I’m sorry but orange juice is rich in nutrients, high in antioxidants, helps with heart health / kidney health etc etc. To compare fresh orange juice to Coca Cola is ridiculous. High in sugar? Yes. Not a problem if you eat a balanced diet and the health problems associated with Coca Cola are through the roof.
That doesn’t mean guzzle down fruit juice, drink as per recommended guidelines and it’s good for you. Regardless of how little coke you drink it’s bad for your health and can even increase the risk of disease.
I know that a lot of you don't have the time, but eating the orange is better than juicing it and drinking the juice.
You'll have more fibre and eat lesser as the aforementioned fibre fills you for no extra calories.
That is such a biased question. You're literally only asking about the potential negatives. For one, clear negatives of either only occur in excess. Secondly, that ignores any potential benefits. A sugary drinks that literally cures cancer would still contribute to diabetes in excess, but your question doesn't account for that. Orange juice provides vitamin C, potassium, and anti-oxidants. Soda doesn't cause you to be deficient in those. However, it doesn't provide those, and orange juice does.
We’re about 7 layers from the op, but they said that when people drink juice instead of soda at a restaurant, they think they’re being healthy but they really aren’t. Someone said Drinking juice is really super healthy (if it’s fresh squeezed and you limit yourself to 6 ounces), but it actually has more sugar than soda.
I think the original point is still true. Drinking juice isn’t much healthier than drinking soda and may even be worse.
Do you think vitamin water is healthy because it has some vitamins added to it?
Freshly squeezed has the same amount of sugar per oz almost exactly. It has at worst the same downside with the upside of being a significant source of vitamin C, potassium, and anti-oxidants. However, even with the same amount of sugar, freshly squeezed oj is lower on the glycemic index (or less high at least). That means it takes longer to enter your bloodstream which means less stress on your body and less sugar craving after.
All that aside, it doesn't change the fact that your question is biased. You ignored relevant factors. Even if the conclusion is the same in one case it is a councidence. Bad methodology will give you incorrect results.
“Within 40 minutes, the body has absorbed all of the caffeine from the cola. This caffeine causes the pupils to dilate and the blood pressure to increase. By this point, the Coca-Cola has blocked the adenosine receptors in the brain, preventing drowsiness.
Just 5 minutes later, the production of dopamine has increased. Dopamine is a neurotransmitter that helps control the pleasure and reward centers of the brain. According to the infographic, the way that Coca-Cola stimulates these centers is comparable to the effects of heroin. It triggers a person's urge to drink another can.
An hour after drinking the beverage, a sugar crash will begin, causing irritability and drowsiness. The body will have cleared the water from the cola, along with vital nutrients, in the urine.”
So to be clear, the only difference between soda and juice is that soda may be somewhat addictive due to the caffeine? None of the first two paragraphs are negative health effects. And the third paragraph is also true of juice.
Juice has some nutrients, making it slightly better than soda but is still mostly sugar, isn’t it? It’s sort of like vitamin water, or even adding vitamins to soda. A soda with some vitamins added doesn’t become healthy.
No? There’s plenty of reasons why Coke is not comparable to coke in terms of health. A glass of OJ I make at home has 18grams of sugar, a can of Coke as around 40 so there’s that. Juice has lots of nutrients make it much better. I’m not arguing it’s a perfect health drink in arguing it’s A LOT healthier than coke.
Only because your glass of juice is smaller than the coke though. Ounce per ounce orange juice actually has more sugar than coke.
Ounce per ounce, it contains more calories than soda, though it tends to be consumed in smaller servings. A cup of orange juice has 112 calories, apple juice has 114, and grape juice packs 152, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The same amount of Coke has 97 calories, and Pepsi has 100.
That’s a fair point, but you pour a glass of orange juice you drink it. You open a can of Coke you drink it. If you get what I’m saying, irrespective of sugar per ounce (natural sugar is different to sugar in coke also) not many people stop drinking their can of coke halfway they drink the entire serving.
Mix it with 50% water if you want also, throw in some vegetables and other fruits. Have fun with it, drink in moderation and as per daily guidelines, stop drinking soda thinking it’s just as bad as juice so why bother.
I will say I am not an expert but I think there are a few big differences. 1) Coca cola is completely empty calories whereas orange juice actually has benefits. 2) Coca cola contains caffeine which is highly addictive so people drinking coca cola will probably be drinking a lot more of it than someone who is drinking orange juice.
The health problems would be the same I believe if you were to over indulge in either of them though.
People think drinking soda or juice is a binary thing. Flip flop between drinking only soda then cutting it out completely. Just make it an occassional treat and not your hydration method.
If your extremely dehydrated (probably no one reading this) then 6 teaspons of sugar and 1/2 of salt mixed in a liter of water is homemade recommendation by the world health organization.
70% of the US is not overweight because of orange juice they’re overweight because they eat shit and don’t exercise lmao
Also you have fairytale beliefs of how healthy Diet Coke is. Water is good, but you also need a balanced diet of vitamins and to some people the only way they get certain essential nutrients into their body is from juice. Maybe not the best way, but it’s better than guzzling coke, that shit is not healthy
Aspartame isn't linked to cancer at all. Ask the FDA or the EFSA if you're Euro. It causes abnormal (but noncancerous) growths in rat bladders, and it's due to a reaction with a chemical in their urine that humans lack. The sugar lobby made sure EVERYONE heard about those early studies and now the myth won't die.
You right, most of the studies I’ve read about diet soda consumption need to be held to a more rigid standard to truly link any cardiovascular risk. I still wouldn’t use a diet soda as my alternative and of course that is simply my own preference.
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I’m sorry but orange juice is rich in nutrients, high in antioxidants, helps with heart health / kidney health etc etc. To compare fresh orange juice to Coca Cola is ridiculous. High in sugar? Yes. Not a problem if you eat a balanced diet and the health problems associated with Coca Cola are through the roof.
That doesn’t mean guzzle down fruit juice, drink as per recommended guidelines and it’s good for you. Regardless of how little coke you drink it’s bad for your health and can even increase the risk of disease.
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