People are always talking about foods that burn fat and how you need to eat certain foods to lose weight. Let's talk about the other side of the coin: Beverages. These drinks are responsible for as much weight gain if not more than alot of foods.

1. Alcohol
When you want to lose weight, you should not drink alcohol because it inhibits your body's ability to burn fat.
When you drink alcohol, your liver has to detoxify it right off the bat.
This takes priority over carbohydrates, fats, and protein.
Fat is the hardest to process and break up so therefore your liver does this last.

When most people drink alcohol, they usually do so with a meal, taking in its excess calories . Alcohol has the second highest calorie content next to fat, with seven calories per gram vs. to nine calories per gram, respectively.
Your body transforms most of the foods you take in as fat when you are under the influence of alcohol  

2. Soda
Soda is one of the reasons people become excessively fat in this country.
According to research, those who drink soda are most likely to have diabetes, obesity, osteoporosis, tooth decay, caffeine dependency, and nutritional deficiencies.
Studies also show that people who drink sodas do not cut back on the regular foods they eat.
This adds at least 200 calories a day, or 1,400 calories per week, to their intake!

The major ingredients in soda are:

Phosphoric Acid: Mixes with the hydrochloric acid of the stomach and interferes with digestion.
It is also responsible for leeching minerals out of the bones.

Refined Sugar and High Fructose Corn Syrup: Sugar in liquid form is absorbed fast by the body putting the your health at risk.
The capacity to burn fat drops when your insulin levels rise. This results to high blood pressure, high cholesterol, premature aging, heart disease, and unwanted weight gain.
A good holistic weight loss and diet plan will help you to find healthy, natural alternatives to sugar and HFCS.

3. Tap Water: Contains various chemicals, such as chlorine, trihalomethanes, lead, and cadmium, which are very detrimental to your health.

4. Diet Pop, Diet Drinks
Diet drinks give you all of the dandy benefits of drinking pop, plus artificial sweeteners that have been shown to alter brain chemistry, increase cravings, and cause cancer.
Aspartame is a common artificial sweetener.
According to research, it has over 92 related health effects to it including:

• Brain tumors
• Birth defects
• Diabetes
• Emotional disorders
• Epilepsy/Seizures

Knowing that it has so many side effects that will endanger your health should be enough to make you avoid it.
There have been entire books written about the dangers of aspartame.
Logging on to Medline will provide you research on it.
Drinking a diet soda can be harmful for your health and in the end will sabotage your weight loss efforts.

In order to lose fat naturally and live a long and healthy life, these 4 "dangerous" drinks must be avoided.