Quick Sugary Beverages Nutrition Education Handout

This 2-page handout helps you teach about sugary beverages, and helps your audience choose a more mindful alternative.

This handout includes:

• Examples of beverages high in sugar
• A quick explanation of why clients may want to limit the sugary beverages you drink
• Where to find the amount of sugar in a drink
• The truth on juice–is it really healthy?
• Good times to drink a sports drink
• The truth on protein drinks–are they really healthy?
• Examples of alternative drinks and swaps that are just as delicious
• How to make water taste better
• The truth on diet soda–is it really healthy?
• Colorful, fun design

Use this handout for:

• Teaching your clients who are in the gentle nutrition stage on their intuitive eating journey
• Your client who wonders whether their daily drink is healthy
• Your community nutrition education lessons
  • Great for older kids and teens too!
• Your patient/client can’t stop drinking soda
• Your patient/client hates the taste of water
• Your patient/client wants some lower-sugar drink ideas that can be incorporated mindfully

This guide is perfect for teaching or for providing to your client to use whenever they feel the urge to drink something sweet, to help them choose a more mindful beverage!