Besides hydration, what benefits come from drinking eight cups of water a day?!
Question: Well water has zero calories, so it will fit any diet, it also is sugar free. Drinking lots of fluids also helps your health by flushing out your system of its toxins. It doesn't hurt that if all you drank was tap water for a year, it would cost you less than one dollar.
Answers: Well water has zero calories, so it will fit any diet, it also is sugar free. Drinking lots of fluids also helps your health by flushing out your system of its toxins. It doesn't hurt that if all you drank was tap water for a year, it would cost you less than one dollar.
Beautiful skin, healthy kidneys...
healthier organs, clearer skin, and you can increase your metabolism by almost 30% over people who dont drink enough water.
good answers guys! also aides in good digestion, cuts down on U.T.I's
the eight cups of water a day idea is an absolute medical myth.
If you buy into whole evolution and natural selection thing. If there is one thing your bodies knows how to do naturally, it is to hydrate itself. Adequate hydration is a necessary function of all land based animals, and thus, we have good neurohormonal controls to maintain hydration.
Bottom line, if your thirsty, you are dehydrated. if you are not thirsty then you are fine.
Now, here is a trickier question. Is there a benefit to supranormal water ingestion.
Water in and of itself does not provide any more health benefits than air does. Is air good for you?
However, the health benefits of drinking more than what is controlled by your thirst center are unclear.
There are no controlled studies of water and weight loss. Water may cause fullness immediately after ingestion, but your body absorbs it fairily quickly and in about 30 minutes to one hour you have an empty stomach again.
Where it get's interesting is relating water intake with cancer, particularly colon and bladder cancer. The idea is that the more water you drink, stuff passes through the colon more easily and urine is less concentrated in the bladder. Both of these effects translate to less mucosal irrititation and thus, less cancer... theoretically.
There are several retrospective studies that demonstrate that cancer rates are inversely related to water intake. However, the problem is that the studies are retrospective.
Thus, people who were drinking 1 or 2 cups of water may have already had some illness predisposing them to drink few cups of water and that illness could be the possible cancer causing agent. Another possible explanation is that it is dehydration that predisposes to cancer and not excess water intake.
These two explanations are not addressed by the current literature. In addition, there is a minor health risk to excess water intake. Every year during a marathon race, there are runners who overdrink water and experience a condition called hyponatremia. Essentially their salt concentration in their bloodstream falls to dangerous levels because their are losing salt through their sweat and they are replacing it with only water. If blood salt concentration falls low enough, the brain can swell can cause a loss of consciousness and even death.
In the general population, this risk is extremely rare; however, it is something that should be considered.
The bottom line is that water is like air. There probably aren't any supranormal health benefits other than keeping you alive. However, their may or may not be some cancer-protecting benefits. In any case, drinking 8 cups of water is perfectly safe.
drinking 8 cups of water every day gives you soft skin and it remedies ulcer.