Stop Using This In Your Coffee And Use This Instead

Even though coffee is acidifying, it’s a rich source of bone-building polyphenols. So I really enjoy my cup of coffee at breakfast. But I make sure to avoid creamers that could turn my morning cup into a toxic, bone-damaging beverage.

Most commercial creamers are loaded with sugar, artificial sweeteners and flavors, hydrogenated oils, and acidifying chemicals. This is true with powdered, liquid, dairy, or non-dairy creamers.

So to make my morning cup as delicious as possible, I often use these alkalizing, DIY creamers in flavors that fit perfectly with the coming autumn.

After you read more about how toxic your coffee creamer really is, I’m sure you’ll be ready to give these recipes a try.

Let’s get started!

What’s In Your Creamer?

As the name implies, creamers are added to coffee to produce a creamy texture and often a flavor, such as hazelnut or vanilla. In the “old days,” coffee creamer contained actual powdered cream and sugar, and while not necessarily healthy, it was basically a dry version of liquid cream and sugar.

All that changed as manufacturers sought to make creamers as inexpensively as possible, and swapped out the real ingredients for synthetic chemicals and processed substances.

Here’s a good example. A popular brand of powdered coffee creamer lists the following ingredients on its label: corn syrup solids, hydrogenated vegetable oil (coconut and/or palm kernel and/or soybean), sodium caseinate, less than 2% of dipotassium phosphate, mono- and diglycerides, sodium aluminosilicate, artificial flavor, annatto color.

There really are no true “food” ingredients listed there! Let’s take a look at a few of them.

• Corn syrup solids are a highly altered state of liquid corn syrup (itself a highly processed product). First of all, corn syrup is generally derived from GMO corn. Then, to make the syrup solid, the water is removed and you’re left with a thick, concentrated form of corn syrup that can be classified as “solid.” It’s also listed as dried glucose syrup on some ingredient lists. Because it’s super-sweet, manufacturers can use very little to sweeten their products, thus saving money.
• Hydrogenated oils, or trans fats, are also oils that have been processed out of their natural form. Hydrogenation involves the infusion of tiny bubbles of hydrogen gas into the oil to make it solid at room temperature. The purpose of adding these trans fats to a product is to increase the shelf life.

  But trans fats are extremely unhealthy in any amount, because they are treated as normal fats in your body and transported into cells. Once there, they can’t be broken down properly and persist in your system (they are all about long shelf life, after all). Trans fats have been implicated in a host of health problems, and there’s no question that they are terrible for your bones.

• Sodium aluminosilicate neutralizes stomach acid and is often found in commercial baking powder. It’s added to coffee creamer as an anti-clumping agent, which is why you’ll also find it in table salt. It contains aluminum, the ingestion of which is not good for your brain or your bones.
• Mono- and diglycerides are synthetic fats used to extend shelf life and force oils and fats to combine in a product. Many manufacturers derive mono- and diglycerides from animal fats, making them unsuitable for vegans but not making it clear on the label that animal products are used.

When you break it all down, coffee creamers are a bunch of toxic chemicals! So why not choose a coffee creamer that tastes delicious and contains bone-healthy ingredients? You can, with these DIY recipes.

3 Homemade Coffee Creamers You’ll Love

The base for each of these is 2 cups of plain, unsweetened almond milk. Both are prepared in a blender on high speed, but take care not to blend for more than 15 seconds. Otherwise, the ingredients will begin to separate.

Making Your Own Bone-Healthy Coffee Creamers Is A Great First Step

If you didn’t get the Osteoporosis Reversal Program yet, you might think that when you follow it you have to give up all acidifying foods because they’re “bad.” If you hold that point of view, you might wonder why you should bother with coffee creamers since coffee is acidifying. The reason is simple: it’s perfectly fine to enjoy a cup of coffee (or any other acidifying food, in the right proportion). And these alkalizing creamers not only taste scrumptious; they also help to balance out the acidifying coffee.

Avoiding all toxins is simply not realistic. No one can spend their life in a protective bubble! Even if they could, it would ultimately be an unhealthy choice. It’s important to get out, interact with others, and live life – avoiding toxins wherever you can, of course, but understanding that there’s no need to go overboard.

When you spend a week doing the Osteoporosis Fresh Start Cleanse: The 7 Day Bone Building Accelerator, you can rest assured that you’re doing what you need to do in order to remove any toxins you may have ingested, breathed, or otherwise taken into your body.

The unique dietary guidelines in the Osteoporosis Fresh Start Cleanse help “dislodge” and flush out acidifying toxins, thereby minimizing the effects of the inevitable toxin exposure and renewing your bones. Cleansing periodically helps you to relax and enjoy life with fewer worries about environmental poisons.

I can’t wait to hear how you enjoy the creamers. Please let us know how these recipes go, and feel free to share other bone-healthy substitutes with the community.

Till next time,