American women and water bottles? Why?

[Anonymous]

I think people used to get more water in their diets through fruits, vegetables, milk, tea. real food. Now they eat processed carbs or "healthy protein" and aren't getting water through food.

[Anonymous]

I have lived in six different countries outside of the US and middle class women/teens carried water bottles in all of them.

[Anonymous]

https://youtu.be/L2tUO2mp99Q

[Anonymous]

I feel better when I am hydrated. I try to avoid buying plastic bottles. I don’t like to depend on public drinking fountains and/or a restaurant to serve water (I’m currently in Prague and we ordered a liter of water with our coffees - we waited 15 minutes and had two servers - neither brought us the water so we gave up).

[Anonymous]

Also, MYOB.

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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.

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.

You think for thousands of years people were chronically dehydrated? And that citizens of every other country but the US are still chronically dehydrated? Yet, civilization has managed to always make it to adulthood and often old age being chronically dehydrated?

Right. We shouldn’t progress as a civilization. Good point.

[Anonymous]

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.

Temps were not the same in the 60’s, 70’s, or 80’s . . .

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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.

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.

You think for thousands of years people were chronically dehydrated? And that citizens of every other country but the US are still chronically dehydrated? Yet, civilization has managed to always make it to adulthood and often old age being chronically dehydrated?

Right. We shouldn’t progress as a civilization. Good point.

Doesn't it just make sense to conserve water?

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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.

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.

You think for thousands of years people were chronically dehydrated? And that citizens of every other country but the US are still chronically dehydrated? Yet, civilization has managed to always make it to adulthood and often old age being chronically dehydrated?

Right. We shouldn’t progress as a civilization. Good point.

Doesn't it just make sense to conserve water?

I dump out full bottles of water from my kids' water bottles every night. I'm sure millions of others are just dumping out all this water too.

[Anonymous]

I’ll take things that white women do for 600 Alex

[Anonymous]

It’s not the environmental benefits. All the Range Rover driving moms in my neighborhood with their Stanley cups also all have recycling bins overflowing with la croix cans every week. If they cared about the environmental consequences, they’d just drink….. tap water.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think people used to get more water in their diets through fruits, vegetables, milk, tea. real food. Now they eat processed carbs or "healthy protein" and aren't getting water through food.

This rings true. I eat mostly plants and don’t understand the water fixation. Americans also eat far more salt than is good for them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It’s not the environmental benefits. All the Range Rover driving moms in my neighborhood with their Stanley cups also all have recycling bins overflowing with la croix cans every week. If they cared about the environmental consequences, they’d just drink….. tap water.

It’s like the bougie MAHA types who think raw milk is a good idea but refuse to drink tap water. The cognitive dissonance is wild.

[Anonymous]

Sometimes wonder if the lack of smoking has played a big part in the obesity epidemic.

You don’t need to wonder any longer because this is absolutely true.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We all used to smoke and have that oral fixation. It's now water bottles.

People were thinner then also.

Sometimes wonder if the lack of smoking has played a big part in the obesity epidemic.

Of course microplastics are found to be endocrine disruptors and lead to obesity, so the bottled water fad may be contributing to obesity ironically enough.

Lack of smoking absolutely contributes to higher obesity rates now. Nicotine is an appetite suppressant.