Seeing people drinking Vitamin Water or other drinks that resemble it, makes me crazy. I recognized a while back after reading some of the ingredients that this is not good for you.
The reaction I get from people is one of shock, as they didn’t even know there was sugars in it. If it was just sugar they would be better off! It’s just more chemicals! I was pleasantly surprised and reminded of all the harmful crap in them after reading some things on mercola.com site. I thought I would share some of it with you. Just remember that if it seems to good to be true… It is!
www.mercola.com~
Oh yes, here we have it again.
Big surprise, the number one source of calories in the US and the primary cause of the obesity epidemic is being used to sell this product.
“Vitaminwater is Coke’s attempt to dress up soda in a physician’s white coat. Underneath, it’s still sugar water, albeit sugar water that costs about ten bucks a gallon,” said litigation director Steve Gardner of the Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI).
Actually I disagree with the “sugar water” part as pure cane sugar water is an order of magnitude healthier than free-floating fructose. When you drink Vitaminwater, what you really get is 33 grams — more than six teaspoons — of sugar, including crystalline fructose.
I recently began warning about this new variety of fructose, which may be even worse for your health than high fructose corn syrup (HFCS). I recently exposed agave as being worse than HFCS but crystalline fructose is much worse than agave.
While many people mistakenly believe that fructose is an acceptable form of sweetener, it is far from healthy. Refined man-made fructose metabolizes to triglycerides and adipose tissue, not blood glucose. One major downside of this is that fructose does not stimulate your insulin secretion, nor enhance leptin production.
Together, insulin and leptin act as key signals in regulating how much food you eat, and several studies have linked dietary fructose to increased food intake and weight gain.
Additionally, fructose is also known to significantly raise your triglycerides, which puts you at an increased risk of heart disease.
Based on the latest research, crystalline fructose is definitely something you’ll want to avoid as much as possible. Whereas regular HFCS contains 55 percent fructose and 45 percent glucose, crystalline fructose is at minimum 99 percent fructose, which could only mean that all the health problems associated with fructose may be even more pronounced with this product.
If anyone tries to tell you “sugar is sugar,” they are way behind the times. There are major differences in how your body processes each one.
The bottom line is: fructose leads to increased belly fat, insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome — not to mention the long list of chronic diseases that directly result. As a standard recommendation, I strongly advise keeping your TOTAL fructose consumption below 25 grams per day–and this leaves no room for Vitaminwater in your diet. And if that’s not bad enough, crystalline fructose may also contain arsenic, lead, chloride and heavy metals.
