{"id":3784,"date":"2008-01-11T11:13:39","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T15:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/archives\/2008\/01\/11\/3784"},"modified":"2008-01-11T11:13:39","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T15:13:39","slug":"drink-this-not-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2008\/01\/drink-this-not-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Hidden Drink Tax"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p><strong>No matter how you pour it, we&#8217;re slurping up way too many calories these days.<\/strong> A study from the University of North Carolina found that we are now consuming 450 calories a day from beverages, nearly twice as many as we were taking in 30 years ago. All told, this increase amounts to an extra <strong>23lb per year<\/strong> that we&#8217;re forced to work off or carry around with us.<\/p>\n<p>And it&#8217;s not just soda that&#8217;s stretching our waistline \u00e2\u20ac\u201d it&#8217;s now coffee drinks, cocktails, beers, even smoothies that are doing much of the damage.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>The good news is that they are the easiest calories to cut from our diet, as long as we know where they&#8217;re coming from.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/21134540\/vp\/22606788#22606788\" class=\"video_link\" rel=\"external\">Drink This, Not That<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/pics\/weblog\/cocktail.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Organic Rasberry Collins\" class=\"pic_100px\"\/>This short video snippet on the Today show this morning yielded information that really surprised me. Prepared by the Mens Health Magazine editor and author of &#8220;Eat This, Not That&#8221;, it includes great tips on switching drinks and opting for smarter, lower caloric options. I was shocked by the findings on beer and cocktails. This kind of information is gold to the determined new years resolutioner!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter how you pour it, we&#8217;re slurping up way too many calories these days. A study from the University of North Carolina found that we are now consuming 450 calories a day from beverages, nearly twice as many as we were taking in 30 years ago. All told, this increase amounts to an extra [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212,213],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3784","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog","category-food-for-thought"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3784"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3784\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3784"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3784"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3784"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}