Lost in the desert: could you survive indefinitely on beer or cofee alone?

Subject: Lost in the desert: could you survive indefinitely on beer or cofee alone?

Date: Sun Jan 9 11:51:08 2000
Posted by Gary Chapman
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I'm told that caffeine is a diuretic (is alcohol too?) and thus can cause 
dehydratiom.  Does this mean that if beer and coffee were the only 
available drink then we would die of thirst?  

Could you survive by drinking your own urine?  I know that in survival 
situations this practice is not recommended, but whenever I've had a few 
drinks of either beer or cofee my own urine _seems_ pretty clear.

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