Friday Favorites: What Are the Best Beverages?

A review of reviews on the health effects of tea, coffee, milk, wine, and soda.

Check out what the exhaustive review of meta-analyses and systematic reviews on major diet-related chronic diseases found for food groups in What Are the Best Foods? (( ).

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? See:
· 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 ( )
· Why Do Vegan Women Have 5x Fewer Twins? ( ?)
· 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 called 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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