Drinks that are healthy for you... Are you drinking drinks that are good for you?
BY Sharon Stajda,
It is important to have a variety of health beverages in your diet. Today, there are too many people subsisting on diet sodas, regular sodas, and energy drinks. These consist mostly of artificial sweeteners, artificial flavoring, and caffeine. The body will not perform to peak performance with a steady intake of these types of beverages.
My favorite beverage to have in substitute of a soda is orange juice. It tastes good, it is natural, and is readily available. Orange juice provides a good dose of Vitamin C. An 8 ounce glass contains as much potassium as a banana. It has a remarkable variety of phytonutrients. Beyond the great vitamin and nutrient content, a study has shown that orange juice can lower your blood pressure.
Another great beverage is apple juice. Fresh apple juice carries a significant amount of Vitamin A and C. The old time saying that an apple a day can keep the doctor away is true. Recent studies have shown that drinking apple juice can help slow down the process that leads to heart disease.
Cranberry juice is another powerful drink that should be added to your diet. Medicinal properties of the cranberry have been recognized for centuries. It provides powerful antioxidant qualities. A common treatment for urinary tract infections is to drink cranberry juice. It is thought that the strong acidic content of the juice provides an inhospitable environment for bacteria.
Beyond the standard juices, you can get a bit more exotic. Mango, pineapple, carrot, wheatgrass, and tomato are all great juices that provides wonderful health benefits. Many companies are now offering smoothies and other freshly made juices. As people become more health conscience, these will become the future of the beverage industry.
I hope you will see that there are many options to sodas. You will feel a great impact to your health once you have given them up and integrated the more healthy juices into your diet. At first it will take will power, but as time goes on, you will find that you will completely loose your taste for those sugary sodas.
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A Few Good Article's On What And What Not To Drink---
- Nutrition - Healthy Beverages...
- ""WATER IS THE BEST DRINK FOR A WISE MAN." This statement was made by one of America's nineteenth-century philosophers, Thoreau. " Please read more...
- Nutrition - Milk And Milk Food Products...
- "For a long time the human race has been building better than it knows, with regard to many of the factors that make for survival. Long before science established the fact that milk is one of the most ideal foods available for human nutrition, common knowledge established the truth that milk is valuable in restoring the sick to good health. " Read More...
- Nutrition - Beverages To Avoid...
- "Tea, coffee, cocoa and all alcoholic beverages are best left alone. People use one or another of these drinks largely because physicians do not sufficiently stress their ill-effects. ' Read More...
A Few Healthy Beverages...
- Dairy drinks:
Milk, milk-flavoured drinks and yoghurt drinks provide a great sources of calcium.WE all need calcium for strong, healthy teeth and bones. It greatly help reduce the risk of osteoporosis. A recent National Diet and Nutrition Survey have revealed that calcium intake in teenagers, and children is at an all-time low. So get your teen to try smoothies... - Fruit Juices:
Unsweetened fruit juices provide a very good sources of vitamins and minerals. They are also a great way of replenishing lost fluids in the body.
It's recommended that we consume five portions of fruit and vegetables every day. This will help to protect the body against a variety of diseases. Pure fruit juices contain the same vitamins, minerals and special phytochemicals as fresh fruit. So why not start the day off right by drinking a big glass of pure fruit juice with your breakfast? Another good way to get your juice intake up, make juice smoothies. They are nutritious,and taste,and easy to make. Not to mention full of vitamins. Due to the real fruit,they are filling too! Fruit smoothies make a great breakfast drink. - Water:
Water is the common name applied to the liquid form (state) of the hydrogen and oxygen compound H2O.Water is an odorless, tasteless, clear liquid. Water is one of nature's most wonderful gifts. It is Essential to life, one cannot survive without it. Water the most essential elements to good health -- it is necessary for the digestion and absorption of food in your body. Water helps maintain proper muscle tone, along with aiding to supply oxygen and nutrients to each body cell. Water is essential to aid in riding the body of its waste build up. It also helps regulate body temperature, you might say it serves as a natural air conditioning system to cool the body. Health officials recommend, and strongly emphasize the importance of drinking at least eight glasses of water each and every day. By ingesting 8 glasses per day it will serve to maintain good health.
When Buying Apple Juice -- Buy Cloudy
Recent studies show that cloudy apple juice is a clear winner when it comes to disease-fighting antioxidants.Cloudy -- or unclarified apple juice contains up to four times the polyphenols as some types of clear apple juice on the market.
But researchers feel the clear apple juices dominate store shelves, this is most likely due to good sales results. Why do the clear apple juices sell before the cloudy? Consumers consider longer shelf life and its clearness is thought to be purer.
Polyphenols, a class of antioxidants found in plants, are believed to provide a variety of healthy benefits, like fighting heart disease, and some forms of cancer.
Cloudy Apple Juice's Have Clear Advantage...
In the study, published in the Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture, researchers compared the polyphenol content of cloudy vs. clear juices made from Idared and Champion apples.
Results showed cloudy juices had up to four times the polyphenols of clear juice, and cloudy juice made from Champion apples had the highest polyphenol content.
For example, cloudy Champion apple juice had a total polyphenolic content of 1,044 milligrams per liter (mg/L) compared with 250 mg/L found in clear Idared juice.
Pomegranate juice ... You Know That Funny Looking Fruit
Pomegranate juice is quick becoming the Antioxidant Superpower in juices.Pomegranate juice is known to have incredibly high levels of naturally occurring polyphenol antioxidants. Pomegranate Juice helps guard your body against free radicals, that can cause cancer. These nasty little free radicals have been proved by science to be linked to many forms of disease.
Pomegranate juice is slightly sweet, and a bit tart. A sip and you'll discover just how refreshing pomegranate juice can be...It has its own unique personality, thats for sure. But along with the great taste, you'll find more antioxidant power than any other juice on the market.
Dieting? Worried about the calories and carbohydrates in pomegranate juice. Keep this in mind, remember that the carbohydrates are from naturally occurring fructose, and glucose found in the fresh fruit. And that a single glass of wonderful Pomegranate juice wont make you fat%u2026but may help you be healthy. So please consider adding Pomegranate juice to your list of great healthy drinks...
Pass On The Coffee... Have A Cup Of Tea, Chamomile Tea That Is
Green Tea ...
Green Tea can cut the risk of getting cancer.
Several polyphenols - the potent antioxidants green tea's famous for - studies have shown green tea helps keep cancer cells from gaining a foothold in ones body. By discouraging the growth of cancer cells....and then squelching the creation of new blood vessels that tumors need to thrive on. So - drink green tea reduce your risk of breast, stomach, esophagus, colon, and/or prostate cancer.
Green Tea can sooth skin
Got a cut? To any cut scrap or minor burn add a little leftover green tea to the area of inflammation? Soak a cotton pad in it and dab away. The tea is a natural antiseptic that relieves itching and swelling also. Also try green tea on inflamed breakouts and blemishes, sunburns, even puffy eyelids. You will be pleased with its curing results. Going out in the sun? Green tea can helps block sun-triggered skin cancer, whether you drink it or apply it directly to the skin...
Lower That Blood Pressure
A healthy blood pressure is below 120/80. Keeping it that way is quite another thing. There is evidence that people who sip just half a cup of green tea a day are almost 50 percent less likely to wind up with hypertension.
Helps With Memory
Green tea may also keep the brain from forgetfulness. Getting-up-there in age, adults who drink at least two cups a days are half as likely to develop cognitive problems as those who drink less. It appears that the green tea carries a large dose of antioxidants fights the free-radical damage to brain nerves seen in Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.
Green Tea Can Help You Stay Young
The younger and healthier your arteries will be. Green tea is proven to fight plaque build-up in blood vessels. Plaque build up in arteries can lead to heart disease and stroke. So drink a cup of green tea daily to perhaps adds years to your life. How much green tea does this vital job take? About 10 ounces a day, will help deters your body from absorbing artery-clogging fat and cholesterol.
Lose Weight...
Oh yeah! It Turns out that green tea speeds up your body's metabolism, that in turn helps burn calories at a quicker rate..
A GLASS OF RED WINE A DAY--- Chases Cancer Away!
By Sharon Stajda,Red wine is a rich source of biologically active phytochemicals, chemicals found in plants. Particular compounds called polyphenols found in red wine-such as catechins and resveratrol are thought to have anti oxidant or anti cancer properties. Polyphenols have been found to have antioxidant properties.
Just what are polyphenols, and how do they help fight cancer?
Polyphenols are antioxidant compounds found in the skin and seeds of grapes. When wine is made, the alcohol produced by the act of fermentation process dissolves the polyphenols from the seeds and skins.
Red wine will most naturally contain a higher contains of polyphenols than white wine. This is due to the way red wine is made. In making white wine seeds and skins are removed shortly after the grapes are crushed. Hence a leaser amount of polyphenols in the final product.
Antioxidants are substances that can protect cells from damage caused by molecules called free radicals. Free radicals chemicals can damage important parts of cells, which include proteins, membranes and DNA. When a cell is denatured, by free radicals, it has a higher chance of breaking down and developing cancer. There has been vast studies done on the antioxidants found in red wine. The findings have been good, and has shown that red wine is very beneficial in that they may help inhibit the development of certain cancers. This being due to it high content of Antioxidants... So have a glass of red wine daily, you will promote healthy cellular balance.
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RichardPT wrote...
Nice lens Shar! Very thorough and great description of what nutrients and ingredients you should be consuming!
Jasonb702
Impressive lens Shar... Keep up the good work..
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these shakes really do the trick, it keeps me engerized for work until lunch!
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DavidAllan wrote...
Great article on healthy drinks.
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I absolutely love V8... I have to have it every day.
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Posterchild wrote...
Has anyone heard anything about this goyin recipe? I haven't been able to find a lot about it because its pretty new. I'm trying to figure out if its just another one of those 'snake oils'. I find that drinking lots of water really helps with all aspects of life, like depression, skin problems, and weight problems.
attractfitness wrote...
You write the best lenses. I personally only drink water and a couple of cups of coffee as part of my healthy diet. I found that juice has way to many calories for my metabolism.
myyeastinfectioncure wrote...
pomegranate juice mmmm. I luv it! Nice lens 5 stars











