A new $29.99 water bottle from Sportline and HydraCoach monitors how much you drink and when, NAGGING YOU to drink more via built-in "Personal Hydration Calculator," "Drink Monitor," "Sip Tracker" and other electronic metrics designed to enable you to reach your "personal hydration goals" and achieve "optimal hydration." Or, you could just drink water when you're thirsty... (props to The Red Ferrett Journal)
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Waiting until you are thirsty is not the proper way to keep yourself hydrated. When you get thirsty, your body is telling you that you have already lost a few cups worth of water and you need to get with the program or risk more serious effects.
Water reduces the risk of kidney stones, maintains skin healthy, help digestion and carries essential nutrients to our body cells. Drinking at least eight glasses of water daily should be a regular part of our daily life.
Agree with the first comment...if you wait that long you're already in trouble. As an example, I've hiked in the high desert of New Mexico, at 10,000 feet, with 8% relative humidity. If I wait until I'm thirsty I'm going to have a massive headache. A hike in that area means a lot of water, for or five of those bottles at the least.
Personally, I would like to think that people can figure out for themselves when to take a drink of water. It's healthy to engage the brain instead of being like a mindless robot. But we do need to understand how much we need each day. Here is the formula......take your body weight, divide that in half, now you know how many ounces of water you need per day :]
Don't forget that water intoxication can kill, seriously. :)
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