American women and water bottles? Why?

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Im thirsty

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It's never been my thing. I'm rarely thirsty and usually just drink with meals or during a workout.

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My mother always thought I was crazy drinking water throughout the day…now she has been diagnosed with chronic dehydration and has vertigo, balance issues and blood pressure issues resulting from not drinking enough water.

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Marketing.

In the 60's, 70's, and 80's everyone drank from water fountains. Kids did not carry water bottles to school.

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Anonymous wrote:I take mine everywhere, it is filtered and allows me to drink water from all types of questionable sources and saves on plastic waste. Typically we as a people are all dehydrated, the question isn’t why do we it’s why don’t you?

Because I am not thirsty.

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah I don't get it. Perhaps I am better than other women, because I am capable of going multiple hours without drinking water. I can count the times I've bought a disposable plastic water bottle in the last year on one hand. I have water with meals, and it's plenty.

I see women in meetings suuuuucking on their water bottles, backwashing into their water bottles, chugging water like they're on a cocaine bender and I just. don't. get it. Are you all diabetics??

Oh it's not a huge environmental flex to own a dozen heavy, manufactured, non-recyclable status-bottles that had to be shipped on a diesel freighter from the other side of the world, of which you have a "favorite" while the others all sit around unused. If you owned ONE water bottle you'd maybe have an argument. But be honest, water-addicts: How many stanleys, yetis, hydroflasks, and owalas have you had shipped to you from China?

Those of you who drink water constantly throughout the day - is it that the more you drink water, the more you need/crave it?

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Yeah I don't get it. Perhaps I am better than other women, because I am capable of going multiple hours without drinking water. I can count the times I've bought a disposable plastic water bottle in the last year on one hand. I have water with meals, and it's plenty.

I see women in meetings suuuuucking on their water bottles, backwashing into their water bottles, chugging water like they're on a cocaine bender and I just. don't. get it. Are you all diabetics??

Oh it's not a huge environmental flex to own a dozen heavy, manufactured, non-recyclable status-bottles that had to be shipped on a diesel freighter from the other side of the world, of which you have a "favorite" while the others all sit around unused. If you owned ONE water bottle you'd maybe have an argument. But be honest, water-addicts: How many stanleys, yetis, hydroflasks, and owalas have you had shipped to you from China?

Those of you who drink water constantly throughout the day - is it that the more you drink water, the more you need/crave it?

I think this is true for me. I’m a water bottle person because everyone always says water is good for skin, health, energy. Drinking from one regularly creates a habit for me

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Anonymous wrote:Marketing.

In the 60's, 70's, and 80's everyone drank from water fountains. Kids did not carry water bottles to school.

Another Oprah myth. She was an early promoter of if you’re not drinking 64oz of water a day, you’re dehydrated.

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Anonymous wrote:I think that in America, there is a large focus on drinking water….💦

That not only is it beneficial for us health wise (as opposed to consuming sugary drinks or alcohol) but that it also has aesthetic effects as well such as glowing skin!

And women are very focused on having great skin!!

But American women aren’t measurably healthier or have better skin.

Ding ding they have the worst skin

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Anonymous wrote:Are we upset that women are drinking water now?

Only white women with the stupid Stanley’s

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Anonymous wrote:Yeah I don't get it. Perhaps I am better than other women, because I am capable of going multiple hours without drinking water. I can count the times I've bought a disposable plastic water bottle in the last year on one hand. I have water with meals, and it's plenty.

I see women in meetings suuuuucking on their water bottles, backwashing into their water bottles, chugging water like they're on a cocaine bender and I just. don't. get it. Are you all diabetics??

Oh it's not a huge environmental flex to own a dozen heavy, manufactured, non-recyclable status-bottles that had to be shipped on a diesel freighter from the other side of the world, of which you have a "favorite" while the others all sit around unused. If you owned ONE water bottle you'd maybe have an argument. But be honest, water-addicts: How many stanleys, yetis, hydroflasks, and owalas have you had shipped to you from China?

You sound…not lovely. I have 3 water bottles I bought at Costco 8 years ago. I play tennis, pickleball and golf—I need water. It’s not a crime.

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Anonymous wrote:Yes it's so ridiculous. It's not like they're any healthier doing that. But then I'm French, what do I know. It's a special "American" thing The water must be different, simply by virtue of being held in American hands!!!

It's water that we stole fair and square overseas and then laundered through a series of defense contractors. #GDPgrowth

Filtered through.

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Anonymous wrote:The answer is: because UMC people no longer sip soda as they did in the past. Soda machines used to be everywhere. Cans of soda were cheap and machines were plentiful. Now we are anti-sugar and drink water instead.

Also, because public infrastructure has crumbled and maintenance of public water fountains, if they exist at all, is sketchy. We are more germ-aware than ever before. Even if you can find a decent water fountain many people don't want to drink from it.

Also, we have extended fitness culture into popular culture--water bottles are like leggings--once seen only in the gym they have migrated everywhere.

Also, it might not just be water in the bottle. I sneak wine into places you wouldn't normally find it.

What? Before the early 2000s, people didn’t have a constant need to drink all day long. It wasn’t that they were chronically dehydrated and they definitely weren’t walking around drinking soda as a substitute all the time.

We drank water during meals, an occasional glass of water/milk at home outside of meals, and a cup of coffee at work in the am.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The answer is: because UMC people no longer sip soda as they did in the past. Soda machines used to be everywhere. Cans of soda were cheap and machines were plentiful. Now we are anti-sugar and drink water instead.

Also, because public infrastructure has crumbled and maintenance of public water fountains, if they exist at all, is sketchy. We are more germ-aware than ever before. Even if you can find a decent water fountain many people don't want to drink from it.

Also, we have extended fitness culture into popular culture--water bottles are like leggings--once seen only in the gym they have migrated everywhere.

Also, it might not just be water in the bottle. I sneak wine into places you wouldn't normally find it.

What? Before the early 2000s, people didn’t have a constant need to drink all day long. It wasn’t that they were chronically dehydrated and they definitely weren’t walking around drinking soda as a substitute all the time.

We drank water during meals, an occasional glass of water/milk at home outside of meals, and a cup of coffee at work in the am.

I had my first kid in 2001 and started guzzling water then. Breastfeeding made me so thirty and I never stopped. I actually think people WERE chronically dehydrated and didn’t know it.

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Dumbest thread ever but comments are quite entertaining. Water bottles not my pet peeve but gum chewers 100 times more annoying