Name The Drinks You Drink Throughout The Day

In any typical day would be something like this for me..


Water, coffee, milk, can of coke, water, water, water, juice, Water and maybe some milk for my cereal.

 

Water, milk, sometimes coffee

 

Water, soy milk, tea, sometimes fruit juices and pop (mostly ginger ale).

 

coffee water water water water water water tea water water water

 

Water
Mineral Water (San Pellegrino)
Coffee
Bulletproof coffee
Green tea
Protein shakes (made with heavy cream and coconut milk)

And tonight I am drinking some vodka, which is my first alcohol in about 7 months.

I do not drink soft drinks or juice, which are just horrible for you. (Yes, of course I needed to add that.)

 

coffee, water, orange crush, sprite, almond milk ..

 

Orange juice
Coffee
Bottled Water
Bottled Water
More Bottled Water
Wine or Beer


Hotwater

 

When I say juice I talk about real fruit juices, nectars or smoothies (who are really just puréed fruits so as soon as they're made with real fruits they're on my OK list, I consider them liquid food if I can say that). I stay away from those fruit drinks as they call it, which are basically just water, sugar and fruit flavors, natural or not. I have a lot of food in liquid form, shakes, soups, smoothies or juices. I kept the habit after being restrained to only liquids for 6 months after a major kidney failure, my body could only process liquids for a while and in the meantime I realized it was an easy, fast and effective way to eat so I said why not stick to it (at least partially).

Pay attention to mineral water, these usually contain a lot of minerals and sodium = bad for the blood pressure and water retention. Same for coffee, I stay away from it as it's the only substance to make my heart skip a few beats when I have some (even if it's just 2-3 cups/day). I have a history of hard drug use, especially stimulants (think speed, cocaine, crack, crystal meth), and I only experienced that with coffee so far. This shit is strong as fuck, people have no clue how potent caffeine really is. I stumbled upon a surprising research on coffee saying that if they would refine caffeine like they do with cocaine and make it into a powder, in a small line there would be the equivalent in caffeine of like 300 coffees. That's enough to kill someone right on the spot. So no coffee isn't harmless, but if you enjoy in moderation it shouldn't be so bad.

 

Actually those "real" fruit juices and nectars are no good for you either. People look at these Naked and Odwalla juices and think they're healthy, but they're not. They are loaded with sugar, and the worst kind of sugar, which is fructose. Whether that fructose comes from fruit or in the form of HFCS it makes no difference since it is processed by the body the same exact way. But at least when you eat the whole fruit you're getting the full fiber, vitamin and antioxidant benefits without all the sugar, which negates many of the healthful properties found in fruits. There is a difference between one papaya, and an assortment of high-sugar fruits that have been blended together into a sweet and tasty juice that is more akin to Mountain Dew or liquid candy than whole fruit. It is simply way too much sugar for the average sedentary person who does not run or bike miles each day.

Vegetable juicing on the other hand is a completely different story and is incredibly healthy. And I am not talking V8 or anything you can buy at the supermarket.

 

You remind me of something my grandma used to say, fruits are like natural candies. Some really are that sweet (I think berries now), sure they contain a lot of sugar but unlike factory-made candies they contain more than just sugar, fiber, vitamins, minerals and a variety of beneficial phyto-elements. Plus that sugar is natural fructose, we are miles away from that awful high fructose corn syrup or anything like that. This natural fructose is what nature planned for us to eat, our bodies know how to process and deal with it as they're meant for it, it's not that bad for us (unless you have way too much of it but then excess is the bad thing, not the sugar itself). And like I said in my previous post about smoothies, if it's been made with whole fruits and nothing has been added to it, is there really such a big difference between that smoothie and a whole fruit? The only difference I see is one is whole and one is liquified, so except for some vitamins and nutrients that would get destroyed quickly with the oxydation sfter juicing I tend to believe the content in nutrients would be equivalent.

 

Actually berries are some of the lowest in sugar -- especially blueberries, strawberries, blackberries and raspberries. These are actually the fruits I eat most, usually with some full-fat yogurt or heavy cream. High sugar fruits would be apples and bananas.

Natural fructose from fruit is slightly different than HFCS, but only in the sense that one is naturally-occurring and the other is not. From a metabolic perspective your body handles it the exact same way, so if you're trying to lose weight, or are predisposed to weight gain, it's probably not a good idea to drink juice ever because it will have the same effect soda will. It is also directly linked with high triglycerides, since any fructose your body cannot immediately use for energy gets turned to fat and stored in the blood and/or fat cells.

And again, it takes several pieces of fruit to make a smoothie. Most people, when they eat whole fruit, eat only one piece. When you're drinking juice you're literally consuming multiple pieces of fruit, so instead of getting 9 or 10 grams of sugar, you're getting 30 or 40 (and that's in one serving). It is simply not healthy.

 

Just coffee without sugar, and water. Maybe 1 beer every week or so.

 

But once again, like in the comparison I made in fruits VS candies, there is so much more to that glass of juice than just sugar, vitamins, fiber and minerals, that you don't get in the soda. It's not just about the content in sugar or in calories, but what those calories are made of, that determine if a food is healthy or not.

That's why you should consider juices and smoothies as food and count them (calorie intake, sugar intake and number of servings) in your daily intake! Many people make the mistake to forget to include the calories and sugars in their drinks when calculating their daily calorie intake, hence why they end up busting it. Once again, balance and moderation are key (yeah I know, those again, but what can I say I believe more in common sense than strict dieting rules). Drinking one smoothie a day is OK, but if that's all you drink all day long it's just not good.

 

1st pot of coffee, 2nd pot of coffee, water, maybe a glass of milk, 3rd pot of coffee

 

How could you? :yikes: My heart would explode somewhere in between the first and second pot of coffee.

 

...are you really suggesting that the human body has not evolved to eat multiple pieces of fruit?

 

I think he's talking about people not realizing how much they consume and having too much to eat/drink, mostly.

 

black coffee in the morning. I switch to water around noon. That's basically it. I'll have a beer or two on occasion at night. Every couple of weeks I may treat myself to a sody pop.

 

Mostly beer !
I just pull the tab and drink , Never thought about naming them ! but I am going to call the next one Colin and the one after i am going to call Stewart ,,, see if it makes any difference

 

No, the human body has not evolved to consume 40 grams of sugar in a single serving, especially when consumed on a regular basis, which can be seen by the obesity epidemic. Some people's metabolisms can handle it better than others, however.