The Best Beverage for your Health

As you might expect, all the health experts agree that drinking plenty of pure, toxin and contaminate free water should be our number one beverage concern. Because our body is about 80% water, we need to consume between 12 – 15 cups of liquids per day.
However, if you’re drinking only water, you’re not getting the antioxidants,  phytonutrients, and other specific nutritional benefits you’d get from other beverages.  Plus, good tasting beverages encourage us to consume more liquids during the day.

The purpose of this post is to help you choose the single best water-based beverage that will give you the best “health bang” for the buck.

There are literally hundreds of different beverages available to us in the supermarket, but as it turns out, most of them are unhealthy for us.  Here’s an excellent ‘Heathy Beverage Guidelines’ from Harvard.

There isn’t much debate in the health press about the healthiest water-based beverage …it’s green tea.  Here’s a good article spelling out Top 10 Benefits Of Drinking Green Tea Daily.

And here’s some valuable directions on brewing tea to extract the most health benefits. Basically:
1.    Put hot water in the cup with your teabag.
2.    Heat in the microwave for 30 seconds on half power.
3.    Let it sit for a minute.
Informative article here:

I enjoy green tea (and white tea) every day.  If this is a beverage that’s eluded you, I hope you’ll give it a try.  Drink it hot or cold, but please don’t add sweetener (unless it’s stevia in leaf form.)