diet drinks: myth or fact?

[badger]

there are so many different types of green tea I'd say if you were sit and taste each one, you'll be sitting for months!

I cringe whenever I'm out for breakfast and someone's ordering ice water. I can't ingest anything cold in the morning (no juice, cereal, nothing), it really throws my system off.

I can't really drink soda comfortably either, too fizzy. And since I'm not a burper, the bubbly comes out in another way

[shootingstar]

Ever since I was a tiny child, my father (and sometimes mom) drank a large bowl of boiled hot water on hot, humid summer days...100% humidity and temperatures over 85-90 degrees F. For ages, I never understood this practice --until I started cycling again in humid climates and found myself occasinonally drinking hot coffee during rides.

He still does this. I suspect it's a long old practice for them, from China. He actually does not drink much of any type of tea (but of course, will drink green tea served to him as a guest or in restaurants).

He finds it cooling, but I suspect that is was also the only way to have healthy water back in the old days (and even now) by boiling water first.