Juiced

Every morning, all my life,
I drink a glass of juice.
It helps the pills go down
And it is healthy, you’d deduce.

But as I just discovered,
If you did, you would be wrong,
For fruit juice in a healthy diet
Just does not belong.

It’s filled with sugar, so much so
It’s worse than drinking Coke.
How awful when assumptions
You have had go up in smoke!

A fruit in its entirety
Is best, the experts said,
So it would be much better
Eating oranges instead.

This knowledge is engaging
But I’ll cling to this excuse –
I’ve survived this long so I will stick,
Each morning, with my juice.