One daily serving of 100% juice is not an obesity risk, study says
by Claudia Boyd-Barrett posted in Parenting
Letting your child have one 6-to-8 ounce serving of 100 percent fruit juice a day is unlikely to cause obesity, a new analysis has found.
Giving fruit juice to young children has become a controversial topic in recent years because of doctors' concerns about juice?s high sugar content and its potential impact on children?s weight and health. Many juices ? particularly those labeled as juice ?drinks? - contain added sugar, and even 100 percent fruit juice is high in natural sugar. Some doctors have counseled parents to avoid giving juice to their children altogether, including 100 percent fruit juice.
The most recent study largely backs up the American Academy of Pediatrics? recommendations to limit fruit juice to no more than 6 ounces per day for kids ages 1 to 6, and to no more than 12 ounces a day for older children and teens. Infants under 6 month should not get juice because it has no nutritional benefit, the AAP says. In the new analysis published in the journal Pediatrics, researchers reviewed data from 8 studies involving almost 35,000 children in the U.S., U.K. and Germany. The researchers found that children ages 1 to 6 who drank 6 to 8 ounces of 100 percent fruit juice each day gained a little more weight than children of the same age who did not drink juice. However, the weight gain ? about 0.3 pounds or less over 1 year - was not enough to push the children who drank juice into an unhealthy weight range.
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