[url]http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-robbins/the-dark-side-of-vitaminw_b_669716.html[/url]
[QUOTE]In fact, the product is basically sugar-water, to which about a penny's worth of synthetic vitamins have been added. And the amount of sugar is not trivial. A bottle of vitaminwater contains 33 grams of sugar, making it more akin to a soft drink than to a healthy beverage.
Is any harm being done by this marketing ploy? After all, some might say consumers are at least getting some vitamins, and there isn't as much sugar in vitaminwater as there is in regular Coke.
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[QUOTE]How many people with weight problems have consumed products like vitaminwater in the mistaken belief that the product was nutritionally positive and carried no caloric consequences? How many have thought that consuming vitaminwater was a smart choice from a weight-loss perspective? The very name "vitaminwater" suggests that the product is simply water with added nutrients, disguising the fact that it's actually full of added sugar.[/QUOTE]
Shocker.
Inconceivable.
Now if you will excuse me, I am off to smoke some cigars with my asbestos ashtray.
i thought this was well known.
Is this really the darkside, Or just what is obvious?
You mean like the vitamin drinks in the box, or the kind with the tiny fizzy hockeypuck?
Because the one in the box isn't so shocking if you bother reading on the back.
Apparently these reporters have never heard of vitamin water zero. It's the sugar-free version of the drink and it tastes just as good, if not better.
And apparently the consumers don't know how to read a fucking nutritional label.
It's still awesome. Who cares.
-snip-
Come to the dark side, we're as obvious as the sun at noon in a clear sky.
Do people ever bother to read the ingredients listed on the label anymore?
Or the nutrition facts for that matter.
Bottled water as a concept is a fucking joke. ~6 times the amount of water in the bottle, is used in the act of making the bottle and getting it to you.
That stuff tastes terrible anyway. Leaves a very bizarre feeling/taste in my mouth afterward.
By 'the dark side of vitamin water' I was hoping for some underground tyrannical regime enslaving loads of 3rd world kiddies and midgets and forcing them to filter the water through their removed kidneys or some shit :(
Natural soda using cane sugar is the way to go anyway.
I find it funny that the HuffPo is the one reporting on scam health issues, seeing as they report on fraudulent treatments and products so credulously on a routine basis.
It's called read the fucking labels, people really should learn how to read and fully understand the labels. When I work out I drink regular water, no sense in drinking any flavored waters or "vitamin" water because most of it has calories and the whole point of working out is to burn calories.
If you need vitamins get them from natural sources like fresh fruit and veggies or take some god damn suppliants. Don't buy in to this nonsense super duper vitamin water.
Can't you taste how sweet they are? You have to practically dilute them. Either way, read the fucking labels.
Good thing I don't drink that stuff.
God damn, I don't even want to know what is in this Gaderade I'm drinking so I can continue drinking it without worrying about whats in it regardless of already knowing what's already in it.
I don't think I ever want to drink any vitamin water ever again.
Regular water is better anyway
It's not even sweet that's what I don't get.
Lifewater is better.
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[B][I]IT'S MADE OUT OF PEO[/I][/B]- oh, wait, it's just unhealthy? Nevermind, nothing to see here. Back to work everyone.
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[QUOTE=elitehakor;23860107]Regular water is better anyway[/QUOTE]
Could not agree more. It's cheaper, much healthier, and it's readily available too.
HAHAH I knew it all along.
Shit tastes too good to be healthy.
Vitamin water is kind of nasty anyways. I don't know how this could be healthier for you than normal water, as some people might think.
I knew this and I always joke with my friends about how I'm "being healthy" when I drink it.
it still tastes yummers
Vitamin water is marketed as a health food but on the front it has 40% of your daily sugars.
Vitamin Water is manufactured from Orphan Blood
boooooo!
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