THEY POLLUTE, A LOT
The facts are devastating: in the United States alone, 500 million straws are used every day. Although they’re small objects, they add up quickly, and their use on such a large scale makes an enormous and serious impact.
THEY’RE NOT REALLY USEFUL
If we’re being totally honest, straws are nothing more than a useless little “luxury”, a comfort we could very easily do without. And if you’re following the urban legend that drinking alcohol with a straw can get you drunk faster, we hate to break it to you, but that myth is entirely false. Straws really don’t do much of anything at all.
THEY CAUSE BLOATING
When you sip through a straw, you end up consuming a considerable amount of air along with your beverage. This can cause bloating, gas, and indigestion. Do you regularly suffer from those symptoms? Then perhaps banishing straws from your life could be the solution.
THEY CAUSE WRINKLES
If you use straws all the time, the constant contraction of your lip and mouth muscles necessary to sip through the straw can eventually cause premature wrinkles around your lips and mouth. Laugh lines might be worth it, but straw lines certainly are not!
THEY PROTECT ENAMEL
Okay, so this is actually a sneaky “advantage” to straws. However, although they can reduce the damage that sugar-loaded drinks cause to tooth enamel, the reality is that your best and healthiest solution to avoid this damage (and so many others) is by drastically reducing your consumption of these kinds of drinks.
