There is a girl in the office who lives every day by relying on a variety of 0 sugar and low-fat Internet red drinks.
She feels that these drinks are not as harmful as cola Sprite, which are high in sugar and can easily achieve weight loss, fitness, deep sleep and other functions.
The key is that it is delicious, it is simply beneficial and harmless.
But the recent physical examination shattered her illusions.
Not only full of tooth decay, but also weighing no more than 100, she actually had high blood sugar and uric acid, and she was only slow to survive from diabetes and gout.
She said: Now I know that the health care function of those drinks is fake.
These net red drinks not only made us spend so much money in vain, but also ruined the original healthy body.
It's really long overdue.
I saw a report some time ago that confirmed my long-standing suspicions.
Sure enough, young women are the main force in drink consumption.
In Meituan and Dianping, 70% of beverage consumers are women, and 42% of people under the age of 25.
According to another survey, 75% of plant-based protein drinks are girls, and 69% of consumers under the age of 35 are even more.
Moreover, young women are more concerned about calories and ingredients, are willing to try new products, and prefer healthy drinks.
This is probably in line with our cognition in ordinary life.
Girls prefer to drink some healthy drinks, and when they have new products, they always want to try them first, and they will give Amway to their sisters.
With the tracking and analysis of big data, marketing propaganda is more accurate and flattering.
The beverage packaging has become fresh and cute and high-value, and the portions are getting smaller and smaller, more and more portable.
From keywords such as "low sugar", "0 calories" and "organic" to the title of popular variety TV series, the beverage industry's efforts to cater to girls are obvious to all.
"Hands do not leave the cup" was once the symbol of the greasy uncle, but now it has become the way of life of many young girls.
Young people are becoming more and more able to drink, which has promoted the rapid development of the beverage industry.
In the whole of 2020, the retail sales of beverages in our country exceeded 200 billion yuan, up 14% from 2019. Or under the premise that the impact of the epidemic has declined and other retail performance has declined.
Last year, we drank a total of 160 million tons of drinks, which is equivalent to drinking 10 West Lakes!
Happy Water Coca-Cola's annual sales in China exceeded 55.6 billion yuan.
The head milk tea brand Xicha sold 4.9 billion yuan a year, and Naixue's tea sold 3 billion yuan.
The girl's exclusive drink, Yuanqi Forest, sold 2.7 billion yuan in 2020, and its valuation soared from 4 billion yuan in 2019 to 14 billion yuan in 2020, with sales up 309% year-on-year.
How many young girls have contributed their wallets to these hundreds of millions of businesses, but what they get is a body that has been damaged by drinks.
I saw a news on CCTV before.
Ms. Xia from Changsha, Hunan, is a female white-collar worker.
During the physical examination, it was found that there were stones in the kidneys on both sides, and surgery was necessary to remove them.
She is because she drinks less water, drinks as water all year round, usually works in the office, and does not exercise much, and she did not expect to accumulate kidney stones over time.
The more the drinks are sold, the better, but the girls who drink the drinks are not good.
Although sugary drinks should be drunk less, it has become a consensus. In fact, there are many seemingly healthy drinks that actually harm our health.
Those drinks that give us the hope of slimming and beautifying our bodies have tempted countless people to fall into the trap of new consumerism.
These scams in the internet celebrity drink really deceive the girls.
The competition for influencer drinks starts with names.
Last month, Yuanqi Forest also apologized for "0 sucrose milk tea".
It apologizes not for "0 sucrose", but for the 0 sugar implied in the name.
With this misleading name, consumers are deliberately led to think that the milk tea of Yuanqi Forest is unsweetened, has no calories, and will not be fat when drunk.
But in fact, although no sucrose is added, there are also fructose, lactose and sugar substitutes.
The calories of a bottle of Yuanqi Forest Milk Tea are 206 calories, which is not much lower than the 250 calories contained in assam milk tea with this duty of sugar.
More than "0 sucrose milk tea" dare to name, there is also "good night water".
Hearing this name, no one will not wonder, what does goodnight water mean?
After reading their explanations, I learned that this drink, which is specially drunk before going to bed, is said to help you relax and get a deep sleep.
Such a seductive name is simply a blessing for insomnia patients, after all, difficulty falling asleep has become an epidemic among contemporary young people.
In fact, it's just an ordinary juice drink, and the most mysterious ingredient in it is something called γ-aminobutyric acid.
I looked up the data and found that there were no experiments that could prove that this thing helps with deep sleep.
There is also a drink called "bedtime drink" that is more magical, not only can improve sleep disorders, but also adds calorie-burning ingredients, claiming to be thinner while lying down.
In this way, the "fully functional" beverage network "sold 120,000+ boxes".
A box of only 14 packs, sold for 199 yuan.
The small print below reveals the essence of "drinking before bedtime."
The words are too small, afraid that someone will see clearly.
But that's okay, I'll help you re-read it:
"This product is a normal food, and due to personal physical differences, there is no guarantee that everyone will achieve the desired effect."
To say that this is just a bottle of fruit and vegetable juice drink, not a health care product, nor a miracle drug, eating it is useless don't blame me.
If these foods can really achieve these functions of healthy sleep, it is not food, but medicine.
But they dare to sell it because they bet on everyone's desire for health and want the magical effect of "lying down to be healthy".
But the higher the expectation, the easier it is to be deceived.
Many girls have problems with constipation, and probiotics are said to promote intestinal movement and also lose weight.
Is it really that magical?
It's true.
The latest research in Germany has found that lactic acid bacteria can "activate" the human immune system.
Although the bacteria are good, lactic acid bacteria drinks are not so useful.
The old net red lactic acid bacteria beverage, which is known as "containing 10 billion live bacteria per bottle", the probability that live bacteria can reach the stomach and intestines alive is also very low, and there is basically no effect
Because lactic acid bacteria must be refrigerated at low temperatures to remain active, once at room temperature, probiotics will quickly die in large quantities.
Even if it is guaranteed to be refrigerated from loading and transportation and stored in the warehouse, the probiotics that are finally drunk into the stomach will not survive.
Because our body temperature is high, the process of drinking is a sterilization war.
A bottle of live bacteria drink, after hours of sterilization of saliva, gastric juice and bile, can finally reach the intestine alive, which is simply a "superbug".
Expect this point of probiotics to improve intestinal health, it is better to directly receive fecal bacteria transplant treatment, how to treat can be searched by yourself.
In addition, the more lactic acid bacteria, the stronger the sour taste, whether the probiotics are alive or dead, sour or the same acid.
Therefore, the sugar content of general lactic acid bacteria drinks is as high as ascension.
These high-glycolactic acid bacteria drinks are sweeter than cola, poorly conditioned stomach, but easy to drink diabetes.
Xiaoya, a 27-year-old girl in Shenzhen, almost drank herself blind.
Recently, she felt a layer of fog in front of her, couldn't see clearly and went to the hospital for examination, and accidentally found "cataracts".
You know, the age of cataract onset is generally over 45 years old, and it is really rare to get sick at such a young age.
Xiaoya's cataract belongs to diabetic complicated cataracts, which is due to the change of osmotic pressure of aqueous humor in the eyes after the increase in blood sugar, resulting in the early occurrence of cataracts.
In addition to diabetes, long-term drinking of high-sugar drinks will also affect the absorption of nutrients, resulting in gastrointestinal dysfunction, osteoporosis, kidney stones and other diseases.
The latest research has found that high-sugar drinks also increase the risk of death from breast cancer, which is simply the key to poking girls.
Lactic acid bacteria drink is delicious, I advise you to drink less.
Recently I discovered a very magical drink , hyaluronic acid water.
A box sells for 213.6 yuan, a bottle sells for 8.8 yuan, there are zero and a whole.
The mall advertises that oral hyaluronic acid can replenish skin moisture.
Cold knowledge: Long-term drinking of water can also replenish skin moisture.
Hyaluronic acid is something that does have a moisturizing effect on the skin, but it is only useful for external use on the skin.
The oral "hyaluronic acid essence" that someone has been selling for a long time has been peeled over and over again.
Now that I have added less than 1g to pure water, I want to continue harvesting the wallet of the girl who loves beauty.
I just want to say, is the IQ tax too good to cheat, or the merchant IQ needs to be recharged?
There is also a drink that turns the healthiest food into the most junk sugar water, which is called juice.
Whether it's 100% pure juice or juice concentrate mixed with water, none of them are good things.
We all know that a lot of juice drinks on the market have nothing to do with fruit.
It's a smart drink of flavors, colors and water.
But many people don't know that even if it is a real fruit squeezed drink, it is actually a glass of sugar water.
Why?
This is not a problem with fruits, but with absorption by the body.
Let's talk about our most common orange juice.
When we eat oranges, at most one or two are full, but a 300 ml bottle of juice can be drunk in one breath, and there is no feeling of fullness.
Oranges have a lot of dietary fiber, which not only promotes gastrointestinal function, but also hinders the body's absorption of fructose.
In China's dietary balance measurement, fruit is not counted as sugar intake, and additional added sugar must be controlled.
It is because of the sugar in the fruit that the human body directly absorbs much, and only the additional sugar is easily absorbed.
But juice is liquid, and there is not much dietary fiber left, so drinking it can quickly raise blood sugar.
In addition, oranges are rich in vitamins and β-carotene will be lost over time, and bottled drinks are almost lost.
It is simply not possible to achieve the effect that fruits can supplement nutrition.
What's more, the juice adds a lot of extra water and sugar to flavor it.
Drinking two glasses of juice a day increases the risk of gout by 81 percent, which is more toxic than alcohol and meat.
In addition to the juice scam, there are some refreshing functional drinks that also have problems.
Drinking functional drinks containing caffeine, taurine, ginseng and other functional drinks will change blood pressure, resulting in poor heartbeat function.
And the direct stimulation of nerve effects like caffeine can easily make drinkers dependent.
If you drink it, you will refresh your mind, and if you don't drink it, it is easy to lose your spirit.
Although the effect is really good, but really can not drink more.
Having said so much about the drink scam, it can be summed up in one sentence.
Don't believe that the world has unearned health.
Those who deceive you into "thinning your legs without moving your mouth" are all traps of consumerism.
But what kind of bad eyes can the drink have, or do you want you to buy a little more, let you spend a little hard-earned money, and also produce a good sense of dependence.
For us, the biggest role of drinks is to bring temporary happiness and moisturize boring mouths.
All the other effects are jokes.
There is only one way to eat healthy - eat more healthy fruits and vegetables, and eat less junk food that is harmful to health.
By accumulating the difference between positive and negative over time, our bodies can become healthier and healthier.
After all, life is a game of time.
At the end, we have the capital to keep playing.
The premise is, don't play blindly.