Column: The best reason to drink more water? It's not Stanley cups or Hydro Flasks, it's kidney stones

Whether you're Team Owala or Team Hydro Flask, it should go without saying that the bottles don't matter if you're not actually drinking water out of them.

And that goes for all those winsome young TikTokers who have made Stanley cups such a hot accessory that people are storming Target the minute a new color comes out.

Despite our alleged addiction to hydration, one of the most painful low-hydration-related conditions is on the rise, numerically and demographically. Once considered an affliction of older obese white men, kidney stones are now increasingly common among children and Black and brown communities.

Also women. According to a 2018 report from the Mayo Clinic, women are now four times more likely to get kidney stones than they were 40 years ago.

If you don't think this is an alarming trend, then you have never had a kidney stone.

I have, despite the fact that I own enough insulated water bottles to kit out an entire soccer team and I like I'm always sipping from