Just 12 ounces of tonic water can cost you calories and 32 grams of sugar—that's only seven grams less than soda for the same amount! Since when did a blend of ice cream and root beer ever sound like a good idea? Maybe as a kid, but not as a health-conscious adult. If you must relive your childhood from time to time, make sure to share the creamy float with a friend! Mixing your liquors is never a good idea, especially if it's in Lime-A-Rita form.
Bud Light packs nearly calories into a small eight-ounce can, and the sweet concoction is made with artificial sweetener and artificial flavors.
Make your own refreshing and way less caloric marg with fresh lime juice, a teaspoon of honey, triple sec, and tequila. If you continue on laxatives over the long-term, it can result in nutrient deficiencies and even illness," Toby Amidor, MS, RD, cautions.
Instead of getting tipsy, these sugar-spiked beverages will just widen your waistline. Stick with a glass or two of red wine 's powerful antioxidant benefits. Considering most of these beverage flavoring agents are made with sketchy artificial sweeteners like acesulfame potassium and sucralose, we advise you to stay away. While acesulfame potassium is believed to have carcinogenic properties, sucralose is a sweetener that's been found to mess with your body's satiety signals.
What's more, these concentrates are filled with potentially harmful dyes like red 40 and yellow 6, which are contaminated with known carcinogens—no wonder they're considered to be some of the 23 Worst Food Additives in America!
In its purest form, tea is one of the best weight-loss allies you'll find. It contains antioxidants , which have been found to help rev your metabolism, block the formation of new fat cells, fight off diseases, and lower risk of stroke. But not all teas are created equal—especially those sold in bottles. In fact, a study found that you'd have to drink 20 bottles of store-bought tea to get the same amount of antioxidants present in just one home-brewed cup. Plus, the bulk of the bottles brews get their brown hue from caramel color instead of actual tea and are packed with more sugar than you'd find in a handful of Chips Ahoy cookies.
To learn which ones are safe to sip and which are better to skip, we rounded up the worst bottled tea products. While a cup or two of coffee can do your body good, you may want to think twice before sizing up to a large or indulging in a fourth cup of Joe.
The reason: Doing so may make your bones brittle. Mamta M. Avoiding excess caffeine also helps to ward off uncomfortable withdrawal symptoms like lethargy, insomnia, headaches, and irritability," she adds. While they may have "water" in their name, these bottled beverages are calories each, and every single one of those calories comes from sugar.
And it's not just a little bit of sugar, either. If you want to infuse some flavor and nutrients into your water, ditch the bottled stuff and make a detox water instead. Spiked with sugar and caramel coloring, fast food iced tea is a definite no-go in our book! Our suggestion: Whip up a pitcher of the stuff at home, instead, using one of these 22 Best Teas for Weight Loss.
What do artificial colors and fat-causing fake sugars all have in common? They're in your favorite diet fizzy drinks. Nearly all popular diet sodas contain aspartame, an artificial sweetener that was initially developed to aid weight loss but has been found to have the opposite effect.
So what should you be sipping instead? The problem with coffee creamer? There's no cream and a lot of processed ingredients you simply do not need to be drinking.
Instead, try out a plant-based creamer if you need something to jazz up your cup of Joe, such as the varieties from Califa Farms. While whipping up a frozen marg at home isn't quite as bad as getting it from a bar, it's still the worst cocktail for your waistline, ranging from calories, depending on if you make the drink yourself at home or order it while you're out. Made with a sugar-spiked neon mix and tequila, the summer staple will overload your system with more sugar than you'd find in nine Dunkin' Donuts Apple n' Spice Donuts!
Other frozen beverages aren't much better, either. The average strawberry daiquiri, for example, has more than calories and upward of 40 grams of sugar per serving. Not to mention, it's also 99 percent high fructose corn syrup. Switch to a glass of bubbly with muddled strawberries and lemon slices to get your fruity fix for a fraction of the waist-widening calories.
These 18 Wines for Weight Loss are also solid picks. Sure, it's natural and overflowing with vitamin C, but it's loaded with sugar—and totally void of any nutrients like fiber or protein to help slow the sugar spike. An average glass packs 36 grams of sugar—or about what you'd get from popping 4 Krispy Kreme glazed donuts into a blender and hitting frappe. What's more, most of the sweetness in juice comes from fructose, a type of sugar associated with the development of belly fat.
A better drink for citrus lovers? Lemonade is not generally considered soda in the US because it's not carbonated. Lemonade is not soda. It isn't carbonated and is made with lemons. Teenagers think sports drinks like Gatorade are healthier than soda , and tend to choose them over milk.
But sports drinks are still just sugar water—a diluted version of Coke or Sprite—and teenagers who think sports drinks are a healthy move are fooling themselves. CNN Fruit juice is not as nutritious as fresh fruit , but it can be a healthy part of your diet, if it's consumed in small portions. A glass of fresh orange or grapefruit juice with breakfast isn't just refreshing. By comparison, one medium orange has 12 grams of sugar and only 62 calories.
A related drink is Limeade. When comparing apples to oranges, OJ is the clear favorite. Eight ounces of percent natural juice has more than twice the amount of vitamin C recommended by the USDA for children ages 1 to 13 and six times the amount found in an equal serving of apple juice. Eat an apple or an orange instead. Some call it soda. Others say soft drink , fizzy drink , soda pop, or just plain-old pop. There is no right word for the sweet carbonated beverage, although it would be wrong not to know the linguistic background behind the bubbles.
Rather, it is nonalcoholic, unlike a hard drink , which is a distilled alcoholic beverage. The problem is that too much juice can be an extra source of sugar and calories. Juice also doesn't contain the same fiber and phytonutrients that raw fruits have. Minute Maid , the juice drink produced by The Coca-Cola Company, is already positioned as a healthy drink containing calcium, potassium and folate, among others, but a new agreement with the Mayo Clinic means that Minute Maid consumers can now get broader health advice, just from reading the carton.
This topic has 42 replies, 25 voices, and was last updated 7 years ago by footflaps. Viewing 40 posts - 1 through 40 of 43 total. Pigface Free Member.
An argument that all most got out of hand over the weekend. To me both sugary drinks. Posted 7 years ago. Cougar Full Member. I would say the caffeine in cola nudges it past the lemonade in the unhealthy stakes Posted 7 years ago. Not much between any full fat fizz Scores on the boards if you are interested are 35g of sugar in a can of Coke and 28g in a can of Sprite.
So saying one is healthier than the other is a bit like saying falling out of a fifth floor window is better for you than falling out of a sixth floor window Posted 7 years ago. Macavity Free Member. Robert Lustig talking about sugar.
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