When you go to grocery stores and supermarkets you will find a lot of "vitamin enriched beverages" such as Diet Coke Plus, vitamin waters, et cetera. But are they really beneficial for our health?
Over the years, carbonated beverages has been linked as one of the causes for the rapidly increasing levels of obesity in children. Nowadays, you will find a lot of beverages claming to be beneficial to our bodies or an "enhanced version" of the carbonated beverages.
According to Body Ecology Diet, "Adding vitamins and minerals to an unhealthy product like Diet Coke is a marketing tool and a ruse designed to make you and your children think that what you’re drinking is good for you, when it’s not at all."
Meanwhile, Vitamin Waters poses threat as well to our bodies. "Distilled, deionized, and/or reverse osmosis water: this is water that has had any and all natural minerals removed from it, and can create a highly acidic condition in your body, leading to severe mineral deficiencies, and even heartbeat irregularities2. The addition of minerals and vitamins of inferior quality does not counter-effect the damage."
These drinks may be more appealing to the public because of the advertising or the taste of the products. However, lets not sacrifice our health over those. Nothing beats drinking or eating naturaly foods and juices. Next time you do your groceries, head our to the fruits and vegetable section first, that's where you'll find foods that will absolutely keep your bodies healthy.
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