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Dehydration is AwesomeAwful!

I woke up this morning and weighed a new lowest-weight-since-high-school record!  Nice way to start the day, but it's just because I'm all dried out.

Did you know that most North Americans are chronically dehydrated? At Burning Man, we always said that if you didn't pee clear, you weren't drinking enough water. This is also true in the real world, not just in the desert. Your body loses 8-10 cups (2-2.5 Litres) of water every day just from breathing, peeing and sitting around. Exercise makes it worse. So drink more water. Caffeinated drinks (which I drink too many of) don't count, but Kool-Aid, milk, and tea do. Just pretend you're back in university and imagine a bunch of frat boys crowded around you yelling "DRINK DRINK DRINK DRINK DRINK!"

Some dehydration information which may be a little bit suspect, since it's on a site that sells water filters and purifiers. But the sidebar on that page is all information I have read elsewhere, such as:

• In 37% of [North] Americans, the thirst mechanism is so weak that it is often mistaken for hunger.
• Lack of water is the #1 trigger of daytime fatigue.
• A mere 2% drop in body water can trigger fuzzy short-term memory, trouble with basic math, and difficulty focusing on the computer screen or on a printed page.
• One glass of water shut down midnight hunger pangs for almost 100% of the dieters studied in a University of Washington study.

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Oh I don't know. I'm just guessing. But in the US, it's legal to sell caffeinated water, caffeinated orange juice, etc, and I think legislation just tends to take all soft drinks (i.e. bottled and canned beverages of any type) and deal with them together.