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Some health drinks advertised as healthy are really not
Looking at the ingredients in most so-called health drinks it’s easy to see they are far from healthy. Many of the sport drinks and vitamin waters on the shelves of convenience stores and health food stores are nothing more than candy-colored water.
When shopping for health drinks, here are a few ingredients to avoid:
- High Fructose Corn Syrup – This is concentrated sugar that contributes to weight gain and abnormal blood sugar levels, which can also lead to diabetes. Excess sugars have no place in health drinks.
- Phosphoric Acid is just what it says it is - acid. It is often defined as, "A clear colorless liquid used in fertilizers, detergents, pharmaceuticals and food flavoring, irritating to the skin and eyes and moderately toxic if ingested."
- Artificial Flavors – Nutrition experts call them “Excito-toxins”. Artificial flavorings in health drinks create substances that are more like soft drinks and candy.
- Artificial Sweeteners – These are so unnecessary in health drinks today. In addition to the acid forming properties of artificial sweeteners, nutritionists express concerns about their effects on the human body. Many consumers now believe that artificial sweeteners may play a factor in diseases of the brain, such as Alzheimer’s. That is one reason why corporations such as Pepsico and Coca Cola are beginning to market health drinks and other products containing Stevia, an all natural sweetener that is actually beneficial.
- Isolated Vitamins - When isolated, processed, heated, liquefied and bottled, vitamins and minerals break down before the body can use them. Vitamins and minerals should be obtained from whole foods, not from so called health drinks that are really bottled, heated, highly processed waters with colorful dyes and artificial ingredients.
Here is an actual ingredients list from a well-known sports drink that many people believe is a health drink:
- Sucrose Syrup (this is sugar)
- High Fructose Corn Syrup (more sugar) - A total of 56 gms of sugar
- Phosphoric Acid
- Glycerol ester of wood rosin
- Modified Food Starch
- Natural and Artificial Flavors
- Yellow 6, Yellow 5 and Red 40 (artificial dyes)
Buying quality health drinks in a convenience store, grocery store, or health food store at the mall is almost impossible. However, truly healthy drinks are easily found online by searching for all natural health drinks.
For more info:
Do Enhanced Vitamin Water Drinks Really Enhance the Benefits of Drinking Water?
Why Natural Health Drinks Are Better Than Energy Drinks and Sodas
When Buying Health Drinks, Alkaline Drinks are the Better Choice
Naturally Alkaline Health Drinks Make Today’s Sports Drinks Seem Like Candy
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