> Meanwhile, most people can just gulp down four to six apples or carrots worth of juice -- pulp and all -- without feeling immediately satiated.
> That's the difference: in juice form we can happily ingest far more food than we would prefer to eat via normal chewing.
I wish people would apply this logic to things like olive oil where a tablespoon contains about 20 pressed olives and about 120 calories. It's one of the easiest way to eat hundreds of extra calories more than you should and lots of recipes suggest using a lot of it for frying and dressings.
I think the common encouragement of "but you need fat, it's healthy fat and it's part of the Mediterranean Diet!" is a weird dietary blindspot when the goal is calorie reduction and fat deficiencies aren't the problem. It feel like it's only quite recently that fruit juices are being discouraged and that was a blindspot too.
I don't advocate that there's some magic to a "whole food" diet except that not eating pressed, blended etc. stuff is a decent rule of thumb to slowing down much you can eat in one sitting.
I wish people would apply this logic to things like olive oil where a tablespoon contains about 20 pressed olives and about 120 calories. It's one of the easiest way to eat hundreds of extra calories more than you should and lots of recipes suggest using a lot of it for frying and dressings.
I think the common encouragement of "but you need fat, it's healthy fat and it's part of the Mediterranean Diet!" is a weird dietary blindspot when the goal is calorie reduction and fat deficiencies aren't the problem. It feel like it's only quite recently that fruit juices are being discouraged and that was a blindspot too.
I don't advocate that there's some magic to a "whole food" diet except that not eating pressed, blended etc. stuff is a decent rule of thumb to slowing down much you can eat in one sitting.