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                                      A  Healthy Practice begins by:

                                                                                    ”Reading the Fine Print”

Are you a health-conscious person looking for an alternative to the normal drinks?

  I have been, in need of replacing my intake of…  the favorite soda, which is high in carbs and sugar, for a healthier drink.

I  had already come to my conclusion long before I had completed this article, but I will save that for the end.

Now if you are like most of us… If it tastes good, we drink it. Naturally, it becomes a habit. Now beyond that, we may from time to time wonder why we feel the way we do, or why we have added a few more pounds,  sleeping has becoming a problem, or some of the other health  problems are now occuring.  Is it related to what we drink?

This article is to help all those who seek to become healthier by what we drink ,  to become more aware of the fine print and some of the terminology is being used within the industry.

I could start  a hot  argument, right here, for the sake of  awareness. Do they, the producers of soda drinks, energy drinks, water products, now alcholic energy drinks, is it their purpose to deceive the general public by their marketing campaigns, or is it OUR responsibility to seek out the TRUTH.

You always hear of this company and that company being discipline for their marketing concepts, but has it really moved , NOW into what we drink as well.

How much is really going on, that we just do not take the time  to care… How much of the fine print do we really read. Well I guess not much. So we are really are ill informed and perhaps because of it, our health matters, and no room here today to quote on the rising health problems  today,  but we are as a Nation suffering.

So here is a few examples, not disclosing the names of the products… I can not handle that much heat nor threatening comments.

I sought out replacing my soda intake with something I considered a safe place to start out with,  WATER. Now after I walked down the endless aisle of the local super market, I found that I could read for several hours and still not know what was best. Some were this and that , what I mean by that, is some made claims, some had essentially all the vitamins you could think of. So no wonder people do not read the fine print… It is like all the marketing people of all the brands got together and said this is what we are going to tell the public… So my answer, being overwhelmed, and to think I use to drink it out of the well for Free, I updated  my purification filter on my refrigerator, Now I could not tell any difference,  Now i know some people are going to swear by  their brand of water, but read the fine print and you will find that some( water) are just over glorified filtered water. Now that should get some comments.

Now, I growing up on a farm, was surrounded by fruit trees and have always enjoyed fruit juices. While writing this article,I  found myself  strolling up and down the aisles again and Like you do I grab a couple of those ALL natural fruit juices. Now while I had never read the FINE Print before….Why not, and to my surprise, my all natural had several different fruit juices, concentrates, vegetable juices, and loaded with carbs, sodium, and other things I could not even pronounce. So now that they are in the refrigerator and I now know what is actually in them, I was really a little upset. I had purchased what I thought was something healthy, when it was furthest from the truth.

The lesson here  is to read the fine print… the ingredients.

The last example and this is a good one, proclaiming there is no sugar in  a particular drink!

They are absolutely correct, when one reds the ingredients  on the nutritional label, it does not say SUGAR anywhere.

This MISLEADING  position given  by these Companies, and Distributors are guiding your friends and relatives down  a unsure path. Perhaps your close friend is a diabetic, trusting and believing in you, but even if he didn’t, the drink says no Sugar. But going further read the label Carefully, you will find the ingredient called Crystalline Fructose.

This ingredient, High Fructose Corn Syrup,  has been allowed to crystallize,  then is crushed into a powder. 

Now, this is a ” SUGAR”,  and you will also note,  if you read on this label, there are 15 carb grams per drink.  So No matter how you  define the  word “SUGAR”, the carb content is what everyone should see !   Now compared to what most people are drinking, the product is still a lot better.  Is it “SUGAR FREE”? Absolutely NOT!

Now here it is, the conclusion, not to put down the  available drinks we choose to intake, for we are all responsible for that, but if you are seeking to maintain a healthier life,  perhaps reading the fine print,  using a dictionary, the Internet, and seeking the family doctor could now become the resources necessary to understand what the fine print actually means.

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