Most of you have likely heard about this article already, but it is still worth posting.
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The 20 Unhealthiest Drinks in America
Americans have a drinking problem, and not the type you might think. As the authors of the best-selling book Eat This, Not That!, David Zinczenko and co-author Matt Goulding get e-mails all the time from readers who claim they eat carefully, they work out consistently, but they still can’t get the needle on the scale to budge. “What gives?” goes the collective, exasperated refrain from the stagnant dieter.
What most people don’t know is that the biggest roadblock between you and the body you want isn’t found at the end of a fork, but at the bottom of a glass. As a country we take in 21 percent of our daily calories from beverages and, according to the FDA, the average American takes in 82 grams of added sugars every day (most of it in the form of High Fructose Corn Syrup). That’s 20 teaspoons, which contribute an empty 317 calories to our already calorie-saturated diets.
Sure, some of that comes from soda, but even if you’ve traded regular Coke for diet, whole milk coffee drinks for low-fat lattes, and you barely touch the booze, you could still be taking in 20 percent or more of your calories from beverages. Add in a few of those other indulgences-or consume one of the liquid disasters listed here—and you can suddenly be sucking in a few days’ worth of calories through a straw! (You read that last sentence right.)
To give you a better idea of the drinks most responsible for sabotaging your health, fitness, and weight-loss goals, we created a list of America’s Unhealthiest Drinks. Read up on them using the index at left, then sip responsibly.
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9. Worst “Healthy” Drink
Glaceau VitaminWater (20 oz bottle)
130 calories
33 g sugar (actually High Fructose Corn Syrup… disguised as “Crystalline Fructose“)
Vitamins and water might sound like the ultimate nutritional tag team, but what the label doesn’t say is that a bottle of this stuff carries nearly as much sugar (even worse, high fructose corn syrup) and calories as a can of Coke. Makes sense, though, since this so-called functional beverage is produced by our often-sugar-crazy friends at The Coca-Cola Company.
2 responses so far ↓
JoLynn Braley from The Fit Shack // June 12, 2008 at 5:23 pm
Hi there, thanks for linking to my article on Crystalline Fructose. Glad to see more people spreading the word on Vitamin water – it’s sure not a healthy choice, my choice is plain ‘ole clean water.
Oh, with some ice.
david // June 22, 2008 at 5:16 am
this is bullshit!!! we will find out the truth…. who put this out Pepsi??????