Damn...all the suffering I went through for this

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The idea that drinking eight glasses of water a day is good for your health has been dismissed as a myth.

Scientists say there is no evidence drinking large amounts of water is beneficial for the average healthy person, and do not even know how this widely held belief came about.

Specialists in kidney conditions in America reviewed research on claims eight 8oz glasses of water help flush toxins from the body, preventing weight gain and improving skin tone.

Dr Dan Negoianu and Dr Stanley Goldfarb, of the Renal, Electrolyte and Hypertension Division at the University of Pennsylvania, said no single study indicated average healthy people needed to drink this amount of water - a total of 3.3 pints - each day.

"Indeed, it is unclear where this recommendation came from," they say in a review in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.
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[Statalyzer]

Drinking water periodically is good for your health though, because often quenching your thirst will make you less hungry and less likely to overeat.

 

[NEWDOC2002]

Drinking eight glasses of water makes you less likely to drink empty calorie soft drinks filled with acid and caffeine.

 

[Sangre Naranjada]

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[stabone]

Drinking water is good for you on many fronts including your survival!

 

[WhoseHouse]

Yeah I think the point is that it is better to drink water instead of putting other drinks/foods in your mouth. I know when I focus on drinking "enough" water, I drink less coffee/Diet Coke/whatever.

 

[tropheus]

here is what I understood the proper advice to be: there is no magic number of glasses of water you should drink, but you do want your urine to remain clear. if its not clear, you are somewhere on the continuum of dehydration.

 

[CottonEyedHorn]

Your body will tell you when it's thirsty.

 

[William Cannon]

I'm thirsty right now, but too lazy to do anything about it...

 

[Suckapuncha]

beer beer beer

 

[Smurfette]

hmmmm..... beeeeeerrr......

 

[netslave]

I daily drink about 8 cups of:

Does that count as being good or bad?

 

[Statalyzer]

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[MaduroUTMB]

A 12 oz. can of coke has 40g of sugar in it (about 10 sugar packets).

 

[Hayden_Horn]

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[El Sapo]

I heard a woman on the radio the other day saying that a person needs to drink 1oz. per lb. of bodyweight per day.

That seems pretty darn high to me. You'd be taking a leak 10 times a day, at least.

 

[Brak]

I always heard that the 8 glasses of water could be in any form, so that it included the 2 cups of coffee and 4 sodas you drank.

 

[tropheus]

so I need 235 ounces of water per day?

 

[DallasCowpoke]

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[tropheus]

I'm freaky tall by the way, so I need to lose less than you think.

 

[Beau Vine]

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[tropheus]

my wife made me watch Dr. Oz on oprah one time about health issues, he said the clear urine thing. so it has to be true.

 

[DallasCowpoke]

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[Macanudo]

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[TR_Horn]

All I know is that they youth of America like to hydrate themselves.

 

[HornsOverIthaca]

I heard it started in the 1940s. Some Army doctor one day thought "Hmm, this would be a great point to make because who the hell could argue against it?" I think I read that here though...