Of course coffee counts. It's still water and has no salt. It will not be close to enough, but still.
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Coffee does count, btw. The amount of water used to make coffee counteracts the diuretic effect. This is pretty common knowledge.
I know. It's just that I tend to drink multiple espressos a day (be it at home because it's delicious or at work because of social functions) but completely forget to actually hydrate myself despite being thirsty AF.
Coffee is always the answer. Full stop. Do you need hydration? Coffee. Do you need a friend or something to hold? That's right, Coffee. Do you have to stop to pee every 30 minutes on a road trip? You guessed it, still Coffee!
Make me.
Jokes on you, I have a cold and have been drowning myself in water, tea and orange juice
But I just layed down after having one. You want me to get up again?
Hydrate yourself. This is a threat.
But, but…. I’m on the toilet right now.
Jokes on you I drank some coke after a nap
I was debating whether I should get out of bed and go get a glass of water, and then I saw this post, thanks op!
Does coffee count?
The bottom text on the picture says that coffee doesn’t count. Sorry!
I am in a place that requires bottled water. And bottled water costs money. But a fast food chain has a special: 1.50USD, and you get a free coffee once every 2 hours for 30 days.
Why do they require you to have bottled water
Tap water isn't safe in asia outside of Japan, and in much of Japan it tastes like chlorine once you notice it.
That's why I only drink water sanitized with 40% ethanol. Zero chlorine. Bacteriologically super safe. ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
Oh interesting, we refill these big 5 gallon jugs at local water filter places for drinking and cooking water. Never tested how clean or anything it is but it does keep our dishes like the coffee pot from getting hardspots like the tap water does
I've been to Oslo recently, my god, never knew water could taste so fucking great.
I guess the fast food place is really close to where you work? How do they afford to offer this? Like they get bulk sanitized water, or have their own filtering system? Or is it safe to just boil and use?
I guess the fast food place is really close to where you work? How do they afford to offer this? Like they get bulk sanitized water, or have their own filtering system? Or is it safe to just boil and use?
It's a 15 minute walk or a 5 minute ebike ride, but the rideshare moped costs an extra 15 cents each way. But the fast food place is all over China so it's available whatever city I picked that month.
They have a filtering system, I can boil water, but then I don't get free coffee.
My cup of tea was unsatisfying, but water is also unsatisfying, task initiation broken
For my ex wife, I got one of those bottles with time markers. Sounds like the solution, but she was not able to maintain it: Know where it is, keep it clean etc.
Water is no miracle drug, but when dehydrated, it really is. That applies to many deficiencies, such as oxygen in the air, micronutrients, macronutrients.
We live in an age where sociopaths get votes and people overhydrate in response to propaganda from Coca Cola. 🤦♂️
The "8 glasses of water a day" thing is literally just made up by employees of Coca Cola. To sell more aquafina. Never quite understood how people believe that peeing every 20 minutes makes one healthier. There's no evidence for it.
This is an ADHD meme community sir/madam. We are not functional enough to drink a couple of glasses a day, let alone 8.
AKA 1945 US Food and Nutrition Board? Because that's where it seems to come from.
Apparently I was victim to a widely circulated myth. Apparently though, that board also specified that most of that recommendation was covered by water within food. The "IT HAS TO BE ACTUAL PURE WATER" thing was added on later by others.
So where did the myth of the 8 glasses come from? Fox says it likely stems from a decree from the U.S. Food and Nutrition Board issued back in the 1940s. It suggested that everyone drink 2.5 liters (84.5 ounces) per day — so not far off from today's standard. But even back then, that same recommendation clarified that a majority of that water comes, not from a glass, but from "prepared foods."
Source: https://www.tuftsmedicine.org/about-us/news/medical-myths-drink-8-glasses-water-each-day
I feel like my grandma said this in the 1980s before Aquafina was a thing.
I'm pretty sure people have been drinking water for millennia and everyone was fine without constantly carrying water bottles around.
It's almost like our bodies have evolved a way of telling us when we are starting to get dehydrated. I think we should call this feeling "thirsty".
So the best thing to do is to listen to your body and drink some water when it's telling you you're "thirsty". There's really no need to force yourself to drink when you're not thirsty.
An oracle once told me that "a mere 1% to 2% drop in total body water triggers the sensation of thirst."

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