How much water should we drink?
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How much water do you need?\n\nEvery day you lose water through your breath, perspiration, urine and bowel movements. For your body to function properly, you must replenish its water supply by consuming beverages and foods that contain water.\n\nA couple of approaches attempt to approximate water needs for the average, healthy adult living in a temperate climate.\n\nReplacement approach. The average urine output for adults is 1.5 liters a day. You lose close to an additional liter of water a day through breathing, sweating and bowel movements. Food usually accounts for 20 percent of your total fluid intake, so you if you consume 2 liters of water or other beverages a day (a little more than 8 cups) along with your normal diet, you will typically replace the lost fluids. \n\n\nDietary recommendations. The Institute of Medicine advises that men consume roughly 3.0 liters (about 13 cups) of total beverages a day and women consume 2.2 liters (about 9 cups) of total beverages a day. \n\nEven apart from the above approaches, it is generally the case that if you drink enough fluid so that you rarely feel thirsty and produce between one and two liters of colorless or slightly yellow urine a day, your fluid intake is probably adequate.
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The human body, which is made up of between 55 and 75 percent water (lean people have more water in their bodies because muscle holds more water than fat), is in need of constant water replenishment.\n\nConsider this: Your lungs expel between two and four cups of water each day through normal breathing - even more on a cold day. If your feet sweat, there goes another cup of water. If you make half a dozen trips to the bathroom during the day, that's six cups of water. If you perspire, you expel about two cups of water (which doesn’t include exercise-induced perspiration).\n\nIn addition to water and other drinks, many foods are also good sources of water. Juicy fruits like oranges, grapefruit, grapes, watermelon and apples can help keep you healthy and hydrated. Carrots, tomatoes, tuna, yogurt, cottage cheese, soups, rice and pasta also contain plenty of water.\n\nthe most important thing is keeping your body hydrated since your body has to have water to survive, you can only go without ANY WATER SOURCE for 3 days before death. water helps remove toxins from your body. hope this helps. just remember drinking water is not the ONLY way you keep your body hydrate but it is important
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My answer to this question is hydrated.Feeling thirst is a way of the human body saying, " hey I need some fluid"! The human body needs at least 64 ounces of fluid per day and more in the elderly.
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At Least 64 OZ. (equvalent to 8 glasses of water a day) if not more their is a hydration calculator on the weather channels website they base it on location weight and how much activity you do a day hope this helps!! the link below will take you to the hydration calculator
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Best to drink is water and natural drinks such as fresh orange juice, fresh apple juice, but the best is water. You need about 1 liter per day for kids and 1 1/2 liters to 2 per day for adults. If your thirsty its a good chance of getting water into your system.
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The "recommendation" that you should drink 8 glasses a day has been debunked.  It's not true.   And yes, you CAN drink too much, but it's pretty hard to do.  There are a couple of cases every year where someone drinks so much water that they die.  Takes a LOT, though, so don't worry too much about it.\n\nhttp://www.snopes.com/medical/myths/8glasses.asp\nhttp://calorielab.com/news/2006/05/28/8-glasses-of-water-a-diet-urban-legend\n\nDrink when you're thirsty.  Period.  \nDo not obsess over trying to drink some arbitrary amount daily.  There's no proof that it's helpful at all.  Thousands of generations of your ancestors never worried about it and you shouldn't either.
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wich drinks are better for you? water.
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drink sufficient water ...
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8 glasses under normal strain. So if you live in death valley and your moving stones from one pile to another it will be much much more than 8 glasses a day. When I was in the army they taught us the real test if your hydrated, your pee is clear and if its amber then you are becoming dehydrated, kinda gross but it works. Also as you drink large amounts of water you have to replace the electrolytes that it washes away. That means balanced diets, that include proper amounts of salt.
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Water is required for the following for the body:1.for tissues, and for the blood, 2.for producing digestive enzymes, and lubricating fluids 3. for excreting the waste proucts from the body through, urine, motion, sweat etc.4. To make the body cool by evaporation by sweating  In additon to the water in the food we take about 1.5 to 2 litres is nececessary  for normal  adult.( In our body the water is 2/3 of our body weight)
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Drink 6-8 cups of water a day. It normalizes the metabolizm. If you drink too much water (more than 8 cups daily) it could lead to kidney problems later in life. So drink not too much and not too little. Exercise also helps in the process and getting at least 8 hours of sleep daily.
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yes and no.  There reaches a point where your body will start retaining the little bit of water you do take in.  Weight watchers, of which I am a member, recommends that you drink 8 glasses (8oz each) of water in order to be healthy and help to stop from being hungry.  Although I wouldn't drink anything before a weigh-in, I do believe in keeping well hydrated.
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Honestly, it depends on your weight & activity level.\n\nIf you are not very active, meaning you mostly sit alot of the time, either watching TV, being on the internet & the only exercise you get is in gym class & walking to the bus stop (sedintary), then you only need about 50oz. if you weigh about 100lbs. But if you're fairly active, like involved in a sport in/out or after school & do a lot of things around the house, yard work, etc, then add a 1/4 more (25oz more) on to that, for someone weighing about 100lbs.\n\nHere's how you find out how much water you should drink- take your body weight & devide it in half. For example, if you weigh only 80lbs & are pretty much a couch potato, then you need to drink AT LEAST 40oz of water a day. However, it is strongly recomended that kids (over 65lbs) drink at least 50oz a day. The more active you are, the more water you need, because you have to replace what you lost through working out & from what you muscles obsorbed while working out.\n\nThe 8 8oz. glasses a day rule, or 64oz a day, really only applies to sedintary adults weighing an average of 150.
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the MINIMUM liquid that a person should take is about 2 to 2.5 liters a day. it includes water, other beverages and the food that you eat. 2 gallons is not much as long as your body can accomodate that amount.\nare you practicing "water therapy"?
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Drink ALOT of water probably around a gallon a day if your active in the weather, also drink it at room tempeture, in hot weather if you chug cold water the tempeture differance can be to much and it can make you get sick, like puking sick, Think of how much your sweating, you need to replace that by twice as much, to replace what your sweating and by still giving your body the water it needs on a daily basis with out sweating in the equation, If you dont like to drink water, your just going to have to get used to it, if your outside alot in the summer with high humidity and you dont drink water you have a good chance of getting heat stroke and thats NOT fun at all!!!
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You really should see a doctor but Kidney-Well II has some rave reviews. Don't try drinking 14 litres of water a day. Drinking water at every opportunity can cause serious problems, such as hyponatraemia or water intoxication. As the water content of the blood increases, the salt content is diluted. Consequently the amount of salt available to body tissues decreases, which can lead to problems with brain, heart and muscle function.  An average adult should consume 2½ litres of water per day. This intake needs to be increased during periods of hot weather or during and after periods of physical activity.
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LOL!!  There is no "required" amount that you "should" drink each day.\nJust a lot of myth and folklore.\n\nDrink when you're thirsty.  Period.  That's all that is needed.