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>soda, juice, coffee Don't consume these. They have the opposite effect of dehydrating you.
by codesushi42 7y ago
>soda, juice, coffee
Don't consume these. They have the opposite effect of dehydrating you.
- F-0X 7y agoIf these have a dehydrating effect, it will be (literally) drowned out by the amount of water consumed. It will be a vast net-positive.
- codesushi42 7y agoI guess you use the same logic when drinking sea water. Sugar and caffeine will dehydrate you. You'll be driven to drink more water to compensate. Vote me down, obese soda patrons.
- F-0X 7y agoSea water is very salty, and will box your kidneys in. It's not the same at all.
- codesushi42 7y agoNot what I was getting at, at all. The sodium content will make you drink more water to compensate.
- oarabbus_ 7y agoYou're misinformed. Caffeine does not dehydrate those who consume it regularly. Sugar can dehydrate you if you are diabetic or have other blood sugar regulation issues. You're playing straw man games.
- codesushi42 7y agoCaffeine is a diuretic.
- tracker1 7y agoAbout the only thing people are likely to drink in liquid form where you lose more than you take in is alcohol. Most people shouldn't be taking in refined sugars more than a couple times a month. That's a somewhat separate issue. There are of course other factors at play, but that has less to do with hydration and more to do with nutrition and disease. Being an asshole won't really help your position. I tend to be snarky myself at times, but misinformation+snark == downvotes to oblivion.
- cbsks 7y agoI was always told that when growing up but I never understood how drinking soda would actually cause a net loss of fluids. A quick search shows that my suspicions were correct. Even though drinking soda doesn't hydrate you as much as drinking water, it does not dehydrate you. https://duckduckgo.com/?q=does+soda+dehydrate+you&ia=web https://duckduckgo.com/?q=does+soda+dehydrate+you&ia=web
- jjeaff 7y agoIf that were true, we'd have mass dehydration deaths on the daily.
- codesushi42 7y agoYou would need to drink a massive amount for it to be lethal. Instead what you see are obese individuals because drinking soda has the net effect of making you more thirsty, causing people to drink more soda. Which is exactly what the soda makers want you to do, and will fund studies to make you believe otherwise.
- morsch 7y agoThis is one of these often repeated half-truths: See, for example, [1] and many many more. [1] http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140402-are-coffee-and-tea-dehydrating http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20140402-are-coffee-and-tea-...
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- GeneralTspoon 7y agoIf you truly believe that these will net-dehydrate you, it should be pretty easy to prove - just survive for 1 week drinking only soda/juice/coffee. If you die of dehydration, we'll admit you were right :)
- pssflops 7y agoI can confidently admit that when I was a stupid teenager, I had consisted on Soda & Coffee and potentially only getting raw water content absorbed from foods for multiple weeks on end.
- erobbins 7y agoI've survived for years drinking mostly iced tea, with a soda in the morning instead of coffee. I can count the number of times I drink plain water in a week on one hand (after exercise, basically)