Dusty

Thu Apr 3, 5:06 PM

WASHINGTON (AFP) - Drinking enough to quench your thirst is sufficient for the body's needs, and there is no evidence to support the common advice to drink eight glasses of water a day, a study said Thursday.

"Just drink when you are thirsty," was the advice from a study published in the Journal of the American Society of Nephrology.

Doctors from the University of Pennsylvania said "there is simply a lack of evidence in general" that everyone should drink the recommended 1.5 litres of water a day.

Researchers Dan Negoianu and Stanley Goldfarb had examined the theory that drinking more water helped the kidneys flush more toxins from the body.

"So the question is does drinking more water increase these normal important functions of the kidneys. And the answer is no," Goldfarb told NPR radio.

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Study pours cold water on drinking eight glasses a day - Yahoo! Canada News

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Dusty

Hey Violet...... What was in your water ?. Send me some . He he

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Jax

It is a well known fact that most of us are dehydrated, we often mistake thirst for hunger and end up eating rather than drinking when we should be quenching our thirst!

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BCheezy

Last year when I was still in HS my best buddy brought a gallon container of water to school everyday and drank the whole thing by the end of the day. He was a hard core body builder/football player, still is I think. But by lunch at 10:30 he was already halfway through it.

I've tried to do what he did, but man... you really have to pee all day. It's a nusance. BTW 1 gallon = 16 glasses.

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Dusty

Well I guess if you are a body builder or in serious sports , I really don't think it is necessary to push so much and now they are saying that 8 glasses is too much. Who's to know. I guess like they say , drink when you feel thirsty.

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SweetSurrender

Whenever I purposely drink lots of water, I get heart burn. Go figure. Maybe it's my liver telling me to stop. I do have Diabetes and get really thirsty sometimes.

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ping

I don't know about the benefits but I drink lots of water each day simply because it is my favorite thing to drink. There is nothing better than a cold class of water in my opinion.

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Mark_18

By the time you feel thirsty, you're already dehydrated.

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