Juice policy

Thursday 5/23/24

I like clear, to-the-point health advice/information. What often happens is obfuscation. The reason for this, in my view, is to make money. Money is made not by helping someone solve a problem but forestalling them--having them go round and round, buying your product, paying for your service, being reliant--in their minds--on throwing money at an issue.

I certainly feel the same way about the therapy industry. Read this journal instead. But if a person showed up on Day 1 and answers could be offered, discovered within in, understood such that they could immediately be put into practice, issues solves, that wouldn't be very good for business, would it? (Plus, you typically have broken, clueless people without any inkling of how the human condition works who are trying to avoid their own issues "on the case" for someone else. It's like asking the author of Motorollah to be your writing coach.)

My preference is for the elimination of middle men, false information, dilatory tactics, etc. So yesterday I appreciated seeing--I think it was on WebMD--this succinct bit of guidance regarding the drinking of juice: "If you want fruit, eat fruit. If you're thirsty, drink water."

I'm not a juice drinker, save with my straight-from-the-bog cranberry juice--which is its own thing and must not be thought of as one thinks of apple juice--and orange juice if I'm sick, but juice is now something else I won't consume per policy. Too much sugar and calories.

I had clicked on this link because who knows, maybe it was going to have some revealing tidbits about the benefits of juice, and instead I found this maxim, which is great.

I drink water, coffee, tea, cranberry juice, no fat milk. Nothing else, nothing added. I will allow myself apple cider as a treat, because of New England and autumn and my love of those things.