Of course coffee counts. It’s still water and has no salt. It will not be close to enough, but still.
You do need salt, or that water just instantly becomes piss.
Wow xD
Idk, just, no? Bottled water or water from the tap or whatever all has no salt.
We do need a certain amount of salt, but it doesn’t need to come from the water, drinks do not need to be isotonic to hydrate you.
That’s really not the case. Most tap water and bottled water have some salt and the amount varies widely by brand/location.
Guess which water is used for the coffee buddy xD
Caffeine in the coffee is a diuretic though. It’ll make you lose more water through urination than if you drank the equivalent volume in just water.
Although caffeine is a diuretic, coffee is net hydrating.
Sure, but drinking any amount of caffeine will result in more water being excreted than if you have no caffeine, right?
Nope, only true in extreme cases. I was curious about that years ago, and while it might make you need to urinate more frequently, it doesn’t actually make you urinate more volume unless you consume way more caffeine than your body is used to. Now, alcohol on the other hand, anything over like 3-5% ABV does have a net dehydrating effect.
Thanks, I wasn’t aware of that!
Not enough to offset the amount of water you take, look it up if you want. It does make you empty your bladder and that might be more water than what you just drank, but then your bladder takes a while to fill again. It doesn’t really make you generate enough urine to offset what you drank at all.
“no salt” as in neglible. Of course it isn’t distilled water. And that’s also what’s in the coffee.
Bottled water and tap water are mineral water. Minerals = salts. If you only ever drank RO water, you’d run into trouble. Better eat salty then.
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.
That ain’t healthy, chief. But I won’t judge. I sometimes drink Monster Energy like it’s water.
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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.
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.
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.”
Does coffee count?
The bottom text on the picture says that coffee doesn’t count. Sorry!
Sorry wasn’t hydrated enough to even see there was text down there.
No worries, hope you get hydrated soon!
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But, but…. I’m on the toilet right now.
*Sips broth from instant-ramen*
@Wfh *in a small voice*
'nk you.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.
Something something throw the ring in the fire!
Something something No.
I drank too much tea and my mouth is dry.
You’re not my mum!
