Over-hydrating doesn't help, but under-hydrating sure does.
If you're pee is light yellow ya doin' fine.
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It has some grains of truth but it's mingled with too much personal opinion.
There are studies on how much water humans really need. If you want to calculate it the scientific way, you need to factor in at least lean muscle mass, total mass, surface area, ambient temperature and humidity, activity levels, and diet. There's no magic number of ounces that's correct for everyone.
Fortunately we've evolved a really awesome mechanism. When your body needs more water, you get thirsty.
So if you want to stay properly hydrated, drink whenever you feel even a little thirsty.
After about 23C I swear a lot. I definitely need to replenish what I lose or I get drowsy
Fortunately we've evolved a really awesome mechanism. When your body needs more water, you get thirsty.
Yeaaahhh....About that...
ADHD can make you completely ignore that signal for way, way too long.
My body also misinterprets that signal as "hunger", and a craving for some wet food. Maybe like yogurt or a cup of pudding. You know something that just slides down easy. Yeah #thisiswhyimfat.
Me too. Sometimes I feel like I must get thirsty in a reasonable way, but when I actually notice the sensation is another matter. At other times I'm incessantly thirsty.
We can seperate regions easily enough and their peak humidity seasons. You just need to factor in sedentary, semi active, active and athletic lifestyles.
Has the author considered: construction workers
When I was a child nobody carried water bottles with you. There was the shared school water fountain and that was it.
When we were out all day as kids we just uses the garden hoses at peoples houses. Or got home and gulped water till you were out of breath
In the water wars documentary, Holes, it was proven that children and young adults could work all day in the sun without any significant amount of water. Therefore your allocation of water will be limited further until morale improves. Woke unionized overpaid bureacrats just want to take all your money to waste water, instead of using that money for useful datacenters and more oil drilling.
Begun, the water wars have.
Do I need to feel bad about wanting to get an RO system yet?
Like on the one hand, I don't really want to keep drinking teflon and microplastics. But on the other hand, there's a lot of waste from RO systems...but on the other hand, residential water waste is peanuts as far as conservation goes. Also I blame the teflon for having too many hands.
Three article boils down to the author being a whiny WSJ entitled asshole, which is what I expect from the WSJ.
Author, you don't need the 40 oz cup.
Quoted Expert, you need around 125 oz a day.
Author, but water is so boring and tasteless, I want sugar and you get a fraction of water from food right? I don't wanna drink water. Written Toddler Tantrum ensues
Author, so in conclusion you don't need that 40 oz water cup.
The rest of us, STFU you entitled twat.
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Right wing newspapers love to do this shit where I live. We get into a crisis, people start skipping meals because they don't have money, and they will talk about the health benefits of dieting and fasting 🙄
Ghoulish
The hot new diet trend, poverty.
Have you tried this new drug, Nofudatall? Take it in place of your normal three meals and watch the pounds of fat~and~ ~muscle~ boil away.
Poverty is surprisingly expensive, but you can get Nofudatall for free~with~ ~qualifying~ ~insurance~ ~plans~ !
I heard other countries give it out for free to everyone! Nofudatall truly works but you must pay for it here.
right wingers have a serious problem with comprehending the idea of consent. is dieting and fasting good for you? yeah sure, when done right. but is being forced to do that good for you? hell no, even if there are health benefits you didn't choose to do that. and in the next sentence they'll preach about freedom
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My pee turns white after 60oz of water, then I eat some salted peanuts.
Pee comes from the balls
And yet we let evil prevail. Humanity is pathetic.
"Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!"
WSJ: stop drinking water our data centers need it instead
This was my first thought. Are they trying to pull some bs like that. But also the wsj is a disgrace
It’s cause Brawndo is the only drink you need!
I don't know... does it even have electrolytes?
Doctor said I should drink 100oz a day soooooo.... I'm gonna keep trusting my medical professional instead of a random idiot who doesn't like the taste of water.
Can you imagine taking health and wellness advice from The Wall Street journal? Jesus.
Fuck yourself WSJ
It's also good for tooth and gum health to drink water throughout the day, it helps keep them clean between brushing.
This has been your daily reminder to take care of your teeth kids!
Teeth kids? If i ever see children made of teeth I am running away. Very fast. Well, maybe not very.
Ditched the 40oz for a 134oz. Best decison I've ever made. All the water I want and a weapon built into one device. It even comes with nice sturdy handles.
Looked at the article, and it starts off pretty stupid
While everyone else seems to be slugging H20 from 40-ounce Stanley tumblers, I have never understood the appeal of drinking plain, tasteless water all day.
Some people live in areas where the water tastes bad, but seeing the water as "boring" might mean that you're drinking too much of the other stuff (soft drinks, juice, sugary etc). It's not that those other things are not hydrating, but they're unhealthy for other reasons.
The question feels more pressing than ever given rising temperatures, heat waves
I refuse to normalize a world where people lack access to clean drinking water. 😠
The rest of the article is pretty standard advice. There's no set amount of water that everyone needs to drink, and your diet/lifestyle/body composition/the weather will all play a role. Going based on thirst is a good indicator, but make sure you actually drink water when you're thirsty. !hydrohomies@lemmy.ml
But using that to justify unequal access to clean drinking water is a big no.
While everyone else seems to be slugging H20 from 40-ounce Stanley tumblers, I have never understood the appeal of drinking plain, tasteless water all day.
The question feels more pressing than ever given rising temperatures, heat waves
The combination of these two takes has to be among the dumbest things I've ever read, what do they think those other drinks are made of? I'm entirely certain that the process of making another drink uses up more water than just drinking that volume of water in the first place.
The question feels more pressing than ever given rising temperatures, heat waves
All the more reason to drink fucking water!
Holy shit, sometimes wish journalists could be disbarred but I know that would create a slew of other problems...
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