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“What’s healthiest?” started when two college friends (both now professional researchers) got into a friendly argument in a supermarket. We were there to pick up a case of bottled water prior to a trip to the beach.
I picked out a particular brand when my friend said “waitaminit! Don’t get THAT stuff, get THIS instead!”
Puzzled, I asked why to which she responded “It’s the healthiest”. The next few minutes was a back-and-forth of “Is.” “Is not.” “Is.” “Is not”. “Ok, Google it, you’ll see!”.
I did and realized there were a host of competing answers to the question “What’s the healthiest bottled water?”. This led us to calling a mutual friend, Francesco, a licensed nutritionist. We posed the question and he said he’d get back to us.
Two days later, he gave us a science-and-fact-based list that settled our argument (neither one of us picked something that was even on the list lol).
That in turn led us to wondering, how do you know what’s the healthiest anything? The truth is, you don’t. You need real research – and a licensed nutritionist.
And so, “What’s Healthiest?” was born since we were pretty sure we weren’t the only one’s asking these questions!