‘Fruit juice is just another sugary drink’ university’s Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences

KARACHI: Drinking fruit juice is potentially just as bad for you as drinking sugar-sweetened drinks because of its high sugar content, two medical researchers from the University of Glasgow have warned.
In a report, Professor Naveed Sattar and Dr Jason Gill – both of the university’s Institute of Cardiovascular and Medical Sciences – call for better labelling of fruit juice containers to make explicit to consumers that they should drink no more than 150ml a day.
They also recommend a change to the UK government’s current “five-a-day” guidelines, saying these five fruit and vegetable servings should no longer include a portion of fruit juice.

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