If I asked you to name three “bad” things about plastic, I’m 99.9% sure you’d list off the “offenses” faster than you could sing a line from your favorite Beyoncé or Taylor Swift song. But, what if I asked you to name three “good” things about plastic? Could you do...
My beverage of choice, since basically birth, has been soda. When I got a little older, I switched it up to the diet versions—because I’d much rather eat my calories than drink them! But recently, I’ve been thinking about how I’d also like to limit the amount of sugar...
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As a kid, your parents are always telling you to drink more of it. In your 20s you down one between cocktails to stave off a hangover.
Americans now officially drink more bottled water than soda. It’s a shift that decades ago might have seemed unthinkable—that consumers would buy a packaged version of something they could get free from a tap.
Whether you drink it to quench your thirst or use it to wash your laundry, water is an indispensable part of our lives and our world.
It’s also an indispensable part of a healthy diet. That’s why more and more Americans are choosing to increase their water intake. In 2015, the average American drank 36.5 gallons of bottled water — a 7.9 percent increase over the previous year.
