All drinks contribute to water intake
Currently, when adding any other type of drink, it doesn't account for the quantity of water in the drink. Maybe Water could be renamed (Hydration?) to track your overall liquid consumption, but still encourage you to drink actual water here and there if you haven't had enough.
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Fredrik Johansson (Necromancer) commented
They could use a formula that assumes the rest if the weight is water or add functionality that add food types (liquid, carb, meat, soup).
Users could request database updates by sending in corrections and over time adjusting existing items.
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Chris commented
I think the simplest solution to this would be to lat lifesum import water intake from other apps, especially Apple Health and Google Fit. Then you can use a specialized app like
WaterMinder to log your hydration intake (just like many users are importing their weight from an app connected to their scale) -
Anjaneya Mhatre commented
If I create a custom meal which has water as the main ingredient, it should contribute to the total water intake. E.g. 250 ml Hot water with honey, lemon and turmeric. The water tracker should show one glass consumed. Similarly for beverages. Green tea, coffee, etc. If someone is consuming water in other forms, it should contribute to the water intake.
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Sigil commented
“ The reason this is not the case is because for example drinking a gallon of orange juice, Pepsi and coffee does not contribute to hydration. This will accelerate dehydration due to sugar content, insulin spike etc and other health issues etc. Water is water and nothing else can take its place.”
This is not true. LOL For example, milk and Pedialyte are both more hydrating than water. Q
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Marc Entwistle commented
Also, a closely related but slightly separate point is if logging drinks as part of a meal (especially water!) then the water tracker should update too. It’s silly for the app to treat these as unrelated and not keep them synchronised. Likewise for consistency, if adding water via the tracker then that could just add the equivalent in-take into “snacks”.
Counting non-water drinks as water in-take could be configurable in user settings.
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Anonymous commented
I agree with Stefan, it really bothers me pay for an app which lacks in water count. For sure i will consider this close to the renewal date. Others apps like Technutri, Yazio and Simple has better way for water tracking and more flexible amout of water per log
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Stefan le Roux commented
Why has nothing been done to this. This is a paid for app!
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anonymous commented
Apps like water minder are intelligent enough to attribute different beverages to your dehydration so I would imagine this would be quite easy to do
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Anonymous commented
Tracking beverages:
I would love to see the water button stay unchanged except perhaps more options for container size. My favorite cup is 11.5 fl oz for example. In addition to the warer button a beverage button would be nice, to track calories, caffeine, carbs, etc. that we are drinking because there can and usually is a lot of sugar in soda pop and fruit juice, most coffee drinks, a lot of carbs in alcohol and so on. If the calories we drink are logged with our meals/snacks it is easy to excuse, but to have a button that shows that I drank 400+ calories that’s 384+ grams of sugar it would be easer to slowdown on the sugary beverages. A tracking category might help overweight America make healthy changes. (Caloric example based on 3x32oz soda [reference http://www.sugarstacks.com/beverages.htm] and a coffee drink mocha, latte, cappuccino you choose.) -
Morgan Plain commented
This should definitely be included. I mainly drink fruit juice instead of water. Im not sure where people are getting the idea from that orange juice etc doesn't contribute towards hydration, I'm pretty sure I haven't died of dehydration yet
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Courtney commented
When I hit the plus button I expect to see "Drink" or "Beverage" as an option. And it should be smart enough to know how much to contribute to my water intake
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Anonymous commented
The reason this is not the case is because for example drinking a gallon of orange juice, Pepsi and coffee does not contribute to hydration. This will accelerate dehydration due to sugar content, insulin spike etc and other health issues etc. Water is water and nothing else can take its place.
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Anonymous commented
Ich denke auch, dass Getränke ohne Kalorien zu der Wassermenge zählen sollten. Oder ist grüner Tee schlechter als Mineralwasser? Ich weiß es nicht.
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Ines commented
Mein Glas Wasser, das ich immer trinke, hat ca 340ml...aber dort wo man nur auf das Glas tippen braucht geht's nur in 0,25 ml Schritten. Und wenn ich anklicke - Kaffee- steht das unter der Kategorie "Getränke", aber es wird nicht dazugezählt...Ich hab auch Screenshots davon gemacht, kann es hier aber leider nicht senden
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Anonymous commented
This should then feed through to Apple Health.
Set an alarm controllable by the user if you pass a level of caffeine.
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Anonymous commented
A novel idea; however, how would you compensate for diuretic fluids e.g. caffeinated or alcoholic beverages?
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lifesumer commented
This idea exits here already. Let's not waste our votes. Vote here:
http://lifesum.uservoice.com/forums/274566-feedback-ideas/suggestions/8509669-all-drinks-contribute-to-water-intake -
René commented
When recording a coffee or a soup consumption in the breakfast, lunch and dinner section, it should automatically update the water consumption follow-up.
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Martin Reed commented
It would be cool, though, for iPhone users, if Lifesum were to submit caffeine values to Apple Health.
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Martin Reed commented
This is an April Fool joke, right?