Top 5 Shocking Unhealthy Drinks

Top 5 Shocking Unhealthy Drinks - Do you often go to the shopping mall, pick up a product, and look at its label. What do you see there?

Price tag, manufacturing date, batch number. Have you ever tried to look at ingredients? Of course, you have. We all do. Because we want only healthy stuff for our family. But how healthy are some of the healthy things you buy! I want to share some of the not so healthy drinks that we often buy without giving it much thought.

Top 5 Shocking Unhealthy Drinks To Avoid

Unhealthy : Fibre less fruit, high fructose corn syrup

What’s so unreal about real natural fruit juices!! It’s juice. It can’t be unhealthy. Right. Well, wrong! The best pick is freshly squeezed fruit juices by hand which contains pulp or fiber. The 100 percent fruit juice is a better choice over high fructose corn syrup laden drinks. Most of the juices available in the market contain approximately 34 grams of sugar per cup. Your body treats it the same way as it treats natural sugar. Most of the sweetness in juice comes from the fructose which is associated with the visceral fat or belly fat (visceral adipose tissue) deposition in overweight people – according to a study in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.

Enjoy this instead! Add fresh sliced oranges and grapefruit to water and chill with it.

Unhealthy : Caramel colouring, Bisphenol A (BPA), aspartame

Aspartme is an artificial sweetner that raises glucose level. According to a study in Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism – Aspartme overloads the liver and the excess is converted to fat. The caramel colouring in popular brown beverages has been proven to increase the rate of cancerous and benign tumours in rats. It has been labeled as a possible carcinogen for humans by International Agency for Research on Cancer. Many companies have wiped out BVO out of their sodas and most of the diet drinks use aspartme. We can not get behind them now. Can we!

Enjoy this instead! You can enjoy having a cup of detox teas like green tea, lemon tea, ginger tea, mint tea, black tea or just a cup of black cofee. It is more refreshing than diet soda and will not add on the calories. Moreover, it will help in flushing out the harmful chemicals from your body.

Unhealthy : High fructose corn syrup, caramel colouring.

Pancake syrup is full of these two harmful agents. Most of the famous brands do not hesitate to use these. Liver damaging high fructose corn syrup and carcinogenous caramel colouring agent. It would be best to avoide these syrup as they are high on caloeries too.

Enjoy this instead! Then what to use instead of pancake syrup. I have found the pure maple syrup is the answer. These pancake syrups should have pure maple syrup as sweetner but they lack it. The concentrated flavor saves you calories and goes a long way. Only a little of it used as one time go.

Unhealthy : Fibre less fruit

Morning rush hours compel us to grab and go kind of stuff. The lure of quick snack and ready made drinks is too easy to resist. Especially when you go hungry and don’t have enough time to prepare breakfast. The much sounded bottled smoothies is not an healthy option, no matter how healthy it sounds. It lacks fibre and high on sweetened calories. Compared to fresh made fruit drinks they lack nutrition and spikes the blood sugar. Always better to blend fruits and store them at home. Even for a quick go.

Enjoy this instead! You can always go for home made smoothies which are easy and quick to make. Some of my favroties are Peanut butter and jelly protein smoothie and Dark chocloate peppermint shake.

Unhealthy : Sucrose, glucose, caffeine

Energy drinks or overlypriced chemical formula. I call it chemical cocktail with a lot of caffeine and a lot of sugar. A University of Maryland study found that energy drinks are 11 percent more corrosive to your teeth than regular soda. Overconsumption can also destroy your liver. So think twice before consuming any energy drink.

Enjoy this instead! The best energy booster and all natural is the famous Green tea. You can take it for fat loss or natural cleaning up of body toxins.

These are the Top 5 Shocking unhealthy drinks. Enjoy the freshness of the real and fresh fruit juices. Stay fit and stay healthy. You can read about Top 5 Delightful Weight Loss Smoothies here.

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