Fruit juices

DEB LINDSEY/Washington Post

Life preserver: Juicers help you get what you need

Julian Thomson is juiced. He moves fast and talks faster. That’s what kale — along with spinach, carrots and apples — can do for you. This morning, the same as just about every other day, the Washington videotape editor churned those foods in a five-speed Breville Elite Juicer, dumped them into a glass and chugged it all down in no more than three gulps.

“I feel great, man. Really great. My head, my skin, my energy. It’s all because of the juice,” he says in rapid sound bites.

ROBERT LACHMAN/Los Angeles Times

Watch out for too-sweet juices

Many public health officials are now warning patients that fruit juice poses many of the same health risks as soda when it comes to obesity and diabetes. What concrete actions can consumers take?

Global nutrition professor Barry Popkin and others advise eating whole fruits (which contain fiber) instead of drinking fruit juices, so that a feeling of fullness is delivered with the sugars and calories.

Some new, less sugary juice products are on the market, he said, but parents also can simply water down juice at home.

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