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[quote=Anonymous]I'm another juice denier, though I'm not as dogmatic/judgmental as some of the PPs, and DD will drink it at parties/in school.  She's almost 3, and she's consistently at the top of the weight chart, so she doesn't need the extra calories.  She'll gladly eat fresh fruit, enjoying the benefits of delicious taste, vitamins, and all the fiber in the pulp and skin that juice lacks.

Despite all this, my mom insists that we're horrible to deprive her of the essential nutrients in OJ, which she served me every day growing up.  I think that for her generation (she's in her 70s), juice was a way to get nutrition before such a wide variety of fruit was available year-round.  To her own mother, a poor immigrant, it must have felt like a luxury and a privilege.  To some extent, I think she reads my statement that it's a bad health habit as an indictment of her parenting -- I mean, I know it's not a big deal, and she was doing what conventional wisdom advised at the time.

As many times as I've reviewed the arguments that dentists and doctors make about eschewing juice in favor of fruit, she pushes back that it "isn't fair," and we're needlessly "mean."  (Who sounds like the 2 yo now??)[/quote]

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