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Excuse me for posting this, but I am trying to remember where I read recently a study that pretty much disproved that caffeinated drinks dehydrate the body harmfully. In the study, I read that the quantity of water that one needs daily can come from caffeinated drinks in which the caffeine only slightly affect dehydration. The article made it sound like another medical theory had been found to be incorrect.
If anyone remembers reading about this study and could either post here or PM me, I would appreciate it.
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http://www.mic.hawaii.edu/dev_tech/biology/caffeine.htmlDear WW: above is one study that says caffeine beverages cause net water loss. This may be true in the; beginning, but I think they failed to take into account the decrease in water loss in people who drink coffee regularly. I have known many hospital workers who drank many cups of coffee during the working hours, and never developed dehydration. I doubt that they also drank a lot of water. Of course, caffeine containing beverages should not be a large fraction of daily fluid intake.
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Of course, caffeine containing beverages should not be a large fraction of daily fluid intake.
Ooops!
- Pfranz
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Make mine a double Ooops latte.The Ooops does stand for espresso, doesn't it?
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I found the study! It came out of Nebraska.
Two groups were compared--urinalysis and maybe blood tests, too, of caffeine drinkers and water/juice drinkers. Results: both groups were pretty much equally hydrated with the water/juice people doing a bit better, but not enough to make waves.
I'm sticking with my 4-5 cups of coffee during the day and the shot or two of bourbon at night. I detest water except when very, very thirsty.
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Quote: W. C. Fields
I never drink water because of
the disgusting things that fish
do in it.
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I remember an ad from the '60s in which a faithful drinker expressed shock when he found out they use water to make Guinness®.
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"I don't drink that stuff, I bathe in it."
My grandfather
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Your grandfather bathed? Geee!
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Yeh, someone had to do it.
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