Beverages

Beverages are an essential part of any diet, but the wrong ones can mitigate any progress you make through exercise, counting calories, or other forms of fitness nutrition. Unlike foods, beverages typically contain negligible, if any, fiber. This means that all sugars from the drink are absorbed very quickly into your blood and cause your insulin to rocket. See how our body absorbs food. For how insulin relates to burning fat, see "What Causes Us to Burn Fat?". Then you can evaluate the beverages below for their suitability to your diet.

The list below shows several types of drinks, some alcoholic some not. Select the item about which you would like to know the calories and other nutritional facts.

This list links to the calories and other nutritional information for beverages. If you are counting calories or otherwise trying to manage your weight, familiarize yourself with how we burn fat and evaluate the foods listed here so you can stimulate the appropriate response within your body. For information about other foods in general, use the following linked categories or use the search tool.