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Hydration V Dehydration.
This is just a question I am throwing up for discussion. Today the trend seems to have swung to the extreme of hydration. You see people carrying and suckiong on bottles of liquid all of the time. A local TV station is handing out bottles to children with marks to show how much they must drink every 30 minutes. At the same time it is a real porker who is handing out the bottles. With all of the talk of an overweight and obese population I wonder how much is just due to excess fluid. I always thought of this as a wive's tale but my parents used to tell me that if I didn't slow down on the iced water, my belly would stretch. There may be something to this after all. Many of the "beer bellys" we see in the AO have nothing to do with being fat -- just distension.
How many hypertensive people in the country are super-hydrating at the same time they are on diuretics?
I guess my point is that the correct action may be somewhere in the middle. What do you boxies think? It might make an interesting study but I doubt if the bottled water and sports drink industry would fund you.
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