Annie wrote:
> The organce juice I drink is from frozen concentrated real orange juice.
> I do not think they add any sugar to the juice, or do they?
> I read the label, it does not specify any added sugar.
No. If they added sugar, it would be on the label, and the fructose in
orange juice is actually sweeter, gram for gram, than table sugar.
Eating fat, protein, or fiber immediately afterwards would slow the
absorption of sugar, too -- though not as much as if you'd eaten the
food before drinking the juice, or for that matter, if you'd eaten
oranges instead.
It's drinking orange juice alone (especially low-pulp or filtered, or
any quickly absorbed sugar-rich beverage) that can be a problem,
especially if you're satisfying a craving that way. Chances are, you'll
"crash" half an hour later, and be hungrier than ever, and possibly
depressed; the insulin will lock down the fat in your body, making it
tem****arily inaccessible (perhaps for one half to three hours, depending
on your metabolism), and the cortisol will break down elastin and
collagen in your tissues -- not a good idea unless you like thin,
sagging, wrinkly, inelastic skin.
If you do drink orange juice alone on an empty stomach, make a note to
ask yourself half an hour later how you feel. Some people are more
prone to low blood sugar (hypoglycemia) and some less, but generally
speaking, if you blood sugar is low, you'll feel less energetic and
possibly somewhat moody. And you may be tempted to eat, especially some
sort of "comfort food."
(Coffee -- even decaffeinated and without sugar -- can have similar
effects, but for different reasons.)
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Marshall Price of Miami
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