Is Drinking Fresh Juice Healthy? Beware Of Drinking High Blood Pressure, Coronary Heart Disease Risk Of Death By 24%

Many people think that fresh juice, freshly squeezed juice, drink more and more healthy; in fact, according to the latest foreign research, it is found that people who drink juice regularly are prone to cardiovascular diseases such as hypertension and coronary heart disease, and mortality will also increase.

A large-scale cohort study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2019 aimed at 13,440 elderly people, with an average age of 63.6 years, and long-term follow-up for 6 years, excluding smoking, drinking, weight, exercise and other influencing factors. Compared with people whose intake of sugar-sweetened beverages such as pure fruit juice was less than 5% of the total calories, those who consumed more than 10% had a 44% higher mortality rate from coronary heart disease and a 14% higher all-cause mortality rate. Further analysis found that, .

An Australian study published in the Journal of Appetite in 2015 analyzed the frequency of fruit juice consumption and blood pressure measurements in 146 adults with an average age of 59.

The above research infers that drinking fruit juice is prone to high blood pressure and coronary heart disease, which may be related to the high sugar content in fruit juice. Xu Huiyu, director of the Food and Nutrition Center of the Dong Foundation, explained that it takes several servings of fruit to make a glass of fruit juice, and the sugar intake almost exceeds the standard in just one bottle.

For example, and fruit juices are often filtered to help stabilize blood sugar for the sake of taste,

According to the recommendation of the World Health Organization, the daily sugar intake should be less than 10% of the total calories, about 50 grams of sugar based on 2000 kcal, if it can be halved to less than 5%, about 25 grams of sugar will be moregood.

Xu Huiyu emphasized that breakfast and afternoon tea are good times to take it; if it is a dental problem or other factors, you need to drink juice,

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