Factory Food and fizzy drinks
Convenient and thirst quenching drinks pose as healthy options when in fact they cause us to spike our blood sugar and are a major cause of obesity.
When you walk into a typical store selling convenience food and drinks, you will see a huge array of drinks. There are always the usual ones that you know them by name, some are even marketed to us as ‘healthy’ options.
Many contain high levels of sugar and are a major cause of obesity which may subsequently lead to diabetes.
Even drinks that claim to be low in sugar themselves contain high levels of fructose, which is a sugar that is metabolized in the liver and can have a similar outcome.
Even drinks that are ‘sugar free’ contain synthetic sweeteners that some studies show to affect the brain chemistry in a similar way to sugar, thus raising the bodies response as if to receive sugar, thus spiking the levels of blood sugar in the body.
If you like me are on a drive to cut out sugar, there is an alternative - carbonated water. But be careful to read the ingredients. In a last ditch attempt to make their drinks more ‘flavoursome’ and thus increase your likelihood to want to consume more, fruit sugars as ‘natural flavourings’ are often added, thus spiking your blood sugar.
But ‘club soda’ or other such named products are, if carefully sourced, good alternatives to the high sugar drinks that are so readily available.