Don't feed your kid fruit juice
Finally, here is a medical researcher who warns that carbohydrates are behind the obesity epidemic. Worse than most carbs, Ray Lustig of the University of California at San Francisco says that fructose, because of the insulin response it generates, is the metabolic equivalent of poison.
An obesity expert who has worked extensively with children, Lustic says too much insulin triggered by fructose consumption (that’s right, the fructose you get from drinking orange juice) interferes with the hormone leptin, which normally tells our brain when we’ve had enough to eat.
Obesity is not the result of gluttony or lack of exercise, as the low-fat mafia would have you believe. Research by experts such as Lustig challenges federal dietary guidelines that recommend more consumption of carbohydrates, rather than proteins and fats, or that feeding kids lots of fruits is healthy. But if you must eat fruit, eat whole fruit, not juice, for the fiber it contains. Drinking a glass of juice is far worse than any fat you might eat. Read the entire article here.
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