Can't find clean drinking water, just cut back... Brought to you by the ruling class who is using up and poisoning all the water.
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2027: “Do you really need three meals a day?”
Yeah but we didn't listen and now all the food is poison.
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Looked at the article, and it starts off pretty stupid
While everyone else seems to be slugging H20 from 40-ounce Stanley tumblers, I have never understood the appeal of drinking plain, tasteless water all day.
Some people live in areas where the water tastes bad, but seeing the water as "boring" might mean that you're drinking too much of the other stuff (soft drinks, juice, sugary etc). It's not that those other things are not hydrating, but they're unhealthy for other reasons.
The question feels more pressing than ever given rising temperatures, heat waves
I refuse to normalize a world where people lack access to clean drinking water. 😠
The rest of the article is pretty standard advice. There's no set amount of water that everyone needs to drink, and your diet/lifestyle/body composition/the weather will all play a role. Going based on thirst is a good indicator, but make sure you actually drink water when you're thirsty. !hydrohomies@lemmy.ml
But using that to justify unequal access to clean drinking water is a big no.
too much of the other stuff
or that you’re a shill , writing a seo prop piece knowing full well coke is a financial supporter of your “newspaper”
And I think it's even broader: If I'm drinking water, I'm not buying any other drinks. I'm not supporting the economy, I'm only drinking water.
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And if you're in the subset of people who struggle to register thirst, either through perceiving it as hunger or just not registering it at all; use the pee test.
If your last pee was yellow, drink some water. If clear or nearly clear, you're fine.
If brown, drink lots of water and pray to Dionysus to become hydrated before the hangover kicks in.
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The author of the article seems to think people use water bottles because they justlike, enjoy drinking water constsntly for no reason. (Its fine if you do) Or some "misguided" advice about how much to drink daily.
When people probably just carry them so when they are thirsty, they have something cheap and not unhealthy to drink.
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Going based on thirst is a good indicator,
After many visits for my daughter with different doctors, all of which were different specializations, the consistent advice from all of them was "going by thirst" is absolutely wrong.
They each said if you wait to be thirsty, you are already dehydrated.
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The question feels more pressing than ever given rising temperatures, heat waves
All the more reason to drink fucking water!
Holy shit, sometimes wish journalists could be disbarred but I know that would create a slew of other problems...
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Lol, 1 liter is nothing. But yeah okay, it could be a liter of water for the poor thirsty AI data centres.
journalist drinking 6 pumpkincinnamoncock flavoured chaimoccalattuccinos for 18 bucks each to then sit down and tell people they don't need a whole liter of water
God I hate how this may actually be the motivation behind this article.
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Three article boils down to the author being a whiny WSJ entitled asshole, which is what I expect from the WSJ.
Author, you don't need the 40 oz cup.
Quoted Expert, you need around 125 oz a day.
Author, but water is so boring and tasteless, I want sugar and you get a fraction of water from food right? I don't wanna drink water. Written Toddler Tantrum ensues
Author, so in conclusion you don't need that 40 oz water cup.
The rest of us, STFU you entitled twat.
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Bezos (owner of WSJ) is famous for hating his employees's basic biological needs.
As @9point6@lemmy.world pointed out, Bezos is the owner of WaPo, not WSJ, and thus, the Wall Street wants our water, not Bezos alone.
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Right wing newspapers love to do this shit where I live. We get into a crisis, people start skipping meals because they don't have money, and they will talk about the health benefits of dieting and fasting 🙄
The hot new diet trend, poverty.
Have you tried this new drug, Nofudatall? Take it in place of your normal three meals and watch the pounds of fat~and~ ~muscle~ boil away.
Poverty is surprisingly expensive, but you can get Nofudatall for free~with~ ~qualifying~ ~insurance~ ~plans~ !
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WSJ on that Immortan Joe shit
Do not my friends, become addicted to water! It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!
I ditched my 40oz bottle for a 64oz bottle. The fuck is this journalism.
It has some grains of truth but it's mingled with too much personal opinion.
There are studies on how much water humans really need. If you want to calculate it the scientific way, you need to factor in at least lean muscle mass, total mass, surface area, ambient temperature and humidity, activity levels, and diet. There's no magic number of ounces that's correct for everyone.
Fortunately we've evolved a really awesome mechanism. When your body needs more water, you get thirsty.
So if you want to stay properly hydrated, drink whenever you feel even a little thirsty.
Fortunately we've evolved a really awesome mechanism. When your body needs more water, you get thirsty.
Yeaaahhh....About that...
ADHD can make you completely ignore that signal for way, way too long.
My body also misinterprets that signal as "hunger", and a craving for some wet food. Maybe like yogurt or a cup of pudding. You know something that just slides down easy. Yeah #thisiswhyimfat.
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"Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you, and you will resent its absence!"
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The article seems to be a list of ~~products you can buy~~ things you can drink to get your daily hydration that aren't boring old water.
How the hell am I going to show off my peer-approved, corporation-branded water bottle?
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Over-hydrating doesn't help, but under-hydrating sure does.
If you're pee is light yellow ya doin' fine.
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Ditched the 40oz for a 134oz. Best decison I've ever made. All the water I want and a weapon built into one device. It even comes with nice sturdy handles.
I could say the same to the data centers. They got to lay off the water bro.
Bezos really needs the water for his data centers. Come on guys, don’t be a dick and just dehydrate yourself and shower for 10 seconds max and we can have all the data centers Jeff wants!
Fuck yourself WSJ
Doctor said I should drink 100oz a day soooooo.... I'm gonna keep trusting my medical professional instead of a random idiot who doesn't like the taste of water.
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