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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Most common medical advice ignores that bodies are complex machines able to do things with less than pure inputs just fine. Moderation is key, but so is understanding which direction you are going.

For example, you WILL get an amount of protein from cake. (A small amount, but if you used eggs, then there are eggs in the cake). This is countered by the sugar and refined carbs in the cake.

This creates a balancing act… Which is far more complex than advertisements that want to sell you diet products are interested in trying to process.

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