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“Drinking a lot of water has long been a staple of weight-loss programs, in part because doing so makes you feel fuller,” wrote the Washington Post in 2020. Does it?
“Coffee stimulates the colon to contract,” explains Jacqueline Wolf, a gastroenterologist and associate professor of medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston.
If you’ve meandered down the bottled water aisle during the last few years, you’ve likely noticed the surge in alkaline water.
Even Smartwater has hopped on the bandwagon. But other than hydration, what can you expect from sipping on this pH-enhanced beverage?
For most people, electrolytes are a non-issue. “There’s no need to consume extra electrolytes until you’ve been doing intense exercise for more than an hour,” says Sam Cheuvront, a physiologist at the U.S. Army Research Institute or Environmental Medicine.
What if you exercise long enough to be drenched in sweat?
How much water do you need? “You’d think we’d have a one-sentence answer,” says Colleen Muñoz, assistant professor of health sciences at the University of Hartford. “But it’s much more complicated.”
The bottled water aisle isn’t what it used to be. Companies make it sound like drinking ordinary water would leave you weak, exhausted, and dehydrated. Here are some of the top trends in fancy (and pricey) waters.
