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Yes but its still counted as fluid, its not just 'free' drinks that count
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Yes but its still counted as fluid, its not just 'free' drinks that count
yumyum
Lil Miss Sunshine
WE can do this :)
my friend swears on water. He reckons the more water you drink u lose weight. I get bored with water or forget to drink it. Have to start tomorrow now when i start back counting points
Brightonrosie
I want to be fitter again
Any fluid is fluid and from a scientific medical point of view, in this country we need very little fluid to survive as fluid is in so many things we eat like vegetables & fruit and the weather is hardly ever hot. You can survive days and days without fluid. The "8 glasses a day" slogan caught on in the late 80's from a clever advertsing campaign by . . . . yes a bottles water company. I have found this interesting article: -
Hydration And Your Health
The eight glasses myth Most adults – at least those that read the health pages of newspapers or magazines – have come to believe that they should drink eight 250ml glasses of water a day. But there’s little to no evidence supporting the eight glasses rule.
The good professor Last summer, Heinz Valtin, the Professor Emeritus of Physiology at Dartmouth Medical School, USA, published a compelling article in the Journal of the American Physiological Society. Basically, Valtin committed himself to searching out medical-scientific verification for the eight glasses rule. He couldn’t locate any.
“I have found no scientific proof that we must drink at least eight glasses of water a day,” concluded Valtin,. “The published data strongly suggest that we probably are drinking enough, and possibly even more than enough.”
Ron Maughan, Visiting External Professor of Loughborough University and the foremost researcher on hydration in the UK, agrees with Valtin. “You hear this advice from magazines, but where is it actually coming from? Not the Department of Health.” Tim Lawson, director of Science In Sport, a sports nutrition company, believes that the eight glasses rule might only apply if “you were eating dehydrated food.” He says the figure is misquoted as it fails to take into account the moisture content from food (especially fruit and vegetables) and the fluid intake from other drinks. Of course, Valtin was researching the hydration habits of average, non-exercising Americans. Runners sweat heavily and need to drink more than non-exercisers. And the heavier and more muscular you are, the hotter the weather and the faster you run, the more you will sweat.
Take the pressure off yourselves but remember if you are thirsty the chances are you should have had a drink a little bit earlier.
Hydration And Your Health
The eight glasses myth Most adults – at least those that read the health pages of newspapers or magazines – have come to believe that they should drink eight 250ml glasses of water a day. But there’s little to no evidence supporting the eight glasses rule.
The good professor Last summer, Heinz Valtin, the Professor Emeritus of Physiology at Dartmouth Medical School, USA, published a compelling article in the Journal of the American Physiological Society. Basically, Valtin committed himself to searching out medical-scientific verification for the eight glasses rule. He couldn’t locate any.
“I have found no scientific proof that we must drink at least eight glasses of water a day,” concluded Valtin,. “The published data strongly suggest that we probably are drinking enough, and possibly even more than enough.”
Ron Maughan, Visiting External Professor of Loughborough University and the foremost researcher on hydration in the UK, agrees with Valtin. “You hear this advice from magazines, but where is it actually coming from? Not the Department of Health.” Tim Lawson, director of Science In Sport, a sports nutrition company, believes that the eight glasses rule might only apply if “you were eating dehydrated food.” He says the figure is misquoted as it fails to take into account the moisture content from food (especially fruit and vegetables) and the fluid intake from other drinks. Of course, Valtin was researching the hydration habits of average, non-exercising Americans. Runners sweat heavily and need to drink more than non-exercisers. And the heavier and more muscular you are, the hotter the weather and the faster you run, the more you will sweat.
Take the pressure off yourselves but remember if you are thirsty the chances are you should have had a drink a little bit earlier.
