The Worst Drinks in America

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Losing weight is difficult and requires much motivation and discipline.  A study from University of North Carolina found that we consume 25% of our calories from beverages.  Simply eliminating high caloric beverages from your diet will dramatically reduce caloric intake.

To help us decide the worst beverages, columnist David Zinczenko compiled a list of the 20 worst drinks in America and broke the list into categories.

20.             Light Beer                                 Sam Adams Light                                               9.7 g sugar

19.             Functional Beverage            Snapple Antioxidant Water  (20 oz)           32.5 g sugar

18.             Lemonade                                 Minute Maid Lemonade (20 oz)                    67 g sugar

17.             Energy Drink                            Rockstar Original (16 oz)                                 62 g sugar

16.             Bottled Coffee                           Starbucks Coffee Frappuccino (13.7 oz)   46 g sugar

15.             Bottle Tea                                   Arizona RX Energy Herbal Tonic (20 oz)   73 g sugar

14.             Beer                                              Sierra Nevada Big Food Ale (12 oz)               32 g carbs

13.             Bottled Beverage                     Sobe Liz Bliz (20 oz)                                             77 g sugar

12.             Soda                                             Sunkist (20 oz)                                                         84 g sugar

11.             Juice Imposter                        Arizona Kiwi Strawberry (23.5 oz)                   84 g sugar

10.             Bottled Smoothie                  Naked Protein Zone Banana Chocolate            70 g sugar

9.               Reduced Cal Smoothie        Dunkin Donuts Reduced Calorie

Berry Smoothie (32 oz)                    83 g sugar

8.               Slush                                          Sonic Route Large Lemon-Berry Cream            99 g sugar

7.               Holiday Coffee                      Starbucks Venti 2% Peppermint

White Chocolate Mocha (20oz)       95 g sugar

6.               Hot Chocolate                       Starbucks Venti 2% Saalted Carmel

Signature Hot Chocolate (20 oz)     85 g sugar

5.               Cocktail                                     Red Lobster Traditional Lobsteita                        183 g sugar

4.               Float                                           Barkin-Robbins Large Ice Cream Soda                136 g sugar

3.               Ide-Blended Coffee              Cosi Gigante Douch Otli Arctic (23 oz)                 259 g carb

2.               Smoothie                                 Smoothie Kins’s The Hulk, Strawberry (40 oz)   240 g sugar

1.               Worst Drink                            Cold Stone Creamery PB@C Shake                           153 g sugar

I quickly noticed that all of the beverages are actually junk food containing huge quantities of sugar.

If you are not ready to start our Ideal Protein Weight Loss Program that emphasizes a low sugar diet than cutting high sugar drinks is a wonderful place to start.