It's what was done. But I'm conscious that fruit juice contains sugar and that it can be bad for teeth and weight. While agreeing with the new recommendations, the juice industry said the pediatricians' message had not been translated well to the public. For the majority of the population, they're drinking juice already within these guidelines. There's no reason people should quit drinking fruit juice.
Children are the juice industry's best friend.
Kids younger than 12 account for 18 percent of the population but consume 28 percent of all juice and juice drinks, according to the American Academy of Pediatrics report. By age 1, almost 90 percent of infants drink juice, the group says. But doctors can usually tell the kids whose juice cup runneth over. Sometimes, parents of toddlers tell us their kids are going through three, four bottles a day of the 8-ounce bottles. In one recent patient, rickets was the result of too much juice and not enough milk, said Dr. Norman Carvalho of Children's Healthcare of Atlanta at Scottish Rite.