The truth about juice (white wine, diet, health, avocado)
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Cranberry juice has been very helpful for me regarding management of kidney stones & UTIs. I'm not going to eat a handful of cranberries! She also recommends orange juice for the acidity.
Cranberry juice has been very helpful for me regarding management of kidney stones & UTIs. I'm not going to eat a handful of cranberries! She also recommends orange juice for the acidity.
Me, too. Ended my problems with UTIs. Dried cranberries are not bad but watch the sugar content.
Trader Joe's has a reasonably priced unsweetened 100% Cranberry Juice.
Full strength, I try not to drink more than a 1/2 cup a twice a day.
It's somewhat bitter, but I like it. If you must dilute it, best to use water.
It can be a blood thinner of sorts, so you may want to tailor your aspirin regiment accordingly.
According to Wiki: ...There is some evidence that although long-term use of cranberry juice can help prevent symptomatic urinary tract infections, people do not persist in taking it over long periods...
If you compare it to soda, its about the same nutritionally except it gives you more nutrients.
A guest on a radio show put it this way. If you put three or oranges on a table, and have a kid juice them, he will down the glass of orange juice and ask great, whats for breakfast?
If you peel the oranges and tell him to eat them he will throw up on the third or fourth orange, he can't eat anymore.
It tells you something about dietary fiber.
I don't buy that for 1 minute. Most of us know the fruit itself is better than the juice and proably has less sugar, but no way do you get the same food value from soda as you get from 100% fruit juice. grI d
Please explain how soda has the same nutritional value as juice when soda has ZERO vitamins. Of course juice gives you more nutrition. Isn't that a good thing?
As I said, you do get vitamins. It is like soda in terms of sugar content and what it will do to your blood sugar.
(sarcasm on) My favorite are the beverages that brag they are 10% juice. (sarcasm off) Besides water, what makes up the other 90%?
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