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Over-hydrating doesn’t help, but under-hydrating sure does.
If you’re pee is light yellow ya doin’ fine.
The spice must flow.
Has the author considered: construction workers
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.
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.
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.
125 / 40 = approx 3.
That’s really an absurdly huge cup if it is about 1/3 of your entire daily water intake.
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 fatand muscle boil away.
Poverty is surprisingly expensive, but you can get Nofudatall for freewith 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
But most Americans are fat.
Health is, ultimately, the product of diet and exercise/physical activity. You get out what you put in. Everybody knows this.
The problem is…one of the problems, for there are many…ok so a few of the problems are, as others have pointed out…ultimately come down to housing and city planning.
The problem is, we somehow can’t figure out how to get diverse, fresh food, within a walkable/bikeable distance of everybody. So that leaves a few options:
- Be car-dependent, or
- Buy shelf-stable (or frozen, or more preservative than foodstuff) food from a place within walking distance (which also means buying no more than what you can carry at a time), or
- Dine-in, take-out, or drive-thru
It also doesn’t help that most American’s are overworked and can’t find half an hour to cook an actual meal, let alone sit down and enjoy it. We’re all burning the candle on both ends trying to make ends meet. And our food selections allow us to pick two out of “fast, cheap, healthy”.
- Cheap and Healthy? Will cost you time.
- Fast and Healthy? Will cost you money.
- Fast and Cheap? Will cost you health.
We don’t have a surplus of any of those things…but the one that’s easiest to ignore (until it isn’t) is health. And so that’s the bank we draw our credit on.
Now add car-dependency on top, and we can find the time to at least go grocery shopping maybe once a week. We find the fresh produce is expensive (and probably also harboring parasites), and won’t last a whole week in the fridge…but we also kinda feel like maybe we should eat a vegetable every now and then, so we get some…but most of the groceries are gonna have to last that whole week, and will need to be fast and cheap…
It sucks, but hey, it’s the best country in the world (or so I was told through 12 years of forced education).
Yes. That happens when all your food comes from the dollar store and the gas station mini-mart, and you drive everywhere.
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.
My pee turns white after 60oz of water, then I eat some salted peanuts.
Pee comes from the balls
“Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!”
And yet we let evil prevail. Humanity is pathetic.
WSJ: stop drinking water our data centers need it instead
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.
