Does soda really dehyrdate you?

[threeonefour]

it seems like EVERYONE i know thinks drinking soda dehyrates you. I hear sports people talk about it a lot (a reason why they drink gatorade instead of soda at a game or whatever). But whenever someone mentions this fact to me it just seems strange. I am not saying they are wrong, but you can only last a few days without drinking water(or some form of hydration) right? Well I know a lot of people who have gone at least two days drinking nothing but mountain dew (which is gross) or coke.

Now if soda really does dehyrdrate you, then that should be worse than drinking nothing at all. I am not saying they should be dead but they should be severely dehydrated right? It turns out that they seem to be doing fine after going on these soda binges.


so whats the real story. does soda only dehyradte you in the short term{the sodium dehydrates you faster than the water in the soda hyrdates but there is so much more water that eventually it hyrdrates you)? how does that work. Carbonated water is the number one ingredient on the can, shouldn't that be a hydrating agent(other than that its just sugar and sodium)?

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

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I hear sports people talk about it a lot (a reason why they drink gatorade instead of soda at a game or whatever).

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there are many reasons why they dont drink soft drinks at games...

[threeonefour]

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there are many reasons why they dont drink soft drinks at games...

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i agree, notice i said "A reason" and not "the one and only"

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

im not sure about the dehydration, but i do know that soda is really really bad for you. your either drinking like 32g of suguar (or around there) or your drinking aspartame which has been proven to leave deposits of formaldahyde in your body and possibly lead to cancer.

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

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there are many reasons why they dont drink soft drinks at games...

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i agree, notice i said "A reason" and not "the one and only"

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i think the main reason is the same reason they dont eat cake and smoke on the feild.

[jakethebake]

You really just wanted to see how many ways there are to misspell dehydrate right?

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it seems like EVERYONE i know thinks drinking soda dehyrates you. I hear sports people talk about it a lot (a reason why they drink gatorade instead of soda at a game or whatever). But whenever someone mentions this fact to me it just seems strange. I am not saying they are wrong, but you can only last a few days without drinking water(or some form of hydration) right? Well I know a lot of people who have gone at least two days drinking nothing but mountain dew (which is gross) or coke.

Now if soda really does dehyrdrate you, then that should be worse than drinking nothing at all. I am not saying they should be dead but they should be severely dehydrated right? It turns out that they seem to be doing fine after going on these soda binges.


so whats the real story. does soda only dehyradte you in the short term{the sodium dehydrates you faster than the water in the soda hyrdates but there is so much more water that eventually it hyrdrates you)? how does that work. Carbonated water is the number one ingredient on the can, shouldn't that be a hydrating agent(other than that its just sugar and sodium)?

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[swede123]

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You really just wanted to see how many ways there are to misspell dehydrate

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See, this is the reason for not ignoring Jake. Perhaps not a home-run but definitely a double.

Swede

[Jeff W]

Soda hydrates you, but not as much as water.

Caffeine is a diuretic and causes you to piss out more water and sodium than you normally would.

[siccjay]

Soda is good.

[Piz0wn0reD!!!!!!]

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Soda is good.

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its ok