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Does my morning coffee count

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  • mediamogulsteve
    mediamogulsteve Posts: 115 Member
    Coffee is brewed with water. Beer is brewed with water.

    If coffee counts as water, so does beer.
  • Missjulesdid
    Missjulesdid Posts: 1,444 Member
    I don't count it is water. Caffeine is a diuretic and a stimulant and the point of tracking water is for hydration purposes, so I think I am better off not counting it as water.
    Coffee does not hydrate the body !

    Coffee does not count as Water

    Just as POP does NOT count as water

    You are both dead, flat wrong. You have been misinformed by people who don't know any better.

    Caffeine is a mild diuretic. Very mild. The added urine volume from the effects of caffeine in coffee and soda are small compared to the volume of fluid in the drinks. Replacing coffee with equal volumes of water does not lead to better hydration levels.

    http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0084154

    Drink your coffee, drink your soda.

    AMEN!!!! If coffee and soda dehydrated you, I have a sister who would have been dead years ago.. She literally does not drink any fluid that is not coffee or soda. Personally, I do drink a good amount of water because I don't always want the calories/additives in non-water beverages.. and for me it's really refreshing... but that does not mean I'm any better hydrated than those who choose non water beverages.
  • Katiemarie4488
    Katiemarie4488 Posts: 242 Member
    http://www.webmd.com/parenting/features/healthy-beverages
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Coffee is brewed with water. Beer is brewed with water.

    If coffee counts as water, so does beer.

    Except beer contains alcohol and coffee doesn't. Guess what alcohol does?
  • firstsip
    firstsip Posts: 8,399 Member
    Coffee is brewed with water. Beer is brewed with water.

    If coffee counts as water, so does beer.

    Except beer contains alcohol and coffee doesn't. Guess what alcohol does?

    I think he was joking :tongue: :drinker:
  • FoxyLifter
    FoxyLifter Posts: 965 Member
    As long as your pee is light yellow, don't worry so much about the actual cups of fluid vs pure water. Don't obsess over details like this. :wink:
  • Fullsterkur_woman
    Fullsterkur_woman Posts: 2,712 Member
    if your coffee is counting, call the local university as you've discovered a new intelligent species!
    I was just thinking the same thing... wondering how I could have been so remiss as to not have yet posted this.
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  • mishtery
    mishtery Posts: 148
    Coffee is brewed with water. Beer is brewed with water.

    If coffee counts as water, so does beer.

    ahh bring out the alcohol now we don't have to add to the calories! awesome. could be more partying going on now ;)

    Coffee has water... but it does also have milk unless you have it black! and it may also have sugar! therefore this is counted in your food log as calories! Water is the clear stuff that doesn't have added stuff to it! it doesn't add calories to your nutrition! i'll ask my 12yr old in the morning what she thinks :laugh:

    I'm going to have a cup of tea before bed.. and I'll add it to my calories! :)
  • susannamarie
    susannamarie Posts: 2,148 Member
    Coffee is brewed with water. Beer is brewed with water.

    If coffee counts as water, so does beer.

    ahh bring out the alcohol now we don't have to add to the calories! awesome. could be more partying going on now ;)

    Coffee has water... but it does also have milk unless you have it black! and it may also have sugar! therefore this is counted in your food log as calories! Water is the clear stuff that doesn't have added stuff to it! it doesn't add calories to your nutrition! i'll ask my 12yr old in the morning what she thinks :laugh:

    I'm going to have a cup of tea before bed.. and I'll add it to my calories! :)

    Nothing's stopping you from tracking it in both places.
  • susannamarie
    susannamarie Posts: 2,148 Member
    Beer only counts as water if you drink American beer ;)
  • kbolton322
    kbolton322 Posts: 358 Member
    I hydrate with beer

    I do this also!!
  • RaeLB
    RaeLB Posts: 1,216 Member
    Coffee is brewed with water. Beer is brewed with water.

    If coffee counts as water, so does beer.

    Except beer contains alcohol and coffee doesn't. Guess what alcohol does?

    ^
  • jonnythan
    jonnythan Posts: 10,161 Member
    Beer only counts as water if you drink American beer ;)

    That joke was funny in 1998. Not so much today ;)
  • BlueBombers
    BlueBombers Posts: 4,064 Member
    I don't count coffee as water.
  • RomulanWarbird
    RomulanWarbird Posts: 230
    Coffee isn't water. It dehydrates home people- like me, but others don't have that effect. I wouldn't count it as water though.
  • firstsip
    firstsip Posts: 8,399 Member
    Beer only counts as water if you drink American beer ;)

    You mean my 10% Ovila or my 11% KBS are water? Wow, you've opened a whole new world for me!

    (P.S. Most "domestic" beers aren't American at all! :wink: )
  • Missjulesdid
    Missjulesdid Posts: 1,444 Member
    Coffee is brewed with water. Beer is brewed with water.

    If coffee counts as water, so does beer.

    ahh bring out the alcohol now we don't have to add to the calories! awesome. could be more partying going on now ;)

    Coffee has water... but it does also have milk unless you have it black! and it may also have sugar! therefore this is counted in your food log as calories! Water is the clear stuff that doesn't have added stuff to it! it doesn't add calories to your nutrition! i'll ask my 12yr old in the morning what she thinks :laugh:

    I'm going to have a cup of tea before bed.. and I'll add it to my calories! :)

    Uh, yeah, you know you can add it to your water count toward hydration AND add the non-water components to your calories... It's a pretty simple solution that I'll bet your 12 year old could come up with. Don't assume that because someone is saying they count the water in coffee as water, that they aren't ALSO tracking the non-water components.
  • bethanycopley1980
    bethanycopley1980 Posts: 75 Member
    I don't count it is water. Caffeine is a diuretic and a stimulant and the point of tracking water is for hydration purposes, so I think I am better off not counting it as water.

    Its been proven that the diuretic effect of coffee and tea is pretty insignificant and that it could be counted towards your fluid intake if you chose. There are people that are alot more sensitive to it though, so just listen to yourself.
  • RaeLB
    RaeLB Posts: 1,216 Member
    FTLOG when will this myth go away?

    "There's nothing magical about water from a glass of water as opposed to water from a food or any other beverage," Barr said.

    Drinking caffeinated beverages such as tea and coffee do not lead to dehydration, said Dr. Stanley Goldfarb, a nephrologist at the University of Pennsylvania who reviewed research claims on drinking eight glasses of water and studied how the kidneys handle it"

    http://www.cbc.ca/news/health/8-glasses-of-water-a-day-an-urban-myth-1.1196386
  • jmv7117
    jmv7117 Posts: 891 Member
    Does my morning coffee count as water drank?

    Plain coffee (no sweetener, no cream) has calories and sodium so does not count as water although some will argue otherwise.

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