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Did you know that more than half the American population is walking around in a state of partial dehydration? One study of 2,000 people found that just 22% drink the USDA-recommended eight to 10 eight-ounce glasses of water each day. We do drink a lot of soda, though \u2013 in fact, the average American drinks a whipping 45 gallons of soda each year! That\u2019s an awful lot of sugar we\u2019re taking in (without getting the benefit of hydration if you\u2019re drinking caffeinated soda). And diet soda isn\u2019t much better \u2013 studies show that diet soda is linked it o increased risk of Type II Diabetes and heart disease. Diet or regular, drinking soda just doesn\u2019t compare with drinking water! Why We Need to Drink Lots of Water What is essential for our health. Not only are our bodies made up of mostly water; they\u2019re involved in many important bodily functions, including flushing waste from the body, regulating body temperature, and helping with brain function. Drinking lots of water helps our digestion, aids our bodies in absorbing nutrients, also protects our joints and enables us to perform better when we exercise. Drinking water improves our skin, our mood, our cognitive function\u2026it even helps us lose weight! How to Make Getting Your 8-10 in Easier So why do we have such a hard time drinking the recommended amount? Perhaps it\u2019s because plain old water can be a little bit dull to consume. The good news is that you can do more to bring flavor to your water than just adding a big wedge of lemon! By gathering a few fruits, vegetables, and herbs, you can make your own flavored, infused water that\u2019s practically calorie free and gives you a refreshing and healthy way to stay hydrated. Drinking fruit-infused water is a great way to help you drink more without even realizing it, and also adds extra health benefits, including acting as a detox and flushing out body toxins, increasing Vitamin C and antioxidant intake, helping to improve weight management, regulating bowel function, energizing muscles, improving kidney health, aiding skin and anti-aging improvement. Making Infused Water at Home You can buy flavored waters in stores, but these concoctions often include additives and so-called \u201cnatural\u201d flavors. Why bother when it\u2019s so easy to make your own, all-natural flavored infused water? All you need to make delicious, infused water is a combination of fresh fruits, vegetable, and herbs, is a large, glass pitcher and a little patience. While some flavors infuse quite quickly (like Pittman & Davis Navel Oranges and Pittman & Davis Ruby Red Grapefruit), others (like our Paradise Pineapple, berries, and herbs) take longer. The longer your infusion sits, the more flavorful it will be. A few hours to overnight is best. If you let it sit at room temperature for a little while, the sun can help extract the flavors even more (like when you make sun tea) but do move it to the refrigerator or add ice if you don\u2019t plan on drinking it all right away. What You Need to Make Tasty Water Infusions Fresh Pears, Apples, Citrus and more from Pittman & Davis can help take the bland and boring out of H2O while meeting your daily intake requirement! Here are some ingredients we recommend you gather: Fresh fruit. Navel Oranges, Ruby Red Grapefruit, Pears, Apples, Pineapple, Mango, Strawberries, Blueberries, Peaches, Nectarines Fresh herbs. Basil, mint, parsley, rosemary, cilantro Fresh veggies. Carrots, cucumber Cinnamon sticks, cardamom, fresh ginger, vanilla bean Infused Water Flavor Combos We Love Below are some of our favorite fresh flavor combinations: Oranges and fresh basil leaves Oranges, cucumber slices and fresh mint leaves Oranges, fresh ginger, and lime slices Navel oranges, pineapple, and fresh mint Navel oranges, cardamom, and vanilla bean Oranges, mango, and lime slices Oranges, grapefruit, and fresh mint Oranges, strawberry slices, and fresh basil Navel oranges, ruby red grapefruit, cucumber, and fresh mint Navel oranges, blueberries, mango, and fresh mint Oranges, lemon slices and 1 teaspoon of chia seeds Oranges, kiwi slices and fresh mint Navel oranges and blueberries Navel oranges and fresh cilantro Oranges, apple slices and fresh mint Oranges, ruby red grapefruit, and fresh rosemary sprigs Oranges and cinnamon sticks Navel oranges, pear slices, lemon slices and fresh mint So, beat the heat this summer with infused water combinations including fresh, premium Pittman & Davis fruit!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"cybocfi_hide_featured_image":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[44],"tags":[92,68,26,61,9,74,75],"class_list":["post-3063","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-fruit-information","tag-georgia-peaches","tag-grapefruit","tag-healthy","tag-navel-oranges","tag-recipes","tag-summer","tag-water"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog2.pittmandavis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog2.pittmandavis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog2.pittmandavis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.pittmandavis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.pittmandavis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3063"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.pittmandavis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5270,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.pittmandavis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3063\/revisions\/5270"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.pittmandavis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog2.pittmandavis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3063"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.pittmandavis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3063"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog2.pittmandavis.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3063"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}