If you were wondering how to incorporate more healthy drinks (and limit the amount of calories you get from liquids to 10%) into your day, the Harvard School of Public Health gives us recommendations at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-drinks/healthy-drinks-full-story/ 50% of our fluid intake should be water, approximately one third can be coffee and tea (unsweetened is best) and 20% should be low-fat milk. They recommend that sugared drinks, diet drinks and alcohol drinks be limited. Sugared drinks should be no more than one a day and diet drinks be limited to no more than two glasses per day. If a person wants an alcoholic drink, the recommendation is no more than one for a woman while a man can drink up to two drinks.
Harvard School of Public Health gives us Six Ideas for Low-Sugar Drinks at http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/healthy-drinks/low-sugar-drink-ideas/index.html
As I’m writing this blog post, I’m sipping on a glass of orange citrus spa water (sliced a navel orange into a pitcher of ice water). I like it and find it very refreshing. It’s a new idea for me. Thanks, Harvard staff, for a good suggestion: I can enjoy this.
Hmmmm..I can't believe that Harvard would endorse noncalorically sweetened drinks ladened with artificial sweeteners.
ReplyDeleteThere are just too many cancer cases developing each year and the medical community is still in the dark about the root causes. Let me count the ways: asparatame or splenda are all toxins that cannot be processed by the human body. Cancer cells have insulin receptors so anyone with cancer or trying to prevent cancer should stay away from sugar, especially artificial sweeteners. I'm not making the claim that sugar causes cancer, but it is an accelerator/fertilizer for cancer. A better choice would be low-glycemic foods or sweeteners such Agave nectar with a low glycemic index.
Plain water should be the first drink anyone should reach for, and those battling cancer should drink akaline water ---cancer cells thrive in a acidic enviornment. So those reading this comment might wander: Why should I care, I don't have cancer? You should care. The whole point is prevention and everything we do, drink, or eat should steer us away from developing cancer or chronic inflammation (there's a strong connection between these two, but that's fodder for an entirely different topic).
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Thank you for your comment. I will contact you by email because I would like to hear more about artificial sweeteners from you.
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