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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:
ProvisionallyAnxious · 14/08/2015 14:10

Rabbit

You're right, it isn't a matter of medical necessity! But I personally don't enjoy drinking a lot of water at once. My radical argument on this thread is that this purely personal choice is one that people should be utterly free to make, given that when and how I drink impacts no one but themselves.

CallMeExhausted · 14/08/2015 14:10

Micturate, urinate, salivate, hydrate...

It is the -ate suffix that is doing us in!!!

ProvisionallyAnxious · 14/08/2015 14:13

I'm also wondering if there is any good research out there on the differing impact of drinking lots at once vs spreading it out (an issue that I think is separate from the base question of how much you need to drink per day). I've noticed that when I don't drink for ages and then drink a couple of big glasses I very shortly need to go to the loo, and then my urine is quite pale. I very vaguely remember something about your kidneys only being able to process water at a certain rate (and then sending the rest out as waste product, hence paler urine), so it may not actually be that efficent - in terms of staying (whispers it) 'hydrated' - to drink lots less often.

Any human biologists on the thread? Grin

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 14/08/2015 14:46

Tenieht - I find it unpleasant to feel thirsty - should I put up with those feelings in order not to upset you? Hmm

Newsflash - it's not up to you to police the drinking, eating or toilet habits of your colleagues. I assume you are totally perfect and never do anything to irritate anyone else - apart from on this thread, of course.

fifitrixibellethe1st · 14/08/2015 14:57

I don't want to worry you NannyFlow but if I were you I'd get checked for Diabetes.

Bunbaker · 14/08/2015 15:00

I am amazed at the number of people who are irritated by how often people drink. I rarely feel thirsty because I am well hydrated and drink mainly tea. I wish I loved water the way I love tea, but drinking cold water on a cold day just doesn't have the same appeal.

I also get thumping headaches if I am dehydrated so I take steps to make sure that doesn't happen.

GrumpyOldBiddy2 · 14/08/2015 15:21

Are people deliberately trolling?

In what possible reality is someone drinking, inconveniencing someone else? Unless they are leaning in front of them to do it and thus interfering with their work, or insisting on silence whilst they drink - it's such a bizarre concept.

If people want to spend money on water, so what?! Its not like they are buying crack.

You people are very strange.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 14/08/2015 15:26

"Personally I never drink during the working day apart from a coffee first thing and a cup of tea mid afternoon. That's it and I don't see why it should be different for anyone else. It certainly hasn't caused any health issues...."

You do realise that everyone is different, Tenieht, and that your physical reactions are not the sole, gold standard for how everyone else's bodies will feel and react? if you are warm enough, do,you get the hump if someone in your office puts a cardigan on (what with all the disruption involved) - because if you are warm enough, everyone else must be warm enough too? Or would that be ridiculous? As ridiculous, as assuming that no-one should need or want more than two drinks during the working day, maybe...

GrumpyOldBiddy2 · 14/08/2015 15:32

I hate myself for doing this but am avoiding doing something useful. So here are some articles which explain how complex the issue of water intake is and that it is something which varies between people but essentially 1 1/2 litres per day is a pretty good idea.

Jéquier, E., & Constant, F. (2010). Water as an essential nutrient: The physiological basis of hydration. European Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 64(2), 115-23.

Popkin, B. M., D'Anci, K. E. and Rosenberg, I. H. (2010), Water, hydration, and health. Nutrition Reviews, 68: 439–458. doi: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.2010.00304.x

There is an article which quoted in the telegraph and various others saying that tea and coffee are equally as good for you but on searching for the original article, it is essentially an opinion piece and it looks like it is based on research from the 1970s.

ProvisionallyAnxious · 14/08/2015 15:34

GrumpyOldBiddy2

Wine Brew Cake Flowers

Thank. You!!! Grin

SquirrelledAway · 14/08/2015 15:39

I don't think the 2 litres per day does come from the bottled water industry.

There is an interesting paper produced by WHO in 2004 on water requirements and recommended daily intakes which suggests figure of 2.2 l for adult women and 2.7 l for adult men who are sedentary in a temperate environment.

GrumpyOldBiddy2 · 14/08/2015 15:41

Provisionally - I'm such a loser!

Cotto · 14/08/2015 15:43

Totally agree Squirrelled but no one will listen to me

The water industry used the medical advice that has been around for years insensible loss plus approx. 1 litre ( more if extreme heat, excessive loss of fluid) and used it to promote the buying of bottled water.

ProvisionallyAnxious · 14/08/2015 15:46

Grumpy

Not at all!

Do you by any chance know of any articles than answer my question r.e. whether drinking smaller amounts regularly is any better/worse than drinking larger amounts less often? Google of course prioritised a ton of newspaper articles about 8 glasses a day when I tried to look it up...

SquirrelledAway · 14/08/2015 16:03

Provisionally the US Army has done some work on water intake rates (intake rates vary according to work intensity and temperature) and the effects of drinking large volumes of water with a diet low in salt.

GrumpyOldBiddy2 · 14/08/2015 16:08

Just had a quick look and can't find anything that specific. Ayurvedic medicine would say sip I believe, and tepid rather than cold water - but I guess whether you take that advice would depend on your views of ayurvedic medicine.

Sorry, no help at all!

chrome100 · 14/08/2015 16:09

I am a runner too, previous poster. I have run my entire life. And I manage to go through a film without a drink. You really don't need to drink as much as you think.

SDTGisAnEvilWolefGenius · 14/08/2015 17:09

I am going to say the same thing I said to Tenieht, chrome - which is that we are all different, and just because you don't feel thirsty at this time or that, doesn't mean that everyone will feel the same as you.

I don't often feel the cold - does that mean that no-one is allowed to feel the cold unless I am chilly? No, of course not - that would be ridiculous - and I am afraid it is just as ridiculous to say that, just because you don't need a drink, no-one should.

ThursdayLast · 14/08/2015 17:39

Chrome I'm not sure if you mean me re; running - I did mention it way upthread.

I'm confident by now that I know how much i need to drink in order to feel good during and after a run. It varies, unsurprisingly, according to length and conditions. So there's really no need for you advise, thanks all the same.

I too can sit through a film without a drink. But I don't want to.

Charis1 · 14/08/2015 17:53

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

I can't take this seriously. Your belief is based on the prefix "hydro" - do you even know what it means?

That is as well informed and well reasoned as saying a catastrophe is by definition caused by a cat.

Charis1 · 14/08/2015 18:02

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.

This sort of post just makes me want to weep. Did you not go to school, did you not have any sort of elementary science education, do you not know that a substance, and the separate components of that substance actually have different properties?

squoosh · 14/08/2015 18:03

Oh come now, you're in no position to be talking about being 'well informed and well reasoned'.

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 14/08/2015 18:04

Charis

hydro is a combining for which means means water and is used to describe things etc to do with/of water , hydroplane, hydrophobe, hydroelectricity etc
you really are making a fool of yourself, it's embarrassing to watch

ZingDramaQueenOfSheeba · 14/08/2015 18:04

*combining form

longestlurkerever · 14/08/2015 18:06

Ffs, of all the things to get het up about, other people having a sip of water seems pretty extreme. why on earth does it bother you?