[design219]

... a day?

[subego]

None, unless it comes from soda, then, I dunno… ¾-gallon.

[Thorzdad]

I keep a pint travel-tumbler of water with me throughout the day, and refill/top-off when needed. It’s hard to determine how much I drink overall.

[Waragainstsleep]

4 litres minimum. Often 6.

[ghporter]

Not enough some times, but I usually drink several liters of water (tap or sparkling).

I learned two things early on: the “universal advice” that you should drink X amount every day is. hooey, and that being even slightly dehydrated is a Bad Thing.

I’m not going to include all the clinical stuff about it, but drinking plenty of water through the day is Good For You.

[reader50]

Not sure how much, but "lots" - I like ice with water year around. Though the drink rate is much higher in summer.

As beer is mostly water, I sometimes pass people hydrating on the street. Looks like they drink a healthy amount of water each day.

[Laminar]

WHAT.

New year new design?

[ghporter]

I have to point out the benefits beer provides. Even “lite” beer has electrolytes and carbs, the fizz helps improve hydration of the mucous membranes, and (often, but not necessarily even “typically”) drinking is done slower than “that ice cold water I chug right after mowing the lawn”.

On the other hand, if you obtain much of your hydration from beer, you find that you really only rented it. Like caffeinated beverages, beer has diuretic properties. I haven’t investigated this formally, but I find that darker beers are less likely to cause this, but they are not necessarily free of it.

The very best way to hydrate is with plain water. Of neutral pH, too. These fancy “alkaline waters” say they’ll do something about your internal pH balance. Your body says “HA!!!” The temerity of these marketing plays on consumer ignorance.

So go ahead and stay hydrated through your beverage of choice, but don’t be sold on some advertising lie.

[subego]

Fun fact: during the Broad Street cholera outbreak in London, one of the ways they figured it out was noticing no one working at the brewery got sick, and finally realizing it was because they drank beer instead of well water.

[Laminar]

One coffee over ice at breakfast. One coffee over ice at lunch. A sparkling water or two in the evening. Maybe a glass of ice water before bed.

That's a normal sedentary day, if I'm actually working on something or mowing the lawn or moving, it goes up.

[subego]

Woops! Wrong thread!