Most of us know that refined white sugar is NOT healthful. We wouldn’t think of eating 10 cubes of sugar each day, yet many of us would think nothing of drinking a can of Coca-Cola™ a day.
We all keep reading about the ludicrous amounts of sugar content in our daily drinks. Some drink labels print it, some keep it hidden under the pseudonym of HFCS (High Fructose Corn Syrup) or the newly coined CORN SUGAR, whichever ways, and it slowly makes its way in our body. The amount seems not so comprehensible, when you read a 12 oz. (355 ml) can contains 39 grams of sugar, but would it make more sense to you when it is placed in sugar cubes? We found Sugar Stacks, a wonderful resource that puts up the amount of sugar in a beverage in the form of corresponding sugar cubes. Interesting, isn’t it? Let’s see, just how much sugar cubes your daily Coca Cola has?
- One 12 Oz can of Coca-Cola has 39g of sugar (or approximately 10 cubes)
- One 20 oz. bottle has 65 grams (16.5 cubes)
- A 1 liter bottle has 108 grams (approximately 27.5 cubes)
- A big gulp (32 oz.) Coca-Cola from 7-Eleven™ has 91 grams (22.75 cubes)
- A Super Big Gulp (44 oz.) has 128 grams (32 cubes)
- Mountain Dew™ has 15% more sugar than coke; a 20 oz. bottle has 77g or (19.5 cubes)
- A typical 8 oz. energy drink has between 27 -31 grams of sugar or (6.75 – 7.75 cubes)
Based on one (1) can of Coca-Cola per day, a person would consume the equivalent of 221,314 cubes of sugar over the average adult lifetime of 60.634 years. That’s nearly a quarter million cubes of sugar!
We know that in addition to causing cavities, too much sugar has many deleterious effects on our bodies. These bad things range from excessive weight gain, to general ill health, to potentially fatal diabetes or other diseases. Sodas are highly acidic. You have seen or heard how soda will remove the corrosion from battery terminals in your car…Think what it does to your body!
The solution is to drink little or NO soda and drink lots of water. But, not all water is created equal!! Green Health Technologies and many medical and nutritional health professionals strongly recommend drinking ionized, alkaline water. In addition to being sugar free, it is highly antioxidant and micro-clustered. Antioxidants remove free radicals from our bodies, which cause premature aging and cell damage. Ionized, alkaline water, being micro-clustered, is more easily absorbed by our cells. This means we hydrate at the cellular level. Dehydration is a big problem; estimates are that up to 70% of Americans are suffering from chronic dehydration. This leads to many health problems.
So just how much water should you be drinking? Experts say that a person should drink one half of their body weight in ounces of water per day. For example, a person weighing 150 lbs. should drink a minimum of 75 ounces of water each day. That is really not that much! Physicians have long said that you should drink an eight ounce glass of water first thing in the morning, before eating anything. By spreading your water intake throughout the day, it is really a very easy thing to do.
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