO, No, NOOOO…unless you want to get fat, diabetic and brain damaged!
Clients come to me to lose weight, burn fat, get healthy and improve their performance and strength… so of course NO is the answer.
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Why?
Firstly fruit juice is high in sugar and low in fiber (even the most organic, healthy ones) – that means that it’s just as bad as any other processed and overly sweetened cola or syrup based drink. Almost nobody can get a healthy and lean physique drinking those… and nobody can get a great physique drinking fruit juice either.
It combines all the “bad parts” of fruit – the high sugar, concentrates it and gives you many servings of this in 1 glass – it takes several apples (4-5) to make 1 glass of apple juice. When was the last time you ate 5 apples in one sitting? Thats the amount of sugar you are taking in!
It takes away the good stuff – the skins and fiber in fruits is gone! These actually slow digestion if you eat the whole fruit. That makes the impact of the sugar less on your body when it is digested slowly and released slowly into the body.
Most fruit juices in coffee shops and hawker centers are “enhanced” with sugar syrup – oops thats not in real fruit!
Finally fruit juice commercial production is EVIL. Fruits are very heavily sprayed with poisons to protect them from bugs (its actually because the soil they are grown in is so bad that artificial fertilizers are used which do not provide the plant the nutrients to be healthy and have its OWN defense against bugs – thus pesticides are needed)…
Do you think fruits are lovingly plucked and gently squeezed one by one to make juice? Of course not. They are crushed by the thousands, skin and rind and all and the juices drained out. Oops some pesticide is left on the skin… oops… its in your juice.
Most pesticides are nervous system and brain toxic. That is BAD.
I prefer to have full nerve function and brain function. I prefer to be lean and healthy. I don’t drink fruit juice! And any Singapore personal trainer who knows his/her nutrition facts won’t tell you to either.
I know that we need about 8-12 servings of fruits and veggies to stay healthy, alkalanize our body, and get a wide spectrum of anti-oxidants. That is why I use a organic veggie and fruit extract that keeps the nutrients but does not give us the high sugar content. I also use a variety of organic fibers to keep the digestive tract healthy. We used to be able to get great nutrition from fruits… but fruit today is not what it used to be – its low in nutrients, genetically modified to be sweet, and covered in pesticides… we should all use a greens/fruit supplement and a fiber to stay healthy. Contact us to see if we have any in stock so you can get the nutrition your body needs to maximize its potential.
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Hi Jon,
How about self-prepared orange juice without added sugar? After all, we don’t eat the skin of the orange when we eat the fruit.
SH Yeo
You are getting the fructose still… and no fiber. Fructose is not a good thing to have by itself. It causes glycation with accelerates aging.
Coach jon, is taking coke light ok?
Is it less bad than regular coke? Probably.
But it still has stuff that damages your digestive tract… get a water filter and drink water.
Fruits juice I can agreed with you that has high sugar but NOT LOW in Fibre. To get more out of drinking fruits juice I suggest use (buy own) blender to blend your fruits instead of using Juicer machine. Blender will retained all your fruits skins (apple) and the real fibres unlike juicer machine it only gives you the fruits juice minus the skin and the real fibres. I used Blender (Kitchen Aid)) to blend my frutis of carrots & apples to drink it with the fibres every morning before having breakfast, so I get to drink the real carrots & apples juice with fibres. Where else if you use juicer machine like those fruit stall-holders you’ll get only to drink the juice minus the real fruits fibres because juicer machine retained the fruits fibres and only juice out the juice. Actually fruits contains natural sugar which is also good for our body health and needs to give us energy. Please note that I am not a nutritionist or a medical doctor to comment on it but it is my views and own experienced from drinking it for many years and still give me good health till present age of 60. Cheers! Henry Koh
Sure, self made fruit juice is better than store bought where you don’t control the nutrients. But why not just eat the fruit? Fructose tolerance is different for different people. A fat weak person may handle only 5g/day… while a full time athlete may handle 30g/day.