Soda has carbonated water, not exactly the same thing at all. The bad thing in soda is high fructose corn syrup which is terrible for you. Still have my regular DPs a day.
Carbonated water is just water infused with CO2 - literally the same thing, just makes bubbles in your stomach causing you to burp more frequently. Unless you get carbonated water that indeed has sodium/sugar added to it, then it's different.
Wouldn't listen to nursing friends either, as their teachers are going to be pretty stupid unless they're RNs that have a higher degree of education. My gf is in school for that now and her teacher told the class they need to drink half their weight in oz's of water daily or they will die. They also said that adding salt to any meal is extremely bad for you......wat. I don't know a single person personally that will drink 2+ liters a day in pure water.
They are all indeed RN's that have gone through a pretty decent nursing school.
And you're right - the "drink 8 glasses of water a day" myth has indeed been debunked (but still perpetuated) - and agreed to just drink when you're thirsty.
As for adding additional salt to meals...well yeah, if you do it all the time it's bad for you or you're adding it to everything. A lot of food nowadays already contains boatloads of sodium, so adding more isn't always necessary. Adding additional salt to
some foods / meals can indeed by unhealthy
if you're doing it to everything.
Electrolytes in Gatorade is fancy marketing for sugar and salt which almost anything out there has some form of sodium and sugar. You guys are going into left field to make it sound like drinking Gatorade is as bad as drinking soda which it certainly isn't. It actually is made with purified water and unless you were already pretty unhealthy to begin with drinking Gatorade on a regular basis isn't as bad for you as some people would like you to think.
Just because it's made with purified water doesn't really mean much if it has all of the other stuff, and your intake is exceeding what you should be anyway. If you're exercising, you're losing salts/sugars by burning it and sweating. However, if you're not exercising, you're taking in unnecessary amounts of salts and sugars.
Not going into left field at all - still intaking unnecessary amounts of sugars, salts, etc. You're going into left field by just saying "well it's still got water in it" - I understand that...but the extras in it are what's bad for you're if you're taking it in too frequently (more than "recommended" for you as an individual). Hell even "pure water" will kill you if you drink too much.
The whole basis of the conversation was that people tend to forget that a lot of regular drinks that are consumed have high amounts of natural water in them so drinking pure water isn't necessary for a daily consumption amount. Tea, coffee, Gatorade, Kool Aid, ect all contain several ounces of water per serving which consumed on a regular basis per day will give you the water content required daily to be "healthy". Not being sick, feeling better ect would all be placebo or coincidence. Another psychosomatic byproduct of moving to "drinking pure water" is usually eating healthier. That in itself would make you feel better and drinking pure water daily on top of it is like a cleanse.
Again, I'm not disputing the fact that those drinks all contain water. I'm saying drinking regular water on a normal basis is good for you because it's just water without the extra additives of sugar, sodium, caffeine, etc. I mean obviously you can live off of pop/soda, because that's what my wife did. She barely drank regular water ever...but she got the pleasure of passing a kidney stone because of it (as least, we're assuming it's a regular calcium kidney stone at the moment and not because of hormonal/genetics).
I wouldn't necessarily say it was a placebo...if you're taking in too much of X, feel sick, and then stop taking in so much of X, there's at least a correlation there, but not necessarily a causation.
Gatorade also has water in it sooo....
