Why does common advice stipulate that you must consume pure water for hydration? Won’t things with any amount of water in them hydrate you, proportional to the water content?

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Why does common advice stipulate that you must consume pure water for hydration? Won’t things with any amount of water in them hydrate you, proportional to the water content?

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I mean, yeah. Provided the water doesn’t contain something like salt, which physically dehydrated you. Drinking water is good because it’s the best possible thing for hydration, and there’s not an absurd amount of sugar in it.