Milk

My mom is always sending me clippings from magazines, newspapers, etc. About half of them are about milk. When she's here, she gets mad at me for not giving my children more milk to drink. "You used to drink milk every night with dinner, and look how nice your bones are," she usually says (or something similar). "Milk is the perfect drink."

"Perfect if you're a baby cow," I invariably reply. Then comes my main argument: human beings are the only "mammals" who drink milk after they're weaned from their mother's breast. Even baby cows don't continue to drink cow's milk later in life. Milk doesn't give us anything we can't get from other sources, and with the hormones and other chemicals given to modern livestock, God only knows what milk REALLY contains these days.

Humans eat food to provide nourishment for our bodies. Why do we need drink? To keep our bodies hydrated. What is the best way to hydrate your body? Water. So, in my (admittedly uneducated) opinion, water is really the only drink our bodies NEED. That's why God put so much of it here. I'm not saying one should only drink water, and I certainly don't only drink water, but logic dictates that water is really the only "perfect drink." Oh, and coffee.