Only drink water

Why you should only drink water.

Your body is not designed to consume any liquid besides water.  We evolved to drink water and our ancestors drank little besides water. Water is the most healthful liquid to drink.

For the last one billion years, the Earth has had fresh water lakes and streams.  If you could take a time machine back to the time before the advent of mankind, you would find the entire Earth was filled with fresh clean water.  You could drink water out of ANY lake, stream, or river on the entire planet.  The water was fresh and clean.

Current science understanding accepts that humans evolved about 200,000 years ago in Africa.  They evolved from earlier humanoid species which themselves evolved from other mammals.  Around 60,000 years ago these people left Africa and started populating the Earth.   As they migrated, and where they camped, they only drank water.  They did not drink fruit juice, milk, tea, coffee, cola, beer, wine, or any other beverage except water. And -- all the water they encountered in lakes, rivers, and streams was fresh and clean and pure and good to drink.

The custom of making beer and fermenting wine is no more than ten thousand years old.  Before that time, people only drank water.  Now, to be fair, some traditional diets included liquids besides water.   Some nomadic peoples also drank animal milk.  Rarely did any early human ever drink fruit juice – they just ate the fruit. Coconut milk might be an exception.  For the most part, however, traditional peoples only drank water. 

Your body is not designed to consume calories in liquid form.  Your body is only designed to consume calories in solid food form and mostly as plant food.   It is the fiber in plant food that your body measures to calculate caloric intake.  If you consume calories in liquid form such as cola, fruit juice, ice cream, alcohol, or cheese, your body is unaware that it has consumed any calories at all.  If you consume these items on a regular basis, you will be overweight.

Therefore, for optimal health, only drink water.

You can also drink black coffee, tea without sugar, or herb tea as a substitute for plain water.

It is best to avoid carbonated diet beverages.  Some research studies show that these diet beverages actually cause the body to gain weight.  Also, drinking carbonated liquid on a regular basis over a long period of time can be related to other health and digestive issues. Be careful.

Remember to only drink water. 

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William Schaeffer