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Do you know the right answer?.
Question number 26 in our School of Fitness.
Black coffee, the mere words are capable of sending hundreds of millions of people into a state of Nirvana filled with transcending bliss and harmony :).
But black coffee is also a cup of rejuvenating health for our entire system. It calms the mind with its slowly rising aroma, helps us keep cancer and diabetes at bay, harnesses our creative focus like an arrow in flight, and in enough quantities, it can even boost peoples gym going efforts.
But is there all there is to it?. Well, here is my question:
Is the old saying true that your daily coffee drives so much fluid out of your body that you need to
supplement your coffee intake with equal measures water too in order to stay hydrated?.
2050AD
[ Oceans run the risk of having more total weight of plastic than fish.]

Make up your mind, and once you have made your pick click the "And the Correct Answer is" label down below to reveal the right one.
1.
Hell no. While coffee does have a mild diuretic effect it is not enough to dehydrate you at all, not to mention that each cup of black coffee contains a lot of water in itself too.
2.
Yes, coffee is a diuretic drink so you need to compensate the fluid you will lose by drinking equal measures of water.
While coffee is indeed a mild diuretic it will not dehydrate you. And at the end of the day, drinking black coffee during daytime is just as good for rehydration as a cup of water. And on top of that, that very mild diuretic effect of coffee is actually something that we adapt very rapidly too. So keep on enjoying your black fair trade coffee, its a tasty choice for hydration and it brings with it plenty of wonderful health & fitness benefits too. Just keep your daily intake below 4/5 cups of coffee, because to much of a good thing can bring with it bad health effects and that is certainly true for drinking too much daily coffee ( a healthy limit is 4 or max 5 cups per day ). And for the sake of your sleep, cut off your coffee intake after 1500/1600 something and drink water after that point of time, or the quality of your sleep will suffer. Not to mention that water is a much more suitable choice for your workout :).
Keep on grinding people, and stay healthy fit.
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