I drink a shitload of water, and I still get nasty headaches.
I really don’t think it’s dehydration. I’ve had dehydration headaches. They’re called hangovers. Migraines are not the same.
I refill bottles from the tap, too, and bring several to work each day. I used to refill them at the office water fountain, but then I noticed that there are … things … floating in that water. I think they might be Sea-Monkeys.
Thank you. I’m a bit tired of being told that drinking an aquarium full of water every day will magically lead to optimal health. I drink tons of water, simply because I get thirsty. I probably drink a gallon a day. Magically, I still get headaches. I’m still too fat. I still feel crappy first thing in the morning. My skin isn’t emitting light. I still get colds sometimes. Water is not some magic panacea. I thought that silly craze of pretending that enough water would somehow magically make our lives better was done with.
You know… I personally get tired of hearing the water nazi’s foist their tasteless crap on me for my ‘health’. I don’t like water. I’ve never liked water. I’m a grown damn man and I’ll drink what I want, thanks. It is not a friggin moral failing of mine that I prefer not to drink water. There is a lot of baseless crap about how water is somehow better for you than any other liquid you consume and if I hear that 8 glasses a day bullshit again I’m going to administer 40 fluid ounces to the jerk via enema. Here’s a clue people, you get some liquid you need via the food you eat, also, throughout civilized history most people tried like heck to avoid drinking water FOR health reasons (dirty water= Dysentery). The way I figure it, I’ve got 8 thousand years (at least) of tradition backing me drinking down some tea, wine, beer, juice or even gasp chemical slop instead of water. The human race survived on non-water liquids just fine, and I will too.
Check this out.
I met an eighty nine year old man once who claimed to have never drunk water, at all. Coffee in the morning, beer in the daytime, and whisky in the evening. He was twenty years into his third career when I met him.
But I am sure he would have been far healthier if he had had eight glasses of water a day. :rolleyes:
Tris
I’ve been thinking exactly the same thing when I see those Crystal Light commercials–what’s wrong with drinking plain water? I hate the taste of all artificial sweeteners, so I don’t understand why that would be better than water.
I did a double-take the first time I saw an Aquapod commercial. It’s fun! It’s exciting! Oh, it’s just water. In a bulgy bottle. 
No free surprise inside, not even any Sea Monkeys, just water. It doesn’t surf, it doesn’t skateboard, it just sits there in the cute little bottle. I think this will go down in history as one of the worst marketing ideas ever.
You can give the label a nice, Asian-looking font and call it Liquid Karma.
Yeh, and it also averaged a 37 year life-span.
But hey, lots of people smoke all their lives and never get cancer. So I guess smoking is fine for you.
With the exception of the chemical slop, everything on the list IS mostly water!
(And there’s probably a lot of water in the slop too.)
Soo, they would have lived longer, if they had drunk more [DEL]pond scum[/DEL] water? :dubious:
CMC fnord!
Hear, hear!
Lactose-free milk can’t be called “milk”, in Spain: it’s had some stuff added (lactase) and some stuff taken out (part of the lactose, I don’t know how they do it but they do, it isn’t just broken apart). Supermarkets still carry it in the Milk section, of course… but the bottle can’t say milk.
Pascual’s pasteurized-after-it’s-made yoghurt can’t be called “yoghurt”, since it doesn’t have any live bugs in it. It’s a “pasteurized dairy dessert”.
But ah, “lemon water” is water? Not quite. It took the guv’mint about two months to make them change the labels - but heck, it’s one thing in which I agree with them. I want to know what is it I’m eating, and water with colors is not “improved pure drinking water” like the ads had the nerve to claim (until the guv’mint said they couldn’t).
No, but they would have lived longer if they had access to clean water - like we have today. I’m not blaming our ancestors, I’m learning from them.
If you’d like to emulate your non-water-drinking ancestors, Anchor Steam is now producing a small beer by sparging their mash after the first runnings.
Cite? I mean… I’m sure it’s a contributor, it’s nice not to have to boil any water I use before it comes in contact with… say… my salad but I have to say I think it’s a big fucking stretch to say our improvements in longevity are soley due to our new water drinking regiments. I provided a cite that says the body needs liquids, it doesn’t care what liquids… any will do (with some alcoholic drinks being the exception), where are you getting your information? I get you like water. That’s fine, what I don’t get is why you insist that it is so superior. Heck… I’m a tea drinker, I don’t use much sugar but my tea contains antioxidents and other chemical compounds that various studies have suggested provide numerous health benefits so why exactly should I give those up to chug tap water?
My wife and I were in Costco this past weekend to pick up a few things that we needed in bulk-sizes we couldn’t get locally. In so doing she picked up something she’s been bugging me to look for since she saw the ad: Those Crystal Light packets for bottled water.
Now, I’ll admit I’d be willing to give the iced tea a shot if for no other reason than to determine if it’s worth drinking. However, the only one they had there was the two-pack of Strawberry/Orange/Banana and Raspberry. I’m a bottled water drinker. I take bottles of water to work. I have a water cooler at home from which I fill frosty mugs to drink when I’m at home. I largely gave up pop months ago preparatory to getting serious abot dieting, so that’s mostly all I drink, other than tea and the occasional coffee. The idea of these artificial fruit-flavoured things didn’t appeal to me.
So my wife got me to make one of these for her yesterday. And she insisted I just taste it to see if I liked it. I kept trying to beg off but eventually had to cave, if just to appease her.
Good fucking lord on a bagel. It was like sucking on Strawberry Shortcake’s ass with a Splenda gargle.
Now I’m glad I didn’t try the iced tea.
I thought your cite said that the body needs water and it doesn’t care if the water is commingled with other substances provided they are not too toxic? Kerosene is a liquid, and I’m pretty sure your body would care a fair bit about the difference.
I get what you mean though - for the last few thousand years people have improved their survival prospects by drinking tea, week beer, watered wine and so on. I don’t think pure water makes that big a difference compared to, say, sensible strenght tea. However it’s probably a bit better for you than drinking stand-the-spoon-up Tetley and nothing else - moderation in all things, and all that.
It would be interesting to perform a controlled experiment to see how a year or two of drinking nothing but one of:[ul]
[li]Sunny D[/li][li]Coca-Cola[/li][li]Tea[/li][li]Coffee[/li][li]Beer[/li][li]Tap Water[/li][li]Orange Juice[/li][/ul] and so on would affect your health. My money is on Tea and Tap Water coming top and Coca-Cola and Sunny D coming bottom…
I’ll volunteer for the beer. 
Add me as another person who doesn’t particularly like water. Oh, sure, I try to drink my share, but I doubt it comes to 8 glasses a day.
But why is it assumed the only choices are water or soda? I do drink plenty of seltzer water. The brand I drink has carbonated water and natural flavoring. Nothing else…no sodium. I fail to see how it’s really any less good for me, especially since I drink it as opposed to not drinking water.
I don’t plan to give it up just because some stranger on a message board thinks I should.
I have been searching on line journals (NEJM, Science, etc.) for the last few years. I have not found one single peer reviewed study that indicates that more than enough water to avoid dehydration (at a medically significant level) provides any benefit to health over the long term. While some disagreement exists as to how much water is a minimum, and the individual factors are overwhelmingly variable, more water is not better than less water in any demonstrated case study that I can find. If you know of such a study, please put a link up.
But, I firmly believe that you should buy lots of plain ordinary water at retail prices if that is what you want.
A fool and his money are not competing with my money in the market place. That works fine for me.
Tris
“As scarce as truth is, the supply has always been in excess of the demand.” ~ Josh Billings ~
I don’t know about “peer reviewed study,” but I have read so much in recent months about how even slight dehydration can have an effect on overall health and wellness.
Water: How Much Should You Drink Every Day? from the Mayo Clinic.
:rolleyes:
Yeah… obviously when I said 'liquids" I meant everything from bromine to turpentine… yep… that was what I was gettting at alright.
drinks down some mercury in disgust