Pepsi Max - Learn the Truth About "Zero"

PepsiCo spends a TON of money on advertising, trying to convince consumers like you that Pepsi Max is a more health conscious soda. After all, its nutritional content label looks strikingly similar to water - zero calories, zero carbs, zero sugar, zero fat, almost zero sodium. Harmless then, right? Not so much. The trouble with these types of drinks is the "stuff" thats in them and how the body metabolizes those strange marvels of food science. Surprise, surprise, most of it gets metabolized as fat.

The best zero calorie soda is, well, zero soda - and Americans are already chronically dehydrated. As an alternative to soda, the obvious answer is to drink water, but why be so boring? I like to make my OWN soda and pass on all of that junk food scientists have concocted. Simply take club soda (keep it in the fridge at work) and add green tea extract or a fruit extract like pomegranate (keep it in your desk drawer at work), or fresh lemon or lime. You can even do this when you're eating out. Most soda fountains will have soda water out of the Sprite/Sierra Mist dispenser - then add lemon or lime if they have it out (most places do) and you have your very own homemade bubbly, tangy goodness that is REALLY zero!

Find out more about the various ingredients that magically account for nothing in this article and then for further reading, learn more about those artificial sweeteners and this on chronic dehydration.