Friday, April 04, 2008

Does the recommendation of 8 glasses a day hold water?

Glass_of_water_with_lemonWhere did the recommendation that we all should be drinking eight glasses of water per day come from? Apparently, no-one knows because Dr Dan Negoianu and Dr Stanley Goldfarb from the University of Pennsylvania have reviewed every published clinical study into the subject and found that none of them showed any benefit to organs from increased water intake.

In fact, we can get all the fluid we need from our food and drinks such as tea, coffee and fruit squash. In this article by Alice Hart-Davis for msn.com, scientific experts, including a dermatologist, a nutrition scientist and one of the UK’s leading experts on hydration, debunk the popular myths about water consumption.

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