2. Fruit Juice
Drinking fruit juice delivers all the sugar of the fruit but only a fraction of the vitamins, minerals and fiber of the actual fruit. So sugary is fruit juice, Susan Jebb quit it. Susan is an English government advisor and head of the diet and obesity research group at the Medical Research Council’s Human Nutrition Research unit at Cambridge University. She says drinking juice is not the same as eating the actual fruit, and the sugar from the juice gets absorbed into your body so fast, your body doesn’t know if you drank “healthy” juice or cola. Azmina Govindji, a dietitian and spokesperson for the British Dietetic Association, disagrees. They both agree, however, that one small cup of juice a day won’t kill you, but limiting your consumption or choosing an actual piece of fruit over the juice is much better.