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Water is essential for life and all living organisms. The average human body is composed of 65% water. About 70% to 80% of brain tissue is water. Despite these fundamental facts, according to the Institute of Medicine up to 75% of Americans are not drinking enough water.
WebMD suggests drinking at least half an ounce of water for every pound you weigh. For example if you weigh 150 lbs., it would be best to drink a minimum of 75 oz. per day. (Don’t count coffee and alcohol which are dehydrating). However, weather temperatures, activity level and illness can all influence the amount of water you should drink. So if you’re coming up short on your water intake and you need some good reasons to start drinking more water, here are just a few:
1. Boosts your energy
Not consuming enough water can lead you to feel tired and fatigued. Need a mid-afternoon pick-me-up? Your body may be telling you to drink a glass of water. But don’t wait until you feel thirst — once you feel thirsty your body is already dehydrated.
2. Boosts metabolism
Water is required for keeping cellular processes (like your metabolism) and chemical reactions running properly in the body. Drinking the right amount of water, especially cold water, can also increase your metabolic rate, helping you lose weight. Additionally, drinking water before a meal can aid in feeling more full, which may prevent overeating.
3. Aids in digestion
Water allows the body to digest food and excrete waste more effectively. Water is also imperative for overall kidney function. Increased water intake appears to decrease the risk of kidney stones.
4. Improves functional efficiency
Hydrating your body with water improves the functional efficiency of your organs and muscles, including your heart. Dehydration can cause your heart to work harder in order to pump blood throughout your body and blood delivers oxygen and nutrients to your organs and muscles. Hydration is also important for the body when you’re sick, as it helps your lymphatic system to work more effectively.
5. Reduces stress
Research shows that even small levels of dehydration can cause a rise in cortisol levels, the stress hormone. Stress can be a vicious cycle because dehydration can cause stress and stress can cause dehydration. “Stress can result in many of the same responses as dehydration — increased heart rate, nausea, fatigue, headache — so if you can remain hydrated you can reduce the magnitude of the physiological responses we have to stress,” says Trent Nessler, PT, DPT, MPT, managing director of Baptist Sports Medicine in Nashville.
Syfo keeps you hydrated
Now you may say: I know water is essential for healthy living, but plain water doesn’t inspire me to drink. That’s where Syfo comes in. Our Naturally-Flavored Sparkling Waters contain no sugar, caffeine, artificial
Thanksgiving is the holiday that gathers family and friends for a day of feasting and giving thanks. Much planning goes in to the preparation of Thanksgiving dinner, but what about the beverage menu? Below are delicious recipes to add to your menu this season.
Cranberry Thanksgiving Punch
Ingredients:
- 2 bottles of chilled cranberry juice
- 2 containers of lemonade or orange juice concentrate
- 1 bottle of Syfo Seltzer or Syfo Tangerine-Orange Sparkling Water
Preparation:
Mix all of the ingredients right before serving. For an extra flavor boost, you can try a cranberry juice blend such as cranberry apple, cranberry blueberry or cranberry grape.
Acknowledgement: Based on a recipe idea from punchbowl.com.
Orange, Rosewater, and Mint Sparkler
Ingredients:
- 1/4 cup mint leaves (about 25 leaves), loosely packed and removed from their stems
- 6 ounces (3/4 cup) fresh orange juice (from 2 medium oranges)
- 2 drops rosewater
- 6 ounces (3/4 cup) Syfo Original Seltzer
Preparation:
Muddle the mint leaves gently in a mixing glass. Add orange juice, rosewater, and seltzer, stir gently to combine. Pour the sparkling orange juice mixture into two ice-filled Old Fashioned glasses and serve immediately.
Acknowledgement: Photo and recipe from seriouseats.com
Thanksgiving Brunch Tonic
Ingredients
- 1 cup of sugar
- 1 cup of water
- 4 fresh rosemary sprigs
- 4 cups of chilled cranberry juice cocktail
- 2 cups of fresh orange juice (use about 6 oranges)
- 3 cups of chilled Syfo Original Seltzer
Preparation
Combine sugar and water in a small saucepan; bring to a boil. Reduce heat, and simmer 4 minutes or until sugar dissolves. Add rosemary; simmer 5 minutes. Remove from heat. Pour sugar syrup into a bowl; cover and refrigerate overnight.
Uncover sugar syrup; remove and discard rosemary sprigs. Combine the sugar syrup, juices, and soda in a large pitcher. Serve immediately over ice.
Acknowledgement: Photo and recipe from myrecipes.com
Fizzy Pear Ginger Punch
Ingredients
For Ginger Syrup:
- 1 3-inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and cut into thirds
- 2 cups water
- 1 cup sugar
For Punch:
- 8 cups chilled pear juice, such as Looza
- 1 cup ginger syrup
- 1/4 cup plus 1 tablespoon lemon juice
- 1 1/2 teaspoons ground ginger
Preparation:
For the ginger syrup, place ginger, water, and sugar in a medium saucepan. Bring mixture to a boil then reduce heat and simmer for about 30 minutes until reduced to a syrup. Let cool.
For the punch, in a large punch bowl, combine pear juice, ginger syrup, lemon juice, and ground ginger. Whisk until combined. Add Syfo Original Seltzer and stir gently to combine. Add ice block to punch bowl.
If desired, place three pieces of candied ginger on a tooth pick and place in each cocktail glass as garnish.Fill glass with the amount of desired ice. Combine all ingredients and stir gently. Garnish with olives
Acknowledgement: Photo and recipe from seriouseats.com
Your health can be said to be your most important asset and what you put in your body protects that asset. That’s why “clean eating” is a term that’s trending these days and for many that means eating unprocessed or minimally processed foods known as “whole foods.” But the beverages you drink can be just as much a factor in a healthy diet as what you eat.
Just as with “clean eating,” clean drinking would have you avoid beverages with additives such as food dyes, propylene glycol, artificial sweeteners, preservatives, sodium, artificial flavorings and high fructose corn syrup. Although sugar is not an artificial ingredient, it is hidden in most processed foods and when eaten in excess has documented adverse health effects. So as with food labels, the longer the list of ingredients on beverage labels (especially names of ingredients you don’t recognize) the more you may want to avoid that beverage and choose a “clean” drink instead.
And don’t be fooled by how a beverage is packaged or advertised. Many “fruit juice drinks” contain almost no fruit juice and copious amounts of sugar (see our post on this topic). Others claim to use filtered or spring waters but those can contain a large amount of impurities.
Under the clean eating and drinking label, we’ve compiled a short list of beverages for healthier living:
- Purified Water
- Syfo Naturally-Flavored Sparkling Waters — Syfo Beverages are deliciously refreshing and contain no sugar, artificial sweeteners, sodium or any other additives and they are made with water purified via a seven-step process that includes reverse osmosis.
- Teas – Black, Green, White or Herbal lightly sweetened with any natural sweetener.
- Coffee — Skip the artificial sweeteners and flavored coffee creamer.
- 100% Fruit Juice (Not from concentrate) – To cut down on the fructose content, mix it with Syfo Original Seltzer of any Syfo Naturally Flavored Sparkling Water.
- Vegetable juices – Add spices like turmeric, cinnamon, capsaicin, cumin, oregano, ginger, thyme or rosemary for a flavorful and healthy beverage.
Want to mix it up? Combine natural fruit juices with Syfo Naturally-Flavored Sparkling Waters for a low-cal, delicious, clean and refreshingly delightful drink.
Here’s a great recipe you can try:
Watermelon Slush
Ingredients:
- 2 ½ cups of Watermelon
- 1/3 cups of Pomegranate Juice
- Syfo Original Seltzer
- 1 cup of Ice
Preparation:
In a blender, puree fresh watermelon, pomegranate juice and ice. Half fill a glass with the juice and add an equal part of Syfo Original Seltzer or Syfo Naturally Flavored Wild Cherry Sparkling Water.
Visit syfobeverages.com for more delicious recipes!
How healthy a beverage is for you must begin with the quality of the water that is used. Syfo Beverages has always used a multi-step water purification process that includes reverse osmosis. But what is the benefit of reverse osmosis and why is it important?
Reverse osmosis is a process in which water is forced through a semi-permeable membrane using pressure. Water will pass through the membrane, leaving the contaminants behind. Reverse osmosis purification systems remove up to 99% of all contaminants found in water, which is more than other filtration methods. Additionally, reverse osmosis removes particles smaller than what other filtration methods can remove.
The process we use involves pre-treatment steps that include double-micron and carbon filtration so that the reverse osmosis system works at the highest efficiency and peak performance ensuring an effective barrier to pathogens, metals, toxins, chemicals, parasites, pesticide, algae and other solids.
To further ensure that the water in our beverages is the highest quality, the water then passes through a deionization system, which removes ions of compounds like sodium and iron. Lastly, the water is ozonated and sterilized using UV exposure to kill any organic matter that could be left in the water.
You can drink Syfo with confidence knowing that you’ve bought one of the purest and healthiest beverages around. To learn more about what makes our beverages healthy, click here.
Recently, news sources have reported that some companies may not be entirely transparent with the ingredients in their food and beverages that are labeled as containing “natural flavors.” So what makes a food or beverage flavoring truly natural?
According to the FDA, natural flavors are the essential oil, oleoresin, essence, extractive, protein or any product derived from roasting or heating that “contains the flavoring constituents derived from a spice, fruit or fruit juice, vegetable or vegetable juice, edible yeast, herb, bark, bud, root, leaf of similar plant material, meat, seafood, poultry, eggs, dairy products, or fermentation products thereof, whose significant function in food is flavoring rather than nutritional.”
That’s not only quite mouthful but also a pretty broad definition. Translated, any process that extracts the flavor from a fruit, vegetable, dairy or animal product would be considered natural. This is opposed to combining chemicals in a laboratory to mimic or simulate the flavor.
Where it gets confusing is the other additives that are used either during or after the process. Some companies add preservatives, including MSG, which is both a preservative and a flavoring, into their natural flavors. Propylene glycol, a derivative of natural gas, is used by some beverage manufacturers as a solvent and humectant. Brominated vegetable oil (BVO) is an oil derived from soy that is used by some soda brands as an emulsifier to keep their flavorings from floating to the top of the drink. The bromine in BVO is a known endocrine disrupter and has been banned as a food ingredient throughout Europe and Japan.
So as you can see, plenty of products can be labeled as having “natural flavors” but what you’re consuming is anything but natural. Syfo Beverages’ natural flavors do not include propylene glycol, BVO or any other preservatives added during or after our flavor extraction process. Our all-natural flavors are derived from the essential oil that is extracted from the peel of the fruit. Instead of propylene glycol, we use vegetable-based glycerin that naturally keeps the product moist and inhibits bacteria growth.
Plus all of our products use water that is purified through reverse osmosis and they contain no sugar, artificial sweeteners, sodium or any other additives. So if you’re looking for a refreshing beverage that is both healthy and natural, reach for Syfo.