Worst Cold Drinks to Have in the Summer

6 Worst Summer Drinks

These chilled beverages may be refreshing, but they'll also add inches to your waistline
By Dave Zinczenko menshealth
 

Worst Energy Drink

6 Worst Summer Drinks // Original Rockstar © Mitch Mandel/Thomas MacDonald

Image: Mitch Mandel/Thomas MacDonald

Original Rockstar (16 fl oz)
280 calories,  0 g fat,  62 g sugars

Calorie Equivalent: 8 cups of Movie Theater Butter popcorn! 

You know what won’t give you energy? Carrying around all the extra weight you gain drinking these over-sugared “functional” drinks. This beverage is filled with exotic-sounding ingredients that promise to charge you up, but the bottom line is that sugar alone accounts for 248 of the 280 calories in a 16-ounce can. (Search: ingredients in energy drinks) That’s not energy, that’s a sugar crash in the making, and enough empty calories to pad you with 27 extra pounds over the course of a year. Rockstar Recovery provides the same supplements, but with a fraction of the carbs and calories. (Get the full scoop on performance-boosting beverages here, with The Truth About Energy Drinks.) 

Drink This Instead!
Rockstar Recovery (16 fl oz) 
20 calories, 0 g fat, 2 g sugars 

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