Pass Me an Orange

Pass Me an Orange

By: Zola
Chief Dieter
Plan Z Diet

A full two-thirds of Americans start off their day with a glass of orange juice. They think that’s healthy behavior.

I used to think so, too. I rarely ate breakfast, so I used to get my orange juice a different way. If I was in a restaurant, I’d order a drink that was half orange juice and half soda water. I was counting my calories so I thought this way I got my healthy orange juice and kept down the calorie count.

I had it wrong. I thought the orange juice was healthy. I would have been better off having a full glass of soda water.

Eating an orange is good for you, but drinking large amounts of juice will cause you trouble.

The average glass of orange juice contains the juice of 8-12 oranges (the average orange yields about 1/8 cup of juice). That’s a lot of fructose and your body can’t handle it without turning it into fat.

I won’t bore you with the scientific details, but 60 Minutes had a segment where it was explained in detail that when you take out the fructose from orange juice that it will convert very efficiently to fat. (You can Google that if you’re interested in the detail.)

What I am offering up here is an explanation of why you want to eat an orange rather than drink a glass of orange juice.


Now that you’ve watched that informal, little movie, I am going to progress to the even more sinister part of the subject of orange juice. Now we get to the stuff in the carton in the refrigerated section of our grocery store.

When they run commercials for orange juice they make it look really enticing. They bombard us with beautiful packaging. They give us images of an orange with a straw sticking out so we think what we are drinking is coming right off the tree and into the carton. Oh contraire. That’s not how it’s done. Watch this to get a mouthful on how processed our the orange juice in the grocery store really is.

So do I want to drink a large glass of something that my body will process efficiently into fat? Do I want to drink something from a carton that’s had the life sucked out of it and then put back in a new chemical format? Or do I just want to eat an orange?

I think I’ll quit my old complaining about how long it takes to peel an orange, and the fact that I like to take even more time to peel off all the pith. Please, pass me an orange.

Want a cool, refreshing treat made from REAL oranges?
For This Week's Featured Recipe pass on the OJ and relax with my cool and refreshing Plan Z Diet Peachy Orange Slush.

Plan Z Diet Peachy Orange Slush

Cheers,

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