You Are What You Drink – Part 4

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Vitamin Infused Water

A product that is infused with vitamins must be a healthy beverage, right? Think again, as those vitamins come at a high price in the form of tons of needless sugar and other junk that you don’t need. 33 grams of sugar on average per bottle! That is only 3 grams less than soda!

Better Option: Take a multivitamin instead or simply eat more vegetables and other plant foods to get your vitamins.

Bottled Ice Tea

Bottled ice tea is another high sugar disaster, and some products have high fructose corn syrup and preservatives.
Consider the fact that fresh tea spoils without refrigeration, so how many chemicals are keeping those products fresh on the shelves?

Better Option: Brew your own tea at home or buy all natural UNSWEETENED fresh brew tea products stored in the refrigerated aisles of the supermarket but be sure to check the list of ingredients.

Flavored Milks

Love the strawberry, banana, and other flavored milk products? Think again!
Sweetened milk are really bad drink choices as they contain artificial additives and are loaded with sugar. They are also lower in protein than other milk products.

The sugar in flavored milk is not the naturally occurring lactose found in regular milk but is granulated white sugar added during the production process.
These sugar filled disasters are often given to kids, sometimes to get them to drink milk, a really bad idea since they are filled with so much refined sugar.

Better option: Mash fresh strawberries at home and mix them into milk or make milk and berry smoothies.

Sweetened Nut Milk

Sweetened nut milk is loaded with unnecessary added sugar and therefore empty calories that contribute to weight gain. Always choose unsweetened nut milk. Nut milk is also lower in protein than animal or soymilk. Almond milk, for example, is only 2% real almonds, so they lack the vitamins, minerals and have less protein than eating nuts in their raw form.

Better option: Choose unsweetened nut milk or eat whole raw nuts

Regular Milk

Grain fed cow milk has more sugar, and less protein than grass fed cow milk. Grass fed milk is also higher in omega-3 fatty acids (heart health), and conjugated linoleic acid (improved immune system health, healthy bone mass, and reduced body fat). Oh, and if you ever taste organic grass-fed milk, you will never go back to the traditional stuff.

Better option: Ultra-filtered organic milk has only 5 grams of sugar (50% or less than regular milk) and double the protein of regular milk.

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