Since I run an online health food store, I am continuously searching for the ultimate whole foods and health drinks. During a slow shopping season I decided it was safe to journey to the mall. Finding a parking space was easy, right in front of the largest health food store in the Universe. I won’t mention any names, but let’s suffice it to say that many of the “health drinks” and supplements they sell are not very “high” in real serious nutrition.

While my wife shopped for clothes, I began contrasting ingredient labels with those at our online health food store to see what was really in all those flashy looking protein blasters and so-called health drinks. Hopefully, this adventure to the massive health food chain will help you pass up some of the ingredients that are anything but healthy in many of their products. Then, it will make sense that an online health food store can be a better option for obtaining the best whole foods and health drinks.

Different from a naturally focused online health food store, the big health food store at the mall hypes those candy-colored, enhanced vitamin waters. The brilliantly colored bottles were everywhere, attracting customers with flashy colors, bargain prices, and the desire for a health drink that really tastes good. It’s too bad that the healthy benefits are not real.

For starters, the crystalline fructose (concentrated sugar) content in this particular vitamin water generated an unpleasant taste right away and the inescapable feeling that this was not healthy. By the way, if your body could really use the isolated, man-made vitamins in this water, it might be worth the .50.. Unfortunately, though, isolated vitamins that are not associated with whole foods usually break down before the body can use them for fuel. At this health food store I could quickly see there were no whole foods in those flashy bottles of enhanced vitamin water.

These are a few of the other ingredients I saw on the labels that I steer away from when selecting whole foods and health drinks for our online health food store: excess sugars, artificial sweetener, high fructose corn syrup, and modified corn starch. I also stay away from “isolated” protein drinks. The body must work harder to digest most protein drinks because they are typically made from “isolated” protein, which causes clogs in the lymphatic system. Many authorities on fitness agree it is a myth that the normal person needs the excessive levels of protein in some of the biggest selling muscle building health drinks. Truthfully, some muscle building devotees are now suffering from liver and kidney problems caused by excess protein consumption.

Excess protein and sugars are just a couple of the ingredients I try to avoid in my constant pursuit for whole foods and health drinks that are truly beneficial for the body. What ingredients are you concerned about in your supplements? I hope you have an eye opening experience as I did at the gargantuan health food store. When you are on the net, discover whole foods and health drinks at an online health food store.