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Apple Now Selling Two New HidrateSpark Smart Water Bottles With Apple Health Integration
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Drinking so much water just puts more effort on your renal system. Much as you should only eat when hungry you should also just drink when you are thirsty. Why anybody would want to track such a stat is beyond me.
Water tastes so much better in glass bottles though. I just don’t trust any of these drinking bottles made in China and prefer glass bottles for drinking water.
This is terrible advice. It will lead to people being dehydrated.
Not sure if it’s true.
But I’d heard that if you wait till you’re thirsty, then you’re drinking too late.
But if I'm dehydrated, I am thirsty. My point is that you really shouldn't be drinking 6 pints of water a day.
UK guidance is 6-8 glasses of water/fluids per day. Which is closer to 3 pints ish.
Wrong. For example one of the recommended intakes for men is 6.5 US pints (7.8 UK) (Mayo Clinic).
Granted that can come from foods such as fruits. But 6 pints of water a day is far from being abnormal - even for women.
You’re right, I don’t need it, but I can afford it. So why not have the convenience of it? I personally believe knowing how much fluids you consume is vital, especially for an athlete like myself who is a serious weightlifter, it’s crucial that you stay hydrated to prevent injury.
Not only that, but it’s really important that you have the necessary electrolytes along with the water, as that’s also just as equally important.
75% of Americans May Suffer From Chronic Dehydration, According to Doctors
Although most people know the importance of staying hydrated, more than half of Americans fall short of the recommended daily minimum.
www.medicaldaily.com
A good measure of clean water consumption is drinking 1/2 your body weight in US oz a day. So if I’m 170lbs, I need to drink 85oz of water. And that’s not if I’m working outside on a hot day. In that case, it’s over a gallon.
I mean, the idea of an Apple Health connected water bottle isn’t a terrible one. I have a water tracker on my phone, but the weakness in that system is the lack of automatic tracking. It’s dependent on me to be diligent in tracking what I drink and in realizing whether I’m getting enough water or not.
Medical equipment that connects to Apple Health does usually have a price premium over medical equipment that doesn’t. (Part of that is certification and app development, I’m sure, and part of it is the necessary hardware, but part of it is marketing.) And it looks to be a nice water bottle, fairly high capacity and metallic, vacuum walled for temperature control (nothing beats ice cold water on a hot day, especially if you’ve worked up a sweat). I have a 16 ounce vacuum walled travel mug that cost $20 on Amazon without any of the electronics either of these bottles have. And 24 and 32 ounces are fairly large quantities of water (32 ounces is a quart of water, or about 946 milliliters). $60 and $80 seem a bit steep (knock $20 off of it, and that’s a price I’d be willing to pay), but it’s cheap enough that, if I was under doctor’s orders to drink more water, I certainly would be able to buy it as an impulse purchase. I mean, I’m not necessarily in the best of health, but health is important enough to me that I’ll pay a little extra for products that make health tracking all that much easier.
If a Yeti bottle of this size is $40, then this legitimately looks like a pretty good deal. Anything Apple Health related carries a slight cost premium to cover communication with an app (and development of said app, for that matter). I figured it was maybe $20 too expensive for what it was, but a 32 ounce Yeti bottle is either way overpriced for what you get (a possibility I’m more than willing to entertain) or this is actually about the cheapest you could make an Apple Health connected water bottle.
Because the water bottle isn't made by apple.
Honestly speaking; a product like this is right up apple's alley. It's something they could make, and people will buy it.
Yep. I never understood the reasoning with forcing so much water in your system. Your body will tell you when you are thirsty.
I dunno, there are some medical operations that can change your body’s water needs, not to mention medications that can cause cottonmouth or dry mouth. And most people don’t drink enough water, most people don’t really have a solid idea of how much water they drink. What you’re saying could easily be applied to, say, calorie intake, it’s very easy to over- or under- estimate your calorie intake, just as it is with your water intake. Humans are notoriously categorically bad at these kinds of (especially memory) tasks. Do you really remember whether you had enough water throughout the day? Was that one glass or two that you drank during the work day? How much water are you really getting from the water fountain at work or school? It truly is hard to remember and estimate these sorts of things, even if you don’t have special needs that require drinking more water. Especially if you’re doing physical activities outside during the summer.
You can also examine your urine. If it is clear, you have overindulged. If it is a dark yellow you are dehydrated. A slight yellow tinge is the happy medium and it coincides with thirst. People pushing the dehydrated nonsense are just shilling a product that is solving a problem that never existed in the first place. Your body tells you when to eat, when to drink and when to breathe. One day, it is hoped, it will also tell people when to think.
By your metric, I often run dehydrated, and I assume I’m not the only person. I feel like mentally I get a decent amount of water through the day, but clearly there are days and times when that’s less true. I have a water tracking app on my phone, but it’s hard to remember to use it properly, and I get so many notifications to check in with it, that I tend to go numb to the notifications.
It’s pretty clear that asking people to estimate how much water they drink is about as reliable as asking them to estimate how much calories they’re consuming, how fast they’re driving in foggy weather without a speedometer, what the temperature is, how long a new task will take, or how much is in their bank account if they don’t keep a budget. And it’s clear that people don’t necessarily have the best of relationships with food, either eating too little or too much. Clearly, hormone body signals alone aren’t enough, or there would be no anorexia and no obesity, and we’d all get exactly the right about of sleep. And it doesn’t help that many of the substances we indulge in daily (*cough*caffeine*cough*) have an adverse impact on some of those signals.
Now, the product does seem a little expensive, but you’re either overestimating yourself or other people if you think this is a completely unnecessary product. Clearly, there’s some perceived benefit. If there wasn’t, you wouldn’t see hydration tracking apps on phones. And this seems to be done especially well, as it tracks temperature and humidity (which can alter your water needs), and it probably also accounts for your rate of exercise (which would be great for someone beginning a exercise regimen for the first time).
So many words to just say, if your body isn't giving you the right signals, see a doctor because you are malfunctioning.
This product isn't going to fix you.
I have one too, and I love it. I'm sure everyone making a remark similarly enjoys something that other people would deride as pointless, ridiculous, useless, etc.
