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do you force your dog to drink when it doesn't want to? Has it had kidney failure and blood clots? If not aren't you worried about your cherished pet?

I don't mind people drinking more water if they want, my annoyance about this in general is that this is a manufactured need that companies like Nestle have instilled into people over the years using fear.

You can say you don't drink expensive bottled water and bring your own, but most people do and it's a very lucrative industry now when it wasn't before.

Kidney stones are mainly diet related, much less hydration (unless chronic). Kidney failure is also more related to diet and the resulting high blood pressure that comes from that.

I mean, tap water is pretty gross. That water comes through 100(+) year old pipes. Usually visible ***floating in it. It's seemingly quite difficult to find quality city water.

It's of no surprise that manufactured water is so popular.

Kidney stones are mainly diet related, much less hydration (unless chronic). Kidney failure is also more related to diet and the resulting high blood pressure that comes from that.

Neither are you and you brought it up.

I always like to think the difference between humans and non-intelligent animals is how close or far from behaviourism they act.

Without memory and processing of data, animals cant make decisions for time +1, +2 ahead: they can only react to the input they receive and thats it.

Humans can think ahead, and they can make decisions that maybe can make not sense in short time, but will eventually pay off with interest in the future.

Thats one reason that made human in the top of food chain: by not simply reacting to what the body says

My coworker had to have surgery because she had a kidney stone from not drinking enough water.

According to a study by researchers at Scotland’s St. Andrews University, however, those water bottles should be milk bottles.

The scientists’ study suggests water isn’t the best beverage for a body in need of hydration. The team studied the effects of 13 common beverages when consumed in the euhydrated state (neither dehydrated or hyperhydrated).

Researchers recruited 72 healthy, physically active men ages 18-35 and divided them into three groups. During the study, each participant drank still water (Highland Spring) and three of the following beverages that were randomly picked for them: cola (Coca-Cola), diet cola (Diet Coke), sports drink (Powerade), oral rehydration solution (Dioralyte), orange juice (Tesco Everyday Value), Lager beer (Carling), hot black coffee (Nescafe Original), hot black tea (PG tips), cold black tea (PG tips), full fat milk (3.6% fa) or skim milk (0.1% fat).

By tracking the men’s urine output after each beverage, the scientists could assign a beverage hydration index, or BHI, to each drink.

The St. Andrews team found that beverages with a little sugar, fat or protein did a better job than water of keeping the men hydrated.

Skim milk — which has a little fat, some protein, the sugar lactose and some sodium— did the best job of hydrating the participants. The sodium in milk "acts like a sponge and holds onto water in the body and results in less urine produced," CNN wrote.

Fruit juices and colas had higher hydration in first four hours, however, don’t hydrate as well-long term because of their high concentrations of sugar, the researchers found. When that sugar enters the small intestine, water is pulled from the body to dilute it. That results in dehydration.

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

It is not, most of the "drink more water" statements came from health industry research papers.

We are not at the top of the food chain except locally. If you disagree talk to a polar bear or a boa constrictor.

If you disagree talk to a polar bear or a boa constrictor.

The original study said that we should have the equivalent of eight glasses of water a day. People including doctors and advertisers almost instantly forgot the equivalent part. We get a lot of our hydration needs from food.

For healthy individuals, the average daily water for men is about 15.5 cups and for women about 11.5 cups. That might mean you need only four to six cups of plain water, depending on other fluid sources such as coffee, tea, juice, fruits, and vegetables.

Harvard says differently.

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For healthy individuals, the average daily water for men is about 15.5 cups and for women about 11.5 cups. That might mean you need only four to six cups of plain water, depending on other fluid sources such as coffee, tea, juice, fruits, and vegetables.

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