Name: How Much Water Do We Really Need to Drink?
Uploaded: 2018-08-17T03:57:29.000Z
Duration: 2 min 58 s
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are supposed to drink eight glasses of water

But that H2O knowledge, that's evaporated.

A recent NPR blog post talked about how hydrated babies are.

Just for comparison, potatoes are about 80% water

Adult men are only 60% water while women are 55% water.

higher amounts of muscle and women more fat, which

means muscle stores more water and fat cells

But the fluid is actually stored all over our body.

Some is extracellular, stored in the liver, the kidneys,

stomach, bladder, spinal fluids, and so on.

But more than half is actually inside of your cells.

The bottom line is that water is vital to our health.

It gives our waste something to dissolve into.

It keeps our tissues healthy and pliable.

We lose it all day, every day, sweating, pooping, peeing.

Constantly, it's evaporating from our pores.

And if we don't replace it, we become dehydrated,

and our body suffers in a number of ways.

that D News fan Vijanti Persad asked on our Facebook page.

couldn't even find original research on it.

They talked to Barbara Rolls, a nutrition researcher

at Penn State who's written a book about water,

and even she doesn't know where it came from.

The Mayo Clinic says the science is contested,

but it sure is easy to remember, so why not?

Honestly, a lot of our fluid intake comes from food.

The rules say that we need to drink fluid,

we consume their fluid, which is to say, we take their water.

Like fricking Dune, man, the spice must flow and all that.

An orange contains approximately eight ounces of fluid.

But if you drink a lot of diuretics, like soda,

your kidneys start to shed sodium, meaning you need more

So while, yes, by drinking sodas you're drinking fluids,

on things like body size and how much exercise you get,

how hot and dry the climate is and whether you're

hurt you to drink 8 to 12 8 ounce glasses of fluid per day,

but a really good way to test whether you're

drinking enough water is to look at your pee-- seriously.

When I was hiking in the desert, the guides

told us that it should be clear and copious.

If it's yellow, that means you're dehydrated.

So drink up and keep a BPA free water bottle around

Let us know in the comments, and thanks a lot

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