In the current McDougall newsletter, Dr. McDougall discusses the recent influx of exotic juices with wild health claims, but sticks to his guns about whole foods being better for you than juices. McDougall references the following experiment in the article:

In this experiment ten normal subjects consumed meals based on apples, applesauce, and apple juice. When whole apples are blended into applesauce, nothing is removed, but the natural fibers of the apple are disrupted. To make juice, the fiber is filtered off and discarded. This research found fiber-free juice was consumed eleven times faster than the whole apples and four times faster than the applesauce. Juice was less satisfying to the appetite than was the applesauce and the applesauce was less satisfying than the whole apples.

He goes on to wrap up the article in a way that spikes a lot of the promise of these acai, goji and other exotic juices flooding the market:

“Juices, even exotic and expensive ones, will not correct fundamental problems. Juice is no longer a whole plant-food and the consequence on human health of consuming large amounts of this alteration of whole fruits and vegetables is yet to be determined. At the very least, consuming any kinds of juices, rather than the whole food, will promote weight gain.”

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