Anything once in a while is fine, including soda (and cakes and candies...mmmm). It's the people who drink it in massive quantities that are increasing their risk of diabetes. Drinking too much juice - particularly processed, from-concentrate type juice - is also not great. It's better than soda (of course!) but it's still very concentrated sugar with very little fiber (fiber helps regulate sugar absorption). Eating whole fruit is much better for you than drinking juice (despite all the pro-juice propaganda from the makers of juicers and the sellers of supplements who are, of course, busy trying to move product). I love juices but even veggie juices like carrot and beet have lots of sugar and no fiber to help slow the absorption of sugar, spinach and greens are a different story since they're not naturally high in sugar to begin with (but not nearly as tasty!). Not that I'm anti-juice or anything, I just get annoyed by the marketing hype. Of course, if one's changing from drinking soda to fresh juices or smoothies then it's a huge improvement :-)

My sister actually got fined by her neighborhood association for not having enough grass in front of her house, because it is seen as an eyesore to plant desert friendly plants that are low water users. We fricken live in Arizona!!! She needs to get planning permission to alter the landscape in front of her house even if it is to add beautiful desert friendly shrubs. Crazy! -Freya

I know this not very relevant to the subject here,but Ani-Scientology statements are Poisoning the Minds of those stupid and ignorant enough to Believe them. People that speak out against Scientology should be dragged into the streets and beaten!!