Thursday, May 18, 2006 - Our Latest Health Change: No Juice |
My kids are (almost) 3, 5, and 7 years old. About a month ago I finally
succeeded in eliminating the fruit juice from their diet. I thought it
would be a difficult thing to do. Anymore, it seems like juice is just
a "kid staple". Especially the ubiquitous apple juice. Now my kids
drink mainly raw goat milk and water. And they like it! They've asked
about juice a couple of times maybe, but they don't seem to miss it
much at all.
They only drink juice on special occasions now (in their Easter
baskets, I gave them each a juice box of organic juice). Over the
winter, about once a week as a treat, I would squeeze oranges (I used
the juicer on my food processor) for fresh orange juice. It takes a lot
of oranges to make just a little bit of juice! So making our own orange
juice also helped us keep our orange juice servings small. It seems
logical to me to think that fresh squeezed fruit juices are better for
you than the canned/jarred/jugged stuff. All those store juices are
pasteurized, so any natural enzymes that are in fresh juice are
probably cooked dead when they're bottled. I tend to believe that
occasional fresh fruit juice is ok, and makes for a nice "treat" now
and then.
Dr. Mercola
suggests starting to wean your kids off of juice by diluting it with
water just a little at a time. Even before we stopped drinking juice,
the juice I did give them was probably about 2/3 juice and 1/3 water. I
think that helps the transition a lot. Here's a quote from the Mercola
article I just linked to above:
This
is why we decided to stop buying apple juice for our kids. Maybe now my
kids can wean me off of the coffee I've started drinking AGAIN. 
Blessings!
Amey
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 - Great idea! |
| Posted by Snowberryfarm |
I've been slowing changing our diet for the past 8 months. I only cook with organic fresh meat and vegetables now, and we hope to get some goats to have the raw milk too! I haven't weaned them off of juice yet though, but I believe it is important! Those tiny little boxes are just so convenient to take on the go! I am think switching to water bottles when leaving the house will be a better option!
Thanks for sharing!
Michelle |
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by momof2 |
I wish we had not let ds1 have so much juice when he was younger! Now he is limited to one serving a day and that is only 4oz. mixed with 8oz. of water. Other than that he drinks water and organic milk. Ds2 is going to be my water baby!
I wish we had milk goats for our own milk and sadly raw milk cannot be legally sold here so we can't purchase it from anyone. |
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 - I'm trying |
| Posted by Nonni |
to give up coffee here too :-( The juice thing - I remember when I first learned of it. Now, when the kids want the juice of something, I have them eat the fruit itself, lol. Ironicly enough, eating an orange itself is just as, if not more, refreshing as a glass of it's juice.
Love your blog, btw :-) |
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Thursday, May 18, 2006 - Untitled Comment |
| Posted by wannabeone |
Thanks for the info and thanks for reading my blog.
I'm not sure if I'll be at CHEO - I'M SURE HOPING TO!! It's a $$ thing. We're about to graduate our oldest dd and then we're going on vacation to Lakeside on Lake Erie the week of July 4th - sooooooo - we'll have to see.
I REALLY want to see Gregg and Sono Harris!!
Blessings, Kim Wolf<>< |
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