Tip of the WeeK: What is in your drink?

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Have you ever thought what is in your soft drink before consuming it? I am going to tell you few things that are in it. Re-think about your beverages.

Ingredients: 

Sugar: 12 ounce serving of soda contains about 9 teaspoons of sugar. This can lead to weight gain. Drinking soft drinks can lead to type two diabetes, metabolic syndrome as well as hypertension, excess belly fat, and insulin resistance. Side note: an average male American 9 teapsoons of sugar a day is his total recommendation for that day. Female: its 6 teapsoons of sugar a day.

In diet soft drinks: Aspartame is an artificial sweetener found in diet sodas this is linked to an increased hunger. 

Caramel Coloring: It contains 2-methylimidazole and 4 

methylimidazole. which are two chemicals that may cause cause lung, liver and thyroid cancer in mice or rats.

Sodium: Sodas have linked to increase risk of stroke because scientist believe there is too much sodium content.

Phosphoric Acid and Caffeine: These two can cause osteoporosis. 

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Research: Tea’s health benefits boost its popularity

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“We don’t clearly understand why tea is so beneficial, but we know it is,” said Thomas G. Sherman, an associate professor in the Department of Pharmacology and Physiology at Georgetown University Medical Center. “There are lots of epidemiological studies, and so of course people see these studies and want to drink tea and gain these benefits.”

Nationally, tea purchases have risen for 20 consecutive years, annual supermarket sales have surpassed $2.2 billion, and away-from-home consumption of tea has grown by at least 10 percent a year for a decade, according to the Tea Association of the USA, a New York-based industry group. On any given day, the association says, 160 million Americans drink tea.

Although coffee is still king in the United States, change is brewing. Department of Agriculture statistics show tea drinking has increased as coffee drinking has declined: Per-person tea consumption was nine gallons in 2009, up from 7.3 gallons in 1980; per-person coffee consumption was 23.3 gallons in 2009, down from 26.7 gallons in 1980 

Tea comes from the leaves of the warm-weather evergreen Camellia sinensis, and it is classified into five types: black, white, green, oolong and puerh.

Experts say all are healthful. Many scientists link health benefits to tea’s polyphenol antioxidants, which protect against oxidative stress, but others say they don’t know exactly which chemicals or combinations of chemicals  ... Read More

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