{"id":26637,"date":"2010-07-27T16:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-07-27T21:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/?p=26637"},"modified":"2010-07-27T16:00:01","modified_gmt":"2010-07-27T21:00:01","slug":"six-things-you-need-to-know-before-you-take-a-sip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/six-things-you-need-to-know-before-you-take-a-sip\/","title":{"rendered":"Six Things You Need to Know Before You Take a Sip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/beverage-industry-secrets.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-26641\" title=\"beverage-industry-secrets\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/beverage-industry-secrets.jpg\" alt=\"Six ways your drink might be unhealthy\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/a>Drinking can be dangerous to your health, and we don&#8217;t mean <a title=\"Calories in Alcohol\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/slideshows\/calories-in-alcohol\/white-wine\/\" target=\"_self\">alcoholic beverages<\/a> either. Up to 21 percent of calories consumed by Americans are in liquid form, amounting to 400 calories every day. That&#8217;s about 40 pounds per year and twice as many fluid calories than were consumed 30 years ago. These drinks may be tasty and good for the food industry&#8217;s profit, but  they aren&#8217;t good for weight loss or your health in general. Here are six secrets that the beverage industry doesn&#8217;t want consumers to know from <a title=\"6 Beverage Industry Secrets They Don't Want You to Know\" href=\"http:\/\/health.yahoo.net\/experts\/eatthis\/6-beverage-industry-secrets-they-dont-want-you-know-0\" target=\"_blank\">David Zinczenko<\/a>, the author of <a href=\"a href=&quot;http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&amp;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2Fs%3Fie%3DUTF8%26ref_%3Dpd%5Flpo%5Fk2%5Fdp%5Fsr%5Fsq%5Ftop%26keywords%3Deat%2520this%2520not%2520that%26index%3Dblended&amp;tag=wwweasyfreesc-20&amp;linkCode=ur2&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&quot;target=&quot;_blank&quot;\"><em>Eat This, Not That<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Four hundred calories seems tame to some of the killer beverages popping up at places like Starbucks, McDonald&#8217;s and Baskin-Robbins. Calories aren&#8217;t the only problem. Chemicals, hormones, scams and packaging dangers all abound. Before you order your next latte, take a look at this insider info.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/slideshows\/six-things-you-need-to-know-before-you-take-a-sip\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/media\/slideshow_images\/six-things-you-need-to-know-before-you-take-a-sip\/drinking-Slideshow-player.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"View Six Things You Need to Know Before You Take a Sip Slideshow\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p><strong>Also Read:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Unhealthy Drinks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/06\/americas-unhealthiest-drink\/\" target=\"_self\">America&#8217;s Unhealthiest Drink<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Alcohlic Drinks\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/04\/alcoholic-drinks-pack-on-the-pounds\/\" target=\"_self\">Alcoholic Drinks Pack on the Pounds<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Drink This Not That\" href=\"https:\/\/www.dietsinreview.com\/diets\/drink-this-not-that\/\" target=\"_self\">Drink This, Not That<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before you order your next latte, take a look at these secrets that the beverage industry doesn&#8217;t want consumers to know. <a href=\"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/07\/six-things-you-need-to-know-before-you-take-a-sip\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3695],"tags":[29],"class_list":["post-26637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diet-and-nutrition","tag-nutrition"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26637","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26637"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26657,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26637\/revisions\/26657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dietsinreview.com\/diet_column\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}