Eat Fresh Fruits, Not Fruit Juice

Eating whole, fresh fruits is better than drinking fruit juice, with regards to achieving your weight loss goals.

The problem with fruit juices, even those that are 100% pure fruit juice, is that it causes you to consume far more sugar than if you were to eat whole fruit.

For example, a typical orange weighs about 4 1/4 ounces. Yet when people drink orange juice, they often drink 8 to 12 ounces, about 2 to 3 oranges. There's certainly a lot of vitamins and minerals to be gained from drinking that much juice, but you're also adding the same amount of sugar as a can of regular soda.

And when you consume that much sugar, in the form of juice, it's absorbed into the bloodstream immediately, causing a surge in your blood-sugar level, which causes your body to stop burning fat.

By eating a whole fresh orange instead, you'll likely limit yourself to eating to just one orange, keeping your blood-sugar to a lower level, and reducing the amount of time your body stops burning fat.

Eating fresh fruit also provides you with more fiber. Fiber can not be digested, but yet your body still tries to digest it, and ends up burning calories in the process. And if you're dieting, you'll need all the fiber you can get.

Also, eating fresh fruit requires you to chew, which itself burns calories. It also requires some sort of preparatory work, such as peeling, slicing, or washing fruit. On the other hand, drinking juice doesn't give you the opportunity to burn calories.

For more information on eating fresh fruits, read my previous article, "What is the Best Fruit for Weight Loss".

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