Why is it a good idea to drink water with your meal?

One of the most common advice to people in the risk zone for type 2 diabetes is to avoid sugary drinks. The advice is based on the fact that these drinks stand for a large part of many people´s energy/calorie/carbohydrate intake. In fact — replacing the soda with water can take away as much as 70% of the total calories and carbs from a meal. It´s obvious that this simple change can reduce risk factors and be an effective part of weight management. With our product — Good Idea — we take this a step further. The proprietary blend of amino acids and chromium in sparkling water is proven to reduce the blood sugar spike after a meal. In addition to being an attractive zero-calorie alternative to soda, just as any still or carbonated water, the more even blood sugar level means that sugar cravings are reduced. The result: a reduced intake of sugar, both with and after the meal. That´s what I call a good idea, and it gets a lot of support from health professionals and scientists all over USA. Let me give you an example:

In a brand new report (May 2018) Dr Ingrid Kohlstadt, Faculty Associate at Johns Hopkins University and a key opinion leader in integrative medicine with focus on nutrition as an effective tool to combat disease, gives a number of interesting perspectives on the properties of Good Idea.

According to Dr Kohlstadt, Good Idea is a solution for better health and a treatment against many risk factors for lifestyle related disease. In her report, she points out four factors that makes Good Idea unique and truly functional.

1. Good Idea mimics the experience of drinking sugary sodas, which makes replacement both easy and attractive.

2. Replacing a sugary drink with a naturally flavored sparkling water like Good Idea takes away a lot of calories as well as artificial ingredients.

3. Good Idea is the first soda-like beverage to add the mineral chromium to help the body take care of the energy from food in a more efficient way.

4. The blend of five amino acids will coordinate different body functions that are important for the digestion of food, resulting, among other things in a lower, more even and healthier blood sugar curve.

Our company Good Idea Inc. claims two healthy perspectives: the direct benefit of avoiding post-meal crashes and sugar cravings by making the blood sugar curve more even, and the longer perspective health benefit of cutting sugar spikes that are strongly associated with health hazards. Interestingly Dr Kohlstadt argues that Good Idea could have further healthy impact. Among her suggestions are that Good Idea would be an efficient means against behaviors and medical treatments where weight gain is an unwanted side effect. She also sees possible additional health benefits beyond by both mealtime and free-dwelling use of Good Idea during exercise, travel, mental stress and surrounding elective surgery.

Ingrid Kohlstadts report can be downloaded in full here.

Another guest post from Good Idea Drinks.

Diabetes Wellness Council

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Diabetes Warrior and Certified Keto Coach

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