Myth: Coffee Consumption Leads To Dehydration
Thursday, January 9, 2014 - 19:01
in Health & Medicine
Because caffeine is a mild diuretic, there is a common assumption that caffeinated beverages, such as coffee, also have this effect. The problem is that a kernel of scientific knowledge can be misconstrued in news outlets. As we discussed on Thanksgiving, everything in a Thanksgiving dinner contains chemicals found by someone somewhere to be a carcinogen in rats and could therefore be banned if they did not occur naturally. read more