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Some tap waters have magnesium and calcium in them. Some are even sold bottled

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Vitaminwater in Canada is sugar-free so I’m surprised to learn it’s full sugar in the states. I definitely grab them here and there when I’m at the hospital for an appointment or looking for something that won’t fuck with the ol’ diabetes in the store.

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It’s not as much as soda and there is a “zero sugar” variant, but yeah the regular kind does have sugar in the US

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No it isn’t? It has 32g of sugar per bottle unless you buy the zero sugar version

https://www.coca-cola.com/ca/en/brands/vitaminwater

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I have never seen the sugared version in western Canada, only the zero calorie ones.

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In my teens, we were given vitamin water after sports games thanks to corporate donations. Most HS players lived off that.

Yay for-profit schools on poor urban neighborhoods.

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We have both sugar free and full sugar. I want to say the sugar free is more popular but I don’t pay that much attention.

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You joke but… in tech school cantine, there was this “Vitamine Well” drink i took, since it was the only one that’s not too acidic (easily get heartburn). I had fissures in the corner of the mouth for years there and then it was suddenly gone. Later, i read that deficiency in some vitamin B variations (which were in that drink) causes said fissures. Since then i buy it once all one or two weeks and have no fissures anymore.

Long story short; they’re not entirely useless.

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Maybe. But you would get far more out of a multivitamin then you would out of vitamin water. Vitamin water only contains water soluble vitamins for obvious reasons. But your body needs so much more than just those. Especially since most water soluble vitamins get pissed out of you before your day is even close to finished. I’m happy it worked out for you but if you had been taking supplements (or just an overall improved diet of non-overprocessed foods) all along, you would have not had the problem in the first place. What vitamin water does contain that you don’t find in supplements is large amounts of sugar and dyes. Hence the meme.

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God damn it, now I have to listen to it.

I don’t even like it all that much. Not their best.

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Ha, called it! It’s a great song. Music video is kinda neat too.

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Michel Gondry directed the video. Almost all of his videos are very creative and worth watching.

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Just eat vegetables and then you don’t have to worry about getting essential nutrients from random shit like water

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what the fuck is iodine (it usually is in random shit like salt)

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It’s actually added to table salt iirc, but I don’t remember the exact function it serves. I did have a boss once tell me she was getting depressed and thought she was dying… Went to her doctor and found out her substituting sea salt (which doesn’t usually have iodine) was causing a lot of issues with her mental health. I can’t recall the physical issues she had developed, if any at that point. I think she’d only made the substitution a few months or so prior to getting it figured out

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Yeah untreated thyroid hormone anomalies will do a number on ya, fortunately it’s easy and cheap if not obvious to diagnose and treat

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Iodine is used by your thyroid for hormone production I believe. Hypothyroidism will cause loads of problems.

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Its the reason you dont see goiters everywhere these days

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