When it comes to hydrating, I drink water, that's the part of any beverage that does any hydrating anyway.
I drink other things for pleasure and refreshment.
Sometimes I need more than hydration, I require refreshment.
Don't the English refresh with tea in the afternoon?

It's just the water, but actually just pure water isn't better at hydration than water with ions in them.

I'm not English.

What do the ions do? Are they better or equal to water, your statement didn't make that clear.

Didn't say you were English, only asked if you knew that to be true or false.

Dehydration - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

I am in England. Um I have no idea what the English do to be honest.

Seems I've been carrying around an incomplete definition of dehydration, thanks for the info.

The English supposedly have a tradition of tea and scones at 4 in the afternoon, refreshment I think.

Maybe. It's funny how I've been in England in three years, though I've only made at most 2 British friends. And they're not even close friends. Oh yeah, and one of them is actually mixed.

I've heard the English can be a bit stuffy, especially if you are American.

I'm not American either. I think the English are quite reserved - and this includes people my age. I mean sure, they go clubbing, but outside in the public, they won't even look you in the eye.

That sounds like New York.

Tea and water. The tea makes up for the fact that water is relatively cheap. But with that being said, I have never actually taken a sip of tap water from a sink or a drinking fountain probably in about 10-15 years. Why? Hilariously, when you drink your cities water, you are drinking everyone that waters ever been with! LOL! Seriously though, the amount of chemicals in tap water is amazing. I can understand fluoride for young people since it is a public health concern, but many cities have such diverse elements as; birth control, caffeine, acetaminophen from the Tylenol we take, nicotine, and even cough medicine. And this is not even counting the relatively high amounts of chlorine in water. I read this article on BBCnews of all places that linked urinary tract cancer to heavy chlorination in Louisiana (specifically new Orleans because of its vicinity to the Mississippi, lake ponchartrain, and the gulf of mexico). Light salination I think is alright up to a certain point, softeners (which contain known carcinogens) are very bad for you and the water tastes disgusting. If you have ever been to New York (or a Hampton Inn for that matter because they use those systems) and you notice the water has a velvety feel to it, that residue is the chemicals used. To get a nice little scare, look up your areas water quality;

Where You Live | CCR Home | Safewater | US EPA

Interestingly enough, the report for Philadelphia said that although they found 17 of 70 harmful chemicals in the water supply (which is a biased result considering how many pharmaceuticals they may not have found), we are relatively ok. Awesome job EPA, you get a place right next to the SEC and FDA for that jem.

But this all effects the taste of your water. My fianc?'s family has a reverse osmosis machine in line to their kitchen sink, but I don't really care for the taste. It has a metallic taste to it?. which is why I suppose they give you the option of adding flavor packets in line as well. Britta water and all the other charcoal filtered water surprising have a bit of a better taste, although I am not too fantastic about ingesting the trace amounts of carbon in the water though. I get my water from Whole foods 365 division. It's about $1.09 a gallon and they post actual quality standards on the isle you get it from. Tastes F'n phenomenal. The other brand that they use, fox ledge, is alright, although they don't have the same guarantees. Its good, although I would be my second choice.

For teas, I use a brand called mighty leaf. Sweet buhjezus is that good tea, especially the Earl Grey. And an added befit is that they don't use bleached cloth bags but organic cotton. Before I found that brand, I was drinking twinnings, which although it is a good brand itself, you do a coca-cola challenge with that and mighty leaf and you will question your own existence. But other than tea and water, the occasional fruit juice, wine, etc. Fruit juice would have to be any organic concentrates, like cherry or cranberry. Wine would be any deep red (like a Chianti or a chardonnay) because of that lovely resveritrol (lol, you would have to drink 1000 glasses a day to get a good amount, but still it's the principle). Beer would have to be a very dark stout. And if I wanted a soda or something like that, I usually get root-beer from 365. They use natural cane sugar and a few other natural ingredients and that's it. Barq's and A&W, though tasty, have a very long list of chemicals in them.

But if you are a person who wants the benefits of water, but just dont like the taste, try Oasis. Yes Oasis... for people who don't like water (yet dont have an aversion to liquids in general). LOL! Seriously though, if you fudge around with Oasis drinkers, a large rubber duck will hunt you down and murder you godzilla style.

YouTube - Oasis - RubberDuckZilla (funny commercial)

I dunno about tap water in the US, but I find the tap water in the UK quite clean. Though I still filter it at home before I drink it.

Oh man, you need to do a google search on UK tap water then. London for example gets more than 80% of its water from reservoirs sourced from the Thames river and the rest from ground water. Unfortunately, the ground water has been severely tainted by chemical residuals going back as far as the industrial revolution! And we are talking some heavy stuff here, like mercury and formaldehyde which do not dissipate easily. But on top of that, the 80% of the water sourced from the Thames is itself mixed with sewage water. There was this huge issue a few years back about how Dasani water was just London tap water because all of the sudden, you get these complaints about high mercuric content, etc. which is very unheard of in the US.

Okay... you worry too much. Um our water has to pass a lot of safety tests. I'm sure it's a-okay. And I don't live in London. It's quite pristine compared to many water sources, and I've been literally everywhere.

Well, um, that's the problem. The EPA here in the US has a lot of safety tests as well. The problem is that there is a constantly moving threshold in which the EPA considers what is safe water to drink. The level of contaminants in water is at a point where the EPA (and FDA) says, the benefits of the supply of water exceed the risks to the population by a certain degree. A population needs water, but in order to get the water en masse to the public, it requires that we lower the quality level in order to make it generally safe. But in making it safe, water has additives that over the course of a lifetime hurt individual health.

Keep in mind that the people who are telling the US (and the UK since the UK has a similar standardization process) all of this are also saying; "ladies, it's ok to wear makeup even though it has tar (carcinogenic) and causes an abnormal amount of eyelid cancer," or "ladies, it's ok to wear nail polish even though it has formaldehyde (also carcinogenic) in it," or "gentlemen, it's ok to use your favorite antiperspirant even though it has aluminum which is directly linked to Alzheimer's." The list goes on and on and on. The safety tests we put our faith in are influenced not only by cost/benefit, but by economic necessity, etc. That in itself is a very dangerous thing, since that if you do not worry about it, though you may reach 70 one day, you may not be able to wipe your own behind in the process because you are suffering from Alzheimer's, cancer, etc. But even though this is very common knowledge, I doubt it will catch on with the general public though. It would require people to make too much of a change in their life.

Incidentally, I looked up Oxford (England) water quality and I was surprised at how clean the water actually is there? aside from the hilariously high concentration of Dichlorobenzene (which I suppose may be from agricultural water run-off). Fresh cup of water with a slight hint of mothballs and pesticide? yum.

What are your choices for hydrating your body on a daily basis, whether it's for as soon as you wake up, or after sports.

Mine is of course plain water, and also my newly found favourite: vita coco!!

Not advertising for them, it's just coconut juice imported from Brazil. I'm sure if you could find coconuts readily in your country, and it's cheaper to get juice from a fresh coconut, it's probably better that way.

How do you hydrate yourself?

Beware of excessive use of that kind of drink, it's really bad for your stomach, but in low doses it's ok.