If you use MIO in you water it doesn't count?

Just add some lemon or orange slices to your water.............

That chemical stuff found in Mio, crystal light and such are not good for our bodies.

Personally, I prefer plain old water.

I drink plain water, water with lemon, water with raw apple cider....every so often I want something different and add MIO. I have one that is pretty good and I only add a bit to get some new flavor. Its maybe once a week and I'm drinking plenty of good water in between. I wouldn't think it'd be that bad if you're not adding it to all your cups through the day.

My husband and I have spent about a week searching for something other than water to drink that doesn't contain all the crap in it. We looked at the different gatorades, powerade, diet snapples,vitamin water, etc. We chose the MIO. It has the least amount of stuff in it. We got the 3 pack from Sams Club and they are all very good. I still count it as my water intake, because really its just a little flavoring, no sugars no vitamins no carbs no sodium etc. But if you really want a good answer, maybe ask a doctor. That's just my opinion.

Here's one way to look at it.... if you drank the glass of water and then squirted the Mio into your mouth a few moments later, wouldn't you count the glass of water? Of course you would. Same goes for coffee because people certainly can, and do, eat coffee beans.

Humans need about 64 ounces of water each day but a lot of that water comes in our food and every beverage has some amount of water in it. You don't really need to drink 64 ounces of pure water every day for healthy body function.

That said, most of us can really do with drinking more water each day and if what helps you is to add a little Mio to it, then go for it. Don't let the "you can only drink plain water for it to count" nazis deter you.

This ^^

Water, tea, coffee, Mio, soda, juice, milk, beer, wine, vegetables, all count toward your hydration intake. The bottled water industry is who said only water counts for hydration, not actual scientists. IN fact, the "8 cups of water a day" rule that people toss out willy-nilly? The actual statement from the doctor that suggested it was 8 glasses of FLUID a day, and he listed juice, coffee, water, tea, and food sources as examples in the book it was published in back in the mid 70's.

You need the equivalent of 8 cups of water a day on average, from any source. These sources can be pure water/tea/coffee/juice/soda/milk/fruit/veg etc. It does NOT have to be pure neat water!

http://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp

http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2011/jul/13/myth-eight-glasses-water-day

http://junkfoodscience.blogspot.com/2008/07/wellness-water-8x8-myth.html

http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2010/12/08/the-myth-behind-drinking-8-glasses-of-water-a-day/


As for tea/coffee being a diuretic, so many people just spout that word as a reason, without actually understanding what "diuretic" means.

di·u·ret·ic (d-rtk)
adj.
Tending to increase the discharge of urine.
n.
A substance or drug that tends to increase the discharge of urine.

Neat water is also a diuretic. The diuretic effect of caffeine is far, far outweighed by the actual water in the tea/coffee. Also, regular consumers of caffeinated beverages will build up a tolerance to said effect, eventually reaching the point where caffeinated drinks provide practically the same amount of hydration as a cup of neat water will.


http://www.divinecaroline.com/22178/46361-coffee-makes-dehydrated-say-what

http://worldofcaffeine.com/2011/06/14/caffeine-does-not-dehydrate/

http://advance.uconn.edu/2002/020722/02072207.htm

http://nomoredirtylooks.com/2011/04/surprise-caffeinated-tea-does-not-dehydrate-you/

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/04/health/nutrition/04real.html

http://www.sharecare.com/question/does-caffeine-dehydrate-not

http://www.artofdrink.com/2009/12/caffeine-in-coffee-does-not-increase-dehydration-during-hangovers.php

http://www.caring4cancer.com/go/cancer/nutrition/questions/do-caffeinated-beverages-cause-dehydration.htm

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/story?id=5552790&page=1#.TrQWc0O5_oo

I count water as water... My body is made up of water which I lose daily by activity. I need that water back to function and also to filter my kidneys

Mio and Crystal light r not pure water.... Just substitutes for ppl who don't want to drink one of the purest things on earth


Nothing wrong with Mio or Crystal light , I might purchase some myself. But I wouldn't substitute it for water. I'd just drink my. 8 cups then a little of the Mio as a treat

I like the strawberry watermelon flavor. And I have it once every other day or so. Just a few squirts in my water bottle. I do count it as drinking my water. :-)

Just add some lemon or orange slices to your water.............

That chemical stuff found in Mio, crystal light and such are not good for our bodies.

Personally, I prefer plain old water.

I agree with this ^^^

Tap and bottled water doesn't count as water if mio/soda/etc don't count as water. None of these are pure water.

That's definitely a debateable question. A long time ago, my grandmother's doctor told her to start drinking more water. She told him, "I drink plenty of water...in my tea, coffee...." He replied, "I didn't say, 'tea, or coffee,' I said, water!" I've tried MIO, and it makes the water taste just like a diet drink mix. In my opinion, based on what Grandma's doctor said all those years ago, I'd have to agree with your sister-in-law. Of course, it's just an opinion. Next time you see your family doctor, why not ask? It's a good question!

Technically, coffee and tea don't count as water because they're diuretics. I'm not here to stand on a soapbox for MIO, but I highly doubt that adding it to your water makes it a diuretic.

MiO is not good for you. See this statement taken from Rodale.com

"Water is the healthiest beverage on earth, but according to Kraft Foods, it's "like a yawn in a glass." Enter their new product Mio, brightly colored, artificially flavored concentrate that "enhances" your perfectly healthy glass of H20. In addition to petroleum-based food dyes linked to ADHD and allergies, the third ingredient is propylene glycol, another petroleum-based ingredient used, among other things, to make plastics and keep paint from drying out. And sure, it's "calorie free," thanks to sucralose, an artificial sweetener created by processing sugar with chlorine gas."

Water is one oxygen molecule away from causing you to turn inside out and kill you within minutes. Maybe we shouldn't drink it either.

if you didnt get water from food and drink sources such as tea, i would be dead since i never drank plain water until recently.

If the chemcials are linked to ADHD can someone explain why only one of my two kids have it when they have been fed the same things since birth?

Always been curious about that when food studies link to ADHD....

OK, I don't buy it, but my sister in law says if you put MIO drops in your water you can't count the water as water anymore. I disagree....

Which way do you fall on this?

let's play this one out ...


you have a glass of water.

next to that glass, you have a glass of, let's say, apple juice.

now, you take a drink of apple juice, and happen to have hole-in-the-lip syndrome, dribbling down your shirt. one or two of those drops of apple juice happen to fall into your glass of water.

now, tell me: do you still have one glass of water sitting on the counter?



(it should be noted, your water needs to be filtered, deionized, fresh-from-the-ground kind of stuff, too. because, you know ... water from the tap? even most bottled water? they add things.)