Can I count the water in my beer?
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uhhhh ya NO nice try though lol I had thought of that too a while ago but alcohol is a diuretic along with coffee and soda and caffeinated tea.....so they cant count,..,,plus it has a lot of cals ...and makes you eat more
and yes I am a lite beer drinker!! lol0 -
Only if it's mainstream American beer because as Eric Idle said, American beer is like making love in a canoe. It's &^*(ing close to water. :drinker:0
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Only if it's mainstream American beer because as Eric Idle said, American beer is like making love in a canoe. It's &^*(ing close to water. :drinker:
You beat me to it!!
Oh, for those of you taking this post too seriously... Caffeine in the quantities you get in tea, coffee, and soda and alcohol in the amount you get in beer isn't enough of a diuretic to negate hydration. As long as you're drinking less than 500mg of caffeine (5 cups of coffee) or drinks with less than 10% alcohol, you're hydrating. Drink up!0 -
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Since beer is liquid bread, I count my hefeweizen as a meal... the beer is a slice of whole wheat and a glass of water, and the lemon is dessert!0
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Since beer is liquid bread, I count my hefeweizen as a meal... the beer is a slice of whole wheat and a glass of water, and the lemon is dessert!
OMG, I thought my husband was the only one that called it liquid bread! But "whole wheat"??? What is the fiber count on that whole wheat beer of yours? :huh:
*** According to my nutritionist friend it doesn't count as whole grain beer even if you put Benefiber in it.0 -
Light? BLASPHEMER!
Don't go hatin'. I don't drink that stuff....I just said list it as water if you do. Life is too short for lite" beer". ; )
Agreed, I'm a lager girl. Yuengling all the way!0 -
Light? BLASPHEMER!
Don't go hatin'. I don't drink that stuff....I just said list it as water if you do. Life is too short for lite" beer". ; )
Agreed, I'm a lager girl. Yuengling all the way!
Yuengling makes a light beer.0 -
It'd be great if you could, but you can't. Alcohol acts to suppress ADH (anti-diuretic hormone) so it makes you pee more. So while yes it technically does hydrate you, it will make pee out at least what you drink, and most likely more.0
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Think about this throughout human history the only safe way to drink water was through fermentation and distillation. So heck yeah you can count it your great great great great great great great great Grandpa did.0
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If I counted my beer intake with my water intake I would be classified as a water treatment facility. Which also means I'd get government protection and all that jazz.
SIGN ME UP!!!0 -
Pretty sure you can only count water as water. lol nice try though! have your beer and drink the water! it's the summer. enjoy the extra hydration.0
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It'd be great if you could, but you can't. Alcohol acts to suppress ADH (anti-diuretic hormone) so it makes you pee more. So while yes it technically does hydrate you, it will make pee out at least what you drink, and most likely more.
Wrong. Beer is hydrating. Historically, beer/grog was used as the drink of choice for long distance sailing (such as across the ocean) for hundreds of years. Stagnant water will become unsafe to drink but the alcohol in beer keeps it safe to drink essentially permanently. If it wasn't hydrating, all those sailors would have died long before making landfall.0 -
It'd be great if you could, but you can't. Alcohol acts to suppress ADH (anti-diuretic hormone) so it makes you pee more. So while yes it technically does hydrate you, it will make pee out at least what you drink, and most likely more.
Wrong. Beer is hydrating. Historically, beer/grog was used as the drink of choice for long distance sailing (such as across the ocean) for hundreds of years. Stagnant water will become unsafe to drink but the alcohol in beer keeps it safe to drink essentially permanently. If it wasn't hydrating, all those sailors would have died long before making landfall.
Science. History. BOOM.0 -
Since beer is liquid bread, I count my hefeweizen as a meal... the beer is a slice of whole wheat and a glass of water, and the lemon is dessert!
OMG, I thought my husband was the only one that called it liquid bread! But "whole wheat"??? What is the fiber count on that whole wheat beer of yours? :huh:
*** According to my nutritionist friend it doesn't count as whole grain beer even if you put Benefiber in it.
OK, whole wheat was a stretch. How about "thin cut white?"0 -
Since beer is liquid bread, I count my hefeweizen as a meal... the beer is a slice of whole wheat and a glass of water, and the lemon is dessert!
OMG, I thought my husband was the only one that called it liquid bread! But "whole wheat"??? What is the fiber count on that whole wheat beer of yours? :huh:
Liquied Beer is quite old term i heard it for the first time in Weird al yankovic song quite old song0 -
Watermelon is 98-99% water, so based on your beer logic I should be logging watermelon under "water" and not food!!! :drinker:0
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I don't log any water but I say go for it!
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2 beers= 16 oz of water! yay0 -
It'd be great if you could, but you can't. Alcohol acts to suppress ADH (anti-diuretic hormone) so it makes you pee more. So while yes it technically does hydrate you, it will make pee out at least what you drink, and most likely more.
ADH doesn't stand for anti-diuretic hormone. It stands for alcohol dehydrogenase, which is an enzyme the body uses to metabolize alcohol.0 -
Since beer is liquid bread, I count my hefeweizen as a meal... the beer is a slice of whole wheat and a glass of water, and the lemon is dessert!
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