Water Options!!!

kmccleery04
kmccleery04 Posts: 20
edited September 18 in Food and Nutrition
I'm always trying to find new ways to drink water. Knowing water is great for me I sometimes fail to get my 8 cups in everyday. :ohwell: I have found that using lemons is a great way to help me drink more water, but a new favorite it putting cucumber slices in my water. Sounds very strange, but it quite refreshing!!!
Any other ideas? :happy:

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  • I'm always trying to find new ways to drink water. Knowing water is great for me I sometimes fail to get my 8 cups in everyday. :ohwell: I have found that using lemons is a great way to help me drink more water, but a new favorite it putting cucumber slices in my water. Sounds very strange, but it quite refreshing!!!
    Any other ideas? :happy:
  • Loretta_Jo
    Loretta_Jo Posts: 609 Member
    What a wonderful idea. I will get some cucumbers tomorrow while I am out. Thanks for posting this.
    :flowerforyou:
  • REB89
    REB89 Posts: 493 Member
    You can buy lots of packets of water flavours which are 0 or very few calories, taste quite yummy and make a change from plain water!
  • catlover
    catlover Posts: 389
    I'm going to look for those water flavor packs
  • MontanaGirl
    MontanaGirl Posts: 1,251 Member
    Crystal Light has several varieties - they are good if you don't mind art. sweetener. I really like the peach tea and the raspberry lemonade. Nice treat! Also, along with lemon or cucumber, slices of lime are great!
  • fierroday
    fierroday Posts: 11 Member
    Also there are flavored seltzer water's which give you the feeling of drinking soda because they are carbonated.
  • MontanaGirl
    MontanaGirl Posts: 1,251 Member
    Also there are flavored seltzer water's which give you the feeling of drinking soda because they are carbonated.

    Oh, yeah! Forgot about those - WalMart has their own brand for $.50 a bottle too!
  • fierroday
    fierroday Posts: 11 Member
    Yes, very tasty. Also, for other options, you could add a little juice to a seltzer or diet-Sprite for some variety. :wink:
  • DianneLynn
    DianneLynn Posts: 156 Member
    I'm addicted to a slice of lemon in my water.

    Herbal teas are a great replacement for water and you can usually drink them hot or iced.

    I avoid anything with Aspartame. Why? Read the following article and make your own decision.

    A MUST READ re: ASPARTAME ~ A SWEET POISON

    In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick. She had stomach
    spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a
    major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was
    in so much pain.
    By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and
    was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not
    determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so
    sick.she just knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, life
    insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter's name, and made sure that her
    younger children were to be taken care of.

    She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida
    (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd .

    On March 19 I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she
    said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS.

    I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my
    sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of
    fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment.

    I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda! I
    e-mailed her the article my friend, a lawyer, had sent.

    My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and
    told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk! The
    muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but she sure felt
    a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctor with this article
    and would call me when she got home.

    Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call
    all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners
    of any kind.

    In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet
    soda...and literally dying a slow and miserable death.

    When she got to Florida March 22, all she had to take was one pill, and
    that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a
    complete recovery. And she is walking! No wheelchair! This article saved
    her life.

    If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!

    I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL
    CONFERENCE on "ASPARTAME," marketed as 'NutraSweet,' 'Equal,' and
    'Spoonful.'

    In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United
    States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic
    lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this
    to be rampant.

    I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.
    I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of
    this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME
    converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes
    metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire
    ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple
    sclerosis and systemic lupus. Many people were being diagnosed in error.
    Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity
    is!

    Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis,
    especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. The victim usually
    does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its
    use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a
    life-threatening condition. We have seen patients with systemic lupus
    become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.

    In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the
    symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss returned and
    hearing loss improved markedly. This also applies to cases of tinnitus
    and fibromyalgia.

    During a lecture, I said, "If you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSweet,
    Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms,
    shooting, pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness,
    headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, unexplainable depression, anxiety
    attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss you probably have
    ASPARTAME poisoning!"

    People were jumping up during the lecture saying, "I have some of these
    symptoms. Is it reversible?"Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and
    be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with
    it! This is a serious problem.

    Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be
    symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice, a nurse
    stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had
    all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence!

    Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple
    SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you
    crave carbohydrates. It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!

    These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells,
    particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin
    and is used primarily to preserve "tissue specimens." Many products we
    use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our
    body!

    Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the "diet
    products" and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost
    an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.

    Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some
    physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in
    fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood
    sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to
    the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken
    without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance.

    Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the
    Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the
    neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, seizures,
    depression, manic depression, panic attacks, uncontrollable anger and
    rage.

    Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as
    well. Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of
    children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in
    their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet.
    So called "behavior modification prescription drugs" (Ritalin and others)
    are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first
    place! Most of these children were being "poisoned" on a daily basis
    with the very foods that were "better for them than sugar."

    It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet
    Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War,
    may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.

    Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental
    retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early
    pregnancy.

    Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should
    NEVER be given artificial sweeteners. There are many different case
    histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other
    neurological disturbances talking about a plague of neurological diseases
    directly caused by the use of this deadly poison."

    Herein lies the problem:

    There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included 100
    different products and strong objection was made concerning its use.
    Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, and
    still nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep
    pockets.

    Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED!

    There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly
    chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a
    "piece of the Aspartame pie." I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of
    Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.

    And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American
    Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the

    Conference of the American College of Physicians?
    This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These
    [organizations] cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to
    MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required
    to endorse their products.

    Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require
    label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding
    pregnant women, children and infants. The bill would also institute
    independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the
    general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry,
    neurological changes and behavioral symptoms. The bill was killed.

    It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible
    for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an
    unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're Informed now! YOU HAVE A
    RIGHT TO KNOW!
    Please print this out and/or copy & paste then e-mail to your family and
    friends.

    They have a right to know too.

    Personal Note: Everytime I eat or drink anything with Aspartame in it...I immediately get a migraine. That's just me (and maybe millions of others). Combine Aspartame with MSG...what chance does anyone have. It's easy to slough off the many articles written about these two "drugs" (YESS they ARE drugs) but the fact that article upon article when you google them ...the story is the same convinced me that it must be so.

    Ask yourself this ~ Would you drink wood alcohol???
  • dawn66
    dawn66 Posts: 166
    I have just started drinking herbal tea. Do you count that as water?
  • I drink a lot of black tea as well. The only thing with the tea is it has a lot of calories in it. Great articles though on the diet sodas. Interesting!!!! I try to just stay away from those anyway... sometimes its hard!!! :ohwell:
  • auntkaren
    auntkaren Posts: 1,490 Member
    I'm addicted to a slice of lemon in my water.

    Herbal teas are a great replacement for water and you can usually drink them hot or iced.

    I avoid anything with Aspartame. Why? Read the following article and make your own decision.

    A MUST READ re: ASPARTAME ~ A SWEET POISON

    In October of 2001, my sister started getting very sick. She had stomach
    spasms and she was having a hard time getting around. Walking was a
    major chore. It took everything she had just to get out of bed; she was
    in so much pain.
    By March 2002, she had undergone several tissue and muscle biopsies and
    was on 24 various prescription medications. The doctors could not
    determine what was wrong with her. She was in so much pain, and so
    sick.she just knew she was dying. She put her house, bank accounts, life
    insurance, etc., in her oldest daughter's name, and made sure that her
    younger children were to be taken care of.

    She also wanted her last hooray, so she planned a trip to Florida
    (basically in a wheelchair) for March 22nd .

    On March 19 I called her to ask how her most recent tests went, and she
    said they didn't find anything on the test, but they believe she had MS.

    I recalled an article a friend of mine e-mailed to me and I asked my
    sister if she drank diet soda? She told me that she did. As a matter of
    fact, she was getting ready to crack one open that moment.

    I told her not to open it, and to stop drinking the diet soda! I
    e-mailed her the article my friend, a lawyer, had sent.

    My sister called me within 32 hours after our phone conversation and
    told me she had stopped drinking the diet soda AND she could walk! The
    muscle spasms went away. She said she didn't feel 100% but she sure felt
    a lot better. She told me she was going to her doctor with this article
    and would call me when she got home.

    Well, she called me, and said her doctor was amazed! He is going to call
    all of his MS patients to find out if they consumed artificial sweeteners
    of any kind.

    In a nutshell, she was being poisoned by the Aspartame in the diet
    soda...and literally dying a slow and miserable death.

    When she got to Florida March 22, all she had to take was one pill, and
    that was a pill for the Aspartame poisoning! She is well on her way to a
    complete recovery. And she is walking! No wheelchair! This article saved
    her life.

    If it says 'SUGAR FREE' on the label; DO NOT EVEN THINK ABOUT IT!

    I have spent several days lecturing at the WORLD ENVIRONMENTAL
    CONFERENCE on "ASPARTAME," marketed as 'NutraSweet,' 'Equal,' and
    'Spoonful.'

    In the keynote address by the EPA, it was announced that in the United
    States in 2001 there is an epidemic of multiple sclerosis and systemic
    lupus. It was difficult to determine exactly what toxin was causing this
    to be rampant.

    I stood up and said that I was there to lecture on exactly that subject.
    I will explain why Aspartame is so dangerous: When the temperature of
    this sweetener exceeds 86 degrees F, the wood alcohol in ASPARTAME
    converts to formaldehyde and then to formic acid, which in turn causes
    metabolic acidosis. Formic acid is the poison found in the sting of fire
    ants. The methanol toxicity mimics, among other conditions, multiple
    sclerosis and systemic lupus. Many people were being diagnosed in error.
    Although multiple sclerosis is not a death sentence, Methanol toxicity
    is!

    Systemic lupus has become almost as rampant as multiple sclerosis,
    especially with Diet Coke and Diet Pepsi drinkers. The victim usually
    does not know that the Aspartame is the culprit. He or she continues its
    use; irritating the lupus to such a degree that it may become a
    life-threatening condition. We have seen patients with systemic lupus
    become asymptotic, once taken off diet sodas.

    In cases of those diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis, most of the
    symptoms disappear. We've seen many cases where vision loss returned and
    hearing loss improved markedly. This also applies to cases of tinnitus
    and fibromyalgia.

    During a lecture, I said, "If you are using ASPARTAME (NutraSweet,
    Equal, Spoonful, etc) and you suffer from fibromyalgia symptoms, spasms,
    shooting, pains, numbness in your legs, cramps, vertigo, dizziness,
    headaches, tinnitus, joint pain, unexplainable depression, anxiety
    attacks, slurred speech, blurred vision, or memory loss you probably have
    ASPARTAME poisoning!"

    People were jumping up during the lecture saying, "I have some of these
    symptoms. Is it reversible?"Yes! Yes! Yes! STOP drinking diet sodas and
    be alert for Aspartame on food labels! Many products are fortified with
    it! This is a serious problem.

    Dr. Espart (one of my speakers) remarked that so many people seem to be
    symptomatic for MS and during his recent visit to a hospice, a nurse
    stated that six of her friends, who were heavy Diet Coke addicts, had
    all been diagnosed with MS. This is beyond coincidence!

    Diet soda is NOT a diet product! It is a chemically altered, multiple
    SODIUM (salt) and ASPARTAME containing product that actually makes you
    crave carbohydrates. It is far more likely to make you GAIN weight!

    These products also contain formaldehyde, which stores in the fat cells,
    particularly in the hips and thighs. Formaldehyde is an absolute toxin
    and is used primarily to preserve "tissue specimens." Many products we
    use every day contain this chemical but we SHOULD NOT store it IN our
    body!

    Dr. H. J. Roberts stated in his lectures that once free of the "diet
    products" and with no significant increase in exercise; his patients lost
    an average of 19 pounds over a trial period.

    Aspartame is especially dangerous for diabetics. We found that some
    physicians, who believed that they had a patient with retinopathy, in
    fact, had symptoms caused by Aspartame. The Aspartame drives the blood
    sugar out of control. Thus diabetics may suffer acute memory loss due to
    the fact that aspartic acid and phenylalanine are NEUROTOXIC when taken
    without the other amino acids necessary for a good balance.

    Treating diabetes is all about BALANCE. Especially with diabetics, the
    Aspartame passes the blood/brain barrier and it then deteriorates the
    neurons of the brain; causing various levels of brain damage, seizures,
    depression, manic depression, panic attacks, uncontrollable anger and
    rage.

    Consumption of Aspartame causes these same symptoms in non-diabetics as
    well. Documentation and observation also reveal that thousands of
    children diagnosed with ADD and ADHD have had complete turnarounds in
    their behavior when these chemicals have been removed from their diet.
    So called "behavior modification prescription drugs" (Ritalin and others)
    are no longer needed. Truth be told, they were never NEEDED in the first
    place! Most of these children were being "poisoned" on a daily basis
    with the very foods that were "better for them than sugar."

    It is also suspected that the Aspartame in thousands of pallets of diet
    Coke and diet Pepsi consumed by men and women fighting in the Gulf War,
    may be partially to blame for the well-known Gulf War Syndrome.

    Dr. Roberts warns that it can cause birth defects, i.e. mental
    retardation, if taken at the time of conception and during early
    pregnancy.

    Children are especially at risk for neurological disorders and should
    NEVER be given artificial sweeteners. There are many different case
    histories to relate of children suffering grand mal seizures and other
    neurological disturbances talking about a plague of neurological diseases
    directly caused by the use of this deadly poison."

    Herein lies the problem:

    There were Congressional Hearings when Aspartame was included 100
    different products and strong objection was made concerning its use.
    Since this initial hearing, there have been two subsequent hearings, and
    still nothing has been done. The drug and chemical lobbies have very deep
    pockets.

    Sadly, MONSANTO'S patent on Aspartame has EXPIRED!

    There are now over 5,000 products on the market that contain this deadly
    chemical and there will be thousands more introduced. Everybody wants a
    "piece of the Aspartame pie." I assure you that MONSANTO, the creator of
    Aspartame, knows how deadly it is.

    And isn't it ironic that MONSANTO funds, among others, the American
    Diabetes Association, the American Dietetic Association and the

    Conference of the American College of Physicians?
    This has been recently exposed in the New York Times. These
    [organizations] cannot criticize any additives or convey their link to
    MONSANTO because they take money from the food industry and are required
    to endorse their products.

    Senator Howard Metzenbaum wrote and presented a bill that would require
    label warnings on products containing Aspartame, especially regarding
    pregnant women, children and infants. The bill would also institute
    independent studies on the known dangers and the problems existing in the
    general population regarding seizures, changes in brain chemistry,
    neurological changes and behavioral symptoms. The bill was killed.

    It is known that the powerful drug and chemical lobbies are responsible
    for this, letting loose the hounds of disease and death on an
    unsuspecting and uninformed public. Well, you're Informed now! YOU HAVE A
    RIGHT TO KNOW!
    Please print this out and/or copy & paste then e-mail to your family and
    friends.

    They have a right to know too.

    Personal Note: Everytime I eat or drink anything with Aspartame in it...I immediately get a migraine. That's just me (and maybe millions of others). Combine Aspartame with MSG...what chance does anyone have. It's easy to slough off the many articles written about these two "drugs" (YESS they ARE drugs) but the fact that article upon article when you google them ...the story is the same convinced me that it must be so.

    Ask yourself this ~ Would you drink wood alcohol???Thank You for this information, I did make a copy of it. I practically live on diet pepsi.
  • dawn66
    dawn66 Posts: 166
    I drink a lot of black tea as well. The only thing with the tea is it has a lot of calories in it. Great articles though on the diet sodas. Interesting!!!! I try to just stay away from those anyway... sometimes its hard!!! :ohwell:
    I have been drinking earl grey green tea and there are no calories in that one, and I have heard such good things about green tea.
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