I’ve heard that there are people who never drink water and instead drink soda and juices, drinking both of those usually makes me even more thirsty and I can’t imagine surviving without water, how is it possible?
How is it possible that some people don’t drink water?
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People dont actually really realize how dehydrated they are and how bad that feels until they get into the habit of drinking enough water.
I notice this alot with boomers and gen X. They only have a couple glasses of liquid a day whether it be coffee, pop or alcohol. Are younger people overhydrated? Probably, but there’s no real downside to having a water bottle on the go all day. I myself drink around 8+ water bottles a day, mostly out of boredom but it’s good for you so why not
I’ve met a lot of people who aren’t good about drinking water or who legitimately hate the taste of it. I’ve also lived in an area where the local water supply was poor quality and, famously, tasted really bad, so a lot of people refused to drink water unless it was bottled.
Though possible to survive, a lot of these people are prone to bouts of dehydration, UTIs, kidney issues, and other common conditions that come as a result of not getting enough hydration. Some non-water liquids are better than others, like how soda dehydrates you, but most sports drinks hydrate you, so that’s the lesser of 2 evils.
For a lot of people who dislike the taste or water, they find that flavor additives or sparkling water helps.
I didn’t drink it growing up because my mother didn’t like water. I still don’t like it most times but I drink more of it than I used to.
my father mainly lives on coffee and milk. he sometimes drinks water, but that is incredibly rare
There is water in soda and juice.
Sodas and juices are 99% water. The body will work with what you give it. The amount of sugar and crap you get will hurt you long term tho.
Everyone drinks water. Eat veggies? You’re drinking water
rice? water
coke? still haves water
I like carbonated water. I only drink when I’m thirsty. I don’t understand this excessive drinking that people seem to do nowdays.
I was dehydrated. I mostly drank Pepsi through my twenties and thirties. I literally had dreams about driving Pepsi when I ran out. If I ran out of Pepsi I would make sweet tea, very sweet tea. Two cups of sugar per gallon. I rarely ran out though. I might have had a Gatorade after a long day waiting tables but never water. I hated water.
In my late thirties RedBull because popular. I stopped drinking a twelve pack of Pepsi a day and started drinking eight or nine RedBull a day.
I only started drinking water in my forties. It was hard. I started by lessening the sugar, and adding ice, in my tea. I stopped drinking RedBull, for a while. Now I drink a couple of bottles of water a day, a couple of RedBull a day, and sweet tea at night. It’s an improvement for me.
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I’m probably one of those people. I tend to drink coffee, tea, beer, or sodas. As of right now it’s probably been two or three weeks since I’ve drank plain water. Nothing against it of course, I just have the option to drink other things so I always choose that instead. I work in a sweaty Warehouse so as summer encroaches I’ll start drinking water regularly because it’s here, it’s available, it’s free, and as I sweat I begin to get genuinely thirsty.
I don’t show the most obvious signs of dehydration. My skin is supple, my complexion is clean, my mouth is never dry, and I don’t believe I’ve ever had a UTI. Not an advocate or anything, just saying.
My siblings and I share a trait of never being thirsty, as in our bodies never trigger a desire for hydration so we just never think about it. Our mother had the same trait. We have to deliberately make sure we drink enough fluids, although it may be in tastier forms like juice, cold tea, etc.
The younger generations that walk around with huge water bottles kind of trips me out.
Especially at the gym. I can work out for like 2 hours and barely need a sip meanwhile they’re sucking on that mouthpiece straw thingy every 30 seconds.
And how sanitary is that thing you’re putting your mouth on considering it’s always sticking up collecting bacteria constantly.
My wife hasn’t drunk any water in the 25 years I’ve known her! Tea, Dr Pepper or (if she’s really in a bind) maybe some squash or juice. Generally though she’s powered entirely by brown chemicals. Our 13yo son recently asked her why he’d never seen her drink water or eat fruit!
They tend to wake up very thirst at night, chug a glass of water, then go back to sleep. That keeps them alive until the next night.
I never need water at night ever since I properly started drinking water during the day as an adult.
Well juice is 99.9% water and doesn’t have diuretics in it, so nutritional/sugar issues aside, that is zero problem from a hydration standpoint. Same would go for decaffeinated sodas and the like.
I only drink 1-2 bottles of water per day and that’s enough for me
The recommended daily water intake for adults is generally around 2 to 2.5 liters, or 8 to 10 cups, of fluid, including water from drinks and food. The minimum amount of water needed to prevent dehydration is less. The amount needed to stave off death is significantly less.
We consume about 20% of our water through food. The rest is consumed via liquids. All of our liquids are water based (except for the proportion of alcohol in an alcoholic beverage) and contribute to hydration, some more effectively, some less effectively.
Do you put spices in your food? It is similar with flavors, some people like flavored drinks over water.
In grad school I pivoted to drinking mostly black coffee and protein shakes or smoothies. Didn’t realize how terrible it was for me until I fainted during a sweltering DC summer
It’s not that I never ever drink water. It’s just that I don’t drink much plain water. I use it to take my morning meds, and during workouts. Once in a while I have it with dinner.
I need flavor. Plain water sits there literally forgotten. I can get a glass or bottle of water at my desk at work and it just doesn’t even ping my radar. And drinking non-water is better than not drinking anything.
That’s why I drink them.
I’m supposed to drink 4-6L of fluids a day. My doc actually recommended low sugar juices and sugar free sodas as part of that number because it makes it easier to hit my goal. 1.5 gallons of plain water is legitimately hard.
How could someone possibly be dehydrated if they drink 2 or 3L of liquid a day?
Water is in those things… it’s just water with stuff floating in it…
My friend legit thinks Diet Coke is basically water…. Says it’s clear-ish, has no sugar, and ‘technically’ hydrates….
Water is tasteless and bland.
Tea, Coke, coffee, gatorade
Because they don’t make me more thirsty…
Most drinks are made up primarily of water. Of course things like caffeine and sugar are dehydrating, which means instead of getting 100% hydration like you would from straight water, you’re getting let’s say 80% hydration instead. But you’re still getting hydrated.
The issue isn’t necessarily lack of adequate hydration (although for most people that’s probably also a concerning factor), the issue is how much sugar, caffeine, food dyes, chemicals, etc. you’re ingesting in the process of maintaining proper hydration.
I usually don’t feel thirsty so I have no motivation to drink. And when I do drink anything, I’m a super slow drinker so not much is actually getting consumed. Also idk, something about water tasting like nothing makes my body freak out and gag sometimes. I’ve started drinking lemon water and that seems to be helping
For a long time I drank nothing but coffee through the day. I’m trying hard to hydrate more. I can tell my body really needs it but it almost feels like a chore to get enough water down
For the first 35 years of my life it was Cola, Usually Pepsi or RC Cola and Shasta or Coke if that’s all that was available. Almost never drank water and told myself I get my water from the ice! I was up to about 5 Ltr. a day.
At 36 years old and close to 300 lbs I decided II needed to change or suffer all the effects of sugar diabetes. Now I drink cool Water, Hot Coffee or Tea with no Sugar or Cream.
Am I healthier? hard to tell as I have since suffered the effects of those first 35 years. Bad Joints and Kidney Stones, no fun on a daily basis! I do know that other family members that were addicted to sodas like I was are no longer with us.
Fuck Cancer!
I don’t think I drank water until I was in my twenties! (Parents in the 80s/90s gave us cream soda and cherryade!)
I had a friend that actually didn’t like to drink water, not really sure what exactly he found in the taste of water that he didn’t like but he swore that he would not drink water. Technically speaking when I spoke to a doctor once about possibly being dehydrated, he pointed out that if you drink soda or juice or other stuff that you’re still drinking water. I’m sure he meant that there’s water content in just about everything, but he came across as sounding like it was okay that I wasn’t drinking straight up regular tap water or from a fountain. I guess in one way you could say it’s not possible that people don’t drink water.
I have no idea. My mom has not drunk water since the 1960s! I keep a cup of water with me all day and at my bedside at night!
Whatever you drink, juice, soda, tea – it’s mostly water. There is no problem in hydrating your body without drinking pure water. The only issue is chemistry or sugar that might be added to other drinks that it’s not that good for your body but it’s the same with food you consume. If you eat processed food, you’re no better than someone who isn’t drinking water.
I don’t get how people don’t realize that drinking something other than pure water still contains mostly water. The body doesn’t care – I mean, it all gets mixed together in the end, anyway.
The myth of having to drink 8 cups of water per day comes from a single study that specifically mentions that much of that water is consumed in the food we eat – not straight water.
I drink a lot of tea and sugar-free pop. I almost never drink plain water and I’m doing fine…
I go #1 multiple times per day and the colour is a light colour, which is what most water junkies like to use to indicate how hydrated you are.
Tea and beer.
Still alive and not thirsty.
Yesterday someone commented on my 32 oz (.95 Liter) water bottle (larger Owala) if it’s my goal to drink a whole one every day. I was like “uhh I think I drink 3 a day without even really trying, I just get thirsty” and he was shocked!
96 oz (2.84 Liters) a day of water isn’t even a crazy amount, it’s around the reccomended ammount by a lot of health organizations…
That’s me.
Because you need plain water. Virtually every beverage, other than alcohol, is primarily water. If you drink a gallon of lemonade or soda, from hydration standpoint, it’s the same as drinking a gallon of water. People will claim the the caffeine in some sodas counteract the hydration, but only by a negligible amount. The goes for coffee and tea. Even milk is mostly water.
Yeah, I just drink about 15 cups of tea a day.
I used to drink no water, only milk and my doctor said it was ok
Osmosis
I never used to drink water. I felt like crap all the time – either fatigued or wired.
I made it to over 50 like this. There’s enough water in soda, wine and beer for me to survive. I really hate to drink water.
I drink a lot of tea and almost no pure water. Tea is just water that had some dead leaves in it for a while. A recent study showed that tea leaves absorb heavy metals and other contaminants, so between that and the boiling of the water, tea is historically a better beverage than water. The diuretic effects of caffeine are unnoticeably mild, especially if you’ve built up a tolerance.
Also, you have a very modern, privileged take on what it means to drink water. Imagine yourself transplanted 200 years into the past. Would you still drink a ton of water each day if you had to fetch it yourself from a river, and it was full of bugs and leaves and dirt and lye from somebody doing laundry upstream? Well, you’d skim off the dead bugs and boil it, right? I can report from experience that boiled river water tastes and smells awful. That’s when you’d want to add a little something to mask that algaeic fishy musk. Now you’re back to brewing tea.
In short, tea’s cool and water drools.