| Archie
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| 153675. Mon Mar 05, 2007 5:42 am |
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Now, Mat, if you can just produce evidence that drinking seawater is in fact good for you, I think we'll be home and dry. |
Or home and wet? |
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| 153858. Mon Mar 05, 2007 12:47 pm |
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I find sparkling water is great for a hangover myself, ordinary water makes me throw up if I'm hungover and for some reasong sparkling water doesn't
Anyway, alcohol is also a diurectic I believe, isn't it?
Three litres of water sounds like a lot but even if you drink soft drinks or juices they all contain water so I'm sure I do get three pints of the stuff a day. And all foods contain it unless they are dessicated.
I do drink water but not a full 3 litres |
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| 153969. Mon Mar 05, 2007 6:53 pm |
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| Mulvil wrote: | | Anyway, alcohol is also a diurectic I believe, isn't it? |
Yes. I'm fairly sure there's quite a lot of evidence for that, the fact it's not possible to go out drinking of an evening without needing the loo far more than usually being just one example. |
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| samivel
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| 153988. Mon Mar 05, 2007 8:31 pm |
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| Surely that would happen if you went out drinking but stuck to non-alcoholic drinks, though? |
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| Not a Number
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| 154000. Mon Mar 05, 2007 11:06 pm |
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Only one solution for it - organize two groups. Group A will drink nothing but alcoholic drinks throughout an evening, while Group B will abstain and drink the same volume of liquid. Lavatory trips will be recorded.
I will be captain of Group A.
Go! |
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| bexdiva
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| 156671. Thu Mar 15, 2007 1:24 am |
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i believe the proof of the diuretic nature of said beverages would be in to volume of urine passed rather than the frequency with which it is passed. The reason you go to the loo more when you go out is because you are constantly drinking liquid solidly for hours. but a diuretic will make you expel a higher proportion of the liquid consumed AND carry on working in this way once you have stopped drinking (thats why you get that 4 o clock in the morning "ghandi flip flop" thing goin on in your mouth)
i believe the only way to test the volume of urine passed is for all concerned to wear nappies. This will also remove the need to queue for 3 hours at a time in the ladies or stand red faced whilst your other half pi**es against a building................. |
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| eggshaped
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| 176688. Tue May 22, 2007 7:14 am |
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More in the news today about tea's non-dehydrating effect.
| Quote: | Studies on caffeine have found very high doses dehydrate and everyone assumes that caffeine-containing beverages dehydrate. But even if you had a really, really strong cup of tea or coffee, which is quite hard to make, you would still have a net gain of fluid.
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More on how great tea is here |
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| 176816. Tue May 22, 2007 11:06 am |
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| Does that mean that by drinking 10 cups a day, I am nigh-on invincible!? |
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| samivel
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| 176838. Tue May 22, 2007 11:27 am |
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| No, it means you'll be desperate for the toilet. |
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| 176843. Tue May 22, 2007 11:32 am |
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| I have an extraordinarily large bladder. |
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| mikeyfone
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| 176866. Tue May 22, 2007 12:20 pm |
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| Gray wrote: | | Quote: | | There’s no scientific basis for the curious idea that fluids other than water cause dehydration. |
Fluids with caffeine in them are pretty good at dehydrating you because the caffeine acts as a diuretic, making you expel more water than your body naturally would.
http://www.physchem.ox.ac.uk/MSDS/CA/caffeine.html |
The problem with this is I've heard different arguments. I must say, in my experience, a cup of tea after a run is much more refreshing than a glass of water (no, I don't have a caffine addiction) |
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| Natalie
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| 184704. Sat Jun 23, 2007 8:44 am |
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"Water, water everywhere,
And all the boards did shrink,
Water, water everywhere!
Nor any drop to drink."
Commonly mis-quoted. Apologies for the punctuation, my memory isn't that good.
Also, sorry for not paying attention over a week ago when this topic was last discussed. :)
"The man hath penance done,
And penance more must do" |
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| Laughing Feet
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| 206868. Tue Sep 04, 2007 9:33 pm |
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It has been shown that ANY fluid intake "the morning after" will help to counteract the dehydration effect of alcohol - even MORE ALCOHOL! (This is the basis of the 'hair of the dog' cure)
Any fluids imbibed will ameliorate the dehydration - but when more alcohol is taken, the liver reverts to processing methanol? rather than ethanol? (sorry - not sure which order, but the simplest and most easily processed chemical first) and this temporarily relieves the dehydration symptoms.
Thank you, BRAINIAC: SCIENCE ABUSE - I'm now in a perpetual state of inebriation (but not dehydrated!)
Personal note: Two pints of tap water taken immediately before retiring REALLY helps! Force it down! Pee if you must! Awaken refreshed! :-) |
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| 207006. Wed Sep 05, 2007 6:29 am |
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| Laughing Feet wrote: | | Any fluids imbibed will ameliorate the dehydration - but when more alcohol is taken, the liver reverts to processing methanol? rather than ethanol? (sorry - not sure which order, but the simplest and most easily processed chemical first) and this temporarily relieves the dehydration symptoms. |
I'm not sure how the liver would process methanol with the consumption of more alcohol, since alcoholic drinks don't, as far as I know, contain methanol. However, I may be missing something vital. Methanol is really quite toxic (not that ethanol isn't, but you know...).
Are you sure the two chemicals that are processed in one order or another were ethanol and methanol? Or could they have been ethanol and ethanal? |
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| 207329. Wed Sep 05, 2007 9:02 pm |
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| I'm sure he said METHANOL - perhaps there is a small amount of Methanol in alcoholic drinks, and this is what causes hangovers and dehydration because of the difficulty the liver has processing it? I don't know for sure - I'm just going by what I thought Richard Hammond said. I'm pretty sure he said Methanol. If I catch the re-run I'll re-post :-) |
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