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Wooohoooo!! Drink up soda drinkers!! Dehydration myth is B.S.!!!!!!

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I'm out of root beer now. 🙁
No Cherry Coke around either.


I guess I make my soda healthy* by shaking all the carbonation out of it. I'd just use tap water if they made the mixes available in powder form, like Kool-Aid.


* - :awe:



PaperclipGod said:
Uhh... this study is retarded. It ignores the effect of sodium, which soda is full of. Craploads of salt = craploads of pee, because your body is desperately trying to get rid of the excess.
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My root beer has 25mg of sodium per 8oz, and that probably comes from the delicious sodium benzoate.
 
Anybody who says they don't like soda is a communist cus we know communists are bad and people who don't like soda are bad. So if you don't like soda you are a commie.
 
wtf? who worries about soda dehydrating them??

they should be worried about how it causes bone density loss and obesity.
 
QueBert said:
And I can drink an entire 2 liter of Coke before noon and not have to piss until 10 or 11 at night. Soda does not dehydrate me nor make me piss any more than water does.
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Then you have a large bladder? Drinking 2 liters of anything should make you piss before night.

I would contact a Dr.
 
ShockwaveVT said:
That's odd, because I can't think of any soda that has salt in it.
For example, there's no sodium in Coca-Cola

Recovery drinks like Gatorade intentionally have sodium since they're intended to be consumed after you just sweated your ass off.
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Try aiming your lens a little higher.

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destrekor said:
Nah, I'll continue doing it regardless of what they say.


But, to celebrate this mildly important find, I have just poured myself a nice Sailor Jerry and Coke.
mmmm
Previously I did try to avoid dehydrating consumables before having to wake up the next morning and sweat something fierce. But it's okay now! :biggrin:
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Sailor Jerry whooped my ass last week. Good stuff though.
 
I can honestly say dehydration was not on my list of reasons not to drink a soda. I dirnk them because they taste good. Water is healthy for me but its taste sucks.
 
HardcoreRobot said:
i dont understand how a substance can be a diuretic in one dose, but not in another.
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eh?

If your talking about taking a caffeine pill, what's happening is it's not being counterbalanced by water.

Drinking a caffeine pill worth of caffeine (200mg) in a large volume (20oz) coffee, it should still result in a net gain of water, and a good gain as well since the 200mg shouldn't force too much water out.

Weak diuretics like caffeine shouldn't force a large volume of water out of the body, unless it's excess water. The body is relatively keen on keeping water it's been given unless forced out, and I think diuretics are most efficient when there is excess the body doesn't need, but for some reason wants to retain (i.e. water weight, water-retention in tissues).

Drinking pop, which arguably has low amounts of caffeine in comparison to most caffeine sources, will definitely result in a net-gain of water.
 
QueBert said:
And I can drink an entire 2 liter of Coke before noon and not have to piss until 10 or 11 at night. Soda does not dehydrate me nor make me piss any more than water does.
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you're dehydrated as fuck, dude. that or you have a medical problem.
 
brblx said:
you're dehydrated as fuck, dude. that or you have a medical problem.
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Yeah, this.

If you can go a whole day without pissing, something is wrong.
Probably not getting enough water in general, so that pop is like gold to the body and it refuses to let go of it.

Most people can be mildly dehydrated and really have no serious consequences, if they aren't active at all. If you do some physical activity, you'd know it almost instantly.
 
well yeh, but soda still sucks. the acid eats at your teeth and bones, not to mention what the sugar/corn syrup does...

i live on the edge and still imbibe occasionally.
 
PaperclipGod said:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osmoregulation

Drinking lots of soda will make you piss more. Perhaps not 40mg from a single can, but the point was to counter all the excitement about soda not causing fluid loss.
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Considering you also get salts and other various solutes from various food sources, the ratio of liquid to salts in pop might benefit the individual. In this case, the body might wish to push out solutes but at the same time preserve the amount of water in it. The body will just filter it out in some extremely potent urine and keep it in the bladder until there's enough that it urges you to get rid of it.

oh, and this just in: drinking a lot of anything will make you piss more, for various reasons of course.
If you drink a lot of water, you're body will attempt to regulate the electrolyte balance by keeping the electrolytes and getting rid of some excess water.
 
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eits said:
wtf? who worries about soda dehydrating them??

they should be worried about how it causes bone density loss and obesity.
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I mostly just don't like the feeling left on my teeth after drinking too much soda. It's not as bad as coffee, but I tend to drink soda a lot faster than coffee.
 
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