Pet Peeves

[Hedi Mitchell]

Years ago, a radio station had a contest & the winner drank the most water. A woman died.
A woman who competed in a radio station’s contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner’s office said Saturday.
Jennifer Strange, 28, was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home hours after taking part in the “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest in which KDND 107.9 promised a Nintendo Wii video game system for the winner.

Jury Rules Against Radio Station After Water-Drinking Contest Kills Calif. Mom

Jennifer Strange entered a water-drinking competition to win a Wii for her children, but died of acute water intoxication instead. A jury has awarded her family $16.5 million in a wrongful death suit that found the radio station liable for her desath.

abcnews.com

all those type of things should be outlawed

 

[John Brunner]

GAG... I like hot dogs- and corny dogs,,but not that much!

I have heard of this woman before, mostly in the context of her being so slight yet having a huge stomach capacity, and that fact that the Nathan's contest is the most famous. Your mention of hot dogs brought her to mind. She's taken #1 in hot dogs, chicken wings, turkey, tamales, ribs, and kimchi (some of those more than once.) She's got a ton [literally] of second, third and fourth place finishes.

I can eat 2 hot dogs max. After that, they just don't taste good...although I don't think she even tastes what she's scarfing down.

 

[John Brunner]

Years ago, a radio station had a contest & the winner drank the most water. A woman died.
A woman who competed in a radio station’s contest to see how much water she could drink without going to the bathroom died of water intoxication, the coroner’s office said Saturday.
Jennifer Strange, 28, was found dead Friday in her suburban Rancho Cordova home hours after taking part in the “Hold Your Wee for a Wii” contest in which KDND 107.9 promised a Nintendo Wii video game system for the winner.

Jury Rules Against Radio Station After Water-Drinking Contest Kills Calif. Mom

Jennifer Strange entered a water-drinking competition to win a Wii for her children, but died of acute water intoxication instead. A jury has awarded her family $16.5 million in a wrongful death suit that found the radio station liable for her desath.

abcnews.com

I remember this. So stupid (and tragic) on everyone's part.

 

[Ken Anderson]

While food-eating contests have their own problems, contests involving drinking loads of water are crazy. When water intake exceeds the kidneys ' ability to excrete it, electrolyte imbalances are insane. Water moves into the cells, causing swelling, which is a problem anywhere, but particularly in the brain, where intracranial pressure causes headaches, confusion, drowsiness, seizures, coma, and death. This can be a problem even for people who aren't doing it as a contest, such as drinking water in hot conditions without balancing it with electrolytes. On average, healthy kidneys can handle up to about a liter of water per hour, and 3-4 liters per day, but daily intake fluctuates based on activity, climate, and health.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

I was thinking recently about the somewhat recent obsession people have with "staying hydrated" and dragging huge designer water bottles around with them everywhere. Seems to me that for most of my life, I just drank when I got thirsty and that seemed to be the mechanism put in place to sustain life in humans. Now everyone's solution to everything is "Drink more water!!"

 

[John Brunner]

I was thinking recently about the somewhat recent obsession people have with "staying hydrated" and dragging huge designer water bottles around with them everywhere. Seems to me that for most of my life, I just drank when I got thirsty and that seemed to be the mechanism put in place to sustain life in humans. Now everyone's solution to everything is "Drink more water!!"

I've mentioned that I pass 4+ liters of water when I do 24 hour urine collections for analysis. I've always consumed lots of water, but until bottled water hit the shelves, I never carried anything to drink in my car. These days I won't leave home without it. It is odd.

As @Ken Anderson said, you can really screw up your electrolyte balance by diluting the mineral concentrations in your system. I keep Pedialyte on hand for hot days when I might be drinking more than normal.

Interesting that I asked my nephrologist about my high water consumption (4 liters per day) and he said it was not high enough to worry about: "Your nephrons love water." It still wasn't enough to prevent kidney stones.

 

[Tony Nathanson]

I was thinking recently about the somewhat recent obsession people have with "staying hydrated" and dragging huge designer water bottles around with them everywhere. Seems to me that for most of my life, I just drank when I got thirsty and that seemed to be the mechanism put in place to sustain life in humans. Now everyone's solution to everything is "Drink more water!!"

A contributor to that: Medical professionals who often say, "By the time you are thirsty, you're already dehydrated."

 

[Ken Anderson]

I believe that drinking water when you are thirsty is the best plan, seeing as it was the one we were born with.

 

[Beth Gallagher]

I've mentioned that I pass 4+ liters of water when I do 24 hour urine collections for analysis. I've always consumed lots of water, but until bottled water hit the shelves, I never carried anything to drink in my car. These days I won't leave home without it. It is odd.

I usually take a commercially bottled water with me if I'm going to be out and about for longer than a few minutes. I'm certain that along with my "hydration" I am also consuming a handful of micro-plastics with each bottle but I can't be bothered with a $50 Stanley Cup in designer colors.

 

[Hedi Mitchell]

I have heard of this woman before, mostly in the context of her being so slight yet having a huge stomach capacity, and that fact that the Nathan's contest is the most famous. Your mention of hot dogs brought her to mind. She's taken #1 in hot dogs, chicken wings, turkey, tamales, ribs, and kimchi (some of those more than once.) She's got a ton [literally] of second, third and fourth place finishes.

I can eat 2 hot dogs max. After that, they just don't taste good...although I don't think she even tastes what she's scarfing down.

I am not um, little bitty like her and I cant eat 2 of anything...I get sick thinking about cramming that much in the stomach. Yikes

 

[John Brunner]

I usually take a commercially bottled water with me if I'm going to be out and about for longer than a few minutes. I'm certain that along with my "hydration" I am also consuming a handful of micro-plastics with each bottle but I can't be bothered with a $50 Stanley Cup in designer colors.

I used to have a glass insulated water bottle and only drank the stuff that came out of my softened tap/well. When small stones kicked back up, I went to the bottled stuff. I shudder to think how much plastic I got in me.

 

[Krystal Shay]

I've mentioned that I pass 4+ liters of water when I do 24 hour urine collections for analysis. I've always consumed lots of water, but until bottled water hit the shelves, I never carried anything to drink in my car. These days I won't leave home without it. It is odd.

As @Ken Anderson said, you can really screw up your electrolyte balance by diluting the mineral concentrations in your system. I keep Pedialyte on hand for hot days when I might be drinking more than normal.

Interesting that I asked my nephrologist about my high water consumption (4 liters per day) and he said it was not high enough to worry about: "Your nephrons love water." It still wasn't enough to prevent kidney stones.

I am always drinking water! I drink so much water a day, I could turn into "Flipper".