Fruit juice may come from fruit, but it is not nutritionally equivalent to eating whole fruit. Juicing removes most of the fiber, concentrates the naturally occurring sugars, and makes it easy to consume the sugar from several servings in a single glass. Even 100% juice can contain as much sugar as soda. Learn how fruit juice is processed, why it affects your body differently than whole fruit, and what healthier beverage choices to consider.

The idea that breakfast is the most important meal of the day owes much of its popularity to cereal marketing. Before the Industrial Revolution, breakfast was not a standardized routine, and some cultures ate only one meal daily. Early cereals were created as health foods but evolved into heavily marketed products. Today, growing interest in intermittent fasting and ketogenic diets is prompting many people to rethink traditional breakfast habits.