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Do you drink 8 glasses of water a day to keep yourself hydrated? Do you think it helps you in any way? Do you look better? Do you feel better? Does it help you to curb your appetite? Not really?
If you are doubting the rule of 8 glasses of water a day - you are correct.
The article, published by Telegraph, is debunking this myth.
“…no studies have found any benefit to the organs of increased water intake.
no single study indicated average healthy people needed to drink this amount of water - a total of 3.3 pints - each day.
…The authors said that while dehydration can decrease skin stiffness, no studies have shown any clinical benefit to skin tone as a result of increased water intake.
This is replaced through drinks but a large amount is also contained in food, so it is not necessary to drink an equivalent amount to replace water levels.
Too much water can affect the balance of salts in the body causing “water intoxication”, which can be fatal.”
For more details read the article at Telegraph
In December of 2005 the Snopes pages posted an article, where drinking 8 glasses of water a day was pronounced a myth, but it remained largely ignored.
Read this article at Snopes
Actually, there’s been cases, where people died from from water intoxication. The very high profile case involves a women, who died trying to drink as much water, as she could hold. It happened last year, when a radio station in Sacramento, CA organized a contest “How much water a person could drink without going to the bathroom”
Read about it at msnbc news.
