Beware of liquid calories

When you're trying to control your calorie intake, it's important to be mindful of what and how much you're drinking. Although milk and juice have important nutrients and can be part of a healthy diet, they still have calories and calories in liquids can add up even faster than can calories in food. 

So when you're counting calories, your best beverage choice is water. Keep higher calorie beverages in check. As a general rule, drink no more than 118 millilitres of juice a day and 473 to 710 millilitres of skim milk a day. Also be careful about energy drinks. Although they're touted as healthy, energy drinks can have as much added sugar as other carbonated soft drinks.

 

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