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- Duffle, on 04/05/2009, -3/+63I've never heard of a school without water fountains.
- psykiv, on 04/05/2009, -0/+51Well, yea. Kids get thirsty. If there are no water fountains around, of course they're going to be chugging down sodas from the vending machines.
- Checkerd, on 04/05/2009, -1/+25Water? You mean like from the toilet?
- engrishGamer, on 04/05/2009, -0/+14Are there really schools without water fountains?
- Jo9100, on 04/05/2009, -3/+16And sodas make you fat. It's proven.
- freshgrease, on 04/05/2009, -0/+12Fresh, ice cold water fountain water is more refreshing than anything else. Its mostly why I stopped drinking sodas.
- Incisive, on 04/05/2009, -3/+14Getting enough water helps power and assist many of your metabolic reactions. 99.5% of sources will tell you to drink more water. Many cups of water per day does a huge amount to keep you from getting fat.
- ilovejoejonas50, on 04/05/2009, -0/+11i'm in Middle School and they don't let us have bottles. and we get soo thirsty and the pshyco teachers are like "No! You stay here! no drink for you!" they go all crazy on us. its ***** up.
- inactive, on 04/05/2009, -0/+9so did i dude until i turned 21. then the dorritos and m.dew made me start to put on weight.
- Scira, on 04/05/2009, -0/+8Maybe more kids would drink out of water fountains if they weren't so nasty, refillable water bottles would help with that. Also if the water was actually cool would be another good step.
- Slapchop, on 04/05/2009, -0/+8If she wanted to sound cool or grown up she wouldn't love Joe Jonas.
- antime1, on 04/05/2009, -0/+7Water also regulates your appetite. Hungry and feeling like a snack? Chug down some water and fill your stomach up.
- JonTheGoose, on 04/05/2009, -0/+7The water fountains at my school were usually clogged with a thick crust of old chewing gum. The only ones not clogged were the ones outside by the gym where the water was a few degrees below boiling.
- dty2010, on 04/05/2009, -0/+7In other news, there are schools without water fountains.
- LupeFiasco, on 04/05/2009, -0/+6Schools should also sell cheap refillable bottles. Would be a good way to raise money and promote the drinking of water. My college sells metallic refillable bottles for only 5 bucks. You see them being used all over campus.
- rusty123jimi, on 04/05/2009, -0/+6It's crazy because when I stayed in Germany...there was NO drinking water fountains to found anywhere. I constantly had to payout for water because there wasn't fountains in places like schools, malls, etc... Logically though, it makes sense that if fountains are available, kids will use them more as apposed to buying soda, but my question is...why is it that Americans kids are so obese regardless of the fact that there's water fountains in every which direction? I think this study is a little inconclusive due to the question I just posed previously.
- inactive, on 04/05/2009, -0/+6uhm, why?
- inactive, on 04/05/2009, -0/+6Pretty much any drink that isnt packed full of sugar is refreshing.
- induren, on 04/05/2009, -1/+7"Limiting choice is what that is! These kinds of programs reduce consumer choices of little children, at the same time cutting profits and hurting jobs! Therefore they are un-American! And communist! This kind of hippie crap will not be supported in the red-blooded, choice making, U-S-of-A! Kids need to make their own choices about these things. The government can't do it for them!"
That will be the screed used to defend Coca-Cola et al. pumping our kids full of high fructose corn syrup. - h4mx0r, on 04/05/2009, -0/+5Something helpful would be that the schools keep their water fountains clean.
One time brown water came shooting out of the water fountain in our main office. It was probably a one-time fluke where they were cleaning the pipes of rust or something gross like that, but it sure put me off the school water fountains for a long while. - Julian88888888, on 04/05/2009, -5/+10drink water fatties
- MacEnvy, on 04/05/2009, -0/+5BEER
- Rudegar, on 04/05/2009, -0/+4“She gave me water,” Quasimodo.
- mrteleprompter, on 04/05/2009, -0/+4Do you have to stay iinside when it's windy? I'm 6'4" and I weight 260. I'm betting you have an insanely high metabolism and it is not the water.
- MissCellania, on 04/05/2009, -0/+4I couldn't imagine a school without water fountain until my children started school. Apparently they've been building new schools without them for the last couple of decades. In my kids' elementary, the only drinking water available is bottled, at 50 cents each.
- jimbod, on 04/05/2009, -0/+3Just bring your water bottle to school. They can't do anything about it. It's not as if you can get expelled for drinking water. Leave it in your bag and try to be discrete. No one really cares, it's just a rule because some kid one time brought some vodka to school so they had to ban all water bottles to appease the parents at that time.
Believe me they don't want to be enforcing stupid rules anymore than you want to follow them. - jasdf, on 04/05/2009, -2/+5You're in middle school and you are using that word? It really doesn't make you sound cool or grown up.
- jimbod, on 04/05/2009, -0/+3To be more accurate, 99.51% of sources tell you to drink more water.
- jasdf, on 04/05/2009, -0/+3Same here, I think my High School must have had at least 30 drinking fountains for 1500 students/staff.
- Jaime2000, on 04/05/2009, -0/+3I haven't seen a school without them either since I came to the U.S., but none of the several schools I went to in Peru had water fountains.
- ez12a, on 04/05/2009, -0/+3i personally prefer Brawno. Its got electrolytes.
- Digg32539, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Do you realize that fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous Communist plot we have ever had to face?
- waydee, on 04/05/2009, -0/+2My school (UK, built mid 1950s) had them but they had obviously been out of use for some time when I was there, I remember there being a lot of water fountains in public parks etc. too that had been switched off - presumably hygiene concerns at some point.
- Oddish, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Yes, but many of these sources are spreading pure *****. Of course drinking water is good for you, if you are thirsty. Going around constantly sipping water all day is NOT good for you. Your body is perfectly capable of letting you know when you need more water.
- Norumeni, on 04/05/2009, -1/+3You obviously haven't been to many schools...
Every School I've attended have had either only one, or hidden ones that no one knows about. - MacEnvy, on 04/05/2009, -0/+2That happened to me sometimes when I was a kid. I ended up reading a lot, and got chubby. And it's not really the best thing to tell your kids not to *read*.
A better solution would be to find something that you could do outdoors together WITH your kids. - dsmx, on 04/05/2009, -0/+2Another study from the institute of studying the blindingly obvious found that if you give people the option of free water they take it over pay for soda.
- lerch, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2They should also give them treadmills instead of desks, that will help them too.
- Digg32539, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2Nineteen hundred and forty-six. Nineteen forty-six, Mandrake. How does that coincide with your post-war Commie conspiracy, huh? It's incredibly obvious, isn't it? A foreign substance is introduced into our precious bodily fluids without the knowledge of the individual. Certainly without any choice. That's the way your hard-core Commie works.
- ibgarrett, on 04/05/2009, -0/+2Cool - I was looking for my "well 'duh'" moment of the day - and there it is...
- Floodle, on 04/05/2009, -0/+2Worms?
- rif42, on 04/05/2009, -0/+2@induren
I like your sarcasm, it is spot on. - TunaColada, on 04/05/2009, -0/+2The availability of the soda machines means kids drink less water.
- ChromaVita, on 04/05/2009, -0/+26'5" and 155, I win. But seriously it's mostly genetics. For a while I was the same way you were, except I drank whole milk instead of water. I was still crazy skinny. It's just a metabolism thing. The problem is going to be when we get old and it slows down and we get fat.
- koolgiy, on 04/05/2009, -0/+2Some schools in the US also get funding from soda companies like Coca-Cola to sell their ***** in the school. (Dr. Pepper even paid for a roof-top advertisment on a school in Texas, so people leaving Dallas-Fortworth could see it from the air)
- tnoy, on 04/05/2009, -0/+2The lack of health education from kids parents means that kids drink soda instead of water.
- Barackalypse, on 04/05/2009, -0/+2The substitution effect in action, replace 100 calorie an ounce soft drinks or fruit juice with 0 calorie per ounce water and you won't get as fat! Genius.
- emmet, on 04/05/2009, -0/+2yeah well water fountains are really uncommon in german schools (actually in germany in general)... we had one in our school for a little while, but people started doing all sorts of annoying ***** (like spraying water at each other), and so they removed it. i don't know, it's a shame, really..
- tnoy, on 04/05/2009, -0/+2Most of the water fountains that were at my high school barely had any water pressure. I'd end up getting a soda instead of having to lick the water off the faucet.
- diggopolous, on 04/06/2009, -0/+2for the disabled and for the little ones. Next Question?
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