A health question. You are supposed to drink umpteen dozen glasses of water a day. What I am wondering is does a glass of juice count as a glass of water?
By juice I mean, apple juice, orange juice, grape juice, grapefruit juice, etc.
I asked my doctor about this a couple of years ago because I was working overseas where there was very little potable water available. He told me I should drink about six pints of water every day and juice, soup, and coffee all counted as water.
Al, not to disparage your doctor, but everything I’ve read and what my doctor told me is that caffeinated beverages don’t count as they act like a diuretic - forcing your body to shed water. Tea, coffee, and sodas not only don’t count towards water, they count against it.
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I’ll stick up for my doctor. Granted there’s nothing better than pure water but I wouldn’t say coffee etc. “counts against” hydration. Coffee, soup, etc. may not be as good as water but they’ll still hydrate you.
I spent several months one winter living in a tent in Northern Quebec doing geophysical surveys in frozen swamps. We were outside working all day on snowshoes. (Ever shit in the woods at -50 degrees? I have.) Our water supply was a hole chopped through ice and the swamp water was brown with dead vegetable matter in it. We never drank straight water - always coffee, hot chocolate and, yes, eating snow while we worked. Also lots of ice cream every day. It’s a funny picture; sitting in our tent in the evening, our breath visible, a white frost forming on our backs (the side away from the stove), shovelling in bowls of ice cream. Life was good.
This page from The Boston Globe has this to say about water content in various beverages and beer*!
Of course, what you have to evaluate now is the reliability and accuracy of medical advice from a newspaper.