Take care of yourself

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Dude's an impressive physical specimen, I'll give you that Boom. But all those roids made him pretty freakin' cranky ...

 

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David Boston is 6'2, 240. Maybe he was trying to look like you.

 

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What's Dude got to do with this?

When's The Wild Rules on again?

 

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So, besides water, is there anything healthy (and tasty) to drink? I'm pledging to get off soda forever.

 

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unsweetened ice tea to me is the perfect drink.

 

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Crystal Light isn't bad

 

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Juice is good. But it should be made from real fruit, not the ocean spray or minute maid kinds that are mostly sugar water and food coloring. Fresh squeezed juice -- or the packaged approximations, like naked juice and odwalla -- are still high in sugar but can have a lot of good-for-you vitamins.

But hang in there with the water. You'd be surprised how good water starts to taste after a while, and everything else tastes like blech.

 

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I completely agree, although some iced teas--Starbucks-actually have more caffeine than coffee. Too much is dehydrating

Juice can be good nutritionally, but the high sugar content can also dehydrate you.

Water is boring but it's what our bodies need, all day.

 

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I prefer a good nector

 

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I noticed Juicy Juice is 100 percent fruit juice. I'm sure the sugar is a problem, but it's probably OK compared to the pseudo-juice drinks Janetlynn mentions, yes?

 

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No good. The concentration of sugar will blast your insulin sky-high,and you'll store all that unburned sugar as fat.

Best fruit juice comes from fruit, as in, fresh-squeezed orange juice, fresh fruit in the blender. You get actual vitamins that way, minus the high fructose junk.

 

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21's right.

When the label says 100% fruit juice, you have to ask yourself, what kind of fruit juice. Apple juice and white grape juice are used as the bases for lots of other fruit juices, but they're extremely high in sugar and low in nutritional value. There was just an article in the New York Times about how Snapple was awarded the contract for all the vending machines in the public schools on it's "we're so much better than soda" platform, but the nutritional analysis is that Snapple's 100% juice drinks have almost as much sugar as cola and only slightly more nutrients.

Go for juice made from real fruit. There are a couple of good store brands -- RW Knudsen's (I think that's what it is) is one -- if you aren't up for making your own, and don't have access to naked juices or odwalla. (those can be pricey, too.)