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Skendipation.

Yeah.

Okay, for decades, we've been fed this image of a healthy breakfast as a bunch of stuff

and a big tall glass of orange juice.

And this idea that juicing fruits and vegetables can somehow be part of a really healthy lifestyle

has pervaded all of popular culture to the point where you're getting people sending

you on social media, they're juice cleanse and all kinds of ideas of how to juice and

there's machines and a multi-million dollar industry dedicated to juicing fruits and vegetables.

I'm going to tell you why this is a terrible idea and that the healthy way to consume fruits

and vegetables is as nature intended them in their original packaging.

Okay, here's the deal.

When you have a apple, it contains fiber, it has appeal, it contains a lot of food, it's

contains vitamins and it contains fruit, sugar and water.

The fruit sugar is called fructose.

It turns out if you want to talk about toxins, fructose can technically be considered

a toxin because the body doesn't handle it very naturally, it has to pass through the

liver like other toxins.

And that's fine if you don't overwhelm the liver with a bunch of fructose at the same

time.

That's why people freak out about high fructose corn syrup.

But look at an apple, the same fructose is in there as is in honey and high fructose

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