Carbonated drinks are full of empty calories and harmful, processed sweeteners which build up your system and cause bloating and weight gain.
We should do every day some sport (yoga, walking), eat healthy (lots of fruit, low in calories), avoid harmful substances (alcohol, smoking, drugs, meat), think positively (overcome negative thoughts) and relax (enough sleep, pauses, silence, meditation).
Consuming too many calories is as harmful as having too few.
If you are health conscious and concerned about the calories and potentially harmful effects of sugar, you can add stevia to fresh squeezed juices and smoothies.
But Dr. Ozner warns against fruit drinks and sodas, which simply supply sweet liquid calories that could be harmful to health.
"Milk chocolate and white chocolate do not offer any known health benefits, and provide more calories, sugar and potentially harmful oils than dark chocolate," Katz said, but "dark chocolate may well prove to be health food".
With the global trend of increasing overweight and obesity among children [ 22], these empty calories may be potentially harmful.
If only the brain "knew" that those additional calories following dieting are usually harmful.
Last week, the paediatric endocrinologist and world renowned sugar expert, Dr. Robert H. Lustig at the University of California, San Francisco, published a new study suggesting that calories from sugar are more harmful than other calories.
On this particular August day, though, there is nothing more harmful than 115-degree heat and high-calorie food: beef and lamb kebabs, biryani, fried kibbeh.
