Sports Bottle top vs straw

MichelleNC
on 5/3/12 11:18 pm
A sports bottle top would be fine to use vs a straw right? I don't really see any air coming in that way I don't think right?
I like to reuse my water bottles a few times and I have found the water bottles with the sport tops I can drink so much easier. Do you think that would be ok after surgery so I can be sure I get all my liquids in?

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dasie
on 5/3/12 11:51 pm
I use neither. 

I was watching Oprah years ago.  That particular show was about fillers, botox, etc., and one of Oprah's guests was a dermatologist.  This doctor said she noticed several years ago, she has a large NYC practice, that she was beginning to see a large number of younger women, 30ish, who were coming to her with  wrinkling beginning around their mouths.  She said these were professionals, very active with many being runners.  It was happening so frequently she began wondering why are these younger women developing wrinkling around their mouths at such young ages.  She began looking for commonalities within these women.  What she discovered was all these women were active, and they all used sports bottles when exercising in order to stay hydrated.  She firmly believed it was the puckering of the mouth and muscles used when drinking from these bottles that was leading to the premature formation of early wrinkling.  The same muscles/mouth position is used when using straws. 

She made a believer out of me.  I do not use either straws or sports bottles.  I never forgot the show.  I was in my forties when I saw that episode and took her advice.  Some may not believe it can cause wrinkling...just by using those bottles.  But she stressed these were very active women who apparently exercised a lot and used those bottles to drink all the time. 

Just a little info for anyone who is interested.




    
hedrider
on 5/4/12 12:45 am - Midlothian, TX
That's interesting.  I can always tell a smoker by the wrinkles around the mouth.  I never thought to apply that logic to straws.

I'm a straw drinker... hmmm... food for thought.
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dasie
on 5/4/12 1:13 am
That was why the doctor was so curious.  These women were not smokers, clearly.  They were professionals, marathon runners, very, very active.  The variable that linked them together was the continuous use of sports bottles and the quenching of the mouth on the tip.  I stopped using them that day.  A few weeks ago my husband had a coupon for Ozarka water...the larger bottles with the sport tip.  I unscrewed them eac and every time I took a drink.  I have deflated cheeks as it is.  I don't want wrinkles around my mouth.




    
dasie
on 5/3/12 11:53 pm
ps...I use regular bottles and loosely place my mouth on the opening making sure I do not pucker.  At 57 this summer, I do not have one wrinkle on my upper lip, and I only drink water out of bottles.  I don't like the way my tap water tastes.




    
Cheryl N.
on 5/4/12 12:27 am - Des Moines, WA
Interesting, but when we kiss, don't we have to pucker?  We also pucker when we eat sour stuff,  hmmmmm! 

246 in Dec 2008 before banded 1/28/09 at 215 lbs, band crapped 9/09 at 170 lbs and struggled with it and regained to 203 revised to bypass on 8/1/11 and am very happy.

 

    
dasie
on 5/4/12 1:16 am
Yes, but we don't kiss as much and as often as these women drank to stayed hydrated.  Since my surgery, I only drink from bottles.  At times I shoot for one gallon per day.  That is a lot of quenching if I used sports bottles.  I decided that was one contributing factors to wrinkles I could easily avoid. 




    
Cheryl N.
on 5/4/12 12:29 am - Des Moines, WA
I had to google puckering and wrinkling.  It is also caused from smoking cigarettes as well but nothing on straws that I found (yet) 

246 in Dec 2008 before banded 1/28/09 at 215 lbs, band crapped 9/09 at 170 lbs and struggled with it and regained to 203 revised to bypass on 8/1/11 and am very happy.

 

    
Sarah R.
on 5/4/12 12:34 am, edited 5/4/12 12:36 am

We have a soda stream (make pop/soda at home) and the bottles are very heavy duty plastic with wide mouths. I love them...32 ounces each and I fill up a couple with my water and crystal lite and have most of my water for the day. Easy to clean with a scrubby brush. I dont like straws but I need the wide mouth bottle I get less air that way.

 
  

 

 

 

poet_kelly
on 5/4/12 1:17 am - OH
I don't see how it would matter, as long as it's not giving you painful gas.

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