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Bottled Water Ban?
Jul. 19th, 2015 03:46 pmStudy: Bottled Water Bans May Increase Consumption Of Sugary Drinks
In Japan to beat humidity and summer heat waves (as well as get a lot of money) there are vending machines everywhere. Literally, in every corner. You'd know you're in a faraway countryside by their absence, that's how big they are. but they serve you well: they always have unsweetened teas and pure water 130 yen ($1) there.
Although I love the accessibility, I learned pretty quickly that health wise I won't survive on just 1 per day and I won't survive money wise if I drink 4-5 bottles per day.
Hence the answer - buy a 2L sports bottle and carry it everywhere. It's cheap, sustainable and reusable for about a year.
PS. A comment from this discussion:
"When I worked in google NYC they started a bottled water ban. In NYC it was about 3,000 employees in their massive complex. The increase in sugary drinks being consumed was astonishing. Hundreds of percentages higher than before. They brought the bottled water back pretty quickly."
Well, duh!
In Japan to beat humidity and summer heat waves (as well as get a lot of money) there are vending machines everywhere. Literally, in every corner. You'd know you're in a faraway countryside by their absence, that's how big they are. but they serve you well: they always have unsweetened teas and pure water 130 yen ($1) there.
Although I love the accessibility, I learned pretty quickly that health wise I won't survive on just 1 per day and I won't survive money wise if I drink 4-5 bottles per day.
Hence the answer - buy a 2L sports bottle and carry it everywhere. It's cheap, sustainable and reusable for about a year.
PS. A comment from this discussion:
"When I worked in google NYC they started a bottled water ban. In NYC it was about 3,000 employees in their massive complex. The increase in sugary drinks being consumed was astonishing. Hundreds of percentages higher than before. They brought the bottled water back pretty quickly."
Well, duh!
