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Out of curiosity, have you tried to drink large amounts of water when you feel like it? It seems to reduce most sweets cravings for me, but mine aren't particularly strong in the first place. I have no idea if it would work for other people, but it's very easy to test.
I would try this, but I don't like water. I drink milk with food, and juice if I'm thirsty outside of mealtimes. I'll only drink water if I'm at a restaurant, where they tend not to have milk, or in some other situation where it's my only sensible option.
This is quite curious, water is very neutral in taste, especially when it's cold. Wouldn't drinking too much milk or juice cause any side effects? They're both very high in sugar.
Water has got a taste, at least to me. It's not that it tastes bad, it's just not something I'll drink voluntarily when there are satisfactory alternatives.
Have you tried Aquafina? I used to hate water, but I've gotten to like reverse-osmosis purified water in general, and Aquafina in particular.
It's probably crossed my palate at some point. I half-suspect that I'm tasting something that leaches out of the plastic bottles into the water, rather than something that's supposed to be there, when I react badly to bottled water; I'd probably need to do tests with empty bottles and tap water and a blindfold to be sure.
Yeah Alicorn, I noticed something similar with a few of the plastic bottles I've come across. Sometimes they taste weird, or smell funny or change the taste of what's put in them. Hopefully whatever is leeching out of the bottles isn't carcinogenic.
The material the bottle is made out of should be printed on it somewhere (probably the bottom, by the recycling triangle). PET or PETE is considered safe by the FDA, as well as a few others, but there are some that are known to leach. Also, reusing bottles and heating bottles are generally poor ideas, unless you know the material it's made from is designed for that.
If it gives you stomach problems, note that adding something to it can break the surface tension that causes the problems. My wife prefers tea to water for this reason, but in a pinch can just throw a bit of stevia or almost any other powdered substance into the water to make it drinkable.
It's not a matter of it wreaking havoc on my digestion. I just don't like it.
Do you live in Europe and/or by water do you mean the mineral water they tend to serve there? Because that would put you in agreement with nearly everyone from the US...
No, I live in the United States, and I don't drink bottled water of any kind if I can possibly avoid it, I just drink tap water when I have to drink water.
Huh. I have been to places where I found tap water to have a very bad taste, unnoticed or at least uncommented upon by those who lived there. The particular place I'm thinking of had well water with high iron (I think it was) content.
I can detect differences in tap water flavor in different locations, but I don't like any of them enough to drink them when there's something else I do like.
I've noticed that drinking 3 large glasses (about 1.5 quarts) of water when foggy often helps me concentrate again.
Supposedly even a moderate level of dehydration has quite a large impairment on basic metabolic processes. It's entirely possible that, in some cases, drinking extra water would improve cognition generally.