Try These Beverages for Summer

Someone forward you this email? No Sweat! Sign up here to get your own If you're having trouble viewing this email, click here Follow Us Try These Beverages for Summer  The weather is heating up, and we're drinking more liquids.  We all know that water is the best, but there are lots of other healthy sugar-free choices. Have a great weekend, and stay cool! Laura Laura Dolson Low Carb Diets Expert Homemade Sugar-Free Beverages Especially on hot days, be sure to pay attention to getting enough fluid. Water is best, of course, but here are some ways to change things up. Are you still drinking sugary drinks? Did you know that a can of soda or bottle of lemonade or iced tea usually has about 10 teaspoons of sugar? The 20 oz bottles are even worse. Check out why you should Stop Drinking Sugary Drinks and also see 9 Beverages that may have More Sugar Than You Think. READ NOW Share How to Make a Sugar-Free Sports Drink  I'm sure you've figured out by now how much sugar is commercial sports drinks. Is this necessary? What else is in sports drinks? I take sports drinks apart, look at the ingredients, and then put them back together for low carbers. READ NOW Share Favorite Sugar-Free Beverages  19 of your fellow low-carbers share their favorite sugar-free beverage ideas. READ NOW Share Sugar-Free Cocktails Is part of your image of "summer" a cocktail by the pool or on the beach? Bring a thermos of a sugar-free version! Pina Coladas Mojitos Margaritas Strawberry Daiquiri Tropical Punch (Alcoholic)  (Before you do, though, better inform yourself about Alcoholic Beverages on a Low-Carb Diet.) READ NOW Share MORE FROM ABOUT.COM • The Lowest Calorie Donuts at Dunkin Donuts • 4 Running Form Mistakes and How to Fix Them • Natural Remedies for Acid Reflux • 9 Uses for Tea Tree Oil • 10 Foods You Should Eat Every Day • 15 Ways to Help You Live Well With Hypothyroidism • What Are Trans Fats? • Caution: Naked Hiking Day June 21 Advertisement About Health   |   Follow Us: You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the About Low Carb Diets newsletter. If you wish to unsubscribe, please click here. If you would like to unsubscribe from all newsletters sent from About.com, please send an email to optout@about.com with "Unsubscribe" as the subject line. 1500 Broadway, 6th Floor, New York, NY, 10036 © 2014 About.com - All rights reserved