“Juice” no longer healthy
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The BBC reports that today’s so-called “healthy” fruit juices contain a corrosive combination of sugar and acid. The result: more of UK’s children suffer damaged, eroded teeth.
Dr Philip Stemmer, a dentist at Teeth For Life, explains:
Dental erosion caused by acidic fruit juices and squashes affects the whole surface of a tooth. Exposure daily will cause a progressive loss of enamel with the effect that the teeth ’shrink’ and crumble at the biting edge.
“Even diet drinks which have no sugar in are very acidic and can dissolve tooth enamel.
“While mothers and fathers think they are doing the best by their children by giving them ‘healthier’ drinks, the acid in these drinks are wearing away the enamel.
“I am seeing more and more children whose teeth have been damaged in this way.”
The article cites some scary statistics from a recent YouGov survey:
- 50% of UK parents are unaware that juice can contain as much sugar as some fizzy drinks
- 34% of the UK’s 10,513,700 children aged 4-17 drink at least two or three glasses of squash or cordial a day in winter. The average spikes to eight or nine glasses a day during the summer months
- Over 25% of parents said their children drink absolutely no milk in their daily consumption of 10 beverages a day
Kids today! They’d probably look quite different if they replaced those eight or nine glasses of “juice” with water.
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