I was sitting here scarfing up a cobb salad (minus the hard-boiled egg :P ), when I began to wonder... How juicy would my diet have to be before I could forego drinking liquids altogether, like a kangaroo rat, or Bufo Americanus? Would food items, on average, have to contain as much water as, say, an apple? Or an orange? Would mashed-potatoes with LOTS of brown gravy be sustainable? Probably not, due to the excessive salt content. I think that eating watermelon would be cheating, in case you were wondering.
I don't despise drinking. But I know I don't drink enough liquids. Although I read somewhere recently that the whole eight-glasses of water a day doesn't really have to equate to eight pure-water glasses. Some of that amount can come from other beverages, as well as water content in the foods you eat. Which is where my thought experiment is taking me, in the extreme sense--I say, as I quickly lick the dust off my eyeballs.
So yeah, I haven't had kidney stones. Yet.
I'm glad we are on the same wavelength. Matt is always telling me to drink more water. I inform him that, much like a kangaroo rat, I derive all my needed liquids from the foods I eat. There's a lot of water in yogurt.
Awesome! :D
I'm adding yogurt to my list.