Iftar with Tea or Coffee Instead Create Dehydration?

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Iftar with Tea or Coffee Instead Create Dehydration?

 

 

 

When breaking the fasting should be a time for the body to regain lost power and fluids after fasting all day. But the determination of the type of drink in fact also a risk to the body rehydration system.

  

According to clinical nutrition specialist Saptawati Bardosono, drink the most fitting for merehidrasi body is water. It's just that, there are many more people who choose to break the fast with miuman flavors, such as tea or coffee.

  

Tea or coffee actually also fall into the water can hydrate the body. However, the content of caffeine in the 2nd drinks it can make the body more fluid deprivation, said the lecturer at the Nutrition Sciences Program Indonesia's Faculty of Medicine campus in Fasting health talk show in Jakarta, recently.

  

Caffeine is a diuretic substance that form or can cause urination. Until the time of caffeinated beverages, water content is indeed able to hydrate, but even quicker issued earlier diuretic back due characters.

  

In fact, too, often liquids which released so more and more of the liquid entered. Here's why, drinking tea or coffee is mentioned even make the body become more dehydrated and not recommended as a beverage to drink while fasting.

  

If want to drink tea or coffee, so one needs to drink more water to replace the fluid that comes out. Even though the period of time after iftar and bedtime is not long. Until people are more likely just to lack of fluids that never being switched after a lot of urination.

  

Therefore, Saptawati recommended to break the fast with water. The intention is to liberate the body from dehydration without giving a diuretic effect. Afterward, sweet fruits such as dates needed to replace the carbohydrate content in the body that have experienced a decline after fasting all day.