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growing goji berriesWhich Health Drinks Taste Good And Are Better For You Than Sodas, Vitamin Waters, And Energy Drinks?
We know people don't drink sodas because they are a health drink. They drink them because they taste good, they're bubbly and they lift your spirits for a moment. That is, until the sugar and caffeine crash hits you. With high caffeine energy drinks and sugary vitamin waters, the mood bounce is just as bad, if not worse, as your body tries to adjust to the disastrous combination of sugar and caffeine in dangerously high doses. Why are so many people consuming these very unhealthy drinks?
- They taste good
- They provide a temporary mood boost
- They are relatively inexpensive compared to quality health drinks
What if you could find a health drink that actually tastes good, fills the body with vital nutrients, gives you a mood boost, and costs about the same as one of those sugary vitamin water drinks? Would you be willing to try a health drink that doesn't contain sugar and caffeine, but is loaded with concentrated nutrients from fruits and herbs? What if you knew that these concentrated health drinks were supplying your body with living enzymes, natural antioxidants, complex carbs and phytonutrients from plants? Does that make you at least reconsider your consumption of carbonated caffeine and sugar?
There are many other reasons to consume natural, low carb health drinks instead of sodas, sugary vitamin waters or caffeine boosted energy drinks.
- Sugar wreaks havoc on the body.
- Excess sugar contributes to obesity.
- Sugar suppresses the immune system.
- Too much sugar can upset the body's mineral balance.
- An overload of sugar contributes to arthritis.
- Over consumption of sugar speeds the aging process.
- All that sugar in soft drinks, energy drinks, and in vitamin waters causes your pancreas to produce excess insulin, which leads to an energy crash.
- Your overall fitness level increases with natural, low carb health drinks. All those soft drinks and high caffeine energy drinks are very acidic, which contributes to a pH imbalance. The body needs a ratio of 80% alkaline foods and drinks to only 20% acidic foods for proper pH balance. An improper ratio of too many acidic foods and beverages causes the body to break down faster as it pulls calcium from bones in order to maintain the right pH balance. Natural health drinks on the other hand are, more often than not, alkaline by nature.
- Vitamin waters, soft drinks and energy drinks actually deprive the body of some of the health benefits of drinking water. All the phosphates, sugar, caffeine and artificial ingredients take more water to process than they replace. When the body does not take in enough water and vital nutrients then you experience cellular dehydration, which in turn leads to numerous health challenges.
So, people who are guzzling soft drinks, caffeinated energy drinks and sugary vitamin waters are actually walking around dehydrated. On the other hand, people who are consuming natural health drinks that contain live nutrients from whole foods such as fruits and herbs are enjoying the many health benefits of drinking water plus the numerous benefits of consuming phytonutrients in their water. When you realize that it is a good idea to be more selective in your beverage choices then you have to ask yourself, "Where do I find these health drinks that taste good and offer so many benefits?"
Search the Internet for natural low carb health drinks and you will find very affordable powder formulas that you simply mix with water. These whole food health drink concentrates are made without sugar, artificial sweeteners, high fructose corn syrup, or isolated vitamins and minerals. Instead, they are made with real fruit and herbs that are known for their hydrating and fat flushing properties. Some of the natural low carb health drinks taste better than any of those artificial vitamin waters and you can drink them in natural flavors of peach, lemon, raspberry, cinnamon and even green tea. With the right health drinks your body not only receives the benefits of drinking water, but also the many health benefits of live, whole food nutrients from real ingredients like peaches, raspberries, lemons and cinnamon.
As you come to understand the differences between live, whole food nutrients and artificially enhanced vitamin waters, sodas or energy drinks boosted with caffeine you make better choices. Your body starts to find its own natural balance and digestion improves, you get fewer mood swings, less stiffness in your joints, more energy and an overall improvement in mood. You feel better about yourself when you replace your overly processed, sugary, caffeine enhanced beverages with health drinks that are truly healthy.
Cliff Smith is the owner of an online health food store and is always searching for the finest all natural foods and health drinks. He is an avid mountain biker who cycles 50-100 miles per week over rugged terrain in the southwestern United States and consumes only the highest quality nutrition for an athlete. Cliff offers free audio and video discussions of all natural low carb foods and health drinks, free nutrition facts and more at BestHealthFoodStore.net.
Can Your Cholesterol Get Too "Low"
In the blitzkrieg on fat by the media, cholesterol has been held hostage and charged with clogging human circulatory system, restricting blood flow to vital organs, and causing heart and brain problems. But with the war crime tribunals' verdict on the obesity war, the cholesterol stands vindicated and its rightful place in the dietary kingdom restored.
All along, we are being told ---fat is the root of all evil. Lower your fat, lower your cholesterol. But how low can cholesterol get? Can it get "too low"?
In general, you want more of high density lipoprotein (HDL), the "good cholesterol", and less of low density lipoprotein (LDL), "the bad cholesterol". Your total cholesterol level should not be not less than 160 - 180 mg/dL and your HDL cholesterol level should be not below 100 mg/dL. A low total cholesterol reading is not necessarily good, because it can hide a low level of HDL. Similarly, having a high total cholesterol reading may not be bad; in fact it may be good if it's the HDL component that is high. The LDL sticks to artery walls and builds up the plaque, but HDL removes excess cholesterol from the plaques, slows their growth and protects us from heart attack. Similarly, a low HDL cholesterol level too may raise stroke risk, whereas a high HDL level acts as a protective shield.
Trust our body to know what is good for it. Ever wondered why the body itself produces most of the required cholesterol? Cholesterol is essential to the body. Breast milk has high levels of cholesterol and the breast-fed babies learn to metabolize cholesterol better, with the result their blood cholesterol levels and the risk of coronary diseases as adults are lower than the formula-fed babies.
Cholesterol plays an important role in cell membrane structure. About 10 to 20% of the brain is composed of cholesterol. Essential substances like the sex hormones and vitamin D are also made of cholesterol. Cholesterol is the precursor to bile acids, which are needed to digest and absorb long-chain fatty acids. Hence low cholesterol is bad for the liver.
A growing body of evidence indicates that very low cholesterol can be dangerous, just as high cholesterol is hazardous to health. Low cholesterol levels can cause depression, anxiety, violent behavior or suicide, because of the reduced levels of serotonin in the brain. Researchers suggest, though not very conclusively, that very low cholesterol levels may be associated with an increased risk of cancer. Atromid-S, the first drug approved for the lowering of cholesterol,was withdrawn from the market in 2000 as it was found to increase the incidence of gallstones, cancer, liver disease, and pancreatitis.
Like everything else in life, moderation is the operating keyword. No extremes, please!
Uma Shankari is a Bangalore-based freelance journalist. She is passionate about writing. She writes regularly on development issues, health and fitness, yoga/meditation, life and relationships. Read some of her articles on Here
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