{"id":270734,"date":"2010-02-03T03:05:00","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T08:05:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thatsfit.ca\/2010\/02\/03\/how-healthy-are-health-drinks-five-questions-to-ask-yourself\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T03:05:00","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T08:05:00","slug":"how-healthy-are-health-drinks-five-questions-to-ask-yourself","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/270734","title":{"rendered":"How Healthy Are ‘Health’ Drinks? Five Questions to Ask Yourself"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHi Doug,
\nMy name is Darren and I recently kicked the craving for pop. I was wondering if drinks such as Aqua-T energy drink (it contains whey protein) and other ‘health’ drinks are actually good for you? <\/strong><\/p>\n

\nHi Darren,
\nCongrats on kicking the pop habit! I’m not sure about the specific beverage you’re talking about, but I can tell you a few general things about claimed “healthy” beverages and how you can best decide whether they’re good for you. Here are five questions to ask yourself.<\/p>\n

1. Is it from a whole food?<\/span> Don’t be fooled by the added vitamins, minerals and antioxidant boasts — look for whole foods and juices. It’s questionable whether something like vitamin water<\/a>, which is essentially just individual vitamins diluted in sugar water, promote health at all. Even if there are health-promoting ingredients in your beverage, you’re better off getting them from whole foods, where all co-factors and catalysts are present, instead of in fractionated forms as an ingredient in a processed food.<\/p>\n

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Filed under: Health, Healthy Eating, Don’t Eat This Hi Doug, My name is Darren and I recently kicked the craving for pop. I was wondering if drinks such as Aqua-T energy drink (it contains whey protein) and other ‘health’ drinks are actually good for you? Hi Darren, Congrats on kicking the pop habit! I’m not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":655,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270734","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270734","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/655"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=270734"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270734\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270734"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270734"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270734"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}