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> The human body is finely tuned to signal you to drink long before you are actually dehydrated. Easily said than done. This is only true if the body is health
by mikhailt 11y ago
> The human body is finely tuned to signal you to drink long before you are actually dehydrated.
Easily said than done. This is only true if the body is healthy in the first place, once you starts messing it up with unhealthy diet (especially high-in-sugar and salt diet) and so on, your body will confuse thirst with hunger. You have no idea how often people confuse both, the body will be happy to eat any food because most food has water in it.
The reality is that water is about the easiest and healthiest thing people can do and yet, in US, it's more common to see people drinking juices, soda, and any other sugar beverages with zero pure water drinks.
For people who can't think for their health, telling them to drink 8 cups of water and nothing else is the best thing we can do. Once they do, they are likely lose a lot of weight without any exercise. Unfortunately, it is more likely they won't follow through because sugar is an addiction that is not easily given up by the body.
- yellowapple 11y agoNot to mention that such a signal doesn't always come early enough to consume water before dehydration sets in, particularly during long-term physical activity (i.e. running long distances every day); if you slack off on water intake because "well I'm not thirsty right now", by the time you start feeling thirsty again, it's pretty likely that you're already dehydrated. Really, the whole "8 bottles of water a day" thing depends on physical activity levels. A sedentary person might just need one or two glasses of water, tops. A person who's running for hours a day might easily go through several gallons.
- ilaksh 11y agoOk so this 8 glasses of water thing is to trick us into eating less and so being less fat? Lol. No its not. People say that because they think its true. Hey everybody we just discovered an amazing new diet called Pee-A-Lot. You will lose 2 pounds a week! All you have to do is drink a gallon of water every day!