Coffee as water intake?

yarwell

regardless, I am not 'quibbling with semantics'. If asked flat out if coffee has any diuretical properties, the answer would have to be yes.

Water is also diuretic.

wild_wild_life

regardless, I am not 'quibbling with semantics'. If asked flat out if coffee has any diuretical properties, the answer would have to be yes.

Water is also diuretic.

I was going to say this too. :laugh:

RllyGudTweetr

Caffeine actually dehydrates you as it is a diuretic, so you should actually be drinking another 2 cups of water for every 8oz. of black coffee you drink.

Citation needed on the numbers you list, please. Mayo Clinic, for one, disagrees with this assessment, indicating that coffee and tea's diuretic effect is small enough as to be inconsequential to your hydration needs in almost all cases.

wild_wild_life

That is quite interesting. I dislike coffee and never drink it, but have no excess fluid. My husband, who refuses to drink water, but drinks at least six mugs of black coffee daily, needs to take water pills. So this would seem to be the opposite effect as to what you are saying. He keeps saying he doesn't need to drink water, coffee substitutes for water. So I won't dare show him your post.

If your husband is taking diuretics it is probably for an issue unrelated to his coffee consumption, although caffeine can cause a short-term increase in blood pressure.

susannamarie

Caffeine actually dehydrates you as it is a diuretic, so you should actually be drinking another 2 cups of water for every 8oz. of black coffee you drink.

Citation needed on the numbers you list, please. Mayo Clinic, for one, disagrees with this assessment, indicating that coffee and tea's diuretic effect is small enough as to be inconsequential to your hydration needs in almost all cases.

Right, and frankly, if you are drinking enough coffee for the diuretic effect to be noticable, you are consuming enough liquid with it not to matter.

AngryDiet

Coffee is life.

SherryTeach

The only thing that I have taken away from this thread is that maybe I should log coffee, which I don't, because it has potassium in it. Since I am always under in potassium, maybe I'm really not.

Otherwise, all the talk that "only water is water" is just crazy and without any scientific evidence. It's all fluid and it all works. . . i drink practically no plain water. . . . I've been at my goal weight for a year, feel great, don't have any signs of dehydration and my life isn't limited by slavery to carrying around an enormous water bottle all day long.