So-called science organization thinks pure water and soft drinks provide the same degree of hydration

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It's amazing to me how a prestigious health sciences association can miss some of the most obvious facts when conducting research. In this report, they state that most people consume plenty of water each day, and they arrive at that conclusion by measuring their total intake of all beverages including soft drinks. In this way, the report makes the erroneous assumption that the liquid content of soft drink beverages has the same hydrating effect as pure water.

This assumption is absurd, of course. Soft drinks, coffee and other high-sugar beverages actually have a dehydrating effect in the body. They cause the excretion of more water than they provide, resulting in a net loss of water, not a net gain. This is due to the high sugar and high phosphate content of soft drinks. In coffee, it's due to the caffeine and added sugars. Long-term consumption of these beverages leads to a state of chronic dehydration that is often misdiagnosed as asthma or other diseases. The book to read on this is called Water: For Health, For Healing, For Life.

The National Academies apparently hasn't read this book, nor are they aware of the fundamentals of hydration and nutrition. To categorize the water content of soft drinks as quality hydration is the sort of oversight that might be acceptable by a student in a high school science fair, but it's appalling to see it from an organization that purports to be so well informed. In reality, it's just bad science, plain and simple. Or just outright ignorance.

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