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8 cups of water a day.

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As someone who has suffered from kidney stones for 25 years, I drink a lot of water.
What I am told by Doctors and nurses is lemon is good (contains citrate) for you, and Coca Cola is very bad for you.

Most people don't need to drink more than a few glasses of water per day.
 
marincounty said:
As someone who has suffered from kidney stones for 25 years, I drink a lot of water.
What I am told by Doctors and nurses is lemon is good (contains citrate) for you, and Coca Cola is very bad for you.
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That's good to hear. When I'm really thirsty, my main drink is about 1:4 lemon juice in water with no sugar. It's delicious!
 
Pretty sure it's glasses, but I doubt anybody actually drinks that much unless they live in the washroom. If I drink 2 glasses in a row I'm in the washroom non stop every 5 minutes for at least 2 hours. I can't imagine doing 8 cups. I think food that contains water also counts so like if you eat an apple it might count as 1/4 cup or something.

Bottom line, if thirsty, drink. If you think you're coming up with a cold, or have a cold, then drink more. When I have a cold I'm usually drinking glass after glass, and I might throw a soft drink in there just for the sugar or soothing of sore throat, but I try to keep it all water. For normal days 8 glasses is crazy.
 
By "cups" they don't mean 8 oz measuring cups, but a typical kitchen "glass". It's actually more important that you are drinking 8 times per day - whatever teh amount, than acutally measuring it out. And wasn't that bullshit?

The best measure of whether you are drinking enough - is to examine your urine. It should be mostly clear, a slight yellow tint is OK. If you can smell it, or it changes the color of the water noticeably - drink more water.

This guys pee means he is dehydrated.

http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n3/htdocs/medieval-slimes-723.php
 
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Be on the safe side and drink 3 to 4 liters of Coca-Cola a day.

Speaking of 8-cups of water a day, I found this to be enlightening:
http://skeptoid.com/episodes/4174
The original recommendation seems to come from the Food and Nutrition Board of the National Research Council, which, way back in 1945, said that you should do this. But what seems to have been forgotten is that the report added "Most of this quantity is contained in prepared foods." Omit that, and it appears that you're supposed to stand at the sink and fill your glass eight times a day; which, it turns out, nobody ever recommended in the first place. Whatever you drink normally, in the form of coffee, juice, soft drinks, whatever, probably satisfies most people's water requirements.
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You build a tolerance to the diuretic effect of caffeine. I would know I drank 3 cups of coffee this morning and didn't have to go until 12 hours later.
 
Jeff7 said:
Hah, wow.


I never knew the source of that "8 glasses" thing.
That guy sounds totally legit.😀 He's probably either a subscriber or contributor to "Dr." Joseph Mercola's placebo manufacturing business.
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Don't forget a close friend of the Dual-Action-I-Had-A-Religious-Experience-When-I-Saw-My-Daughter's-Huge-Shits-Cleanse guy.
 
I drink when i'm thirsty. Usually a glass of water when I brush my teeth in the morning, then my tea or coffee when I get to work. That usually lasts me till the afternoon where I drink another glass of plain water.

Then maybe 1 or 2 glasses after work. If I drink much more than that I have to wake up in the middle of the night to piss.

In total, I would estimate I drink about 5 glasses/day.
 
I make an effort to drink 3 or 4 quarts of water a day. I don't care for pop and I've extremely limited my coffee and tea intake since I started cramping up when lifting weights.
 
"glasses" is a pretty bad way of measuring anything. I don't think any of the drinking cups in my house are a perfect 8 ounces... they're more like 6 or 14 depending on the cup.

I was hospitalized for dehydration once and it kinda sucked; now I stick with ~60 ounces/water per day (in the form of either water or crystal lite).
 
I drink 54oz of water per day (2x27oz water bottles). I also drink a few glasses (~14-16oz, depending on the glass) of iced tea or orange juice per day.
 
RedSquirrel said:
If I drink 2 glasses in a row I'm in the washroom non stop every 5 minutes for at least 2 hours. I can't imagine doing 8 cups.
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That's not right
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These days people don't recommend for the average shmoe to drink 8 glasses of water a day, they recommend it to people who are trying to lose weight (helps you feel fuller/people trying to lose weight generally exercise more and need the water).
 
bobdole369 said:
By "cups" they don't mean 8 oz measuring cups, but a typical kitchen "glass". It's actually more important that you are drinking 8 times per day - whatever teh amount, than acutally measuring it out. And wasn't that bullshit?

The best measure of whether you are drinking enough - is to examine your urine. It should be mostly clear, a slight yellow tint is OK. If you can smell it, or it changes the color of the water noticeably - drink more water.

This guys pee means he is dehydrated.

http://www.viceland.com/int/v16n3/htdocs/medieval-slimes-723.php
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It should NOT be clear.
A faint yellow is preferred. While in the Army they push "clear is good, everything else means drink more" as seen on all the signs above urinals in training facilities, it just doesn't make a lick of sense.
Urine is a method to expel waste. If your pissing clear, it is a sign you have previously pushed out all the waste and there is nothing to push out except excess water.
But excess water is rarely being expelled alone, rather it is also carrying electrolytes.

It is okay to have clear urine if your also consuming ideal quantities of electrolytes, preferably more than the average diet (as in, drinking sports drinks or eating something loaded with electrolytes).
But if it's clear and all you have drank is pure water, you're over-hydrating.

For most people, over-hydrating isn't going to be in massive amounts, so I guess it's okay to push the "clear urine" concept, because drinking to a damaging level of over-hydration does require a bit of work.
But to say it's the most ideal level of hydration is wrong, imho.
 
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