Apple not good for health - study

Apple juice can pose a health risk - from calories  Tech and Science | Updated today at 09:29 AM (KOREA HERALD/ASIA NEWS NETWORK) - It's true - apple juice can pose a risk to your health. But not necessarily from the trace amounts of arsenic that people are arguing about. Despite the government's consideration of new limits on arsenic, nutrition experts say apple juice's real danger is to waistlines and children's teeth. Apple juice has few natural nutrients, lots of calories and, in some cases, more sugar than soda has. It trains a child to like very sweet things, displaces better beverages and foods, and adds to the obesity problem, its critics say. 'It's like sugar water,' said Judith Stern, a nutrition professor at the University of California, Davis, who has consulted for candy makers as well as for Weight Watchers. 'I won't let my 3-year-old grandson drink apple juice.' Many juices are fortified with vitamins, so they're not just empty calories. But that doesn't appease some nutritionists. 'If it wasn't healthy in the first place, adding vitamins doesn't make it into a health food, and if it causes weight gain, it's not a healthy choice,' said Ms Karen Ansel, a registered dietitian in New York and spokesman for the American Dietetic Association.