How we baby boomers, made it through our childhoods without (disposable) water bottles?
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I was born in 1962. I did many sports including track, soccer, and gymnastics.
I went to practice regularly with regular sneakers and I did well enough for many of my distance records to last for years after I graduated. I never owned a water bottle. I do remember thirst, but that was what water fountains were for. I even remember times when there were no water fountains, in those cases, we just waited (thirsty) until we got home. At home, I turned on the faucet, put my cupped hand under the faucet and guzzled as much water as I wanted. I remember seeing the first water bottles being sold in the mid 80's. I thought that they would never sell. I thought that no one would ever pay good money for something that is free. My children behave differently. First of all, they think that they need to drink more, and always have their water handy. I am not sure that there is any evidence that we need to drink any more than our bodies are telling us to, but my kids are hearing something else. What I do know is that these single use plastics containing drinks of all sorts, and even the multi use plastic bottles are becoming a real environmental problem. I know that humans need water, and a lot of it over a lifetime. So if every time we are thirsty, we need to twist a cap off a bottle, we are screwed. The plastic will pile up. It saddens me because the first step is really not even recycling, it is reprogramming out minds and not even buying the silly bottles in the first place. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/waterlogged-america-drink/story?id=14054401 |
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If you were thirsty, like you said in your op, that’s your body’s way of telling you to drink water. Not sure why you think your kids aren’t listening to their bodies’ cues. It sounds like you’re the one who ignored your body.
My DS and I both suffer from migraines. Heat and dehydration are two of our biggest triggers. If we forget our water bottles on hot days, it’s terrible because we’re likely to get a migraine and have it escalate quickly because we can’t hydrate easily. I would very much prefer us to put water in our bodies than extra medication we could’ve avoided, not to mention losing hours of productivity to a migraine. The pain is miserable, and sometimes a water bottle can mean the difference between getting a migraine or not, or preventing a migraine going from bad to terrible. Disposable plastic bottles are terrible, but reusable metal and glass bottles can be wonderful. |
Anonymous
| Easy - We drank Diet Coke. |
Anonymous
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You don't need bottled water. Or even 8 glasses per day, unless you're....wait for it....thirsty. It's marketing, pure and simple. https://abcnews.go.com/Health/Wellness/waterlogged-america-drink/story?id=14054401 http://theconversation.com/bottled-water-is-the-marketing-trick-of-the-century-25842 https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92222327 |
Anonymous
| Yep. As OP points out we had drinking fountains. |
Anonymous
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Those of us with half a brain cell are also "making it through" without disposable bottles. We use reusable bottles, and our kids do, too. Or we visit water fountains, or simply do without.
I can't think of the last time anyone in my family consumed a "disposable" bottle of water. We also don't do juice boxes and the like. |
Anonymous
A large part of the rise of bottled water comes from increasing public distrust in the quality of tap water. There are several books on this topic. Ironically the EPA which regulates tap water has more stringent regulations than the FDA which regulates bottled water. |
Anonymous
| Another 60s kid here. I carried a plastic cup with water in it. What an innovation. |
Anonymous
This, lol. We also drank out of dixie cups and we even had cups and glasses in our kitchen, too. |
Anonymous
| Gen Xer. We took big reusable plastic jugs to practice. My boomer (1948) dad was denied water at football practice and made to swallow salt pills instead. I think we’re doing ok. Nobody brings single use plastic water bottles to sports. |
Anonymous
Lol yeah those damn hydrogen and oxygen lobbyists are out of control. |
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Tell that to the people in Flint, and Newark... and areas of NW and SE DC ....
#listeria, #lead, #ecoli, #perscriptionpills |
Anonymous
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When you know better - you do better. We were dehydrated as kids, no question.
And everyone I know has reusable water bottles, myself included. |
Anonymous
Or could be the faucet manufacturers of America or Brita. Propaganda! |
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I was a scout, and we carried metal canteens which would attach to a belt. We also had metal collapsible cups that we could carry around in a small case.
No plastic, but we did carry water on hikes. We also filled our canteens in streams along our hiking routes back then, something that would never be done today. |