We’ve all seen the ads. The big juicy looking orange with a straw in it and the promise of “All Natural” orange juice loaded with tons of vitamins and nutrients. It looks delicious and nutritious and we are stimulated to go out and buy this amazingly healthy product.
But what if it was all a lie? What if orange juice didn’t actually contain all the nutritious benefits it claims, but instead was HARMFUL to your health?
Shocking isn’t it?
Well that is exactly what a new book, “Squeezed, what you don’t know about orange juice”, by Allissa Hamilton states about orange juice!
Click Here for her short video.
And YES, I am talking about the NOT FROM CONCENTRATE kind!
The Not From Concentrate brand of orange juice is one of the biggest health scams on the market today.
The truth is that many popular orange juice brands have to be chemically altered using ethyl butyrate – a compound that ’s added to perfume as well as orange juice- in order to make it taste and smell like oranges!
In addition, many commercial orange juices are contaminated with mold from damaged fruit that is processed, exposing you and your family to these mold toxins. In fact, REAL fresh-squeezed orange juice will only last for a few days! So ANY product with a “Best Before” date of more than 60 days in the future is heavily PROCESSED.
Unfortunately, fresh squeezed juice isn’t much better.
An eight ounce glass of orange juice has about eight full teaspoons of sugar! This is nearly as much sugar as is in a can of soda (which typically has 10 teaspoons of sugar).
Now, I will admit that the type of sugar found in orange juice is a fruit sugar called fructose. Having said that, fructose is NOT necessarily a “healthy” form of sugar and will also cause a major increase in your insulin levels.
In fact, simple fruit sugar extracted from fruit has virtually identical side effects and negative effects on your biochemistry as heavily used high fructose corn syrup.
Fruit fructose, along with all the nutrients, vitamins, minerals, water, other mono-, di- and olgio-saccharides and fiber found in fruit, are converted to blood glucose.
This is important because elevated insulin levels are one of the primary drivers for high blood pressure, high cholesterol, diabetes and weight gain.
In fact, drinking fruit juice has been linked to an increased risk of diabetes, while fructose itself has been shown to increase your triglyceride levels. One study showed eating fructose raised triglyceride levels by 32 percent in men!
Obtaining fruits and vegetables is very important and certainly eating a fresh orange is a much better alternative than buying orange juice.
If you are one of those people though, who are hooked on orange juice I suggest that you begin to ween yourself off of it as soon as possible.
Begin by diluting your juice with water and eventually consume just water. By doing this you will eliminate the excess sugar in your diet and begin to experience the health benefits of consuming more water. This is just one more easy step to help you and your family achieve Optimal Health.
About the Author: Dr Tunis Hunt Jr is a chiropractor serving the Charlotte area. In addition to administering chiropractic care, Dr. Hunt lectures and educates the public on nutrition and health based information. Dr. Hunt is also is an author of a popular blog: Dr Tunis Jr’s Blog. To reach Dr. Hunt for questions and comments or to schedule him to speak to your group or company please call 704-588-1792 or email him at drtunisjr@HuntChiropractic.com. www.HuntChiropractic.com
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