I usually just drink water. You should try it, it’s awesome.
(It also produces less in the way of disinfection byproducts, which is good if the water contains anything that might react nastily with chlorine. And it’s much more persistent, which is good or bad depending on your perspective. You need to take special measures to remove it if you want to water a fish and potentially if you want to brew beer. As far as I can tell, it has no meaningful effect on an established sourdough starter. I assume that the large population of microbes in established starter is able to neutralize the small amounts of chloramine in tap water.)
I know I’m not alone.
Sparkling water has become my go-to. It does satisfy my cravings, and I’m sure it’s immeasurably better for health than my previous go-to Diet Coke.
Mind if I ask: How so?
I also love Diet Redbull for the taste however it still has a small number of calories and carbs so they make Redbull Zero which I can't stand
Anything carbonated still tastes good but there's a hard limit of one per day.
I still like the usual foods. I also lost 20 pounds!
> It's probably better for your teeth
So is not eating or sleeping or breathing.
Of course people do seem to drink it mass quantities.
But yeah, I’ve been drinking water for years, and this has made it much more enjoyable. (I occasionally “splurge” and drink tea or soda, but it probably amounts to less than 1% of the fluids I consume.)
Citric acid isn’t great for teeth, but 2 packs per gallon should have a negligible impact (could possibly do more, but 2 is perfectly fine).
Not arguably, it factually is.
I've also never understood the concept of being "bored" with water. Not everything in life has to be a sensual experience. Why not drink it because its good for you and save the flavoured beverages as treats?
> It just doesn’t satisfy cravings.
Not to mention they said they do drink water - just of the sparkling variety, which does satisfy their cravings.
some of us are really bad at doing things, even good/healthy things, unless we get a dopamine response. so 99% of my "water intake" is really coffee, tea, or artificially sweetened soda.