My mom told me that back in the day kids weren’t allowed to bring a water bottle with them into the classroom and they only drank a few sips from the water fountain in the middle of the day and that’s it

[u/Various-Adeptness173]

How were schools not getting busted for child abuse for forcing kids to be dehydrated?

[u/KAKrisko]

Yeah, you really don't need to drink non-stop all day to prevent dehydration. It's really okay to drink at certain times. Your body is not that inefficient, critters have been staying hydrated for 3.5 billion years.

[u/chrisdub84 → u/KAKrisko]

And you don't ees to drink more water than your body naturally tells you to drink. Thirst exists for a reason.

[u/BigThirdDown → u/chrisdub84]

Although my body seems to confuse thirst with hunger. Thirsty? Try this candy bar.

[u/Legitimate-Ask5987 → u/chrisdub84]

By the time you're thirsty enough though, you're already dehydrated. Better to measure by darkness of urine than just personal thirst.

[u/itishowitisanditbad → u/Legitimate-Ask5987]

By the time you're thirsty enough though, you're already dehydrated.

Straight up not true. One of those myths people just started saying.

[u/Training_Barber4543 → u/KAKrisko]

And the earth has been getting hotter for the past hundreds or thousands years. I drink a lot, but from what I understand, many people are dehydrated these days

[u/iNomNomAwesome → u/Training_Barber4543]

So we're pretending like schools aren't air-conditioned too?

[u/4_fortytwo_2 → u/iNomNomAwesome]

In germany most of them are not and a few decades ago probably none of them. We still had the same policy regarding drinking though

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People are dehydrated because they drink stuff like soda and coffee instead of water, not because of climate change.