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Sometimes I forget to drink anything but coffee and I end up dehydrated and with a headache. This impairs my productivity, to say nothing of quality of life.
by ratsbane 18y ago
Sometimes I forget to drink anything but coffee and I end up dehydrated and with a headache. This impairs my productivity, to say nothing of quality of life. I try to avoid this by keeping one of those disposable water bottles (I like the Glaceau SmartWater ones best) close at hand. I'll use the same bottle for weeks or months, just refilling it from the tap. I try to drink at least three per day. Eating fruits and vegetables and exercising helps me feel better and stay focused too but I don't do those enough.
- johnyzee 18y agoBe careful when reusing water bottles. A recent study found that re-using a disposable plastic water bottle a few times raises bacteria and fungus contamination beyond the threshold for acceptable drinking water.
- ratsbane 18y agoI used to use a Nalgene bottle. I wonder why a Nalgene (or other) reusable bottle would be safe but a disposable bottle would not? Possibly: wider mouth facilitates washing? It's a good point but I'm a little skeptical - if the study was sponsored by bottled-water sellers then...? In any case I'd like to look into it more. How to test easily for bacterial/fungal contamination?
- ratsbane 18y agoA little googling turns up a lot of discussion about reusing water bottles. The fear of bacterial and fungal seems to come largely from a single study of Canadian elementary-school students and the contamination may have come from their hands. There seems to be a consensus that if you occasionally wash the bottles with soap or let them sit with water containing a spoonful of bleach then reuse is okay. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuse_of_water_bottles http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reuse_of_water_bottles