What Are the Best Beverages?

A review of the best drinks. Are there health benefits to drinking tea, coffee, milk, wine, and soda?

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The alcohol video I mentioned was: Is It Better to Drink a Little Alcohol than None at All? ( and the Parkinson’s video: Pepper’s & Parkinson’s: The Benefits of Smoking Without the Risks? ( I also mentioned Dairy & Cancer (

What about diet soda?
· Diet Soda and Preterm Birth (
· How Diet Soda Could Make Us Gain Weight (
· Does Diet Soda Increase Stroke Risk as Much as Regular Soda? (

What’s so bad about alcohol? See, for example, Can Alcohol Cause Cancer? ( and Do Any Benefits of Alcohol Outweigh the Risks? (

And I’ve got tons on milk:
· Preventing Parkinson’s Disease with Diet (
· Prostate Cancer and Organic Milk vs. Almond Milk (
· Is Milk Good for Our Bones? (
· The Saturated Fat Studies: Set Up to Fail (
· The Saturated Fat Studies: Buttering Up the Public (
· Childhood Constipation and Cow’s Milk (
· Prevent Cancer from Going on TOR (
· Saving Lives By Treating Acne with Diet (
· Dairy Estrogen and Male Fertility (
· Treating Infant Colic by Changing Mom’s Diet (
· Autism and Casein from Cow’s Milk (
· Is Butter Really Back? What the Science Says (
· How to Treat Reflux in Children with Diet (
· Dairy and Cancer (
· The Effects of Hormones in Dairy Milk on Cancer (

My recommendations for the best beverages are water, green tea, and an herbal tea call hibiscus:
· Is It Best to Drink Tap, Filtered, or Bottled Water? (
· Benefits of Green Tea for Boosting Antiviral Immune Function (
· Treating Prostate Cancer with Green Tea (
· Hibiscus Tea vs. Plant-Based Diets for Hypertension (
· Protecting Teeth from Hibiscus Tea (
· How Much Hibiscus Tea Is Too Much? (

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