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The packaging says,

For your life in motion, you need a water that does more. Propel goes beyond hydration to provide flavor and choline* for a great-tasting beverage with purpose. *Choline is an essential nutrient in the brain.

The fact that stuck out the most was choline being an essential nutrient of the brain.  I was curious how nutritious and went on a fact finding expedition.  Of course I headed right over to Wikipedia and found the article.  I figured out that it’s 55MG of choline per server of 8FL OZ. in a 20FL OZ bottle so that’s 2.5 servings and  a total of 137.5MG of choline per bottle.  550MG is the upper limit of adequate intake for this.  It is also noted that too much intake can cause you to smell like a fish.

Let’s see what that means then.  I’m not certain how much it takes to smell like a fish but choline is found in other foods like eggs and wheat germ.  So a typical day for a person could be 2 eggs in the morning, wheat germ in the yogurt for lunch and 4-6 bottles of propel.  The person is thinking they are doing a good thing drinking “water”.  Once in a while they eat a meal that is high in choline as well.  This could be giving the person around 1000MG of choline a day!  That’s twice as much!!  I think you would begin smelling like a fish any day now.

This is besides the other junk in the drink like high froctuse corn syrup, sucrolose, AND acesulfame potassium.  All three are different kinds of sweetners.  When drinking flavored “water” or any other drink that’s giving you important nutrients just make sure you know what you’re getting yourself into.

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I have for a while pondered using a separate email client for accessing my mail. I can see the benefits but with Gmail increasing its features everyday I just can’t make the switch.

Using a client all your email is stored on your own home computer and all your contacts are very handy. I already use Firefox and love all the addons along the same lines I could enjoy Thunderbird. (Note: all the outlook people need to get on the Thunderbird bandwagon now!) Thunderbird also integrates well with Sunbird, a calendar application. If Thunderbird is so great why can’t I just make the switch? Well it’s not that simple! Gmail has been in beta for 5 years, that’s a long time, but it’s service has always been amazing. Constant uptime, new features, and huge storage. I remember when getting an email account with 10MB was amazing. right now Google is telling me “You are currently using 256 MB (3%) of your 7316 MB.” Holy crap! At this rate I’m never running out of space. The labels and offline features are changing the way people use email and if I already have a web browser open at all times why should I run another program?

Instant access on my phone or through the web Gmail is always there. I’ve tried to think on multiple occasions why to switch and I’m still stumped. I think I’m letting this one go. Now if only I could get rid of Lotus Notes.

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