"Dawn Taylor" wrote in message
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On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 00:16:53 +0100, B-D_ announced
in front of God and everybody:

So let's say I drink 8 glasses of water and in the meantime I drink two
glasses of strong tea. The stomach is one and only one, so all this
water and tea gets mixed up and at the end in there and it's the same
like drinking 10 glasses of strong tea mixed 2:8 with water creating
some sort of weak tea taste. Which still tastes better than pure water!

The basic wisdom behind it is that, first of all, your kidneys don't
have to do as much work to filter water as they do other forms of
beverage. So it's better for you.

As fat as caffeinated drinks tend to cause one to pee more -- the
caffeine irritates the bladder, stimulating more frequent urination --
so you're not absorbing as much water if you drink a lot of caffiene.
But you are, indeed, still getting water.

Once it gets into your bladder its already ready to be excreted, so I doubt
this explanation holds any water (pun intended).


Me, I count my non-caffeinated beverages toward my water, try to drink
more water than I used to anyway, and limit my caffiene intake. That
works for me. I don't drink eight glasses of water a day in *addition*
to everything else -- I just factor in the decaf drinks and limit my
coffee and cola.

Dawn