Blog: Wednesday, Jul 9

You are what you drink

It has come to my attention that people absolutely have to have something other then water to drink.  The irony is that humans were only designed to drink water.  That’s right I said it.  Not booze, coffee, milk, soda, or other sugary drinks, not even tea.  But, we as humans are very creative and smart, so things like tea, juice, coffee, and alcohol were invented.  Personally I think the first man to grind up a coffee bean and stick it in boiling water is a freaking genius!  This is almost as amazing as the man who discovered the creation of butter.

Like any other human, I enjoy things other then water, but please take note that water should make up of 80% of your daily liquids.  Wow, that’s a lot of water!  And you might ask “How Much Water should I drink?”  There are many different recommendations, but the man who taught me best had the greatest advice.

Drink half of your body weight in ounces!

What a genius plan!  This means that if you are 200 pounds you need to drink 100 pounds of water.

So let me take this moment to ask you the not so desired question: how much do you weight?

Now take that number and divide by two and stick the letters OZ to it.  This is how much you should drink.

Ok now that you have how much water you have to drink, lets talk a little about other drinks.  Yes there is some value to drinking things like tea or even cider for that matter, but remember what I said at the beginning of this blog.  Take note sugary drinks like juice (yes juice), vitamin water, Gatorade, soda, etc., are not the best drinks to drink.  Why do I say drink Cider? Because there is a definitive difference in vitamins and live enzymes in cider.  Juice means that the juice of the fruit was squeezed then boiled or pasteurized.  Cider, not to be confused with hard cider, is the technically “fresh squeezed” juice

What does this mean? It means that that the juices (even when organic) that are not fresh squeezed have no living enzymes and have less vitamins and minerals then fresh squeezed juice.  The whole point of the fruit is actually the fiber with the sugar, this slows the passage into your body.  When one drinks juice or even cider it jacks the blood sugar up quickly.  So, if you have juice you must eat fat, protein, or a lot of fiber (not advised for your large intestine’s sake) to slow it down.

Now what about coffee and tea? I was sitting in my gym waiting for my next client when I herd a news report “Coffee is now a forms of prevention of cancer.”  Ok this is a load of crap, come on! Who funded this study? Starbucks!  Look, I love coffee, but at least I’m man enough to admit that it is not good for me.  Tea is the same, but if you need a little boost in the day, or if you are just board of water, these are probably your safest options (herbal over caffeinated of course).

A little tip, if you are drinking these substances they do not count in your “water” intake.  In fact they need to be diluted.  Tea needs to be watered down at least 2-3x what you drank, and coffee needs to be watered down 3-4x what you drank.  Let me break it down. This means that when you have your 8 oz late you need to drink 32oz of water to make up for it.  So do yourself a favor, drink espresso (it has less caffeine then drip, and less toxins, especially if you are not drinking organic).

Since I like things easy for me I’m sure you like things easy for you.  So here is the breakdown of drinks from worst to best:

Alcohol and Coke are tied at the worst drinks to put in your body.

Other Sodas

Juice and Gatorade are tied this includes that Vitamin water Crap.

Coffee

Cider and FRESH vegetable juices

Tea

And the best of course is WATER

Now some people will argue veggie juice and coffee, so really that is a three way tie, jus because I like coffee.  But really veggie juice is better.

Here is a little bit on water by my favorite water dude Masaru Emoto

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZDOPQRdxJM