People today have stopped making their own iced teas and lemonades and started buying them in bottles or mixes, with ingredients like "high-fructose corn syrup" and "ascorbic acid" on the labels.

We stopped thinking of a soda as a treat - akin to an ice cream or a candy bar - and started seeing it as the equivalent of a glass of water, drinking two, three, four, or more a day.

Then we stopped drinking water out of the tap and started demanding that it be artificially flavored and put into bottled with the words "vitamin" or "energy" stamped on their labels.

And, many of us stopped brewing our own coffee and started buying the ready made.

And the result of all this beverage evolution is that, today, drinking a coffee or even bottled water has become dangerous to our health.

America’s supermarket aisles and drive-through menus are full of liquid calories.

Here is a list of top 20 high calorie drinks in America which you take in everyday without even knowing about how much they add to your belly in just a sip. You can easily avoid them and save your self couple of minutes of sweat on treadmill. The magazine has tried to do a comparison of high calorie drinks and their equivalent junk foods and are trying to suggest a better alternative to keep you away from unwanted calories.

Worst Beverage The worst drink seems to be Cold Stone PB&C (Gotta Have It size, 24 fl oz) 2,010 calories 131 g fat (68 g saturated) 153 g sugars Sugar Equivalent: 30 Chewy Chips Ahoy Cookies Substitute: Sinless Oh Fudge Shake (Like It size, 16 fl oz) 490 calories 2 g fat (2 g saturated) 44 g sugars
Worst Water Snapple Agave Melon Antioxidant Water (1 bottle, 20 fl oz) 150 calories 0 g fat 33 g sugars Sugar Equivalent: 2 Good Humor Chocolate Éclair Bars Substitute: Smartwater 0 calories 0 g sugars
Worst Bottled coffee Starbucks Vanilla Frappuccino (1 bottle, 13.7 fl oz) 290 calories 4.5 g fat (2.5 g saturated) 45 g sugars Sugar Equivalent: 32 Nilla Wafers Substitute: Illy Issimo Caffè (1 can, 6.8 fl oz) 50 calories 0 g fat 11 g sugars
Worst Beer Sierra Nevada Bigfoot (1 bottle, 12 fl oz) 330 calories 0 g fat 32.1 g carbohydrates 9.6% alcohol Substitute: Leinenkugel’s Fireside Nut Brown Ale (1 bottle, 12 fl oz) 155 calories 13.4 g carbohydrates 4.9% alcohol
Worst Espresso Drink Starbucks Peppermint White Chocolate Mocha with Whipped Cream (venti, 20 fl oz) 660 calories 660 calories 22 g fat (15 g saturated) 95 g sugars Sugar Equivalent: 8½ scoops Edy’s Slow Churned Rich and Creamy Coffee Ice Cream Substitute: Cinnamon Dolce Latte with Sugar-Free Syrup (grande, 16 fl oz) 260 calories 6 g fat (4 g saturated) 38 g sugars

Note: The above points are the opinion of the people at menshealth.com and does not represent the opinion of the author at inHouseRecipes.com.