Oasis Zero Summer Fruits - 12x500ml

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Freak shakes can come in at over 1,000 calories – more than half of what you need for an entire day Adding a 5g teaspoon of sugar to 5 cups of tea or coffee adds the same as 20 rich tea biscuits or three Mars bars And even sugar-free fizzy drinks are still acidic (because of the carbonation) which can damage your teeth. Energy drinks come with a price premium due to their added ingredients such as taurine and guarana, as well as caffeine.

Bear in mind that adding milkand cream will add fat and calories. If you like your drink with milk, use low-fat milk – semi-skimmed, 1% or skimmed.While the marketing suggests that these drinks will give you more energy, there aren’t any approved claims that consuming food and drinks supplemented with these ingredients can help to reduce fatigue, enhance endurance, help with energy metabolism or act as an antioxidant. In reality, the energy in energy drinks mainly comes from sugar. Quinine has been found to interact with some medications has been linked with irregular heart rhythms

Eoghan Quigg shares his career experiences with young people in Belfast at Coca‑Cola HBC’s #YouthEmpowered skills day event There may be health benefits to drinking tea and coffee, but if you take your tea or coffee with sugar, honey or syrups it can add up. Adding a 5g teaspoon of sugar to 5 cups of tea or coffee over the day adds 100 calories or 700kcals over the week – the same amount of energy as 20 rich tea biscuits or three Mars bars. It’s less than in a sugar-sweetened soft drink, but if you cut out the sugar in your tea and coffee, it could help you to lose around 10lb over a year. A regular ice cream milkshake can have twice the calories of a similar sized full-sugar cola, but if you go for extras such as chocolate or biscuits blended in, the calories go even higher. Hydrating, inexpensive and sugar-free: water is the best choice for drinking over the day. If you want to give it some flavour without adding sugar, try adding ice cubes and fresh mint or strips of cucumber.Fruit-flavoured fizzy drinks like lemonade and fizzy orange are slightly better choices than cola, but not ideal as your regular drink. The combination of sugar and acid can damage your teeth, and over time, excess calories from a high-sugar diet can lead to weight gain. A McDonald’s spokesperson told The Sun: “As part of our ongoing commitment to offer our customers more balanced choices, we started transitioning from Fanta Orange and Oasis Summer Fruits to Fanta Orange Zero and Oasis Zero Summer Fruits across all restaurants in the UK and Ireland from September. Restaurants will clearly display signage when the changes are taking place, and we will continue to provide options such as Coca-Cola Classic and Irn-Bru ( Scotland only).” Tonic water gets its bitter flavour from quinine. This has been found to interact with some medications, including digoxinand warfarin, and has also been linked with irregular heart rhythmswhen prescribed as a medication. Although there’s not much to choose between this category and the last category, ice-cream milkshakes come out as worst in our list thanks to the combination of sugar and fat. A can of regular cola contains seven teaspoons of sugar (35g), so if you drink this regularly, it’s bad news for your waistline and your teeth. Choose a sugar-free cola instead, or even better, switch to water or unsweetened tea or coffee.

McDonald's is switching to sugar-free versions of Fanta and Oasis across all its 1,300 UK restaurants.

8. Fizzy lemonade, fizzy orange and ginger beer (standard versions made with sugar)

While these drinks are unlikely to ever be a healthy option, you can ask for changes to cut down on the calories, saturated fat and sugar. Ask for drinks to be made with low-fat milk and sugar-free syrups and avoid marshmallows on top. Keep whipped cream on top for an occasional treat and ask for a small amount rather than the regular serving. Some people are more sensitive to caffeine than others and find that it can be associated with palpitations.If this is you, it’s worth limiting the amount you drink, or you could try a decaffeinated version or a caffeine-free alternative like herbal teas (without added sugar or honey). Children and young people are also likely to be more sensitive to the effects of caffeine too. Pregnant women are advised to limit the amount of caffeine they have to 200 milligrams (mg) a day. This is about the same as two mugs of instant coffee. Don’t be deceived by claims such as “high juice”– these can still contain a lot of sugar. No-added sugar versions would be a better choice - and they should also cost you less than sugar-sweetened versions now the levy on sugar sweetened drinks has been introduced. No one will be able to see who is signed up and no one can send messages except the ChronicleLive team. Diluting a small amount of squash with water can make it seem quite harmless, but in actual fact a squash or cordial made with sugar comes with around 3 teaspoons of sugar per glass.

If you’re at home, make a heart-healthy hot chocolate by mixing unsweetened cocoa powder with hot low-fat milk, and low-calorie sweetener if needed. Although some people think that the caffeine in tea and coffee might damage their health, this isn’t the case for most people. In fact, drinking moderate amounts (4-5 cups a day) of tea or coffee has been linked to benefits for reducing risk of CVDand type 2 diabetes.

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