Old 07-07-11 | 11:23 AM
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Originally Posted by Burton
Actually the OP is biking 15 to 30 km / dat to and from work, working a 12 hour day and drinking 3 liters of unsweetened fruit juice per day. Mango is the first choice. If I was at home I could cut the stuff up and run it through a blender and arrive at about the same point.
You need to be a bit more clear in what you write. Is it 15-30 km per day (round trip) or one way?

If it's per day, it's not that much cycling. You really should not need an extra 1400 cals per day to support that.

No one has any idea what you do for work (so the relevance of a "12 hour day" is not at all clear). "Unsweetened" is meaningless because the calories in fruit juice is nearly all sugar. What matters is how much sugar or calories you are consuming.

We have no idea what else you are eating. If you are eating the average amount of calories otherwise (2000 cals per day is considered "average"), you are consuming something-line an additional 1400 cals in fruit juice alone!

Originally Posted by Burton
I`m not sure where all the concerns about sugar are based on - your body breaks almost everything down to sugars to burn anyway and fructose is the easiest to deal with. By definition `sugar` is simply a crystaline form of carbohydrates.
You need to learn more about basic nutrition and metabolism. The current general concern about consuming large quantities of simple sugars is that they convert too quickly into glucose (blood concentration) and fructose (conversion by the liver into fat).

Fruit juice is really no different than soda or "sports" drinks in terms of metabolism. That is, fruit juice isn't really any more healthy than any other sugary drink (that is, fruit juice has the same problems that other sugary drinks have).

Eating the whole fruit is generally healthier because you are getting other stuff (like fiber) that slow digestion and are consuming sugar at a much lower rate.

Originally Posted by Burton
And for anyone that still concerned - I weigh 155lbs, have a low body fat index and not even any remote signs of diabetes. In fact diabetes is more common in overweight people, middleaged people, individuals that exercise little, and for some reason - most common among blacks and hispanics.
No one is exactly "concerned". You are free to do whatever you want. Though, that you choose to do something doesn't mean it makes any sense.

You were complaining that fruit juice is expensive. Since it isn't necessary to drink fruit juice, the expense is voluntary. That is, if it's "too expensive", then stop spending money on it. If you don't want to do that, then it isn't "too expensive" (since it's something you choose to do!).

Originally Posted by Burton
But Montreal has a high humidity index and currently temperatures in the 30s and I need to drink a lot of fluids. The water in the area I work sucks.
Montreal seems mild compared to NJ! What you need is to drink water. What you are choosing to do is to get that water from your food (fruit juice is food).

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