Do you ever have that feeling where you just feel like drinking a nice cold soda or a tasty glass of juice? Especially since water is just so boring and plain right? And you want them so badly that if you don’t have anything but water in your home, you may even consider going out and buying them? Well, I am going to tell you to toughen up and just drink water.
By choosing water over soft drinks or juices, you are utilizing a resource that comes right from your home in the faucet. Therefore, you reduce or better yet eliminate the production and consumption of sodas and juices. For example, a bottle of apple juice involves: growing the apples with harmful pesticides, picking the apples and shipping them to a juicing factory creating harmful air pollution, packaging the product with non-biodegradable plastics or containers that will most likely not be recycled, and shipping a heavy product to store shelves which creates a ton of unnecessary air pollution. If you simply drink a glass of water instead of a glass on apple juice, you eliminate each of those environmental concerns.
Not only is drinking water better for the earth, it will greatly help you save money. If you spend $10 a week on beverages every time you go grocery shopping and you go twice a month, that’s $240 in a year you will save. And on top of that, eliminating those sugary sodas and juices will also help your health because you won’t be consuming as much sugar and you know for a college student, that’s a key element to leading a healthy lifestyle. I’m not encouraging you to completely eliminate beverages for they are fine to have once in awhile, just be cautious as to how much you spend on beverages other than water. So, as simply stated early, just drink water.
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