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Flu InformationHOW More WATER DO YOU NEED?
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christopher stepnen
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HOW More WATER DO YOU NEED?
Gabe Mirkin, M.D.
Do you believe that a person necessarily to drink eight glasses of water every day? If you do, you wish spend a lot of time running to the bathroom.
Why do so many a folk believe this rule? The number originally came from the National Academy of Sciences of the United States Food and Nutrition Board, which publishes advisable
daily allowances of nutrients. The 1945 edition of the Food and Nutrition Board recommended: "A suitable allowance of water for adults is 2.5 liters (about 8 cups) daily in most instances." This figure is based on the calculation of one milliliter of water for each calorie of food. HOWEVER, the Board as well noted that most of the water you need is in the food you eat.
All foods contain water. Even as the driest nut or seed has a lot of water in it. Furthermore, once
food is digested, it is reborn to energy, carbon oxide
and WATER. Most folk can get the fluid the body necessarily from food, and they only need to drink enough water to prevent constipation.
When you eat, the opening valve at the end of your stomach closes to support food in the stomach. Then the stomach takes fluid that you drink and food that you eat and turns the solid food into liquid. If you don't drink enough fluid, your stomach takes fluid from your blood and adds it to the food in the stomach to create the soup. The opening valve wish not let food pass to the intestines until this liquid soup is formed. Then the liquid soup passes to the intestines and remains a soup until it reaches your colon. Only then is the fluid absorbed to turn the soup into solid waste in the colon. If you do not have enough fluid in your body, your body extracts extra fluid from your stool and turns your stool into hard rocks, deed constipation.
A study in the Journal of the American College of Nutrition shows that plain water is not necessary as long as enough fluid is obtained from different drinks and food. Twenty-seven healthy men consumed one of two diets for three-day periods and were studied in a lab setting. The 1st diet enclosed
plain water patch the second omitted it, relying on only foods, orange juice, diet soda, and coffee for fluid. None of the nine measures of association
were affected.
A reasonable figure for a healthy human is one cup of water or any different fluid with each meal. If you have a problem with constipation you may not be drinking enough water, but if you are not constipated, you are deed plenty. You'll as well want to replace fluids whenever you sweat a lot, particularly once
you exercise or in hot weather. Drink water whenever you feel thirsty, but there's no health benefit from forcing yourself to drink eight glasses of water a day.
Journal of the American College of Nutrition, April, 2003
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