Need a substitute for diet soda

[motely36]

I really should stop drinking diet soda. The problem is i don't really like water.

What do you drink.

[flvegan]

1. Vodka.

[motely36]

3. would that help get rid of the bloated feeling?

:hi:

[Richardo]

5. Yes, if you throw up enough

:thumbsup:

[bamademo]

2. Soda water with lemon

No calories, no sodium.

[motely36]

10. isn't that carbonated?

I want to get away from that.

[XemaSab]

72. Carbonated does not imply sugary

You can have carbonation with zero calories.

[NJmaverick]

4. Propel fitness water is pretty low calorie

[Chan790]

19. If they're trying to get away from artifical sweeteners, it's a bad choice.

Pretty much all flavored low-cal waters contain sucralose or aspertame, often in higher quantities than diet soda.

[NJmaverick]

24. Here is the ingredients in one flavor

Water, sucrose syrup, natural lemon flavor with other natural flavors, citric acid, sodium citrate, potassium citrate, sucralose, vitamin C, vitamin E acetate, niacinamide, calcium disodium EDTA, calcium pantothenate, pyridoxine hydrochloride, acesulfame potassium, vitamin B12.

[Chan790]

29. Sucralose and acesulfame-K are both artificial sweeteners.

Splenda and Equal to use commercial brand names. Sucrose syrup is sugar water.

Propel is better for you than most low-cal beverages admittedly and that b12 is a good thing since most people don't get enough daily. The zero calorie sports beverage Powerade Zero and Gatorade are toxic by comparison, almost as bad as diet soda.

[gmoney]

56. just a bit lower than Coke...

[SacredCow]

89. It's significantly lower than regular soda....

if you're speaking of caloric content. I use the powder mix. For whatever reason, 1 packet (which they suggest mixing into a 16.9 0z, bottle of water) is 2 servings. But even drinking the entire bottle, there are 20 calories.

[gmoney]

93. Hrm, I must be thinking of one of the other ones...

There's an "enhanced water" drink out there that has like 110 calories for a 20-ounce bottle, compared to 150 for a 12-ounce can of Coke. Granted, ounce per ounce, it's somewhat less, but in reality one container is the serving size, not this 2.5 servings per container crap they put on the nutritional information.

[SacredCow]

96. That sounds about like sports drinks- Gatorade, etc....

But the propel fitness water isn't flavored THAT much.

Of course, it still has artificial sweetners and such, so if you're looking to get away from that entirely it won't be of much help.

[NMDemDist2]

6. unsweetened iced tea (or fake sweetner if you must)

:hi:

tea comes in lots of flavors these days too and MUCH cheaper than soda in the long run and better for your health too

[FloridaJudy]

47. Yup.

They have the instant kind, if making it is a bother. I use my mother's method of making sun tea (teabags in an old glass Hellman's Mayo jar). I'm addicted to green tea myself.

[trof]

7. Learn to like water.

It's an acquired taste, but you can do it.

[motely36]

14. I think that is the direction I need to go

Just not thrilled with it.

[trof]

25. Seriously, I changed over a few years ago.

I went on a 1500 calorie diet.
Still on it.
I've lost 45 pounds so far.
My mealtime drink of choice was ginger ale.
10 calories per oz.
I changed to ice water.

[yellowdogintexas]

28. unsweetened tea with lemon or water with lemon slices, or even better lemon and lime

slices.

I never liked diet soda, but I weaned myself from regular sodas w/tea.

It takes so much less sugar if you sweeten the tea yourself, you aren't getting that much in calories, either. If I am making sweetened tea, I use about 1/4 cup of sugar for a 2 quart pitcher of tea. I used to put in a cup of sugar, when I made it like my grandmother did.

[alphafemale]

99. I've gone to mostly water as a beverage and am back down to pretty much my ideal weight

About 15-20 lbs over about a year or two. It's really the only change I've made in diet or habit. Squeeze a little lemon in it maybe.

[SallyMander]

8. Seltzer

:9

[Inchworm]

38. I agree here

I'm a recent convert. I used to drink unsweet iced tea, coffee, or beer all day until someone turned me on to seltzer. It was odd to like.. be able to fall asleep at night and stuffs without drunk posting on DU. :D

I've since bought all the seltzer in hillbilly country and await restocking. Not really, but I can tell from the stacks that I'm the only one buying it :P

:hi:

[BarenakedLady]

84. Yup

I live on seltzer.

[Sequoia]

92. Bubbly goodness for you stomach.

Diet soda is AWFUL.

[Deja Q]

9. Different brand of diet soda? Which is currently the brand you most frequently ingest?

[motely36]

12. Diet Coke

The problem is I drink it constantly. I probably go through 1/2 case a day. I figure that can't be good for me.

[Deja Q]

15. At least your teeth, but I must confess my own addiction:

Diet Cherry/Vanilla Dr Pepper.

I need to get back to mineral water.

Yup, tap water in a semi-rural area that's so high in mineral content, the aquarium water test kit I used showed mineral content approximately only 20x higher than the maximum safety tolerance. (good thing I liked African Cichlids at the time; any South American aquatic species would die in this area's water...) So if you want to drink rocks, come over to my place... :rofl:

[yellowdogintexas]

31. I grew up with a well like that, the hot water always blasted out a bit of

gravel in the tub and the filters on the intake line had to be rotated every 2 months instead of six.

But it was tasty water. Fortunately not sulphuric, just good clean high calcium Kentucky cave water, most likely. I remain convinced the well digger tapped a cave stream, as whenever it rained the water turned red. There was a pond upstream that would not hold water, so I think there was a cave under it somewhere.

We had healthy teeth. Yep. but my dad and I both had kidney stones.

That water made the BEST iced tea ever

[AwakeAtLast]

60. Same addiction here

Is there such thing as DCVDPAA? (Diet Cherry/Vanilla Dr Pepper Addicts Anonymous)

;)

I live in Central IN, so the lime content of our water is astounding! I love Brita water pitchers.

[Fire Walk With Me]

66. If you wish to quit DrPepper, simply remember how they assisted Axel Rose to injure the planet.

"See, problem solved."

[TZ]

18. Yes...

Did you know that technically a Diet Coke is too acidic to be poured down the sink in my lab? We are only supposed to put liquids of pH 4-10 down the sink and Diet Coke is a pH of about 3.3....

[Deja Q]

13. Additional: Would the prospect of taking a bottle of soda pop,

leaving it open for two weeks, and drinking it after that point be an adequate workaround, if carbonation is the issue you are most perturbed at.

[motely36]

17. flat soda?

:puke:

[Lyric]

11. Sugar-free flavored water, sweetened with Splenda.

This, to be exact:

[Chan790]

16. A lot of unsweetened tea and tisane.

I have such a wide variety to choose from that I never get tired of it. Tisane is any steeped beverage that doesn't contain tea, such as rooibos, chamomile, yerba mate or commercial herbal "teas".

[motely36]

21. To me, tea has an aftertaste

I would need to find something to mask it.

[Chan790]

26. I can fix that...

that aftertaste is frequently caused by either the use of poor quality tea, using water that is too hot (over 190'F) or oversteeping your tea. The reason is the same in all three cases, bitter volatile components. A telltale sign is the presence of small stable whitish bubbles on the surface of your tea. Most people oversteep tea, those bubbles shouldn't be there. Some may be formed by cooling but without a change in flavor.

A decent black tea should only need to steep for 3-4 minutes, 4 is really pushing for most black teas. Oolongs typically need 5 minutes. Whites can stand a solid 6-7 minutes. Greens are a completely different matter: Sencha and bancha only require 30 seconds or so while a denser green like Ting-ting can steep indefinitely.

I'd still suggest the tisanes...most of them do not have a tea taste at all. Good choices for making an herbal iced tea would be:
Rooibos (red tea) is fruity and so sweet that I can't drink it with sweetener. Add some citrus and it's divine.
Hibiscus blends are fruity and tart with a taste similar to fresh off the vine raspberries.
Spearmint or mint-blend makes a minty strong-flavored beverage which can be refreshing in the evening.

All are about 5 calories per 16oz glass without sweetener or sugar.

[motely36]

27. thanks for the info

[Deja Q]

39. better that than visene

:puke:

[ogneopasno]

20. Club soda. Throw in a slice of lemon or lime, or buy it flavored. I drink it when I'm not drinking

beer.

[Jamastiene]

22. NON diet soda.

:evilgrin:

I drink plain ol' Dr Pepper. Not diet, not sugar free, not 1 calorie, not clear, not cherry flavored, not caffeine free, not any of that shit for health nuts. I drink my Dr Pepper straight up. That's what the bottom of the glass does when I drink Dr Pepper. It goes straight up.

Oh, wait, what?

I'm sorry.

Oh, you meant for YOOOOO-OOOOOU? :rofl:


Oooh!

There's no Dr Pepper left when I get done. I'm sorry. Good luck on finding something to drink. :evilgrin:

[Deja Q]

23. Nothing like drinking 200 grams of pure sugar per day...

Want to look like Shamu the whale in no time, eh, flat? Drink 36oz of fizzy, teeth rotting sodie-pop each day. For added bonus, don't brush the teeth afterwards. :evilgrin:

[Sebastian Doyle]

76. Pure sugar wouldn't be so bad in and of itself

Problem is that most soda is sweetened with high fructose corn poison, and that's the crap that will kill you.

[Jamastiene]

103. I remember when they actually had Dr Pepper with real sugar.

It was one of the last to switch over to the corn syrup.

[SoxFan]

30. Unsweetened tea

Takes care of the caffeine issue.

[PeaceNikki]

32. You need to get off that hooch. Aspartame is a neurotoxin.

It was only approved by FDA because Donald Rumsfeld "called in his markers" to get aspartame approved.

http://www.newswithviews.com/NWVexclusive/exclusive15.htm

[buzzycrumbhunger]

33. Tea

My faves: SPORTea (has electrolytes like "fitness" waters, but no sweeteners) and Good Earth green tea with lemongrass (the lemongrass makes it kind of like drinking flowers--in a good way). Both are good hot or cold. Otherwise, I keep an assortment of teas and just mix it up, but these two are my staples and I keep a pitcher in the fridge. SPORTea is at most whole foods-type stores and the Good Earth brand is everywhere.

Diet sodas are just nasty, you know--though I see Pepsi is now poised to release their first stevia-sweetened version. (Stevia is an herb and the only noncaloric sweetener that doesn't cause a carb reaction or otherwise fuck with your body.)

[TroglodyteScholar]

34. Easy

Fruit Juice....OJ, apple, cran, grape, grapefruit, etc, etc...all quite refreshing
Hot tea...black, earl grey, green...yum!

And really, it would be good to go ahead and start drinking WATER anyway. What don't you like about water besides the fact that it's not soda?

[crimsonblue]

35. caffeine free diet soda...

that stuff's pretty much inert.

[fudge stripe cookays]

78. It's poison. n/t

[crispini]

36. Topo Chico!

Carbonated mineral water from Mexico. No calories, no artificial sweeteners, lots of minerals, lots of fizz. Of course, you may hate the taste. It's definitely an acquired taste.

Also, lots and lots of green tea. Hot.

[BluePatriot]

37. Tea. Lots of tea.

Water with lemon...hot tea in endless variety...iced tea...herbal tea...

Yeah, it just never bores me because I have so much to pick from!

Here's a great tea site:

http://www.adagio.com/

[4 t 4]

44. I agree with you

can't find the perfect beverage been trying for years. My sister is trying to make some sort of flavored drink. All natural with flavor and no sugar or fake crap. She was thinking lemons, limes water with just a little sparkling something added and maybe a tiny bit of juice. Agave for sweetener I don't know I think it's a lost cause.

[KT2000]

40. Try filtered water

Some grocery stores sell filtered water by the gallon - you bring the container.
The water in my home has so many minerals, the taste is not great. The filtered water I get at the grocery store is really good though. Totally different than my tap water.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

45. There's a filter on the faucet in the kitchen

The water is really good - sparkling, clear, and sweet.

[Blue Diadem]

88. filtering makes a huge difference

I hated drinking water before we began using a filter.

[fudge stripe cookays]

41. Here's what I do.

And I'm addicted to Coke.

When I try to cut back, I start with various flavored carbonated waters like Perrier or La Croix with lime, or lemon or orange. I actually found some La Croix here over the holidays that's raspberry and cranberry. Yum!

Then, I can drink a lone glass of water with some fresh lemon juice. So I begin alternating. Then, I can finally begin weaning myself off the carbonation and the flavor and just drink water.

Seriously...when you get up to 8 glasses a day, like I do on Weight Watchers, the more you drink, the more you crave. You get dehydrated very easily when you drink that much, and the more you drink, the healthier it makes you. Then, you'll try to drink a Coke, and it will taste syrupy and gross.

Here's another reason to switch....artificial sweeteners lead to MS. I have it, and I'm convinced that's how I got it, with all the Equal I consumed in the 80s. STOP DRINKING THAT SHIT, NOW.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

43. Not so.........

Drinking too much water is bad for you. You start washing nutrients out of your system, and that's not good. Some people have died from drinking too much water. That "eight ten-ounce glasses of water a day" myth has been disproven.

Ultimately, it's about oral.

[Melissa G]

49. Where was drinking 8 glasses a day disproven? n/t

[Tangerine LaBamba]

52. Well,

here's one: http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp

And here's another: http://ajpregu.physiology.org/cgi/content/full/283/5/R993

Here's a nice exposition of the Dartmouth article: http://calorielab.com/news/2006/05/28/8-glasses-of-water-a-diet-urban-legend/

Science Daily has a good article about some health myths, including the eight glasses of water a day: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/12/071220195639.htm

A article in the UK Telegraph references the U of P research: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/1583752/No-benefit-in-drinking-eight-glasses-of-water-a-day,-scientists-say.html

This is an expansion of the Indiana research: http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/335/7633/1288

There are a lot more, but this is a nice overview. It's been disproven for quite some time. I suspect outfits like Weight Watchers continue to propound this myth so as to keep its subscribers feeling full and gratifying that need to have something in one's mouth.

As I said, it's oral.

[Melissa G]

53. Your articles mostly refer to each other.

My experience of almost 29 years of working with muscle spasms show me that drinking more water dramatically improves the tissues, within less than a minute, about 95% of the time. It is a remarkable thing to observe.

Drinking more water in the morning seems to really help folks with constipation, but from the literature review these don't seem to be questions folks are asking. This is likely because drug companies who fund most of the studies, don't care.

The only real downside I read in your articles was a reference to water intoxication being fatal. That would be 4 Gallons at one time. I have not heard anyone suggest this as a good idea.

"Healthy adult kidneys are capable of processing 15 liters of water or almost 4 U.S. gallons, per day, if one drinks the water in small quantities spread throughout the entire day.

It is not advisable, however, to drink 15 liters of water daily over a long period."

This below seems to sum up your 'disproval' which IMHO, is no disproval.

"The literature review by Drs Negoianu and Goldfarb reveals there is no clear evidence of benefit from increasing water intake. On the other hand, no clear evidence exists of a lack of benefit. "There is simply a lack of evidence in general," they explain."

[Tangerine LaBamba]

58. Actually, they don't.......

The overviews do quote with some repitition, but I just thought I'd make it easy for anyone who wanted to read them.

And it wasn't my "disproval" (is that a word?). I was just quoting the literature.

If you have muscle spasms, and you've found that drinking water helps those spasms, more power to you. That, of course, has nothing to do with the idea that eight ten-ounce glasses of water daily are required for good health. Perhaps for you, but not for everyone.

Of course water is necessary to healthy living. There's no one who would quibble with that. But, the evolution of the dicta laid down originally by that Stillman Diet - which helped with the inevitable constipation that resulted from the Stillman Diet, no doubt - has now been shown to be exaggerated.

But so is exercise vital for proper digestion. There's no one claiming that one must spend an hour a day on treadmill in order to be healthy, which would be goofy.

The quote you included at the end of the article broke me up when I read it. When someone says something that ridiculous, it's usually probative of the reality that they have nothing substantive to contribute. It's akin to saying "There's no evidence that George W. Bush was the best President we've ever had. On the other hand, there's no evidence that he wasn't."

Well, in fact, there is. Just as there is evidence that good health is not contingent on consuming a certain amount of water every day. If the drug companies - as you suggest without any amplification - are behind this notion that people shouldn't drink so much water, is it possible that the water producers are behind other research saying something inane like that quote at the end of your post?

Hey, if you're happy drinking eight glasses of water a day and it makes you feel good, that's your business. Expansion was requested, it was delivered, and I am hardly going to defend the truth of the findings. Taking feeble shots at what I provided does nothing to bolster your belief in the eight glass a day system. It just diminishes you.

Drink up. Be happy and healthy.

[Melissa G]

62. Disproval is a noun.

dis·prove (ds-prv)
tr.v. dis·proved, dis·prov·ing, dis·proves
To prove to be false, invalid, or in error; refute.

dis·prova·ble adj.
dis·proval n.

Sorry you thought the article you provided was "inane"
I was looking for the 8 glasses to be disproved and this was the literature review you provided, but must not have read. Glad it amused you, now that you have.


(Literature review is what folks do to see what has been published in the field they are discussing, which is what makes the quote relevant. Their literature review assessment was that there was not evidence one way or the other.


I am not diminished, just amused, at someone who sends links they have not read.
Have a lovely evening and stay hydrated whatever that means to you.
Best,
Melissa

[Tangerine LaBamba]

63. That's a great obscure word......

A new one on me. Thank you. I love that.

It seems you didn't comprehend what I wrote to you.

Well, that's all right.

As I said, be happy and healthy.

[fudge stripe cookays]

77. I strive for 8 glasses a day.

I don't usually make it. It flushes impurities out of your system.

I suspect that snopes is trying to make people feel better about bad lifestyle choices.

[Schema Thing]

73. Honest T - organic green tea.

sweetened lightly with real cane sugar.


It's about the only thing I've found that can give Diet Coke a run for it's money. Of course I would literally die if I didn't drink at least one large diet Coke per day, so I can't give it up completely. ;)

[Lorien]

91. Yep, they do:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n-gA0wvi84

[Tangerine LaBamba]

42. A half case a day?

That's a serious oral fixation. Maybe you should try to figure out what's behind it, and your need for all that Diet Coke (or a substitute) might diminish.

Good thing you're not eating pizza at the same rate.

My daytime drink is really, really watered down Crystal Light Lemonade - it's essentially slightly lemon-flavored water.

[supernova]

46. Flavored seltzer and carbonated mineral water

are my drinks of choice now when I want something fizzy. Really good with a dash of lemon or lime juice.

Mostly though for everyday it's unsweetened tea or water with lemon or lime. It's much better for you.

[Kali]

48. I live on iced tea. I know what you mean about water, I never touch the stuff.

I use a tad over a half cup of sugar to a gallon of tea. (and I do it in the sun year round - 4 family sized bags per gallon in winter, 3 in summer) Plenty of caffeine, flavor, and a little sweet - nothing compared to soda or even powdered stuff. Stay away from fake sweeteners.

If you can afford soda, try mixing real fruit juice half and half with plain carbonated water. Or even good filtered water if you are trying to ditch the bubbles (I love bubbles and I love soda but I just can't afford it, moneywise or healthwise)

[Melissa G]

50. Hibiscus mint tea is absolutely Divine! with or with out sweetener. n/t

[InkAddict]

51. Lo-cal and non-carbonated

Minute Maid Lite - Cherry Lime is de-lish! - Flavored ice tea/herbal teas are good too!

Congrats for eliminating the fizzy stuff!

[JimGinPA]

54. Diet Beer

B-)

[Diana Prince]

55. Metromint Water

I get tired of plain water and this is a pick me up. I like the Spearmint & Lemonmint. They have 2 flavors I haven't tried yet,can't find them here, Cherrymint & Chocolatemint.

[lightningandsnow]

57. This lemon-ginger-echinacea drink from Whole Foods.

http://www.knudsenjuices.com/products/simply_nutritious/lemon_ginger_echinacea

It kind of tastes like lemony, flat ginger ale.

[pokerfan]

59. There are a bunch of sugar free drink mixes

I like Western Family's Coolers to Go. They want you mix it with 16 oz of water but I stretch that to 32. I just need a little flavor. Comes in lemon, peach and raspberry.

[cmf]

61. Fruit Tea

Like Celestial Seasonings. Addictive. Even tastes good unsweetened.

[mwooldri]

64. I'm surprised no-ones' mentioned milk yet...

Not exactly a "diet drink", and if you add Strawberry syrup to it (I'm not that fond of chocolate milk but will drink that occasionally) it to me is addictive.

Mark.

[margotb822]

65. Flavored green tea

You can get it caffeinated or not and in different citrus and berry flavors. I drink 3-4 mugs per day.

[Connonym]

67. is it just tap water that you don't like?

We have high levels of toxins in our groundwater here so I have a water cooler and get 5 gallon bottles delivered. I've noticed that there's a difference in the taste of the water from different vendors. Maybe you could try different types of purified water and see if one of them tastes better to you.

I keep trying to give up my Diet Coke addiction because it's ruining my teeth and god knows what else. It's hard to give up. I like carbonation so sometimes I drink sparkling water and that satisfies the yen for the carbonation without all the chemical crap.

[MsTryska]

68. how does one not like water?

it's....water.

colorless, usually tasteless, vital to the human body. I have never understood this stance (and I've heard it a lot).

is it the lack of sweetness that's the problem? flavor?

losing the need for sweetness will serve you well in your life. if it's flavor you seek, green tea with some ginger is a cool alternative.

[Tyrone Slothrop]

114. I don't get that either

It's the essence of life itself, absolutely essential for basically every living thing on the planet, has sustained humans for hundreds of thousands of years -- and people can't stand the taste?

Boggles the mind...

[grannylib]

69. Lots of juice, cranberry mostly, also apple/cherry...

Although I do love my Diet Dew...

[petronius]

70. A great big box of red wine will last all day, and you can get bottles of

the stuff to carry along when you run errands... Problem solved!

:)

[XemaSab]

71. Calistoga water

It's got a lot of flavor, and NO calories.

There's a Trader Joe's knockoff that's pretty cheap too.

[Sebastian Doyle]

74. Green Tea

if you need a sweetener, try stevia.

[barb162]

75. diet, caffeine free cola

There is no substitute other than black coffee. Tea is for sissies. :)

[JVS]

79. Seltzer

[Heidi]

80. White tea. Some studies have shown it has more antioxidants than green tea

and less caffeine than either green or black tea. :)

http://coffeetea.about.com/od/typesoftea/a/whitetea.htm

[MissMillie]

81. sugar free lemonade

I'd say Crystal Light, but that one is too sweet for me. I've been drinking 4C.

[sarge43]

82. Tea: Green, white, herbal

Check out the different flavors and brands until you find the ones you like.

I broke my soda addiction that way.

[RebelOne]

83. Try Crystal Light. They have some pretty good flavors. n/t

[Rambis]

86. Rasberry Ice is very good (nm)

x

[astral]

85. Lemon water sweetened with Stevia

Get a hand lemon juicer, use 1/2 lemon per 8-oz glass of water, or just use half that amount if you want a lighter flavor. Add 7 drops of water-based dark stevia extract (Sweetleaf is my brand) and of course water from a water filter but if you're just into using your tapwater that's okay.

Sweetleaf also makes assorted flavored stevia extracts, but I don't think they're dark (I like the dark version better than the clear) with different kinds of essences in them, so you can find lots of variety that way.

A little carbonated water with stevia added is a fine pop substitute too, but I do not think carbonation is healthy, use it just as a now - and - then treat.

[Locrian]

87. lacroix

http://www.lacroixwater.com/

[Critters2]

98. +1 nt

[Lorien]

90. Go to a health food store and look for diet drinks sweetened with stivia

I broke a six pack a day diet coke habit nine years ago that way. Watch a documentary called "sweet misery" and you'll be scared off aspartame for good: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-n-gA0wvi84 I don't think that Spenda is a decent alternative either. Google "splenda toxicity" and you'll read why. Stivia is an herb that has been used as a sweetener for ages, but it can't be patented and isn't subsidized, so large corporations show little interest in it. Still many smaller companies are using it to flavor diet drinks and there are new items on the market every month, so take a trip to a local health food store to check it out!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

94. Seltzer water or other carbonated water plus an ounce or so of fruit juice

Seltzer by itself contains no sugar. It's just water charged with carbon dioxide.

Add apple, grape, or whatever your favorite juice is to create a low-calorie, healthy drink. (If you use white grape juice, you can pretend you're having a wine spritzer.)

[Phoonzang]

95. I have the same problem...wan't to quit the Diet Coke but despise plain water.

I think I'm going to go the tea route. At least I can still get my caffeine that way.

[astral]

97. I read part of the Snopes article and it just pissed me off

I have SEEN stuff like this that are just, PLAIN, LIES.

____________
Many of the notions (and dubious "facts") presented in that e-mail seem to have been taken from the book Your Body's Many Cries for Water, by Fereydoon Batmanghelidj. Dr. Batmanghelidj, an Iranian-born physician who now lives in the U.S., maintains that people "need to learn they're not sick, only thirsty,'' and that simply drinking more water "cures many diseases like arthritis, angina, migraines, hypertension and asthma." However, he arrived at his conclusions through reading, not research, and he claims that his ideas represent a "paradigm shift" that required him to self-publish his book lest his findings "be suppressed.''
____________

LIE. Dr. Batman, as his fans called him (he is deceased) USED water to cure people of diseases when water was all he had at his disposal, and learned himself how fantastic it was for many things called 'diseases.'

Don't take Snopes at face value. Sorry!

[Canuckistanian]

100. Mauby

[kentauros]

101. I do drink soda, but there are two "health" drinks I like.

Coconut water: as a natural electrolyte replacer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coconut_water
http://runtrails.blogspot.com/2007/03/coconut-water-natures-electrolyte.html

Raw Kombucha: to boost my immune system when sick (in addition to whatever meds I'm on...)
http://gtskombucha.com/faq.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kombucha

:D

[dixiegrrrrl]

102. Look up what phosphates do to your brain..

found in most if not all sodas.

I have no idea what it is that makes Pepsi or Coke so damn addicting, I swear they are putting something in it but not telling us.
Never have that issue with 7 Up or root beer.
Fortuantely, the artificial sugars were found to be so dangerous it was easy to get off the stuf years ago.

Anyhow, I have run into articles about possible phosphate/Alzhemier's link.

Brita water filter, ice water, and OJ or grape juice, works fine for me.

We are seriously considering investing in the Berkeley Water filter, it gets flouride out of the water.

[Generic Brad]

104. Mineral water

But one word of warning: if you get the giggles while you have a mouthful you run the risk of a burning sensation in your nostrils if it shoots out your nose.

[grace0418]

105. If you can't hack unsweetened iced tea, try Yogi Tea Sweet Thai Delight. It's just

slightly sweet and really delicious, hot or cold.

[backscatter712]

106. Green tea.

Very good for you, has some caffeine in it, but not a huge amount, lots of antioxidants.

[Eurobabe]

107. Just plain water

Get a Brita pitcher and keep it in the fridge if you like your H20 cold.

You see, I got a kidney stone in 2001 from not drinking enough WATER, so since then I've eliminated just about ALL SODA from my diet.

Water is awesome! Good luck. :hi:

[eauclaireliberal]

108. Water...there is a good reason

Actually, more than that, but one important thing to note is that diet soda is high in sodium which is a great preservative...that includes body fat.

[Sanctified]

109. Make a pot of coffee and turn it off to cool, then drink it iced with milk. n/t

[HEyHEY]

110. Diet pop?

[BrklynLiberal]

111. Put a filter on your faucet. Keep a pitcher or bottle of water-glass only-in your refrigerator.

Have plenty of limes in the house. When you want a drink, cut a lime and squeeze it into a glass with some nice cold water. If you want some sweetness, you can get Stevia, as either a powder or a liquid at any health food store. Use it sparingly as it is very sweet. It is a naturally occurring sweetener, with none of the side-effects of artificial sweeteners and none of the calories of sugar.

[JohnnieGordon]

112. In the winter you don't even need the pitcher in the refrigerator

It comes out of the tap cold enough. Unless maybe if you live down south.

[BrklynLiberal]

113. Love your sigline :D

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