Health Drinks Are Not Always Healthy For An Alkaline Foods Diet

If your health drinks of choice are those artificially colored vitamin waters and sport drinks, you will want to read this and pass it on, especially to anyone concerned about including more alkaline foods in their diet. Look at the ingredients in most commercially advertised sports drinks and vitamin waters, and you cannot help but see they are far from being healthy drinks.

Next time you are searching for health drinks or alkaline foods, here are things to steer clear of:

* Phosphoric Acid is just what it says it is - acid. This is a definition of phosphoric acid: "A clear colorless liquid used in fertilizers, detergents, pharmaceuticals and food flavoring, irritating to the skin and eyes and moderately toxic if ingested." When a properly balanced diet is supposed to be 80% alkaline foods and only 20% acid foods for proper pH balance, this really puts you upside down quickly.

* High Fructose Corn Syrup - This is concentrated sugar that contributes weight gain and abnormal blood sugar levels, which may develop into diabetes. Excess sugars are something to shun in health drinks, and processed sugar is not found in any alkaline foods.

* Artificial Flavors are also known as excito-toxins. When artificial flavorings are in health drinks, they are more akin to soft drinks and candy. These artificial substances are acid forming, which has an effect on pH balance and compel the body to use alkaline substances such as calcium from teeth and bones in order to neutralize the acid from the toxins in your blood.

* Artificial Sweeteners are just not needed in health drinks today. Due to the acidic nature of artificial sweeteners, doctors point to research about their inurious effects on the human body. Many consumers now realize that artificial sweeteners may play a role in disorders of the brain, such as Alzheimer's.

* Isolated Vitamins - When vitamins are isolated, liquefied, bottled and stored, the nutrients break down before the body can use them. The human body needs vitamins and minerals from whole foods, not from so called health drinks that are really bottled, heated, highly processed waters with colorful dyes, and artificially created, synthetic vitamins and minerals.

When searching for truly beneficial health drinks, here are a few important things to ask yourself.

* Is it pasteurized or otherwise heated in the bottling process? If so then any enzymes have been destroyed, thus making it harder for the body to use the nutrients for fuel.
* Does it provide chlorophyll from plants to allow the cells more efficient oxygen absorption?
* Does it give you natural antioxidants to eliminate free radicals? Natural antioxidants are essential for anti-aging.
* Is it made with real whole food ingredients like fruits and herbs or other nutrient rich alkaline foods?

Now, take a look at alternative health drinks that are not overly hyped chemical concoctions with sexy ads or filled with colorful dyes: Here is what you will likely find in these truly healthy drinks:

* In powder form, not liquid
* Packaged at temperatures low enough to maintain enzyme integrity
* Contain live enzymes from whole alkaline foods and chlorophyll from plants
* Complex whole food nutrients, including live enzymes, are left fully intact
* Contain natural antioxidants that inhibit free radicals, which cause aging

Do your health drinks do that? Not if you picked them up at a supermarket or a convenience store.