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What’s the healthiest drink you like to drink?

DaveFromCampbelltown said:
It depends on the water. I grew up drinking untreated tank water. It rained on the roof, was collected by the gutters and poured through a fly wire strainer filled with rotting leaves, dead frogs and who knows what else.
One did develop a robust intestinal system this way...
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I like bottled water from the store🙃
 
Apple fanboy said:
No tap water?
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Tap water can be dangerous. There have been many systems found with PFOAs in them and these are being cleaned up. Our town was contaminated with this stuff (it's used for flame retardants, pizza boxes, GoreTex). Our water bills doubled as the water utility had to add considerable filtration to filter it out. The article to double water prices passed 83% in favor of it.

I also don't like the taste of chlorine in water so we double filter tap water to remove the taste of chlorine. We originally double-filtered for the contamination problem but that has been resolved. We are suing the company that contaminated our water supply in the first place. EPA regulations were too lax in this area.
 
pshufd said:
Tap water can be dangerous. There have been many systems found with PFOAs in them and these are being cleaned up. Our town was contaminated with this stuff (it's used for flame retardants, pizza boxes, GoreTex). Our water bills doubled as the water utility had to add considerable filtration to filter it out. The article to double water prices passed 83% in favor of it.

I also don't like the taste of chlorine in water so we double filter tap water to remove the taste of chlorine. We originally double-filtered for the contamination problem but that has been resolved. We are suing the company that contaminated our water supply in the first place. EPA regulations were too lax in this area.
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I boil my tap water before I make it into tea. Which reminds me. I’ve just finished a cup, so off to make another.
 
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Apple fanboy said:
I boil my tap water before I make it into tea. Which reminds me. I’ve just finished a cup, so off to make another.
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Boiling things can solve some problems but there are lots more where it doesn't do anything. Lead contamination for one. I think that boiling wouldn't do anything for PFOAs as they are inorganic compounds. Arsenic is a problem in some places as well and that's not removed by boiling. The best process is reverse osmosis but that's an expensive solution and it can take up a lot of space.
 
Well healthy or not still at the office and a Cuvee des Trolls Belgian (or something on those lines) beckons.
 
Apple fanboy said:
No tap water?
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We were living in a developing country. They hadn't yet set up reticulated water or sewerage systems. You captured your own water from your roof* and sewerage went into a septic tank. The electricity went off at 10pm.

* and were responsible for managing it until the next wet season. It was one of my jobs to regularly tap the side of the water tanks to see how much we had left. Another was twice a week to refill the kerosene-powered refrigerator. It always puzzled me how you put heat into a fridge and got cold out.
 
casperes1996 said:
I drink a lot of cans of “Egekilde”. It’s sparkling water with aroma flavours essentially. It’s my main thing to drink.

Coffee is considered healthy though especially if you’re caffeine tolerant. If you’re not genetically caffeine tolerant, it can have some negatives to it, especially if you overdo it, but if you’re genetically caffeine tolerant coffee can be quite healthy without the usual downsides like elevated heart rate and whatnot.
Caffeine tolerant people also do not get energy from drinking coffee, n’or withdrawal issues like lack of energy when not consuming coffee
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It seems like when I start to drag, I turn to a cup of coffee and it peps me back up. :)
 
Apple fanboy said:
If I do t drink 6-8 cups of tea a day I cease to function.
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I'm the same with coffee - need at least a few cups every morning to kick off the day. I do try to avoid it in the afternoons or evenings unless I need a pick-me-up for work. :)
 
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First cup of coffee for the day is from a coffee pod machine. It is virtually impossible to muck that up.
After that I am capable of driving the ground coffee espresso machine (currently being fed Peruvian beans).
 
Being psychoactive drug of addiction, there’s no way I call coffee healthy but drinking it black is healthier than putting milk and sugar in.

I wouldn’t really call fruit juice healthy either, but this The Apple Press jazz Apple juice from Hawkes Bay in New Zealand is probably as good as it gets.

https://theapplepress.co.nz/our-story/
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Really, the only healthy drink is clean water.
 
quynhtrang said:
Being psychoactive drug of addiction, there’s no way I call coffee healthy but drinking it black is healthier than putting milk and sugar in.

I wouldn’t really call fruit juice healthy either, but this The Apple Press jazz Apple juice from Hawkes Bay in New Zealand is probably as good as it gets.

https://theapplepress.co.nz/our-story/
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I normally drink tea or coffee without cream and sugar but am sipping some mint tea with either sugar or honey (I didn't make it).

I haven't eaten in 30 hours and it's good to have a few calories now and then.



 
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