Water intake, Does Tea count and Coffee???
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"The Panel on Dietetic Products, Nutrition and Allergies from the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)* has issued a Scientific Opinion on Dietary Reference Values for water where the following reference values for total water intake are considered (see table). Note that the amount of water that is deemed adequate includes water from drinking water, beverages of all kind, and from food moisture and only apply to conditions of moderate environment"
Note that the amount of water that is deemed adequate includes water from drinking water, beverages of all kind, and from food moisture ."
with this criteria- the answer is YES to the op.0 -
Tea is practicly water as long as you don´t add milk to it.
rut roh...what happens?
does the milk drink the water?0 -
Tea is practicly water as long as you don´t add milk to it.
rut roh...what happens?
does the milk drink the water?0 -
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So, when you drink water with a meal, what part of the stomach does the water go into so that it doesn't mix with everything else. I don't want my body to confuse the water I drink with any of the other garbage in my stomach.
Also, what magical properties does tea have to zap all of the water out of the pitcher? I KNOW I put water in there...a whole lot of water with very little tea.
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Here's why I don't count tea and coffee...
Water is just very good for your body, and in my opinion you can't get enough of it. So if I'm just logging the water I drink, and I focus on getting 10-16 cups per day, then any other water I get is just bonus (from food, coffee, tea, milk, etc).0 -
Don't be silly - you're supposed to drink water for HYDRATION. Black tea and coffee contain significant amounts of caffeine, which is a diuretic and results in DEHYDRATION. Want to push this to extremes? Vodka is 60% water - want to count that too?
So, does coffee count as water? Only decaf. Same is true for tea, even green tea. Only herbal tea is caffeine free (as opposed to decaffeinated).
Sheesh.
If you drank only coffee and tea, you'd die of old age before you'd die of dehydration.0 -
Tea is practicly water as long as you don´t add milk to it.
rut roh...what happens?
does the milk drink the water?
Or water thickened with milk..0 -
can someone please put this thread in the death box?0
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ahaha this thread became even funnier!
"So, when you drink water with a meal, what part of the stomach does the water go into so that it doesn't mix with everything else. I don't want my body to confuse the water I drink with any of the other garbage in my stomach. "
the best!0 -
Everytime I turn the tap on to pour some water to drink, the sound of running water makes me want to pee. Is water a diuretic and will I become dehydrated if I pour too much of it?0
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I count my tea as water. I don't drink iced tea or sweet tea. Just hot water and a tea bag. I usually get the caffeine free kind so there are no calories or anything to log so why shouldn't it count as water?0
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This is non sense...I was told by a nutritionist that I could count Crystal lite as water....Thinking I will take her advice...worked so far0
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I think the main thing is that you shouldn't log something like an Odwalla smoothie or a milkshake or a frappuccino as water ONLY, because you should be adding the calories. But the frappuccino has like a cup of water in it at least, so from there on out it's whatever you feel like is good and working for you to help you meet your goals. But as the person with the 78 calorie tea points out, you wanna be checking your nutrition labels, even when the food basically never has calories.
This is totally speculative, but I think the thing with tea and coffee, too, is when I drink a coffee I might drink a 20 ounce coffee in half an hour or so. Which, if I drank 20 ounces of water in that time, would cause the same issues. But people have a tendency to drink water more slowly, because it isn't the hot and delicious elixir of life, it is the cold-to-room-temperature and flavorless elixir of life.
This made me happy. Coffee is the hot and delicious elixir of life haha.0 -
I was told that caffeinated beverages only act as diuretics when consumed in excess (5+ cups of coffee a day)
On the other hand I am not a doctor, a nutritionist, or any other type of expert so take that with a grain of salt0 -
Don't be silly - you're supposed to drink water for HYDRATION. Black tea and coffee contain significant amounts of caffeine, which is a diuretic and results in DEHYDRATION. Want to push this to extremes? Vodka is 60% water - want to count that too?
So, does coffee count as water? Only decaf. Same is true for tea, even green tea. Only herbal tea is caffeine free (as opposed to decaffeinated).
Sheesh.
If you drank only coffee and tea, you'd die of old age before you'd die of dehydration.
If you drank only vodka, scotch, and beer the same would be true. But don't tell me that you would be hydrated.0 -
does blood count as water
please reply asap urgent
Only if you are a vampire darlin :blushing:0 -
Talked to all 3 Dr's i work for and all say Tea is to count as water. Usually though i just track my tea and coffee with my meals and water intake seperately0
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Lighten Up Francis0
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Don't be silly - you're supposed to drink water for HYDRATION. Black tea and coffee contain significant amounts of caffeine, which is a diuretic and results in DEHYDRATION. Want to push this to extremes? Vodka is 60% water - want to count that too?
So, does coffee count as water? Only decaf. Same is true for tea, even green tea. Only herbal tea is caffeine free (as opposed to decaffeinated).
Sheesh.
If you drank only coffee and tea, you'd die of old age before you'd die of dehydration.
Coffee and tea cause old age? Oh no!0 -
For those that say only water is water and once you add tea or coffee it becomes a chemical compound - this is what may added to drinking water :-
Aluminium sulfate
Ammonia (ammonium hydroxide)
Ammonium sulfate
Calcium hydroxide
Calcium hypochlorite
Calcium oxide
Calcium/sodium poly-phosphate
silicate
Carbon, powdered activated C
Chlorine Cl2
Copper sulfate
Ferric chloride
Ferric sulfate
Hydro fluorosilicic acid
(Fluorosilicic acid)
Hydrogen peroxide
Magne tite
Polyaluminium chloride
Polydimethyldiallyl ammonium
chloride
Polyacrylamides and acrylic acid
(polymers and copolymers)
Potassium permangana te
Silver hydrogen peroxide
Sodium alginate
Sodium bicarbonate
Sodium carbonate
Sodium chloride
Sodium fluoride
Sodium fluorosilicate
(Sodium silico fluoride)
Sodium hexametaphospha te
Sodium hydroxide
Sodium hypochlorite
Sodium silicate
Sulphuric acid
Zinc ortho-phosphate
Hmmmmmm :huh:0
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