Cooling Beverages for Hot Days

Cooling Beverages for Hot Days By Laura Dolson It's hot hot hot over much of North America right now!  We all know how important it is to drink more fluids in the heat.  Unfortunately, it's all too easy to reach for our old favorites: soda, sweet tea, sugary lemonade. We all know that the very best thing to drink is lots of water, but here are some other healthy sugar-free choices.  Homemade Sugar-Free Beverages  Getting bored with plain old water?  Here are some ways to change it up. Also, are you or your family still drinking sugar-sweetened drinks AKA "liquid candy"?  Here are some ways to help you cut down on sugary-drinks.  Also, there may be a lot more sugar in that iced tea, lemonade, or coffee drink than you think. READ NOW How to Make a Sugar-Free Sports Drink  I'm sure you've figured out by now how much sugar is commercial sports drinks. Is this necessary? What else is in sports drinks? I take sports drinks apart, look at the ingredients, and then put them back together in a sugar-free way.   READ NOW Sugar-Free Cocktails  Is part of your image of "summer" a cocktail by the pool or on the beach? Bring a thermos of a sugar-free version! Pina Coladas Mojitos Margaritas Strawberry Daiquiri Tropical Punch (Alcoholic) See also Alcoholic Beverages on a Low-Carb Diet and Beer on a Low-Carb Diet READ NOW Carbohydrate Makes Us Hungry  There are lots of good reasons to avoid drinking and eating sugar and other carbs, but to me, this is one of the main ones: it can cause weight gain by making us hungrier. READ NOW Advertisement READ THESE NEXT Why Homophobia Is Not a True Phobia — It's a Moral or Social Problem Understanding Asthma Understanding Lung Cancer Does Your Child Have Any Food Allergy Symptoms? Does Your Child Have Any Symptoms of a Brain Tumor? Why Wives Put up With A "Culture of Adultery" in Professional Sports How Much Do You Know About Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development? Test Your Perfectionist Tendencies AN ABOUT.COM BRAND You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the Low Carb Diets newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2016 Verywell.com - All rights reserved. Privacy Policy.