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[–] 155 points 2 months ago (11 children)

2027: “Do you really need three meals a day?”

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (7 children)

    Well, technically, you don't. If you eat enough calories in a single sitting, you only need one meal a day.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    It's possible, but the spikes and drops in metabolic rates doesn't work for everybody. If you're fit and healthy you can probably handle it, but many people need more steady metabolism throughout the day.

    Also, your body can only absorb so many nutrients at once. If you try packing all your daily requirements into one meal, you're going to shit a lot of it out. You might absorb all 2000 calories or whatever, but most of the vitamins, proteins, etc. are going to get flushed down your toilet

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  • [–] -1 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I eat half a sandwich a day and I'm still kicking

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    You must have a sedentary lifestyle because that would not be enough if you did manual labor every day

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I worked construction around 18-19. I was a skinny kid, like 130lbs. After working all day the boss would order in food. I once ate an entire large pizza and drank a 2 liter bottle of coke.

    Now that I work from home its a lot less LOL

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    TBF, at eighteen years old one can eat three large pizzas in a row and not make a dent in their weight. When I came home after a school day, I'd discover a full pan of fried potatoes and chow down half of it right at the stove.

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  • [–] 53 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    People are drinking water right from under the data centers!

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    That is likely exactly what that propaganda piece is for. “Don’t drink water, it’s silly anyway!”

    Coupled with pushing sales of beverages for money.

    I figure when the datacenter bubble bursts, the tech companies will keep consuming the same amounts of water and just start selling it.

    Gotta find some way to the plot of The Water Knife. (Book has gas pumps that sell water, water meters next to sinks and showers, etc.)

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  • [–] 51 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    WSJ: stop drinking water our data centers need it instead

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  • [–] 97 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (27 children)

    Looked at the article, and it starts off pretty stupid

    While everyone else seems to be slugging H20 from 40-ounce Stanley tumblers, I have never understood the appeal of drinking plain, tasteless water all day.

    Some people live in areas where the water tastes bad, but seeing the water as "boring" might mean that you're drinking too much of the other stuff (soft drinks, juice, sugary etc). It's not that those other things are not hydrating, but they're unhealthy for other reasons.

    The question feels more pressing than ever given rising temperatures, heat waves

    I refuse to normalize a world where people lack access to clean drinking water. 😠

    The rest of the article is pretty standard advice. There's no set amount of water that everyone needs to drink, and your diet/lifestyle/body composition/the weather will all play a role. Going based on thirst is a good indicator, but make sure you actually drink water when you're thirsty. !hydrohomies@lemmy.ml

    But using that to justify unequal access to clean drinking water is a big no.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    too much of the other stuff

    or that you’re a shill , writing a seo prop piece knowing full well coke is a financial supporter of your “newspaper”

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    And I think it's even broader: If I'm drinking water, I'm not buying any other drinks. I'm not supporting the economy, I'm only drinking water.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I'm looking forward to the economic collapse of all junk food & junk drinks as humans get wiser & altogether stop buying that toxic shit.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Unfortunately, it seems the majority are getting dumber. Toxic shit is all we're going to have left.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Truthfully I think although the rising generation is increasingly illiterate, they've at least been eschewing alcohol & junk food.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Agreed. They're outwardly health conscious, although they have no problem putting random shit in their bodies if it makes them healthier.

    My generation, we were poisoning ourselves with booze, but we know what booze is.

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  • [–] 20 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    And if you're in the subset of people who struggle to register thirst, either through perceiving it as hunger or just not registering it at all; use the pee test.

    If your last pee was yellow, drink some water. If clear or nearly clear, you're fine.

    If brown, drink lots of water and pray to Dionysus to become hydrated before the hangover kicks in.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The author of the article seems to think people use water bottles because they justlike, enjoy drinking water constsntly for no reason. (Its fine if you do) Or some "misguided" advice about how much to drink daily.

    When people probably just carry them so when they are thirsty, they have something cheap and not unhealthy to drink.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    The question feels more pressing than ever given rising temperatures, heat waves

    All the more reason to drink fucking water!

    Holy shit, sometimes wish journalists could be disbarred but I know that would create a slew of other problems...

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    Going based on thirst is a good indicator,

    After many visits for my daughter with different doctors, all of which were different specializations, the consistent advice from all of them was "going by thirst" is absolutely wrong.

    They each said if you wait to be thirsty, you are already dehydrated.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    So what are you supposed to do, have a recurring alarm clock every hour?

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    While everyone else seems to be slugging H20 from 40-ounce Stanley tumblers, I have never understood the appeal of drinking plain, tasteless water all day.

    The question feels more pressing than ever given rising temperatures, heat waves

    The combination of these two takes has to be among the dumbest things I've ever read, what do they think those other drinks are made of? I'm entirely certain that the process of making another drink uses up more water than just drinking that volume of water in the first place.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago*

    everyone else seems to be slugging H20 from 40-ounce Stanley tumblers

    It just occurred to me that all these people lugging around Stanleys or whatever, I wonder what percentage of them have something other than water in there? 🤔 Sugary drinks, energy drinks, alcohol? Y'know there's a non-zero chance that some people are merely MASQUERADING as hydrohomies.

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Do they actually call it H20? That's so stupid.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    DM me when they come out with H21

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    I have even better - I3P. Iodine, check. No goiters here. 3, widely believed to be the next highest whole number (citation needed). Phosphorus, check. Good for flower/fruit production.

    Put it all together, you might get grapefruit sized growths, but they won't be goiters.

    Next problem please.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I often add some squash to water, but it barely has any sugar in it and I often go for fairly dilute. Like just a hint of berry, orange or lemon.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago (2 children)

    SQUASH?! You monster!

    I hope that means pumpkin spice or something, even though theres no pumpkin in that stuff....

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  • [–] 40 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (10 children)

    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 🙄

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    The hot new diet trend, poverty.

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  • [–] 15 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    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 !

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    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

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (2 children)
  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    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).

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  • [–] 31 points 2 months ago

    WSJ on that Immortan Joe shit

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  • [–] 27 points 2 months ago

    I ditched my 40oz bottle for a 64oz bottle. The fuck is this journalism.

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  • [–] 26 points 2 months ago

    Do not my friends, become addicted to water! It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!

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  • [–] 21 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    "Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!"

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  • [–] 18 points 2 months ago

    Ditched the 40oz for a 134oz. Best decison I've ever made. All the water I want and a weapon built into one device. It even comes with nice sturdy handles.

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    How the hell am I going to show off my peer-approved, corporation-branded water bottle?

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  • [–] 17 points 2 months ago*

    The article seems to be a list of products you can buy things you can drink to get your daily hydration that aren't boring old water.

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  • [–] 16 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    Over-hydrating doesn't help, but under-hydrating sure does.

    If you're pee is light yellow ya doin' fine.

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    [–] 54 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    It’s cause Brawndo is the only drink you need!

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  • [–] 40 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    Bezos (owner of WSJ) is famous for hating his employees's basic biological needs.

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  • [–] 22 points 2 months ago (6 children)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Fortunately we've evolved a really awesome mechanism. When your body needs more water, you get thirsty.

    Yeaaahhh....About that...

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    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.

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  • [–] 10 points 2 months ago

    Fuck yourself WSJ

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    Dehydration has severe effects on your mental and physical health

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

    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.

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  • [–] 9 points 2 months ago

    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.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago

    Can you imagine taking health and wellness advice from The Wall Street journal? Jesus.

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