Apple juice can pose a health risk — from calories

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.