Why You Should Never Drink Fruit Juice with Dr. Robert Lustig
Change Your Brain Every Day
Dr Daniel Amen
4.7 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 September 2019
⏱️ 14 minutes
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Summary
Fruit juice has long been considered a healthier alternative to soft drinks like Pepsi and Sprite, but unfortunately this is far from accurate. In this episode of The Brain Warrior's Way Podcast, Dr. Daniel Amen is again joined by "Fat Chance" author Robert Lustig for a discussion on why fruit is good for your body while fruit juice is not, and why we need to shift our focus to protecting the liver and feeding the gut.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Brain Warriors Way Podcast. I'm Dr. Daniel Aeman and I'm Tanna Aeman. In our podcast we provide you with the tools you need to become a warrior for the health of your brain and body. |
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| 0:49.7 | Welcome back. I'm here with Dr. Robert Lestig you had talked about two Netflix |
| 0:57.0 | documentaries that people could watch fed up and sugarcoat. |
| 1:02.0 | Sugar coded. You're all sugar coated. |
| 1:04.0 | You're also the author of Fat Chance, the Fat Chance cookbook, the new book, the hacking of the |
| 1:09.8 | American mind. |
| 1:11.4 | I hope you're finding this as fascinating as I am. So what's the deal with |
| 1:15.8 | fruit juice? I mean everybody thinks, oh if I can get my kid to eat fruit to drink fruit juice in the morning. |
| 1:23.4 | I'm a good mom or I'm a good dad. |
| 1:26.1 | My dad's a grower of oranges. |
| 1:29.4 | And it's just been thought of as a health food for so long. |
| 1:36.7 | And then when I watched sugar, the bitter truth, |
| 1:40.1 | I don't think I've had a glass of juice since then. |
| 1:42.8 | Good. |
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