Kids From Poorer Families Drink Too Much Juice: Poll

Duh. If you are reading the labels on juice you will know that one cup of juice can have over 100+ calories. Add two to four glasses a day and you are drinking a lot of your calories for the day. I grew up drinking orange juice and now I probably buy a thing of orange juice once in a blue moon.

I blame WIC (Women, Infant, Children) for this. They give gallons of free juice per family in this program.

What do the rest of the rich kids drink?

What should they drink? Diet coke? It's always something. If everybody stopped eating candy and fast food and just ate fresh foods, an article would pop up about how we need to eat more fast food and that fresh foods are killing us. Marketing sucks.

When my children were that age I guess we would have been considered low income, and they drank alot of juice. It was NOT cheap by any means. Not sure why "poor" people are being singled out for this. I was also blessed with children that eat fruits/veggies. They were also blessed with being tall and thin. (they drank WHOLE milk till they were 13, with the OK from the dr)

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it's not actually juice, recent studies have shown these low income families also consider Kool-Aid and Grape Soda as juice

Poor quality juice is cheaper than fresh fruit, it comes in convenient individual serving cartons, kids will drink it as opposed to "bad" tasting water, families in some large cities only access to "groceries" is the local convenience or drug store - no fresh fruit.

Interestingly nothing said about Consumer Reports recent study that found arsenic levels in juice above federal safe levels for water.

i do agree with this article somewhat because my ex-husband came from a low income family where all they had was sweets and fattening foods. if it was not for me, my daugther would not like fruits at all. this article is about what children have at home only, leaving out lunch at school. we do not know what they eat in school. there is juice/milk at school as well as pizza. a child's lunch is not limited in school to what they can have or how much. they also trade with their friends for things they want. my daughter eats her fruits/vegetables at home and at school. she has breakfast, lunch and snack at school. easier to limit at home, but not outside of home.

Yeah, because lemon/lime soda is so much better for their teeth than juice, and cola drinks are better for their bones.

Juice is not the problem - stupidity is. Including the author of this moronic article. Claiming that drinking 2 glasses of "juice" a day causes obsesity is the silliest thing I've heard. Obsesity would impliy eating garbage with empty calories all day long on top of that - not that fruit juice is bad - stupidity is not reading the label and feeding on junk food. And publishing such a thoughtless in a column which obviously had no editor.

God what a stupid waste of time. What do rich kids drink too much of then? Some people in the world drink dirty water and had bugs for dinner too. What about it!

I give 100% fruit juice to my grandson and that's more expensive but he's worth it.

Do not worry about bananas, most l\liggers will not eat them. They say something about Cheetah or gorillas or something.

What else are their parents going to mix their gin with?

When I was growing up, my mother gave us "drink." Unlike grape juice, grape "drink" doesn't necessarily have actual juice in it, just 30lbs of sugar

Our local grocery store has started a new program where there is a number for each product they sell that estimates the nutritional value (probably nutrition per calorie). I haven't seen it yet, but my brother said juices ranked very low, about like sugar pop, except for citrus juice, and just about all the fresh and frozen produce scored near 100. I wish I remembered the name of the new program - the shelf tags are RIGHT THERE next to the price. Should save time reading labels, very generally speaking. Obviously, many concerns are encapsulated into one number, and maybe food manufacturers will find ways to game the system.

Ok, lets examine this analytically. People who are "poor" get access to WIC, WIC goves you gallons of juice for free. soooo stop giving juice away with the WIC program. Problem solved!

First thing in the morning, I make my kids drink water. The OJ is meted out like gold! Forthat sweet thrill for after school snack, I love the " Roaring Waters" brand because it is lightly flavored water for 30 calories instead of the 100 and 150 calorie juice and soda. Also, for small children, make a serving of water LOOK important - I used to put it in a undersized coffee mug that has a Disney character on it, so they can have a cup like Mommy or Daddy to drink at the table. We used to have a game where after each sip, we'd say " Ahhhhh!" That got old REAL fast, but I think it set a habit - they now at 6 years prefer a half liter water to quench thirst. Of course it also helps when you simply limit what is there in the fridge.