Nope, only true in extreme cases. I was curious about that years ago, and while it might make you need to urinate more frequently, it doesn't actually make you urinate more volume unless you consume way more caffeine than your body is used to. Now, alcohol on the other hand, anything over like 3-5% ABV does have a net dehydrating effect.
Not enough to offset the amount of water you take, look it up if you want. It does make you empty your bladder and that might be more water than what you just drank, but then your bladder takes a while to fill again. It doesn't really make you generate enough urine to offset what you drank at all.
I know. It's just that I tend to drink multiple espressos a day (be it at home because it's delicious or at work because of social functions) but completely forget to actually hydrate myself despite being thirsty AF.
Coffee is always the answer. Full stop. Do you need hydration? Coffee. Do you need a friend or something to hold? That's right, Coffee. Do you have to stop to pee every 30 minutes on a road trip? You guessed it, still Coffee!
I am in a place that requires bottled water. And bottled water costs money. But a fast food chain has a special: 1.50USD, and you get a free coffee once every 2 hours for 30 days.
Since there is a little less water than in pure water, we could call it "little water". And brand it with a foreign sounding name because that's cool. Maybe a Slavic language?
Oh interesting, we refill these big 5 gallon jugs at local water filter places for drinking and cooking water. Never tested how clean or anything it is but it does keep our dishes like the coffee pot from getting hardspots like the tap water does
I guess the fast food place is really close to where you work? How do they afford to offer this? Like they get bulk sanitized water, or have their own filtering system? Or is it safe to just boil and use?
I guess the fast food place is really close to where you work? How do they afford to offer this? Like they get bulk sanitized water, or have their own filtering system? Or is it safe to just boil and use?
It's a 15 minute walk or a 5 minute ebike ride, but the rideshare moped costs an extra 15 cents each way. But the fast food place is all over China so it's available whatever city I picked that month.
They have a filtering system, I can boil water, but then I don't get free coffee.
For my ex wife, I got one of those bottles with time markers. Sounds like the solution, but she was not able to maintain it: Know where it is, keep it clean etc.
Water is no miracle drug, but when dehydrated, it really is. That applies to many deficiencies, such as oxygen in the air, micronutrients, macronutrients.
We live in an age where sociopaths get votes and people overhydrate in response to propaganda from Coca Cola. 🤦♂️
The "8 glasses of water a day" thing is literally just made up by employees of Coca Cola. To sell more aquafina. Never quite understood how people believe that peeing every 20 minutes makes one healthier. There's no evidence for it.
Apparently I was victim to a widely circulated myth. Apparently though, that board also specified that most of that recommendation was covered by water within food. The "IT HAS TO BE ACTUAL PURE WATER" thing was added on later by others.
So where did the myth of the 8 glasses come from? Fox says it likely stems from a decree from the U.S. Food and Nutrition Board issued back in the 1940s. It suggested that everyone drink 2.5 liters (84.5 ounces) per day — so not far off from today's standard. But even back then, that same recommendation clarified that a majority of that water comes, not from a glass, but from "prepared foods."
I'm pretty sure people have been drinking water for millennia and everyone was fine without constantly carrying water bottles around.
It's almost like our bodies have evolved a way of telling us when we are starting to get dehydrated. I think we should call this feeling "thirsty".
So the best thing to do is to listen to your body and drink some water when it's telling you you're "thirsty". There's really no need to force yourself to drink when you're not thirsty.
An oracle once told me that "a mere 1% to 2% drop in total body water triggers the sensation of thirst."
69 Comments
Azzu@leminal.space · 54 pts · 101d
Of course coffee counts. It's still water and has no salt. It will not be close to enough, but still.
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 100d
Add sugar!
deliriousdreams@fedia.io · 2 pts · 100d
Don't mind if I do.
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · -9 pts · 101d
You do need salt, or that water just instantly becomes piss.
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 101d
Instantly you say?
TehBamski@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 101d
I believe they're using 'Instantly' like this.
Azzu@leminal.space · 9 pts · 101d
Wow xD
Idk, just, no? Bottled water or water from the tap or whatever all has no salt.
We do need a certain amount of salt, but it doesn't need to come from the water, drinks do not need to be isotonic to hydrate you.
CallMeAl@piefed.zip · 9 pts · 101d
That's really not the case. Most tap water and bottled water have some salt and the amount varies widely by brand/location.
fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone · 8 pts · 100d
Guess which water is used for the coffee buddy xD
gid@piefed.blahaj.zone · -5 pts · 100d
Caffeine in the coffee is a diuretic though. It'll make you lose more water through urination than if you drank the equivalent volume in just water.
uberdroog@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 100d
This doesn't actually seem to be completely true. The diuretic effect isn't enough to really impact the benefits if drinking a 99% water solution.
gid@piefed.blahaj.zone · 7 pts · 100d
Ah thank you, I didn't know that!
QualifiedKitten@discuss.online · 7 pts · 100d
Nope, only true in extreme cases. I was curious about that years ago, and while it might make you need to urinate more frequently, it doesn't actually make you urinate more volume unless you consume way more caffeine than your body is used to. Now, alcohol on the other hand, anything over like 3-5% ABV does have a net dehydrating effect.
gid@piefed.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 100d
Thanks, I wasn't aware of that!
fushuan@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 100d
Not enough to offset the amount of water you take, look it up if you want. It does make you empty your bladder and that might be more water than what you just drank, but then your bladder takes a while to fill again. It doesn't really make you generate enough urine to offset what you drank at all.
Azzu@leminal.space · 7 pts · 100d
"no salt" as in neglible. Of course it isn't distilled water. And that's also what's in the coffee.
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf · 4 pts · 100d
Bottled water and tap water are mineral water. Minerals = salts. If you only ever drank RO water, you'd run into trouble. Better eat salty then.
GimmeUrBelt@lemmy.today · 19 pts · 100d
Coffee does count, btw. The amount of water used to make coffee counteracts the diuretic effect. This is pretty common knowledge.
Wfh@lemmy.zip · 6 pts · 100d
I know. It's just that I tend to drink multiple espressos a day (be it at home because it's delicious or at work because of social functions) but completely forget to actually hydrate myself despite being thirsty AF.
GimmeUrBelt@lemmy.today · 6 pts · 100d
That ain't healthy, chief. But I won't judge. I sometimes drink Monster Energy like it's water.
paladin235@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 100d
Coffee is always the answer. Full stop. Do you need hydration? Coffee. Do you need a friend or something to hold? That's right, Coffee. Do you have to stop to pee every 30 minutes on a road trip? You guessed it, still Coffee!
slazer2au@lemmy.world · 11 pts · 101d
But I just layed down after having one. You want me to get up again?
Wfh@lemmy.zip · 14 pts · 101d
Hydrate yourself. This is a threat.
X@piefed.world · 4 pts · 101d
(loads painfully unfunny, excruciatingly boring meme) They’d better have hydrated, or things are about to get …unpleasant.
squirrel@cake.kobel.fyi · 6 pts · 101d
The water meme has spoken.
Gonzako@lemmy.world · 10 pts · 101d
Make me.
P1k1e@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 100d
drowns you in tub
Gonzako@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 100d
uwu
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 100d
xSikes@feddit.online · 7 pts · 101d
Does coffee count?
X@piefed.world · 1 pts · 101d
The bottom text on the picture says that coffee doesn’t count. Sorry!
xSikes@feddit.online · 12 pts · 100d
Sorry wasn’t hydrated enough to even see there was text down there.
X@piefed.world · 7 pts · 100d
No worries, hope you get hydrated soon!
diabetic_porcupine@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 100d
P00ptart@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 100d
Coors light it is, thanks meme.
Birch@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 100d
Jokes on you, I have a cold and have been drowning myself in water, tea and orange juice
verity_kindle@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 100d
My cup of tea was unsatisfying, but water is also unsatisfying, task initiation broken
atrielienz@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 100d
Immediately my thought was "oh, is it tea time?"
I'll drink water in the middle of the night by the light of my phone screen like the forces that be intended.
doingthestuff@lemy.lol · 6 pts · 100d
Does beer count?
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 6 pts · 101d
I am in a place that requires bottled water. And bottled water costs money. But a fast food chain has a special: 1.50USD, and you get a free coffee once every 2 hours for 30 days.
xylol@leminal.space · 3 pts · 101d
Why do they require you to have bottled water
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 9 pts · 101d
Tap water isn't safe in asia outside of Japan, and in much of Japan it tastes like chlorine once you notice it.
CapuccinoCoretto@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 101d
That's why I only drink water sanitized with 40% ethanol. Zero chlorine. Bacteriologically super safe. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Wfh@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 100d
Wow that's actually genius!
Since there is a little less water than in pure water, we could call it "little water". And brand it with a foreign sounding name because that's cool. Maybe a Slavic language?
We're onto something here.
devfuuu@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 100d
I also only drink satanized water
xylol@leminal.space · 7 pts · 100d
Oh interesting, we refill these big 5 gallon jugs at local water filter places for drinking and cooking water. Never tested how clean or anything it is but it does keep our dishes like the coffee pot from getting hardspots like the tap water does
Ibuthyr@lemmy.wtf · 6 pts · 100d
I've been to Oslo recently, my god, never knew water could taste so fucking great.
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 100d
I guess the fast food place is really close to where you work? How do they afford to offer this? Like they get bulk sanitized water, or have their own filtering system? Or is it safe to just boil and use?
Alcoholicorn@mander.xyz · 4 pts · 100d
It's a 15 minute walk or a 5 minute ebike ride, but the rideshare moped costs an extra 15 cents each way. But the fast food place is all over China so it's available whatever city I picked that month.
They have a filtering system, I can boil water, but then I don't get free coffee.
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 100d
Jokes on you I drank some coke after a nap
CucumberFetish@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 100d
How does one drink a powder?
Noodle07@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 100d
You mix it with whisky
ramble81@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 100d
But, but…. I’m on the toilet right now.
Rcklsabndn@sh.itjust.works · 13 pts · 100d
You are literally sitting on a water chair and not hydrating?
Redjard@reddthat.com · 4 pts · 100d
*Sips broth from instant-ramen*
Little1Lost@gehirneimer.de · 4 pts · 101d
o7
darkstar@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 100d
I was debating whether I should get out of bed and go get a glass of water, and then I saw this post, thanks op!
deliriousdreams@fedia.io · 3 pts · 100d
Something something throw the ring in the fire!
Something something No.
GinevraCat@toot.community · 2 pts · 100d
@Wfh *in a small voice*
'nk you.
AddLemmus@lemmy.ml · 2 pts · 100d
For my ex wife, I got one of those bottles with time markers. Sounds like the solution, but she was not able to maintain it: Know where it is, keep it clean etc.
Water is no miracle drug, but when dehydrated, it really is. That applies to many deficiencies, such as oxygen in the air, micronutrients, macronutrients.
Ixoid@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 100d
You're not my mum!
lengau@midwest.social · 1 pts · 98d
But I just sat down 😭
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 1 pts · 100d
I drank too much tea and my mouth is dry.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 100d
We live in an age where sociopaths get votes and people overhydrate in response to propaganda from Coca Cola. 🤦♂️
The "8 glasses of water a day" thing is literally just made up by employees of Coca Cola. To sell more aquafina. Never quite understood how people believe that peeing every 20 minutes makes one healthier. There's no evidence for it.
Wfh@lemmy.zip · 10 pts · 100d
This is an ADHD meme community sir/madam. We are not functional enough to drink a couple of glasses a day, let alone 8.
Duranie@leminal.space · 9 pts · 100d
AKA 1945 US Food and Nutrition Board? Because that's where it seems to come from.
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 100d
Apparently I was victim to a widely circulated myth. Apparently though, that board also specified that most of that recommendation was covered by water within food. The "IT HAS TO BE ACTUAL PURE WATER" thing was added on later by others.
Source: https://www.tuftsmedicine.org/about-us/news/medical-myths-drink-8-glasses-water-each-day
jaybone@lemmy.zip · 5 pts · 100d
I feel like my grandma said this in the 1980s before Aquafina was a thing.
zeroConnection@programming.dev · 0 pts · 100d
I'm pretty sure people have been drinking water for millennia and everyone was fine without constantly carrying water bottles around.
It's almost like our bodies have evolved a way of telling us when we are starting to get dehydrated. I think we should call this feeling "thirsty".
So the best thing to do is to listen to your body and drink some water when it's telling you you're "thirsty". There's really no need to force yourself to drink when you're not thirsty.
An oracle once told me that "a mere 1% to 2% drop in total body water triggers the sensation of thirst."