What not to drink …
Think twice before taking a sip of your favourite beverage.
You’d better think twice before taking a sip of your favourite beverage, because looks can be deceiving.
Fruit juice may seem like a healthy option, but if the label says “juice drink” or “juice cocktail”, you are more than likely buying colourful sugar water. Unless the label says “100 per cent fruit juice”, the drink is not a healthy option.
But what about over-the-counter coffees? One cannot help but wonder how healthy these are. A large cup of coffee can contain up to 800 calories, before you add sugar and cream!
Naturally, in our quest to be healthier and lose weight, we often reach for diet cold drinks. Diet versions of your favourite cold drink may have zero calories, but they also have zero nutritional value.
But how do diet cold drinks compare to the original versions? The originals are overloaded with sugar, and they give you a false sense of satisfaction. Diet cold drinks provide nothing, except potentially carcinogenic sweeteners, and do not satisfy your hunger. Cold drinks are also the only “food” to be directly linked to obesity.
Other drinks that are also on the slightly unhealthy side are smoothies, energy drinks, cocktails and alcohol.
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