Joel Fuhrman - Eat To Live

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ing to get nutrients

be that the participants would reduce their caloric intake, on the aver-

age, by the amount of calories in the fruit. Now, instead of giving them

two fruits, give them the same amount of calories from fruit juice.

What will happen? They will eat the same amount of food as

they did when they had nothing at the beginning of their meal. In

other words, the juice did not reduce the calories consumed in the

meal — instead, the juice became additional calories. This has been

shown to occur with beer, soft drinks, and other sources of liquid

calories.^30

Liquid calories, without the fiber present in the whole food, have

little effect at blunting our caloric drive. Studies show that fruit juice

and other sweet beverages lead to obesity in children as well.^31

If you are serious about losing weight, don't drink your fruit —

eat it. Too much fiber and too many nutrients are removed during

juicing, and many of the remaining nutrients are lost through pro-

cessing, heat, and storage time. If you are not overweight, drinking

fresh-prepared juice is acceptable as long as it does not serve as a sub-

stitute for eating those fresh fruits and vegetables. There is no substi-

tute for natural whole foods.

There is a tendency for many of us to want to believe in magic.

People want to believe that in spite of our indiscretions and excesses.

MORE NUTRIENTS AND FIBER WILL REDUCE YOUR CALORIC DRIVE