Beverages With Benefits: Do They Really Work?

Grocery aisles are turning into beauty shelves with a crop of chic new drinks with too-good-to-be true wellness claims.

 Five Women Led Companies Breaking Barriers In Food And Beverage Industry

From creating sugar-free flavored drinks to providing healthy lunch to school kids, these women-led companies are leading the way in meeting the rising demand for healthy food and drinks; they raise the hopes for a healthier future not only for our country but the world.

 How Big Beverage poured empty promises down our throats

The American beverage aisle is overflowing, with no sign of letting up.

 How Big Beverage poured empty promises down our throats

In the same way capitalism has convinced so many of us in our professional and personal lives, there is no such thing as rest or leisure — purpose can only be found through work and function. At this cultural moment, drinking for drinking’s sake is considered a waste of time — people want their beverages to do something. As a result, we’ve created an entire category of “functional” beverages that claim to have the ability to make us better in every single way, from our brains to our beauty. Beverages must play an active role in our lives, and assist us in achieving self-determined goals.

Fool Me Twice

Multinational food, soda and alcohol giants are employing the same tactics that made tobacco a pariah in the global public health conversation nearly two decades ago.

Health in a Bottle?

In the past decade there has been an explosion of 'health' drinks as opposed to 'energy' drinks. But, is it possible to find health in a bottle?

Are Food And Beverage Companies Re-Running The Big Tobacco Playbook?

The concern raised by Fool Me Twice is that the global food system has been increasingly filled with more processed foods and beverages that include artificial ingredients, added sugar, added salt, saturated fats, and other components that perturb metabolism and contribute to weight gain and NCDs.

Despite Industry Efforts, Americans Keep Drinking in the Sugar

Less soda and juice, but more calories from sports drinks, energy drinks and sweetened teas and coffees.

Does Drinking Soda Really Age Your Cells?

How the science of telomeres turned into a spurious health trend.

Ease Up on the Water During That Marathon

Research finds endurance athletes often need to drink less than they do—sometimes much less.

Healthy Beverages – Choose This, Not That

In this blog post, we will go over ways you can replace that sugary soda and more with healthy beverages that are even more satisfying.

Misunderstanding Orange Juice as a Health Drink

Juice is, nutritionally, not much better than soda. How did U.S. consumers come to believe that oranges, in any form, were an important part of a healthy diet?

No fizzy drinks, no juice: Here's what to drink to be healthy

e all know that fizzy drinks are bad for our health, but the latest research proves just how terrible they are.

Scientists Say Fizzy Water Could Make You Eat More

Researchers at Birzeit University in the Palestinian West Bank found that drinking carbonated drinks increased food consumption by 20 percent, compared to drinking flat beverages.

Soda Loses Its U.S. Crown: Americans Now Drink More Bottled Water

Americans now officially drink more bottled water than soda. It’s a shift that decades ago might have seemed unthinkable—that consumers would buy a packaged version of something they could get free from a tap. But bottled-water sales have been growing in the U.S. ever since the arrival of Perrier in the 1970s. The gains accelerated in recent years amid concerns about the health effects of sugary drinks and the safety of public-water supplies.

Sugary Drinks Tied to Accelerated Brain Aging

“Although we can’t prove cause and effect, these data suggest that we should be cautious about drinking sugary beverages,” said the lead author, Matthew P. Pase, a senior research fellow at Boston University. “They’re empty calories that contribute to weight gain and metabolic disease.”

The 10 Healthiest Beverages (Other Than Water)

There are only so many times you can say, “Just water for me, thanks,” when the waiter takes your beverage order before you start to get bored. Water is a healthy and safe bet, sure. In fact, it can’t be beat. So what do you do when you want more options but don’t want to stray from the healthy side of things?

The 5 Best Health Drinks On The Market -- How Many Have You Tried?

There's no question: Health drinks are trendy. It's why your local drugstore has more brands of coconut water than it does dish soap. And while this surge in wellness drinks is an undoubtedly good thing, it can be tough to know which actually deliver the many promises on their bottles and which are all... liquid.

The Truth Behind The Coconut Water Craze

While coconut water is low in calories, rich in potassium, and fat and cholesterol free, the evidence that it is actually better than plain water for simple hydration is unfortunately lacking.

These Drinks Have a Secret

For those who don’t drink, who aren’t drinking right now or who maybe drank too much the night before, a nonalcoholic beverage made with well-balanced, interesting flavors and thirst-quenching properties can be hard to come by. Consuming trendy sparkling waters by the case may be enough for some, but it can be nice to have something more, a drink just this side of extra. Enter the nonalcoholic cocktail, otherwise known as the mocktail.

Who's to Blame for Our Soda Problem—You, or Beverage Companies?

Corporate social responsibility campaigns subtly shift "responsibility" for healthfulness onto the consumer and away from companies' fattening products.

Why Organizations Should Work With Beverage Brands (And How They Can Find Partnerships)

For years I have watched big beverages brands navigate exciting brand partnerships with nonprofits, and this year I co-founded a beverage startup with environmental sustainability as a foundational pillar.

You don't need 8 glasses of water a day. Eat these foods instead.

Drinking lots of water doesn’t reduce your chronic disease risk or make your skin look better — but it can help you lose weight.

Bacteria in Beverages: The Good and the Bad

There have been several stories in the news lately about the dangers of drinking, and we're not talking about alcohol and durian fruit this time. Recently, the International Journal of Food Microbiology reported that biologists in Roanoke, Virginia analyzed "microbial populations" in soda and water dispensed from 30 beverage fountain machines (both self-service and staff-operated) in restaurants and cafeterias. They found coliform bacteria in nearly half of the samples, plus other "opportunistic pathogenic microorganisms" (translation: icky stuff). Even scarier, most of the bacteria they identified proved resistant to one or more types of antibiotics.