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To miss the days when people were just 'thirsty'?!

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Babycham1979 · 12/08/2015 13:43

What's all this shit with, 'hydrating'? It's called drinking fucking water!

Whenever I hear someone claiming to be 'dehydrated', I want to reach for my revolver. No, dear, you're not dehydrated, you're just thirsty. It won't hurt you to wait twenty minutes for a drink.

Advanced capitalism, combined with nanny-statism seems to have fostered a nation of adult-babies who can't got five minutes without a snack, needing a piss, or a plastic bottle to suck on. It truly does my head in.

I can't remember the last time I sat through a film or a play without multiple audience members nipping out at least once during the show. Yes, I do appreciate that SOME people suffer incontinence, or might have needed a shot of insulin but, come on, not on this scale!

OP posts:
Charis1 · 14/08/2015 12:16

Tea and coffee are diuretics !

no, they are not cotto, that is just odd myths recycled, black coffee is slightly less diuretic than water, but the other options are MUCH less so.

squoosh · 14/08/2015 12:16

I thought everyone knew that caffeine was a mild diuretic.

CaptainHolt · 14/08/2015 12:17

if you insisted on not drinking all day people would think you were weird.

This shows how successfully this marketing campaign has altered some peoples perception of normal.

It is completely normal not to drink at work. it is cleaner, healthier and more hygienic not to drink at work.

Healthier and more hygienic? You do know you are talking bollocks. As already stated, I work in a controlled environment, in a physical job. I do not get breaks so no, have a tea break, or even two, but don't suckle at your desk all day

I get a meal break tbf, but I don't have a desk, I don't sit down, and seriously, nobody would think it was normal to work in a physical job without having a drink and that's not because if a 'marketing campaign', it's because it's normal. Nobody would think it was normal to not drink in a non physical job either. What's the point? To prove you have not been taken in by the evil marketing people?

FineDamnBeaver · 14/08/2015 12:17

I haven't RTFT and know it's gone in a different direction, but yes OP this phrasing seems... unnecessary and sort of grandiose.

But not as bad as when people going on runs "take on" water. WTF can't they can't "drink" it like the rest of us do???

gamerchick · 14/08/2015 12:17

Obviously not. Can't stand the stuff personally.

Feline9 · 14/08/2015 12:18

Charis an NHS article was posted confirming they are diuretics but they won't dehydrate you much. They are not MORE hydrating

trollkonor · 14/08/2015 12:18

Tea and coffee more environmentally friendly and causes less health problem?

I'm sat here with a coffee that is made with water that I got from the same tap that I filled my glass of water with. This is the same water that I will put into a bottle later to take into town. This bottle was cleaned in the dishwasher which uses the same water.

Is there a new book and documentary out about the evils of fluid intake and going to the toilet that we are all meant to getting in a tizz about? I'll file that along with the carbs are evil and fats are evil ones.

I will keep doing what Ive done since 1970, piss when I want and drink when I want.

FundamentalistQuaker · 14/08/2015 12:18

I know the sippy sippy is annoying. But I do it. Medication = dry mouth= needs little sips of water at regular intervals.

BertrandRussell · 14/08/2015 12:19

Just link to one credible, peer reviewed piece of evidence that says that we should not often feel thirsty because if we do we are already dehydrated. And explain why we should have evolved in that particularly bonkers way.

squoosh · 14/08/2015 12:19

If people drink water in the same way as tea and coffee, ie, get a cup, fill it, drink it, wash up the cup, this isn't a problem. it is the constant suckling which causes health issues

Which health issues? Your elevated blood pressure?

gamerchick · 14/08/2015 12:20

I've drank more water the past couple of days than I do usually thanks to this thread reminding me. Feel much better for it as well Grin

fascicle · 14/08/2015 12:20

Seems very odd to tell other people how much water/drink they need (as odd as telling everyone they need to consume exactly the same amount of calories). It's an individual thing, surely, depending on e.g. your size, level of movement, environment, medical issues etc etc. I'm not a suckler and rarely carry around a bottle of water, but at home/work I do get up at least every half hour to drink something. Any time I've gone without a drink for a few hours, I feel less well (as in, I wonder why I'm not feeling quite right, and realise I haven't drunk for a while, rather than the other way round).

CaptainHolt · 14/08/2015 12:20

How can anything be 'more hydrating' than water. It is the very definition of hydrating. The clue is in the 'hydro'.

CaptainHolt · 14/08/2015 12:21

If people drink water in the same way as tea and coffee, ie, get a cup, fill it, drink it, wash up the cup, this isn't a problem

What about people who drag a cup of coffee over an hour or so? Are they playing Russian roulette with their health too?

gamerchick · 14/08/2015 12:21

The onus is on you to prove to me otherwise.. You prove it, you care more.

FundamentalistQuaker · 14/08/2015 12:22

Super-hydrating super drinks, CaptainHolt. If you pay lots of money for it, it hydrates you better. True fact.

Feline9 · 14/08/2015 12:23

Also I hate coffee. As a young teen I used to wonder why adults stank all the time and I realised it was stake coffee breath. It's disgusting.

So according to charis I should dictate others can't drink coffee because I personally find it horrible.

Cotto · 14/08/2015 12:24

Insensible loss and its calculation isn't pseudoscience.

Its fact that you lose approx 1 litre per day by breathing and sweating.
I say approx as some will lose more but most wont lose less.
so drinking 1 litre will simply replace your insensible loss .

This is always used when calculating fluid requirements in a medical setting as are bloods ( creatinine and urea)

Adding one more litre to this to ensure your kidneys function well and you don't become constipated is hardly a huge drama.

The bottled water industry just jumped on this calculation and used it for their own ends.

thornrose · 14/08/2015 12:25

Now this thread is all that I love about MN. GrinGrin

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 14/08/2015 12:27

According to this blog, it would appear that a drink can hydrate better than pure water - the addition of electrolytes - primarily sodium - means that the body retains more of the water than if pure water were drunk.

Ubik1 · 14/08/2015 12:28

Rehydrate your common sense

BertrandRussell · 14/08/2015 12:29

"The onus is on you to prove to me otherwise.. You prove it, you care more."

No it isn't. It's up to the person who makes what appears to be an obviously stupid statement to back it up. Not the person who says "well, bodies are designed to self regulate- they tell us when we are too hot, too cold, hungry, tired- why would they fail to tell us when we need the single thing we need most to live?"
It's a triumph of marketing. Water is unlikely to do us any harm- it won't make us fat or anything, so they've found a way of getting us to part with huge amounts of money for it.

Cotto · 14/08/2015 12:30

Yep that true SDT and its why Diorylyte is recommended in D&V.

Tip of the day
If your DC wont drink it make ice lollies with it Grin

gamerchick · 14/08/2015 12:31

Yeah I agree I'm seeing a fair few stupid comments on this thread, it's gone way into woowoo land Grin

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 14/08/2015 12:32

I saw a trailer for a show called The Shahs of Sunset (some sort of reality TV show about an Iranian family who live in LA), and some woman was touting a business plan involving water INFUSED WITH DIAMONDS!!

Now that truly is the product for people with more money than sense.