Does coffee count for water?

Coffee is not water.

Water is water.

NUFF SAID!

I second most everyone on this. No because it's really not the same as water, if we count everything that is made with water we'll be counting everything lol. Plus everyone's body needs different amounts of water. My doctor wants me to drink 10 glasses of water a day.

Coffee works like a laxative for me lol. But that's one reason I only have 1 glass in the morning instead of like a full pot.

Ill get in quick to try to nip this in the bud

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 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

You're my new favourite person. :laugh:

He's mine too..and he's absolutely correct. WHY overcomplicate everything??

"like"

Anything edible with moisture has water. It all 'counts' to your body. Caffeine in drinks does NOT negate the hydrating effect of the water in said drinks. If you want to drink water and save on calories...there you go...if you don't like plain water and prefer something else and fit it in your calories...there you go. Being hydrated won't make you lose anything more than water weight anyhow...

One difference I noticed between drinking two cups of coffee vs two cups of water - when I donate blood and all I've had is coffee with breakfast in the morning, they have a VERY hard time getting a vein, and if they do, the donation goes super S L O W! First time this happened they asked if I'd had any water yet that day. Oops. I was in the chair longer than anyone else in the room and took forever to get that pint of blood.

I found that drinking plenty of water before a donation makes the whole proces much, much faster - easy stick to get the vein, and the pint fills up much quicker - the blood bank was happy (so was I!).

So I'd say that the coffee doesn't hydrate as well as plain ol' water does. That's my non-expert-go-by-my-own-observation-and-experience opinion of this debate.

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Guys, guys...let me try to explain.

The purpose of this thread was to find out if drinking water counts towards your daily hydration target. And, as my original post proved, with research, yes, it does.

So many people here believe taht the original "drink 8 cups of water a day" means actual, NEAT water. It didn't. That was never the intended message. If you read the links, youll see where that quote original came from, back in the 1940s. You'll also see what the next line was. "Most of which we get from our daily food and fluid intake".

So, while ofc coffee isnt water, like meat isnt bread, when talking about your 8 cups of fluid, yes, it counts as much as pure water, milk, juice, soda, etc.


It's clear that many people here just hit reply without actually reading the thread, so let me quote myself for the hard of reading.

As for 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

That proves, far more than anyone else can disprove, that coffee does NOT dehydrate you. Many people, myself included, drink NOTHING BUT tea/coffee. If your odd dehydration rumours were true, we would have died a long time ago.

So people, please, remember its 8 cups of fluid a day, not neat water. You think a cup of coffee and a cup of water stay that way in our stomachs? Ofc not! They get mixed up like anything else.

Coffee is not water.

Water is water.

LOL, best response EVER!!

Straight to the point,

How do you make coffee? A lot of water and a little bit of coffee grinds.

How do you make a scoth and water? Guess that counts too...

If my arm is trapped under a heavy rock in the middle of the high sierra desert and Im unable to get free....Does urine count as water?

No idea, but it IS sterile...so drink up...Bear Gyrlls said so...and he knows these things.

Coffee is not water.

Water is water.

This made me giggle.
Are you having trouble drinking 8 cups a day?

If you go to Dunkin Donuts, they seem to think that Water counts for Coffee.

Coffee is not water.

Water is water.

This made me giggle.
Are you having trouble drinking 8 cups a day?

Me? No.

WOW, people really can get fired up over anything, can't they??

Everyone thinks they can GOOGLE better then the next guy. LMFAO

Best answer here and for many of the other threads!! lmbo. :laugh: :laugh:

Of couse it does. so does the water contnet in your food and the melted ice in your Bourbon on the Rocks.

Pretty sure this has nothing to do with hydration levels, as much as it does the caffeine constricting your blood vessels.

Not always.

http://www.livestrong.com/article/395736-does-caffeine-constrict-blood-vessels/

Ah yes, Livestrong...the site where you can find articles in direct conflict with each other....and it's full of nonsense bro-science, such as the thinking that coffee doesn't hydrate you as well as water.