Irresponsible Advice from Dr. Eades ... Again!
In a blog post entitled Tips & tricks for starting (or restarting) low-carb Pt II, Eades discusses cramps and hydration.
Now, he does give the good advice about bone broth or bullion, but all of that is obscured to this reader by the frequent mentions of alcohol - complete with the picture atop the article and its caption.
A glass of Tinto de Verano pictured at left. A great way to hydrate. (See note bottom of post.)OK ... So my takeaway message from his post was that sodium, potassium and magnesium can help with cramps, some claim calcium helps, others quinine. Ultimately, however he believes it's dehydration that causes the cramps. Drink your water. Apparently he feels that a good way to get your water is to dilute it half and half with fruity wine!
Here in Spain I have discovered a wonderful way to drink wine and stay hydrated. They have a drink called Tinto de Verano (see photo at top), which is half fruity Spanish wine and half sparkling water poured over ice with a slice of orange and slice of lemon thrown in. It’s kind of sangria lite. Each time you drink a glass of it, you get half wine and half water, so you rehydrate the water lost from the little alcohol in the half glass of wine. It’s tremendously refreshing, and I’ve drunk my weight of it since arriving.
Last time I had sangria, it was pretty "fruity" and sweet. I'm thinking that telling low carbers that this is a good way to keep hydrated is beyond irresponsible! Especially in a post also focusing on getting into ketosis nirvana as quickly as possible.
It seems to me that perhaps Eades wrote this while drinking some Tinto and perhaps wasn't thinking quite so clearly at the time. But c'mon. I'd dare say that artificially sweetened Gatorade might well be a better way for low carbers to get their hydration on, dontcha think?
It almost sounds like the arguments over chocolate milk and kids. The reasoning goes that if we don't offer them chocolate milk, kids won't drink milk. So now dehydrated adults won't drink their sparkly water in sufficient quantities unless mixed with wine?
Hic ...
All of this has me thinking on this whole cramping issue some more in the context of the healthfulness of long term low carbing. I'll do a separate post on that soon.
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Yeah, that's pretty retarded advice, if you ask me. I really don't know how any low carber could suggest this drink as a good way to stay hydrated.
A glass of wine here and there is OK of course and healthy, but drinking gallons of water with sweet wine, day in and day out....
"I’ve drunk my weight of it since arriving." Pretty soon he will have to double his intake then....
Good for you? who knows. Refreshing -- yes!
It strikes me that the phrase "irresponsible advice" and "Dr. Eades" are completely interchangeable.
You might as well call him "Dr. Irresponsible Advice."
Fun history fact:
"Wine almost always was mixed with water for drinking; undiluted wine (merum) was considered the habit of provincials and barbarians. The Romans usually mixed one part wine to two parts water (sometimes hot or even salted with sea water to cut some of the sweetness). The Greeks tended to dilute their wine with three or four parts water, which they always mixed by adding the wine. The intention of the symposium was to enjoy the aesthetic pleasure of the wine, to be intoxicated just enough to have the mind released from inhibition and conversation stimulated. At its Roman counterpart, the convivium, there was a tendency to get drunk more blatantly."
http://penelope.uchicago.edu/~grout/encyclopaedia_romana/wine/wine.html
the drink described is not Sangria, its exactly as described, and might typically contain less than half a glass of a light red wine (10-12%)
the fruit, water and ice alone likely make up more than half of the fluids and there are minimal carbs in what little wine (and orange slice) is there.
id say this is less problematic than an artificially sweetened gatorade on a hot spanish afternoon non?
Whether red wine, etc or not, diluted wine would have the alcohol content of ... beer! So I guess we should all hydrate with our beer??
Welcome j! Why not just drink some water??
Maybe this individual suffers some mysterious low carb induced electrolyte imbalance. I’ve heard people describing this before. I assume it’s not a good idof no use to go there and suggest a daily fix of dried figs ;-).
Yes. I took a 5-day hike in the southern mountains of the Sinai desert in 1998. The Bedouin hardly ever drink water. That's for us crazy Westerners. They drink two or three sweetened cups of hot tea a day, including in the blazing heat. (They don't normally go out in the blazing heat; they stay under shade or inside as much as possible. But they are capable of working hard out in the sun when they must.)
CS: I wonder if you can do a post on just how much water we humans really do need. I do not buy the 8 glasses a day mantra.
It's more that if you are going to drink, dilute it with water. Sounds sensible to me.
Seriously, the words 'scraping the barrel' come to mind.
But I was never dehydrated on a cup or two a day...but I also always ate a lot of fruit. And fruit is mighty watery (as are soups and veggies).
"All of this has me thinking on this whole cramping issue some more in the context of the healthfulness of long term low carbing. I'll do a separate post on that soon."
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