Watch me pee much less!

[vicarz]

http://www.snopes.com/toxins/water.htm

I read causually in a non-scientific source that the 8x8 glasses of water was total BS. I drink a lot, pee a lot. Hmm. The article did quote sources, but I had thought that it sounded unlikely that while most of what we 'discover' about what is healthy for us, such as ruffage...small meals often rather than 3 big ones...seems to make sense from an evolutionary standpoint. We used to eat things we found on the ground.

The water thing never made sense since to drink that much water a day we'd have to be dolphins. Now I hear it's a myth. Back to vodka!

EDIT: Oh - speaking of diuretics, it also was found that the diuretic effects of caffeine are quickly accounted for by the body. So, coke hydrates!

Comments

[littlewolf13.livejournal.com]

Vodka is a clear liquid, why can't you replace it with water?? You know, when you get sick with a cold they tell you to drink lots of clear liquids.. THERE YOU GO!

[peregrin8.livejournal.com]

hmm, I do think *some* Americans are dehydrated (and constipated); in addition to our many-small-meals-of-roughage diet, we used to eat loads of ripe fruit when we were knuckle-draggers. I find it easy to believe that if you have a fast food burger and fries without the de rigeur three-liter soft drink, you'd be more prone to headaches and other such ailments than if you were picking up rotting fruit as you wandered the Kalihari (or wtf-ever)...

but this is great news for us coffee junkies! I never get anywhere near 8 glasses of plain water a day...yet I seem to survive!

[transentient.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, this is interesting, I think I have actually only heard that 8 8-ounce glasses a day is important if you are on a high-protein diet or otherwise hitting your liver and kidneys hard with something.

I read some shlocky book once that talked about how people who live in the stinking desert like bedouins and aboriginies think of westerners as "addicted" to water since they rarely get to drink 8 8-ounce glasses of water.