Boot Camp Nutrition

[suzanne sanders]

Today I was getting ready to workout and I noticed some bottles in the school. They had been reused for water which is great . So first let me tell you something about me. I have been teaching nutrition for a long time and because of this I am a big label reader. Yes, if something is left here I pick it up and read the ingredients and then say how could people eat or drink this stuff! So it is great the bottles were reused but why would anyone put this junk in their body? I am going to be hard core about this. We have a true epidemic called obesity and diabetes. People who drink this stuff or eat bad food have health problems, flat out. You have to Not eat or drink bad food in order to be healthy. You have to read labels, you have to stay away from sugars and high fructose corn syrup, you have to work out. Flat out. "In Discipline Lies Freedom".

So on with the subject of these drinks I found, Sobe and Minute Maid. Why on earth would you even put that in your body? Having a habit of drinking sugar water is terrible. Habit meaning you do this more than once a month. The Minute Made ingredients started with water then the SECOND INGREDIENT WAS HIGH FRUCTOSE CORN SYRUP AHH! I love how this company, (by the way it is made by coca cola), advertises it as being full of antioxidants. After your drink this bottle which is 7 servings you have just depleted your body of nutrients because sugar kills things in your body and if you don't work out at least 5 days a week for an hour plus you have just added fat cells.

The second drink I found was Sobe they are trickier about their stuff. I love how they say naturally sweetened with sugar. Yes, sugar can be natural but this is not organic sugar which means they used bleach to make this sugar. The second ingredient was, you guessed it, sugar but, this bottle only has 2.5 servings. Here is the tricky part. They advertise it as being good for you because it has Taurine and Guarana. A lot of people will say Taurine is a naturally occurring amino acid, which it is coming from red meat and real food. Or it use to come from Ox testicles and female cow urine. The Taurine in the Sobe is SYNTHETIC that is not a naturally occurring amino acid. The next one is Guarana which is like a natural speed. First of all I would never ever drink this. Second if you have heart problems, high blood pressure, anxiety, palpitations and insomnia this will do a great job of increasing all of that. So here is the rest, Taurine should not be combined with caffeine, this drink does not have caffeine added but, Guarana is the caffeine in this one. So you are combining Taurine with Guarana with sugar water bad bad combination. So what if there is 100 % vitamin C you just canceled it out and killed more cells, tortured your heart and created more fat cells.

If you make habits of drinking these types of drinks you will have health problems, FLAT OUT

Until next time have a great day and just drink water.

[Cathe Frederic]

I didn't know the Taurine in SoBe was synthetic! I get my Taurine from Dr Radzik in McMinnville. How would we find out if an Amino Acid is synthetic or not? I've not seen any mention of it on labels.