Top 10 Drinks You Should NEVER Have Again!

Hello Health Champions today we're going to talk  about the top 10 drinks you must avoid so many  

people today pay attention to what they eat but  it's almost like an afterthought everywhere people  

go they have to have a drink they walk they drive  they carry a drink and if they don't pay attention  

to what that drink is that can really get them in  trouble number 10 are non-dairy creamers and we're  

going to do these in reverse order so we'll  finish off with the worst one but even number  

10 is pretty bad these can come in a powder form  or a liquid form but very often outside of water  

the first ingredient will be something like corn  syrup solids or high fructose corn sweetener and  

often the second ingredient would be hydrogenated  vegetable oil so here we have a really bad fat and  

they turn it worse by hydrogenating turning  it into a trans fat which is basically like  

a plastic substance that's completely foreign  to your body and a lot of people pick non-dairy  

creamers because they're trying to avoid Dairy  but often they put sodium caseinate in to give  

it certain consistency and guess what casein is  a milk protein so even though you're trying to  

avoid Dairy you're probably still getting some  and then there's a whole list of the chemicals  

like preservatives artificial flavor artificial  color and none of this are things that you want  

in your body number nine is flavored water and  don't get me wrong this could be a good product  

but very often it isn't so you have to watch for  what's in there sometimes they tease you and brag  

about the fact that this is made with real fruit  juice and it could be up to three percent well  

that wouldn't be a terrible thing if that's all  it was and then they had some natural things like  

essential oils for flavoring but very often this  is just tip of the iceberg and they put some other  

sugar or artificial sweeteners in there so some  of the things you want to watch for are artificial  

flavors added sugar that they might disguise as  Agave or something like that artificial sweeteners  

of course you want to avoid and artificial colors  so these could be a good thing but very often  

they're just chemical concoctions again number  eight is chocolate milk and this could be in  

a bottle in a liquid form or it could be one of  those instant mixes that you just blend and mix  

with hot water and it also includes all of these  Alternatives so if they make a milk alternative  

like vanilla milk or chocolate milk from rice or  soy or something then you still have to watch out  

for the other stuff that they put in there so  very often they load these up with sugar and or  

high fructose dose corn syrup in one example was a  brand where you get a 12 ounce bottle that has 36  

grams of sugar in there and most of this is added  sugar because they don't even use milk they just  

use water and powders of various different kinds  and you would think with all that sugar in there  

this would be sweet enough but in some Brands  like Yoo-hoo they still add additional artificial  

sweeteners like sucralose and of course A lot of  these people are so addicted that they're just  

looking for that Sugar High and that sweet taste  and in most of these products you're going to  

find the usual list of preservatives artificial  color artificial flavor the chemical cocktail  

but even with all of this I found several places  where they proclaimed the health benefits of  

chocolate milk they still think that this is a  good thing for you so here's what WebMD had to  

say about chocolate milk they said that this is  a very healthy treat it has lots of calcium on  

the positive side but of course the calcium in  pasteurized milk and processed products is very  

very poorly available so it's basically useless as  a source of calcium also the protein is not very  

absorbable not that you get a whole lot in milk of  this kind on the downside they say that lactose is  

a problem so when most people think about milk  being an issue all they've heard is lactose they  

don't realize that when most people are sensitive  to is the proteins in milk and of course if you  

have a problem with lactose then that's not a good  thing but it's usually not the top top thing to  

be concerned with and then on top of the lactose  they have of course tons of added sugar and they  

admit that that may not be such a great thing but  they claim that the main problem with added sugar  

is that it adds calories and then calories they  believe is the cause of obesity and then they  

think that obesity causes disease so everywhere  you look you get this sequence this rationale  

that Sugar adds calories leads to obesity leads to  disease and this is true to a point but we have to  

get this straight there are plenty of things  that are super healthy for you like a steak  

or an avocado that have plenty more calories  than sugar so that's not what we need to be  

concerned with but here's the official model that  sugar has calories that lead to obesity which in  

turn leads to this ease and we have to understand  this is not the order of which it happens what we  

need to understand is that sugar is the number one  reason cause involved in the mechanism of insulin  

resistance and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease  right which is rampant 85 88 of the population  

has some degree of insulin resistance and it's  creeping down getting hitting people younger and  

younger and non-alcoholic fatty liver disease is  what happens when we consume too much sugar and  

we'll talk about that and then these two things  is what causes disease and obesity so we have to  

understand the direction of the causation because  otherwise we're always going to attack these from  

the wrong direction so yes sugar is the problem  the reason is not because it has calories it's  

because it screws up your hormones it messes up  your metabolic balance and system causing insulin  

resistance so that is the cause of both obesity  and disease obesity doesn't cause anything it's  

correlated with disease and insulin resistance so  if we understand that now we can start attacking  

it from the right direction number seven is  sweetened tea and coffee drinks and here I'm  

referring to the popular trendy drinks in coffee  shops so chai lattes and Frappuccinos and so forth  

so these are really nothing more than sugar bombs  in a single drink you could get as much as 80  

grams of sugar so just imagine you think you're  just ordering a nice beverage and they toss in  

this much sugar in a single drink depending on on  the side but that doesn't even include some of the  

toppings that's just the basic configuration  of that drink in a large size so you might as  

well walk into one of those places and say can I  please have a cup of diabetes to go but then of  

course all of those little squirts of syrups and  chemical stuff are just nothing but artificial  

so there's tons of artificial flavors artificial  colors artificial anything you want in there and  

number six is milkshakes so a lot of people don't  feel like their fast food meal is complete without  

a shake so they might go and order a Wendy's  frosty and they get in the large size over  

80 grams of sugar just like the bag we saw but it  could be a lot worse if you go and get the largest  

size of McDonald's thick Shake you're looking at  168 grams of sugar and here you thought you just  

ordered a food beverage and you're getting  basically an entire Sugar Bowl dumped into  

that that's also going to come with 1160 calories  in the shake alone and if there's anything good to  

say about that is that at least it would give you  a sense of fullness it's not one of those things  

that you would order too or finish one and feel  like you have to have another but why is it that  

sugar is so bad well there's different kinds of  sugar and we have to understand that a lot of the  

different ones that are sold under different names  are really just as bad so sugar the white crystals  

that's sucrose but there's also high fructose  corn syrup there is honey and there is agave and  

there's a hundred different names that they use  to sell this stuff but we have to understand what  

these have in common and why some other things  like lactose is quite different so I would group  

these four together but lactose even though it's  a sugar is totally different so here's your crash  

course in sugar and this is really a minimum  of what everyone should understand about sugar  

this is called glucose it has six carbons in a  ring and this is called fructose which has five  

carbons in the ring that doesn't really matter  it's just what they look like they're both six  

carbons the fructose has a low carbon hanging off  to the side but this is a disaccharide Two Sugars  

and all of the ones up here the sugar honey  agave and high fructose corn syrup they start  

out exactly like this and now glucose if we talk  about glycemic index which is how quickly these  

raise blood sugar that's one of the problems so  the glycemic index of glucose is 100 the glycemic  

index of fructose is 25 and why is that because  glucose is ready to go into the bloodstream  

directly that's why it's called blood glucose but  the fructose cannot get in and cause blood sugar  

blood glucose because it isn't glucose fructose  has to take another pathway through the liver and  

this is why the fructose is so bad that's why all  the sugars with fructose are much much worse than  

any sugars without it so lactose for example has  one part glucose but it has one part of something  

else it doesn't have any of the fructose so  lactose is not a burden on the liver and the  

reason fructose is such a burden on the liver is  that glucose can be absorbed can be utilized by  

every cell in the body you have 40 trillion cells  if you weigh 180 pounds you have 180 pounds worth  

of cells that can use glucose but you only have  three pounds of liver that can use fructose so  

if you eat a hundred grams then there's going to  be 50 grams of glucose for all the cells but it's  

going to be 50 grams of fructose that can only go  through the liver that has a tremendous potential  

of overloading the liver and causing fatty liver  disease and this is why we see non-alcoholic fatty  

livers in eight-year-olds so we have to understand  there's two bad things about sugar one is that it  

can raise blood sugar too fast and we have to  release insulin and become insulin resistant  

but then the other half is that the fructose does  damage to the liver and causes insulin resistance  

another way so this is the glycemic index for  these molecules individually but if we eat  

table sugar now we're going to have these linked  together this is sucrose it's a disaccharide when  

they're swimming alone by themselves they're  called monosaccharides but disaccharides take  

just a little bit longer to absorb because we  have to split this link before we can absorb  

it so the glycemic index for table sugar or  sucrose is around 65. if we split this link  

to make it high fructose corn syrup so if it's if  we split it now it becomes a syrup like glucose  

syrup corn syrup Etc and now they're absorbed much  faster because now we don't have to take the time  

to break these up and high fructose corn syrup now  has a glycemic index of 87. so this is why high  

fructose corn syrup is a little bit worse even  than sugar because it has more fructose to damage  

the liver but it still raises blood sugar faster  so it's worse on both counts but don't get fooled  

Now by Honey or agave because they're really just  a more natural form of high fructose corn syrup  

they really have oftentimes even more fructose  than high fructose corn syrup does so the thing  

to keep in mind though is if you're metabolically  healthy and you're having a teaspoon of honey now  

and then not multiple times a day but here and  there now it is actually relatively good for you  

because you're not getting enough fructose to  clog up the liver and you're not getting enough  

sweetener to really mess with your blood sugar and  if you understand everything that we just said now  

you understand why added sugar is such a fallacy  that on the nutrition labels we have total sugar  

and added sugar and we're told that the only thing  we have to worry about is the added sugar and that  

is simply not true it's the exact same molecules  if it's naturally occurring in fruit and we turn  

it into juice then we still have the exact same  molecules that affect us the exact same way and  

the only thing that's slightly worse in sugar and  fructose is alcohol because alcohol can also only  

be processed by the liver so it has a tremendous  potential to overwhelm the liver and cause fatty  

liver and the only real difference between alcohol  and fructose is that alcohol is regulated because  

it has a different form of intoxication it it is  mind altering in a different way than sugar is  

so sugar is absolutely a mind-altering substance  but not in the same way and that is why alcohol  

is regulated and sugar is not and therefore the  difference also between alcohol and sugar is that  

alcohol is not given to kids whereas sugar and  high fructose corn syrup is in almost everything  

kids eat and therefore we see fatty liver down in  the early teens and even pre-teens so now you see  

why juice is also on this list of drinks to avoid  orange juice for example has 36 grams of sugar in  

12 ounces or about three and a half deciliters  which again looks approximately like that this is  

a little bit more I made a bag with 40 grams so if  you take off that much you've got about 36 grams  

and now you also understand that the whole notion  of added sugar is ridiculous so orange juice can  

be sold as zero added sugar which is a complete  fallacy it's the exact same sugar as this and  

in comparison Coca-Cola has about 39 grams per  12 ounces but for some people that's not even  

sweet enough especially kids because they have  no limit to their sweet tooth so very often they  

even take fruit juice to start with and then they  sweeten it further to add even more sugar to it so  

realize though that I'm not saying you could never  ever have any juice it's just that the way we're  

consuming it today where we have access to it 365  days a year where it's advertised and promoted as  

a health beverage where more is better that is a  really bad idea if we look at it as an occasional  

treat if we look at it as a seasonal things and we  get some oranges and we squeeze them fresh so we  

have all the enzymes and all that wonderful Aroma  and you take two oranges maybe then you're still  

gonna get less than half of that but it's going  to be a small glass and if you're metabolically  

healthy and you have that once or twice a week  then I think there could even be some benefit  

from the nutrients in the orange now if you're  diabetic if you're metabolically unhealthy then I  

don't think that's a good idea I think you should  stay away from juice all together I think you can  

have a few berries here and there but you really  should not consume a lot of fruit and especially  

not juice number four is sports drinks like  Gatorade and again you're going to get tons  

and tons of sugar here it's not quite as sweet as  a soda or as orange juice but you tend to drink  

more because you're trying to replenish fluids  so the bottle might be a little bigger like 20  

ounces but you get about the same amount of sugar  as a glass of orange juice or a Coca-Cola now with  

Gatorade though a lot of people drink this for  workouts and they drink it to replenish fluids  

and electrolytes that's how it's sold and promoted  so if you drink a lot of this and it wouldn't be  

too hard to drink something like half a gallon  which is 1.8 liters and then you're looking at  

115 grams of sugar along for the ride even though  you think you might just be drinking electrolytes  

and water to replace replenish what's being lost  you're also getting a hefty amount of sugar and  

of course like most of these commercial drinks  you're also getting a bunch of chemicals like  

artificial flavor artificial colors like we saw  before there are other drinks that have even more  

sugar but the problem here is that they're sold  and perceived as being healthy as something that  

you should take when you work out even something  performance enhancing so while a lot of people  

know to avoid soft drinks for example they still  would gobble up these sports drinks because they  

think that they need the fluids they need the  electrolytes and sugar is good for you if you're  

working out all of course which is a fallacy  the only thing that you're getting other than  

water which could actually be beneficial during a  workout is sodium which is an electrolyte they do  

sprinkle a tiny bit of potassium but it's really  negligible the amount you're getting so if you  

want to make your own sports drink then just put  a quarter teaspoon or a third of a teaspoon of  

salt in to your water that you're going to drink  for your workout and you basically have all the  

benefits of a sports drink but at a substantial  cost savings because that sodium is going to run  

you about 0.4 cents number three is energy drinks  and like all the other drinks we talked about this  

is basically just sugar water or something even  worse artificial now the difference here is that  

they've added a stimulant and the vast majority  of this stimulant is going to be caffeine which  

is basically the same thing as you would get in  coffee so if you want to avoid all that Sugar you  

could just have a cup of coffee I don't recommend  consuming it for that reason I think you can have  

a cup or two if you like the flavor but you  shouldn't start adding more and more and start  

just chain drinking coffee all day long to try to  get energy because here's the thing can it really  

give you energy that's how they're promoted that's  how they're sold to us but the only way the body  

makes energy is from a fuel source and from oxygen  that's how we make energy if something gives you  

the illusion or the perception of having energy  it's because a stimulant changes your priorities  

and it makes you want to use up some resources up  front for the Urgent present moment rather than  

reserving some for later so in doing that you  deplete yourself I often use the analogy of a  

credit card if you don't understand how credit  cards really work a credit card might give you  

a sense of wealth it gives you the illusion that  you have a lot of buying power but the problem is  

whatever you spend up front you're going to have  to pay back later and just like credit cards you  

got to pay this back with interest number two is  sweet tea we're talking about iced tea in some  

parts of the world they might drink sweetened iced  coffee but here in the American South they drink  

sweet tea so by default if you just ask for tea  you will get iced tea and you will get it very  

sweet if you want anything different you have  to specify that you want hot tea or you have to  

specify that you want unsweet iced tea otherwise  you're gonna get it loaded up with sugar and the  

tradition of iced tea goes way way back and they  used it as a thirst quench because here in the  

Summers it gets very very hot so people would sip  this all day long with ice to cool themselves and  

to replenish fluids the problem of course is if  it's very sweet and you sip it all day long you're  

gonna get way more sugar than you realize so if  you go to the store and a popular grocery store  

here is called Publix if you buy a gallon which  is very inexpensive so you can buy tons of this  

you're going to get 352 grams of sugar so just  imagine one little jug of tea and they have this  

much sugar in it along with the tea now you may  not go through a whole gallon in a day but with  

32 grams per 12 ounce glass it's pretty easy  to finish one and start drinking the next and  

that's a problem with these drinks is that they  don't fill you up at all it's just a drink so  

you don't even pay attention to what you're really  consuming and the number one worst drink the most  

toxic thing to stay away from is soda or soft  drinks and even though we use Coca-Cola as an  

example it's not just about Coke it's all the soft  drinks with sugar and high fructose corn syrup in  

them one typical can of 12 ounces like we said  has 39 grams of sugar and very often this sugar  

is high fructose corn syrup and of course when  people learn how bad high fructose corn syrup  

is which it is now they start replacing it with  cane sugar and now cane sugar gets proclaimed as  

a healthy substitute for high fructose corn syrup  which of course it isn't high fructose corn syrup  

is just a little bit worse for the reasons that we  talked about and the reason I put soda here even  

though it's not really really any worse than any  of the sugar bombs that we talked about they're  

very very similar but the reason I put it number  one is that through massive amounts of advertising  

billions of dollars every year in promoting these  sugary drinks this has become a way of life in  

many many modern cultures especially in the United  States but this is spreading all over the world  

where as a way of life and thinking of it as a  thirst quencher we drink it all day long we don't  

even think about it it has become the default  food beverage for so many people you see it in  

the stores they're loading up their carts with  soda and they drink it mindlessly and it's part  

of every meal so that's the problem that it's so  pervasive that it is a way of life and it's part  

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