{"id":237218,"date":"2025-06-10T07:31:01","date_gmt":"2025-06-10T11:31:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/?p=237218"},"modified":"2025-06-10T08:59:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T12:59:17","slug":"watch-the-beer-pina-coladas-and-rum-drinks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/06\/10\/watch-the-beer-pina-coladas-and-rum-drinks\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch the beer, pi\u00f1a coladas and rum drinks!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img src=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Cerveza-Flickr-1024x674.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-237245\" width=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Cerveza-Flickr-1024x674.png 1024w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Cerveza-Flickr-300x198.png 300w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Cerveza-Flickr-768x506.png 768w, https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Cerveza-Flickr.png 1130w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 706px) 89vw, (max-width: 767px) 82vw, 740px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Summer is here and with summer come long hot days. To cool off, tourists visiting the Dominican Republic delight in drinking beer, with locally produced Presidente beer very popular. But a local doctor raises a red flag telling tourists to beware. Drinking all that beer is not hydrating. And when you are at the beach under the strong sun, you want to stay hydrated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The technical explanation is that while beer contains water, it also has alcohol, which is a diuretic. While beer can initially hydrate you, the diuretic effect of alcohol in beer ultimately leads to fluid loss, making it less effective as a hydration tool than water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It is that any alcoholic drink will trick the body into thinking there is not enough salt in your system. So your body tries to maintain a balance between salt and water. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more in Spanish:<br><a href=\"https:\/\/cdn.com.do\/nacionales\/salud-nacionales\/cerveza-no-hidrata-hidratacion-salud-saddam-pena\/\">CDN <\/a><br><a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/does-alcohol-dehydrate-you\">Medical News Today <\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>10 June 2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summer is here and with summer come long hot days. To cool off, tourists visiting the Dominican Republic delight in drinking beer, with locally produced Presidente beer very popular. But a local doctor raises a red flag telling tourists to beware. Drinking all that beer is not hydrating. And when you are at the beach &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/2025\/06\/10\/watch-the-beer-pina-coladas-and-rum-drinks\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[339,15],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237218"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=237218"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237247,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237218\/revisions\/237247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=237218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=237218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr1.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=237218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}