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Drink more water! Or so the health experts beckon us to do in order to look, feel and be great. But what if you just don’t like the taste of water? What if you need some sort of flavor in your water to make it more palatable? And what if you secretly desire your water do more than just quench your thirst?

Fortunately for the plain water naysayers, there is more than an ample selection of flavored beverages to choose from these days, from sports drinks to energy drinks and from juices to sodas. While these drinks may taste great, most of them are also loaded with sugar, which means, they contain calories, and a lot of them. The average bottle of soda or juice contains more than 200 calories. That’s a lot of empty calories to slug just to satiate a parched mouth. (more…)