I could say the same to the data centers. They got to lay off the water bro.
Dear OP,
You’ve posted an image instead of linking to the article. I don’t understand why everyone on Lemmy doesn’t understand this is completely worthless.
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I went to dig for the rag in question :
it’s behind a paywall, and it’s probably for the best
It was also posted on MSN, so you can avoid the WSJ paywall.
It’s clickbaity. The conclusion is pretty unexciting: for most people, all you need to do is drink water with food and when you get thirsty. Maybe this will help somebody who’s over-obsessed with getting enough water, and it’s impacting their quality of life? It really feels like they couldn’t find anything good to write about, so they had to dredge this up.
NB: the conclusion includes this:
One caveat: Some researchers warn thirst can be delayed or reduced with age or certain medications.
Age or certain medications or certain medical conditions. I have ADHD, so I legit won’t get thirsty 95% of the time. I have to have something to remind me to drink.
Yes, but you can still email the health columnist author and tell her she sucks shit at health columnizing.
Article sponsored by Pepsi?
Do not, my friends, become addicted to water. It will take hold of you and you will resent its absence!
Water has the harshest withdrawal symptoms known to medical science.
I’ve heard everybody who drinks water dies. That’s not a risk I’m willing to take personally.
2027: “Do you really need three meals a day?”
Yeah but we didn’t listen and now all the food is poison.
Well, technically, you don’t. If you eat enough calories in a single sitting, you only need one meal a day.
It’s possible, but the spikes and drops in metabolic rates doesn’t work for everybody. If you’re fit and healthy you can probably handle it, but many people need more steady metabolism throughout the day.
Also, your body can only absorb so many nutrients at once. If you try packing all your daily requirements into one meal, you’re going to shit a lot of it out. You might absorb all 2000 calories or whatever, but most of the vitamins, proteins, etc. are going to get flushed down your toilet
I eat half a sandwich a day and I’m still kicking
You must have a sedentary lifestyle because that would not be enough if you did manual labor every day
It wouldn’t be enough even if you use your brain slightly more than what needed to doomscroll all day
Well yes, now that you mention it, I’m a professional doom scroller. I do active stuff occasionally, my metabolism is how incredibly slow from endocrine issues and age :(
I worked construction around 18-19. I was a skinny kid, like 130lbs. After working all day the boss would order in food. I once ate an entire large pizza and drank a 2 liter bottle of coke.
Now that I work from home its a lot less LOL
TBF, at eighteen years old one can eat three large pizzas in a row and not make a dent in their weight. When I came home after a school day, I’d discover a full pan of fried potatoes and chow down half of it right at the stove.
You actually don’t, but never admit it
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.
125 / 40 = approx 3.
That’s really an absurdly huge cup if it is about 1/3 of your entire daily water intake.
40 us fl oz = 1.1829 L
Thanks
I drink 3 of those a day, at minimum.
I’m an American and I don’t really understand fluid ounces at a glance either lol
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.
I’m looking forward to the economic collapse of all junk food & junk drinks as humans get wiser & altogether stop buying that toxic shit.
Unfortunately, it seems the majority are getting dumber. Toxic shit is all we’re going to have left.
Truthfully I think although the rising generation is increasingly illiterate, they’ve at least been eschewing alcohol & junk food.
Agreed. They’re outwardly health conscious, although they have no problem putting random shit in their bodies if it makes them healthier.
My generation, we were poisoning ourselves with booze, but we know what booze is.
thats basically what i was thinking too.
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.
Fully clear usually means stop drinking water for now. It signifies you have had a bit too much water
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.
3 liters a day is recommended. There’s absolutely a reason to use those big 40oz water bottles. This article is a lie.
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…
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.
You should drink whenever you want to, or are mentally thirsty. That being said, after many years of being a child in school (water fountains tasted like drinking chalk), i had to train myself to feel thirsty again without being dehydrated. Probably a safer bet to just go by pee color or have a cup or two of water at dinner/during exercise.
So what are you supposed to do, have a recurring alarm clock every hour?
sort of, yes
Like you are supposed to take breaks from sitting and staring at a screen instead of going 8 hours straight.
So what am I supposed to do, take good care of myself properly?!
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.
The question feels more pressing than ever given rising temperatures, heat waves
The combination of these two takes has to be among the dumbest things I’ve ever read, what do they think those other drinks are made of? I’m entirely certain that the process of making another drink uses up more water than just drinking that volume of water in the first place.
everyone else seems to be slugging H20 from 40-ounce Stanley tumblers
It just occurred to me that all these people lugging around Stanleys or whatever, I wonder what percentage of them have something other than water in there? 🤔 Sugary drinks, energy drinks, alcohol? Y’know there’s a non-zero chance that some people are merely MASQUERADING as hydrohomies.
Do they actually call it H20? That’s so stupid.
DM me when they come out with H21
I have even better - I3P. Iodine, check. No goiters here. 3, widely believed to be the next highest whole number (citation needed). Phosphorus, check. Good for flower/fruit production.
Put it all together, you might get grapefruit sized growths, but they won’t be goiters.
Next problem please.
I guess that’s just a lot of hydrogen in a container?
I often add some squash to water, but it barely has any sugar in it and I often go for fairly dilute. Like just a hint of berry, orange or lemon.
SQUASH?! You monster!
I hope that means pumpkin spice or something, even though theres no pumpkin in that stuff…
It’s British for concentrated juice syrup.
😆
That doesn’t make it better!
Over-hydrating doesn’t help, but under-hydrating sure does.
If you’re pee is light yellow ya doin’ fine.
If you’re pee… you are not doing fine.
No no, He’s E u r o p e a n.
It’s hard to tell with the accents
WSJ: stop drinking water our data centers need it instead
This was my first thought. Are they trying to pull some bs like that. But also the wsj is a disgrace
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 fatand muscle boil away.
Poverty is surprisingly expensive, but you can get Nofudatall for freewith qualifying insurance plans !
Nofudatall already exists - it’s called Ozempic
I did my injection yesterday 😀
I heard other countries give it out for free to everyone! Nofudatall truly works but you must pay for it here.
right wingers have a serious problem with comprehending the idea of consent. is dieting and fasting good for you? yeah sure, when done right. but is being forced to do that good for you? hell no, even if there are health benefits you didn’t choose to do that. and in the next sentence they’ll preach about freedom
Ghoulish
But most Americans are fat.
Yes. That happens when all your food comes from the dollar store and the gas station mini-mart, and you drive everywhere.
Health is, ultimately, the product of diet and exercise/physical activity. You get out what you put in. Everybody knows this.
The problem is…one of the problems, for there are many…ok so a few of the problems are, as others have pointed out…ultimately come down to housing and city planning.
The problem is, we somehow can’t figure out how to get diverse, fresh food, within a walkable/bikeable distance of everybody. So that leaves a few options:
- Be car-dependent, or
- Buy shelf-stable (or frozen, or more preservative than foodstuff) food from a place within walking distance (which also means buying no more than what you can carry at a time), or
- Dine-in, take-out, or drive-thru
It also doesn’t help that most American’s are overworked and can’t find half an hour to cook an actual meal, let alone sit down and enjoy it. We’re all burning the candle on both ends trying to make ends meet. And our food selections allow us to pick two out of “fast, cheap, healthy”.
- Cheap and Healthy? Will cost you time.
- Fast and Healthy? Will cost you money.
- Fast and Cheap? Will cost you health.
We don’t have a surplus of any of those things…but the one that’s easiest to ignore (until it isn’t) is health. And so that’s the bank we draw our credit on.
Now add car-dependency on top, and we can find the time to at least go grocery shopping maybe once a week. We find the fresh produce is expensive (and probably also harboring parasites), and won’t last a whole week in the fridge…but we also kinda feel like maybe we should eat a vegetable every now and then, so we get some…but most of the groceries are gonna have to last that whole week, and will need to be fast and cheap…
It sucks, but hey, it’s the best country in the world (or so I was told through 12 years of forced education).
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.
Yep…
Take my meds and of to the race on one cup of tea at the morning.
Sometimes I will remember the bottle of water on my table in front of my monitors at work. Sometimes.
Me too. Sometimes I feel like I must get thirsty in a reasonable way, but when I actually notice the sensation is another matter. At other times I’m incessantly thirsty.
We can seperate regions easily enough and their peak humidity seasons. You just need to factor in sedentary, semi active, active and athletic lifestyles.
After about 23C I swear a lot. I definitely need to replenish what I lose or I get drowsy
Dehydration has severe effects on your mental and physical health
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.
Fucking bingo.
Do you want kidney stones? Because this is how you get kidney stones.
