Were we all constantly dehydrated?

[Anonymous]

I remember being taken to the water fountain in elementary school. In middle/high school my mom would send disposable bottles of water with me but I would never drink it because going to the bathroom in middle/high school is a whole "thing". The teachers never want to let you go and a lot of the bathrooms would be locked between classes so I 'd have to run around trying to find a bathroom that was open to use. It stressed me out so much I tried to avoid drinking water at school and I definitely was dehydrated.

I don't know what this is such a topic of conversation - I am glad kids are drinking more water now. The constant snacking I could do without.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Op - we eat a pretty non-processed food diet. And we don’t buy water bottles. Everything is refillable.

But I can sincerely feel a difference now when I don’t drink enough water. Maybe my body is used to it now.

Your body for sure gets used to it. I started drinking massive amounts of water while pregnant and breastfeeding and now I definitely feel a difference when I don't drink as much.

[Anonymous]

My childhood blood stream was 75% kool aid. Or flavor aid if it was a leaner month.

[Anonymous]

You get used to constantly drinking water. Just like your lips start to need chapstick if you use it all the time. Just have fewer water breaks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My childhood blood stream was 75% kool aid. Or flavor aid if it was a leaner month.

Our off brand Kool Aid was called Wyler's. I drank a mix of Kool Aid and soda, never juice or milk. Basically never water. My parents are still like this today, only they switched to all diet at some point. Lots of salty snacks too. I assume I was pretty dehydrated.

[Anonymous]

We didnt eat snacks constantly either. Amazing we didnt die of "low blood sugar." Or maybe you can get by on less water when you are getting hourly goldfish cracker infusions.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We didnt eat snacks constantly either. Amazing we didnt die of "low blood sugar." Or maybe you can get by on less water when you are getting hourly goldfish cracker infusions.

According to my mother hangriness did indeed exist in the 1970s. She combated mine with all kinds of snacks. And def kool aid. Sometimes even sunny delight.

[Anonymous]

I grew up in the 1960's in Bowie.

I attended Tulip Grove Elementary.

We drank from water fountains. No one carried water or any other beverages.

If you worked at a steel mill or construction you might have carried coffee in your lunch pail.

Kids ate three meals a day with no snacks. Kids were not overweight. You maybe had one kid in the classroom who was 10 pounds over weight.

Food was a costly part of the family budget. Kids were not allowed to eat in cars. Kids ate at the kitchen table or dinner table for meals. Kids were not allowed to eat on couches.

I remember visiting (touring) downtown DC in the summer heat. Everyone drank from water fountains when they were thirsty. No one carried around any liquids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All of this water hype was originally driven by the bottled water giants, like Coca Cola, trying to get us to buy more.

And the water bottle manufacturers.

You probably do get the ~2K ml (~9 cups of all fluids, including fluid in food) without needing to carry water with you at all times.


https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20356431/#:~:text=The%20recommended%20total%20daily%20fluid,preventing%20(recurrent)%20kidney%20stones.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the 1960's in Bowie.

I attended Tulip Grove Elementary.

We drank from water fountains. No one carried water or any other beverages.

If you worked at a steel mill or construction you might have carried coffee in your lunch pail.

Kids ate three meals a day with no snacks. Kids were not overweight. You maybe had one kid in the classroom who was 10 pounds over weight.

Food was a costly part of the family budget. Kids were not allowed to eat in cars. Kids ate at the kitchen table or dinner table for meals. Kids were not allowed to eat on couches.

I remember visiting (touring) downtown DC in the summer heat. Everyone drank from water fountains when they were thirsty. No one carried around any liquids.

Then we discovered the water fountains were full of lead.

[Anonymous]

Being underhydrated doesn't kill you, it just daps your energy and makes you weaker.

So you wouldn't know you were under hydrated unless you had experit being well hydrated and thought to compare.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All of this water hype was originally driven by the bottled water giants, like Coca Cola, trying to get us to buy more.

And the water bottle manufacturers.

You probably do get the ~2K ml (~9 cups of all fluids, including fluid in food) without needing to carry water with you at all times.


https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20356431/#:~:text=The%20recommended%20total%20daily%20fluid,preventing%20(recurrent)%20kidney%20stones.

You can't just get your 4 cups ar breakfast, 4 cups at dinner, and be good out all day. You need water at least with lunch, and also if you re active or in hot weather. We just switched from fountains to bottles.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I grew up in the 1960's in Bowie.

I attended Tulip Grove Elementary.

We drank from water fountains. No one carried water or any other beverages.

If you worked at a steel mill or construction you might have carried coffee in your lunch pail.

Kids ate three meals a day with no snacks. Kids were not overweight. You maybe had one kid in the classroom who was 10 pounds over weight.

Food was a costly part of the family budget. Kids were not allowed to eat in Iicars. Kids ate at the kitchen table or dinner table for meals. Kids were not allowed to eat on couches.

I remember visiting (touring) downtown DC in the summer heat. Everyone drank from water fountains when they were thirsty. No one carried around any liquids.

Almost all of that is same as today. Fat poor people living off fast food burgers and fries and pizza aren't everyone.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm from the south and I remember drinking a lot of ice tea, but never water

We drank everything but water.

[Anonymous]

We definitely didn't drink much water at school, a water bottle would have been very odd. But, growing up in Southern CA in the 70s-80s, the "fancy" families we knew all had the drinking water from Sparkletts with the shimmery trucks that delivered water bottles every week. My parents thought that was a waste of money and drinking from the tap was just fine. But we got an upgrade in high school when they bought a fridge with ice and water dispenser on the door. That definitely encouraged more water drinking.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAQ-Mcgl8Yg