Thanks to all of you who submitted answers to last week's question ("Water" is called "agua," "jur" and "mizu" in three other langauges. What are they?)

Correct answer: Spanish, Armenian, Japanese. My apologies for possibly misspelling the Armenian version! It should be "joor."

I mentioned last time the importance of water. Notice that I DIDN'T say to drink soda, juice or energy drinks. Why? Water has no calories, while the other drinks add unneeded calories, and calories can add up quickly into pounds.

Here's a simple example: one can of regular Coke has over 200 calories, while the same amount of water has 0 calories. If you drank water instead of one can of Coke every day for two weeks, you would lose 1 pound. That doesn't sound like much, but if you did that for one year, you would lose over 20 pounds!! All by changing just one thing: drinking water instead of soda.

So think about it. Do you really need high fructose corn syrup, caramel coloring, artificial flavoring, carbonation and phosphoric acid? YUCK!

p.s. Why do they put "high fructose corn syrup" in soda? Submit your answer!